To be completely honest, I went through it again around 2016-2017. I went a bit mad with resentment and, the flipside, an unhealthy infatuation (which...
It doesn’t hurt that you have a rich set of radically progressive beliefs to keep you away from the dark side. When I was going through it I had alrea...
Yeah I think that's compatible with my view. I have personal experience of it. In my youth I was unsuccessful with women, and I noticed I was feeling ...
It was a few years ago, before your TPF self was even born. I've been a few times. Sometimes I liked it, other times I didn't. I was there in winter o...
In Madrid once I asked a taxi driver to take me to the Atocha station, but I mispronounced it and he laughed at me. Without thinking I said, roughly s...
:up: :up: Yes, I think it's important to try to understand it as a new phenomenon. So I say let's have more sociology and less moralizing. One can do ...
Yeh I guess there's catching and running too. Anyway, whatever you want to call it, I hope you enjoy the match. I sense that baseball is one of those ...
Two questions I can ask myself about cosmic purpose: 1. Is it possible that there is no cosmic purpose? 2. Would life be worth living, or would human ...
On Sunday it was the yearly Moscow bicycle parade. The entire Garden Ring was closed to motorized traffic for a few hours, attracting 100,000 people o...
When I was about nine years old I collected a bucketful of frogspawn from a pond and took it home. I didn’t know what to do with it so I poured it int...
I know, your hypocrisy is shocking. The answer is that you do have an issue with munching on the legs of young sheep, but you are not conscious of it....
A cook out being an outdoor cooking and eating event, I suppose. Barbecue and all that. That’s my favourite thing, so I approve. I also had to Google ...
Pork ribs, corn on the cob, and Chinese cucumber salad. I cooked the ribs for 3 hours, low heat, covered. My spice rub consisted of salt and pepper. I...
I wouldn’t be surprised if the twentieth century use of “always already” is actually a self-conscious modern version of the a priori, though relocated...
Since living in societies is part of what it is to be human, the notion is indeed self-contradictory. A society is a human social group; proto-human a...
Yes, I did expect you to say that it’s precisely the supposed reduction of ideas to the socially material that is characteristic of secular humanist s...
It’s not a particularly Marxist view any more. That beliefs cannot be disentangled from society, or that they do not float free of society, is pretty ...
And as such, a product of culture and society. But sure, it wasn’t institutional. Not sure what the point was here. That’s the way I roll :cool: But I...
https://master.salamandre.net/media/21803/Martre_F81-1439210-1800x1200.jpg This is what I had in the attic when I lived in a water mill in France: a b...
Ok. :chin: Is this a rewording to make a statement that you agree with? If so, what you’ve got here is a truism, since institutions are social reality...
Yes, it's my own fault :groan: But thank you for sharing your in-depth knowledge. It's a valuable contribution not only to me but to the Shoutbox. :sm...
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