Jamal

If I had a penny for every time someone’s asked me that I’d be a gazillionaire. The answer of course is that I don’t know, but I think it’s unlikely. ...

Making a definition in philosophy is (sometimes) like explaining a joke. I think that was kind of the point of the article. Cool, we’re on page 3. Got...

I also didn’t bother following along when he began analyzing the poetry, and skipped to the end, which didn’t seem to be saying very much. Could be I’...

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I am a problem area.

Yikes, well it's the heavy duty stuff I'm after. If I can get it in a barrel-size tub that'll be perfect for jumping into after a shower.

Nice. I wasn’t actually expecting useful advice. :grin:

It's not that I was self-conscious exactly, it's more that I was overly conscious of the smell of olive oil so I was constantly distracted by the thou...

Tried it. It was too close to black so it just blended in with the other text.

A while back, after years of trying numerous lotions and creams with only partial success, I started using extra virgin olive oil to moisturize my ent...

Thank you for adding more complexity to the problem. :wink: Your email platform’s classification of the email as spam might be to do with the fact tha...

I guess I could make the links a bit darker.

Thanks. I'll wait a while to see if anyone else has more to say about it, then I'll send an email to support. They usually respond quickly.

Impressive.

I didn't have it turned on for myself. I do now if you want to send another.

The sad truth is that Stalin forced the Kazakhs to give up their nomadic way of life back in the 1930s. That was a really bad decade to be a citizen o...

It just struck me: I’m a digital nomad in Central Asia, the land of nomads.

One day it’s Andalusian, next day Castilian. How many olive oils do you have?

I’m currently in Kazakhstan and they’re native here, filling the same niche as their relative, the European starling, does in Europe. They hang about ...

Hey that’s not fair!

But you’ve given me an idea for a discussion about wildlife nationalism, something I’ve always found weird.

Definitely sublimated xenophobia.

The members who reported this problem are receiving email notifications for PMs sent by me, but not for those sent by others, so I can’t check if this...

Your optimism is like wind beneath my administrative wings.

So far it's just you two I know about. I might start a thread to ask everyone.

I should point out that TPF runs on a hosted SaaS (software as a service) platform called PlushForums, which I signed up to when I started the site, s...

On the one hand I somewhat disagree with your characterization of my approach. This discussion is a good example: in the OP I quote Kant, but not beca...

This is all very puzzling.

Thanks. To be extra certain I've sent you both PMs. Check your email inboxes. Then we can progress to the next step if necessary.

Can you folks please confirm the following: 1. You do not receive email notifications for private messages, but you do receive them for other things (...

According to the way I've put things in the OP, the former is the type of definition necessitated by X's ambiguity, where X is what I referred to as a...

I’m probably taking this out of context and I haven’t read your debate with schop, but… The distinction that’s usually made is between conservatives a...

Thanks. I appreciate your appreciation and enjoy your enjoyment.

Interesting post, and maybe I’ll reply properly tomorrow, but for now I’ll just mention that thanks to the Aeon article that @"Wayfarer" linked to abo...

Kazakhstan is a secular republic, not theocratic at all. Religion is important but a matter of choice. Uzbekistan too. Turkmenistan is the embarrassin...

Well, from what little experience I have I can recommend Central Asia. Relaxed and friendly, ethnic harmony, good food, and fermented camel’s milk.

Yes, and did you know they invented horses?

Sure.

37% of Afghans are Tajiks, 39% Pashtuns, and they’re both ethnically Iranian I think.

Yep, although they have a distinct culture too. Not all the stans are Turkic though. The Tajiks of Tajikistan are Iranian, as are the Pashtuns of Afgh...

They might be cases of equivocal terms, which I agreed often ought to be defined. I don't think God is such a concept, but capitalism, yeah I see that...

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Thanks!

It was possible, but that’s not what I chose to do. What I saw of his posts did not make me think a suspension would be the better choice.

People do that to me too and it really irritates me. I tell them that Javier is not my name but they don’t listen.

I banned @"Nickolasgaspar" for refusing moderation following a request that he refrain from attacking people personally.

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Damn, that’s what I was reaching for. Forgot it was Father Ted.

Lunch: ordered a delivery, I think it may have been Uyghur food but I'm not sure. Much spicier than what I've had here so far and more of a Chinese fl...

Come on, own up. Who started discussing serious topics in the Shoutbox again?