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Poll Question: ...for presidential candidates. Should there be?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2017 at 05:51
I have known people who were engineers who I thought to be great managers (say as COOs). I'm biased of course, but my wife, who is a chemical engineer, I thought was an excellent manager/director, but I can't infer too much based on my limited experience and inherent biases. A good manager should be widely respected and respectable, and a lot of that has to do with being seen to be fair. It depends on the person. CEOs often require salesmanship because sales is an important part, and to appeal to shareholders. There are good salespeople and those who are bullsh*t artists.

Politicians tend to be salespeople, despite what they formally studied, but I harbor some disdain for salespeople including politicians.

There is no one type of academic background that makes one great for office, though I would think that someone who has a great deal of general knowledge and a general love of learning including re-evaluating and scrutinising their opinions as well as those of the party is more likely to do good for the country, I think. I would like a so-called Renaissance man or woman in office, and someone with integrity and compassion who is not just self-serving.

It is indeed important for the leader to be surrounded by knowledgeable people, and the person should be receptive to a wide range of opinions. It requires a pretty open-minded politician who is interested in the pursuit of truth, for one thing. Someone like Trump is not. He seems anti-science for one thing, and doesn't try to appeal to the most rational of people, and chooses people based on his own biases, agenda, personality traits etc. Trump is an egotistical bullsh*t artist.

As for my philosophical interests, the people who I find that I tend to turn to most to satisfy those interests of mine are often primarily psychologists. Philosophy is a very wide "non-discipline" and intersects with many planes of studies.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2017 at 07:33
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Any person who believes Jesus rode a dinosaur should be automatically disqualified. 

Over 40% of people couldn't be candidates then. 


LOL

The sad thing is that there are plenty of people who believe such religious nonsense.

I'd automatically disqualify anyone who believed stories of taking snakes & bushes and/or who worshipped a zombie, so that's 70% of the population.

Which means you're gonna be ruled by buddhists, atheists and hindus but those three tend to play nice together so maybe that's a good thing.
Count me in to vote for a completely atheist government.

Alas, and per actual surveys, in the US people would first elect an actual murderer before an atheist.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2017 at 12:46
Atheism is why the west is in such a mess right now
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2017 at 01:08
^How so?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2017 at 02:00
^ by not being muslims & xtians probably.
What?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2017 at 02:04
^^ Do you even have to ask? The Saracen are invading Europe and atheists aren't going to stop them.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2017 at 02:15
........no bother........
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2017 at 06:22
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Atheism is why the west is in such a mess right now


if you weren't known as a troll... that might beg for an explanation... LOL

I'd tend to say runaway materialism and Capitalism has done far more to create the mess and economic and social decline here than a bunch of bible beaters taking their religion and trying to legislate their beliefs and their morality on others has.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2017 at 12:57
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Atheism is why the west is in such a mess right now

1. What
2. Why do you say it's a "mess"? As compared to, what, the 1800s? The 1900s? The 60s? 
3. What 
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