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There's no record of any of your comments being deleted over the past few days. However, if you're certain, there's a slim possibility there's a bug w...
June 05, 2017 at 07:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX-3A4fqgcE
June 03, 2017 at 03:05
But why should the public artist pay any attention to that? Granted, if we lived in Stalin's Russia this would be a more difficult debate, but I'm won...
June 03, 2017 at 02:08
Why should public art "reflect the contemporary story"? I take that to mean: repeat platitudes.
June 03, 2017 at 01:11
Only a few of the BBCode tags are recognised, and the rest will just appear in the post as written in the editor.
May 29, 2017 at 12:51
:o
May 29, 2017 at 12:39
I'm confident you're in a minority, but if you manage to get several more members together and form a movement for change, I'll consider asking the de...
May 29, 2017 at 10:34
:-O
May 29, 2017 at 10:32
It made his posts unreadable.
May 29, 2017 at 10:30
Honestly Agustino, if you're the kind of person who thinks user-defined fonts and text colours are a good thing, then I doubt we have enough in common...
May 29, 2017 at 10:18
No, that would be terrible. I'm baffled that anyone thinks it would be good.
May 29, 2017 at 09:58
This goes against your case, because it's an argument for good design, under the control of a web designer, which is the opposite of what you're askin...
May 29, 2017 at 09:52
I don't see how. And I can't get over the fact that you work in web development and yet you think it's cool for users to be able to change the font an...
May 29, 2017 at 08:54
I abhor WYSIWYG and so-called word processors and think their invention was a terrible mistake. Formatting and style is not the writer's concern. I th...
May 28, 2017 at 18:30
test
May 23, 2017 at 16:01
@"StreetlightX" It's a good point that we have to pay attention to politics and particular social and economic conditions. This still doesn't imply th...
May 19, 2017 at 05:20
yeah, I was kidding.
May 19, 2017 at 04:02
It's sad that there haven't been monoliths guiding the evolution of the human race so we can become space babies?
May 19, 2017 at 03:48
When I said it didn't matter, it was in the context of the rest of my post and of the point at issue. I meant that the fact there are intersecting cul...
May 18, 2017 at 16:01
Incidentally, one very broad but interesting way to see what's happening in Islam is not merely as a reaction to Western secularism--several Muslim-ma...
May 18, 2017 at 14:34
It's been said that one thing that Kubrick introduced in the film, which doesn't fit well with the theme of technological progress that Q talked about...
May 18, 2017 at 14:26
(Y) Not to mention religion and language. Of course, these are not universal among Muslims--the Arabic language didn't take over in, for example, Iran...
May 18, 2017 at 13:56
What are you talking about?
May 17, 2017 at 20:58
What do you mean by this, Q? What's 2001 got to do with logical positivism and scientism?
May 17, 2017 at 20:35
Yes, and because, traditionally, conservatism is pragmatic and generally allergic to ideology, it didn't have any trouble embracing things that are no...
May 17, 2017 at 09:57
There was a recent article on Spiked, which makes some good points about Nietzsche's position on truth, even though it's otherwise polemically anti-Po...
May 17, 2017 at 08:13
So I'm not sure how to answer the poll, as a lot of what passes for "hard left" today is not part of my political outlook, even though Marx is my go-t...
May 15, 2017 at 21:32
From a recent article on Quillette: http://quillette.com/2017/05/03/time-retire-political-spectrum/
May 15, 2017 at 21:31
Atheist.
May 15, 2017 at 20:06
:D
May 15, 2017 at 18:49
Hanover is on the team primarily for his sage advice.
May 15, 2017 at 18:44
I'm Scottish.
May 15, 2017 at 18:25
I think AK is Australian.
May 15, 2017 at 18:15
Personally I like to see conservatives on the forum, because left-liberals can be such a boring lot. I haven't looked into what happened in this case,...
May 15, 2017 at 16:28
They should know.
May 12, 2017 at 13:35
What kind of beliefs are we talking about here? Let's take the example of beliefs about the best way of governing a country. The psychological procliv...
May 12, 2017 at 09:41
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The contracts dried up for me back in 2001 (when the dot com bubble burst). I had to move from a large comfortable apartment in a great part of town t...
May 10, 2017 at 14:52
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Because everything is better when served up by a monkey?
May 10, 2017 at 14:44
(Y)
May 09, 2017 at 18:48
8-)
May 09, 2017 at 17:43
Isn't there an "all content copyright thephilosophyforum.com" in the terms and conditions?
May 09, 2017 at 16:29
:D "You shouldn't Kikkoman when he's down" will of course be the title of that episode.
May 09, 2017 at 15:59
Well, if all else fails, try a murderous rampage.
May 09, 2017 at 14:25
I once got a few soy sauces together--pretty much every brand you can easily get in the UK shops--and did a blind taste test (I really did). Kikkoman ...
May 09, 2017 at 12:20
One of the other company founders would always pour my Kikkoman soy sauce into his own non-East-Asian meals, not knowing or caring that I had bought i...
May 09, 2017 at 11:48
In my experience, festering resentment evaporates when you talk to the target of your resentment. It may not end in the result you want, but things do...
May 09, 2017 at 11:37
Fair enough. To be honest I haven't been keeping up with Labour's position on Brexit.
May 09, 2017 at 10:20
I'm not sure if that's aimed at me or at others. In any case, one can attribute conservatism to actually existing Islam, as I just did, without thereb...
May 09, 2017 at 10:14
Yes, but it's not a freak verdict: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/09/jakarta-governor-ahok-found-guilty-of-blasphemy-jailed-for-two-years ...
May 09, 2017 at 08:05