Jamal

There is as much egoism in magnanimity as there is in revenge

I’m reading Nietzsche, and because every page has something interesting, outrageous, amusing, or thrustingly penetrating, I feel like sharing his insi...

A bad conscience is more easily borne than a bad reputation.

I disagree.

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Tell TC junior Jamal says happy birthday and cheers. My Dad never bought me beer. Could you be my Dad too please?

March 17th is the one day of the year on which I cannot drink alcohol, because it’s my Gran’s birthday. She was a strict teetotaller, so in her memory...

Cool. Yes, and Kant had a version of it too of course, the thing in itself, although I suppose the difference is that for Kant, it exceeds our grasp (...

That infinite regress is going to be very expensive.

I've just noticed there's a book: Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination by Andy Merrifield. Also, Mark Fisher and hauntology might ...

Good stuff. I don't know enough about the study of magic and you've given me a direction for further study. Sympathy and symbol on the surface almost ...

Thank you ssu, much appreciated. Absolutely. I half agree with this, but I tend not to divide things along those lines. I think we can describe things...

I have too much to say, but I’ll say it all anyway. It’s not really in the spirit of discussion to make such a massive post that’s not responding dire...

How many mouths do people have in Georgia?

I think of myself as an intellectual giant squid: I have numerous mental tentacles and I can go very deep.

Neither is not this.

This is not an artistic reference.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon t...

It’s the coolest Dad music I know.

https://youtu.be/nojSrotOZZM https://youtu.be/kzh9dBiXuU0 https://youtu.be/Ryiu2MYmmBY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jYjXAB396bc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2DCpApGVXWg

Don’t overuse that stuff TC. It’s kryptonite.

Messiah, is that you?

Originally I had "thrusting".

Excellent, best answer. It hadn't occurred to me that it was related to father.

Have you ever walked up a mountain only to find the topography is much more complex than you expected? From a distance it looks like a simple cone or ...

Crucially though, I can carry on wearing my kilt without feeling like I'm perpetuating a fake culture.

I think of it like food. What is authentic Indian food? Does it include chilis? But chilis were taken to India by the Portuguese, so .. :chin: (that r...

There are many dimensions to it. One is about the Stuarts and Jacobitism (there’s a book about this called “The Invention of Scotland”); the massive i...

Funny you should mention that, because that’s pretty much what did happen with Scottish culture.

I’m showing my ignorance here, but do you mean the Indigenous Voice to Parliament?

I’m saying that every culture is determined partly by what it is thought to be, both by insiders and outsiders.

I’m interested to see what you say actually.

Maybe at that point it’s not bullshit any more. Maybe culture works like that all the time.

I had to read this sentence twice. It was like reading Kant.

Cool. Maybe I’ll read it.

Two alternative answers: 1. There is no opposite 2. Big I think un-not-big is wrong, but that’s just my opinion.

They’re just negations. Opposites or antonyms: hot/cold, big/small. Negations: hot/unhot, big/unbig. All of them are perfectly fine.

Just had a look around the internet. Pretty controversial eh! My first thought was that Bruce might implicitly be conceding too much to the linear pro...

Lucky for them that they have a rare genetic mutation that is thought to reduce the risk of heart disease by 35%, as I just discovered.

I haven’t had that. I know I’d like it. Scrambled no doubt. Cheers. Thoughts!

I wasn’t so methodical. Maybe that was at the back of my mind. Mine were puy lentils. Sauce was adjika out of a bottle. I do like yoghurt though, with...

Brunch: Egg fried rice: in order of introduction to the pan ... sesame oil, vegetable oil, garlic, rice, egg, oyster sauce, yellow lantern chili sauce...

He had initially supported the war, maybe because it seemed to represent a cure for, as he saw it, the mediocrity of rationalization and disenchantmen...

I'm in no position to doubt what you say. All my knowledge of the Amish is from a work entitled "Kingpin".

I think it's fruitful, but I don't know where the track is. Can we distinguish between counter-spells that reveal the truth, like the glasses, and tho...

I'm wondering what you call it when you're proud of not being proud of your humility. Is it just the same thing again only worse, or does this get its...

Yep, you still have that.