Jamal

I can start referring to my brother as my sister from now on if that would help. I’m sure she wouldn’t mind.

And now you go around bragging about it, about how you're so much better than everyone else while measuring your worth just like others do by the numb...

Sometimes I suffer from underwhelm.

Thanks, I saw that. I went even further and followed the link to here: https://www.dailywritingtips.com/overwhelm-is-a-verb-isnt-it/

An enchanted one, I hope.

I'd never seen "overwhelm" used as a noun before. I quite like it. Your thoughts please.

Is it a cause, or is it the result? You do the math. My brother and I sometimes use that phrase, "you do the math," at times when it doesn't fit. Not ...

Immanent critique springs to mind. You dig into it from the inside, or to mix metaphors, you pull at the loose threads of contradiction, till you see ...

I think the collectivism-individualism polarity obscures more than it enlightens. I’ve recently been reading some Frankfurt School Marxists, and colle...

Forgot to address this. It’s not about who the socialist wants to follow, it’s about who the masses want to follow, and this is what I came back to to...

Although I’ve been reading the book recently, I didn’t notice the bit about state-idolaters. On top of that, I misinterpreted you, forgetting that you...

Have no fear, you’re in a safe space.

That doesn’t sound woo to me, is it woo to you?

Yes, I hardly talked to mine from adolescence to my thirties, and that was nothing to do with his pushing me out of a window.

Thank you. I think you have a view of what socialism means that is very different from mine. The socialists I had in mind, and the ones Nietzsche was ...

We’re all your brothers and sisters here in the Shoutbox ND.

Very much to the contrary.

The term is used in anthropology, ethnology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. No doubt it’s used loosely sometimes in those disciplines. I guess...

I'd rather fight a bear, even though, as Hanover points out, I'd be less likely to prevail.

I think I was just saying that typography is interesting, not that you should care about which typeface to use. The choice of typeface is significant....

Firm but fair.

At TPF, there is no such thing as overthinking. Sounds like you run your shop like a little Stalin, forcing your underlings to laugh at your jokes.

In my defence, I've been working from home for many years now. When I last worked in an office, bawdy chat was rampant.

Exactly what my brother said.

Ah, I think I get it now. Maybe you could try again to make sure? To be honest I thought it must have been a blow job joke.

I don't get it. And I'm not just saying that because I want the entertainment of seeing you explain it.

:cool:

Isn't it also important not to be too quick to conclude that the other has failed to understand? Otherwise, sage words indeed, as befit your role.

I tend to experience romantic love more like being hit on the head with a mallet, causing brain damage, madness, and aberrant behaviour. I think I exp...

A post to sort things out in my head (and maybe yours too)... The OP mixes up two topics, related and both interesting but perhaps better treated sepa...

Thank you for enriching my stew of ideas. I'm still on the fence on that one. Or rather, I'm for and against.

You talking about me? I once said this to a friend of mine, who is a marketing manager but is actually very intelligent and interesting. He roared wit...

A bit like the Shoutbox really, but unfiltered.

I know what you mean. I have a brother who I often chat with on Whatsapp. After the conversation is over and my wife asks "how are the kids?" or "how ...

How did you get an interrobang on your phone? You got some shortcut that converts ?! into ??

Yep, I've been looking into his work and I've read a few articles, but not the book (yet). As for the Institute for Social Research, as you may know I...

Of course, but it’s not great. The SEP article on Weber is better, particularly on re-enchantment, which is of relevance to the OP.

Highly relevant and interesting, thanks. No I don’t think I was aware of these dialogues. So far I haven’t read Habermas, I admit partly because super...

Yes, in fact I’ve vaguely hinted at the need for re-enchantment, so I’m not saying it’s all bad. Just that, well, the bad stuff is bad. Otherwise, I’m...

Magic is "a way of thinking that looks to invisible forces to influence events, effect change in material conditions, or present the illusion of chang...

Nicely put. Yes, I see what you mean. It’s not only the actual relationship between the two which is enslaving, but the display—the bewitching images ...

I’m crestfallen. I thought we’d made a connection. Turns out you’re like all the others, reeling me in and then tossing me aside.

It’s not all that unusual to be into punctuation. I venture that typography is a more popular enthusiasm now than model railways or collecting stamps.

@"T Clark" A punctuation ramble ? Sometimes I use «guillemets», otherwise known as chevrons. When there’s a quote within a quote, they make it easier ...

Left it too late. My mind moves fast.

Yep, you don’t have to stay in the Ukraine thread if you don’t feel like it. :wink:

Living up to your full name BC. Full of passionate intensity, I have been tempted to smash windows, but I’ve never gone through with it. My brother on...

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Yes…well.

Should be whose, not who's. It's the Shoutbox, where we are free to be annoying and to correct others, and to do both.