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It seems to me your objection is more to a type of activity that presents itself as art, that is recognized as art, but because of the intent behind i...

Ok, but walls of text that are simply stanceless summaries of the thinking of the greats as well as subsequent referrals to these texts are likely to ...

Precisely, he has not a hoof to stand on.

I was speaking more in general. Whether those particular opinions are on topic enough to present here is up to you to decide. But all sorts of things ...

Well, I agree with most of the opinions you have given above. I'm sure others would too, and some would disagree. The idea is to get stuck in and supp...

Actually we are interested in your opinion (to the extent it's based on facts and reasoning, of course). That's pretty much the point of this place: n...

Ok, let's subtract the humor. Guernica. Good political art?

You also win. This isn't good political art. It's more of a sop to liberalism. So, yes, it won't change anyone's mind. The pigeon triumphs. That doesn...

OK, you win. I'm still going to hate on Wall Street every chance I get though.

Fuck the bull. I'm with the little girl. The original artist apparently placed the bull there as a monument to his own ego and the collective ego of W...

The claim that "truth is agreement" would be meaningless under the redundancy view anyhow.

He's good with China now too. He'll need all the friends he can get with North Korea and Russia breathing fire at him. Of course, who knows how much o...

Welcome! Fáilte! Get stuck in.

Wish I'd known that when I gave up lollipops. :(

Nice question. To me they're different. To take your example, I would say that anything non-orange negates an orange to the extent that it's not an or...

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Well that reply and five bucks will buy you a coffee and a worthless article on the internet written by some pompous twit with zero social skills.

Thanks ernestm. Would you mind just sending me a list of all the links you have to everywhere so I know that everything I say is wrong before I say it...

That's what ethical theory is for (and the higher authority is shared human values like life and liberty not some ineffable superbeing with a carrot a...

(Y)

Pass the herbicide.

Meh, she can't complain, she's dead.

Note that TV and loud speakers are just about the most masculine thing going (in case any of you femmymen out there don't know that.)

He needs to read this. (I believe there's a section on yoga). /uploads/resized/files/kg/fa1vcwrulbeoau0f.gif

Disclaimer: off-topic comment to follow. Not intending to be presumptuous but maybe the climax is too early in the story i.e. his big discovery. As in...

Yes, name an abstract concept that is not a bodily feeling or sense that can even be postulated without making use of the imagination. The term "reaso...

Well, at least we're not prescribing Schopenhauer to children. Then again, a spoonful of pessimism may help the Ritalin go down. I presume parents giv...

And by cocaine. I suppose those two cancel each other out.

Griftopia - Matt Taibbi “To sum it all up, the Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wr...

It's there. In Feedback.

He's a cocaine-addled ex-Goldman Sachs exec who, having spent his working life vacuuming money from the pension funds of poor grandmas, has been curse...

Yes, it's just that the default view is all discussions, which can make it a little confusing.

If you click on categories in the side-bar, you'll see the sub-forums.

Yes, there's no difference except the type of material and level of complexity. Cells are complex biological machines made of organic matter. Cars are...

A process isn't an ingredient; the function of a material existent is not an added essence, it's a mode of being. Whatever material change in organic ...

Consciousness, meh. Sense of self (Y). You can be conscious and lack identity or be a walking self-contradiction, and all the love and money in the wo...

In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan That Glimpse of Truth (Short Story Collection) - David Miller (Ed) Both great - if you like short stories - the sec...

What am I, a priest? ;) Of course, we all hate all sorts of things. Sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not. I have no problem with that. We just do...

Ah, TGW spreading his romantic memes around again. I am the beast of philo-so-phee, say what you like, once you say it like me.

Good luck, I'm in China and I can't even get Sichuan McNugget sauce. This is all they have. :( /uploads/resized/files/wp/kenuhm8v0ez56mgd.jpg

You mean in the coming nuclear war between the US and Russia? Hope not.

The hashtags and the accusations that your interlocutors lack empathy fall flat when you give the impression of someone who hates Islam more than he h...

There's not as it stands, which is odd, we know. Anyway, if you blank your post content then write "delete @"" we'll get rid of it.

When you have nothing of value left to contribute, get a YouTube pundit to contribute it for you. When that fails, try a hashtag. Yes, we know being r...

Well said, but to complete the logical tetrad, who would the open-minded non-compassionate be?

*Suddenly paranoid - turning off web cam now*

Me either, so it's odd to be in the position of "defending" one. I have curbed my anti-theism a bit though. Secular liberal consumer societies are no ...

I don't see the relevance of any of this. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the Qur'an did say beating your wife was just fine. The Bible says it's OK...

I don't see how this would improve things either, particularly as the most violent countries in the world, as I mentioned before, are Christian, and i...

Yes. And I only hate some of them.