Yes, I was a bit dismayed by your exchange. "James" is a man of strong feeling, and one must keep that in mind when dialoguing with him, if a continue...
Who can dislike an epic poem which is yet endearing? I first encountered the story of Hiawatha and Minnehaha as a child. It may have lost popularity t...
I rather think it is the statement made, and the succinct, parablic way in which it presented. I have always rather liked it, even though I tend towar...
Eureka! Athena, you are a genius! No...in actuality, I would prefer they be fully human. My hope, however, would be to find a woman whose beliefs, val...
When it comes on screen, simply "squeeze it down" with thumb and forefinger until it fits. Then, start squinting. This is good for women, but in some ...
Very accurately and succinctly said. I am very torn on this issue. I don't like the government compelling private citizens to do anything, but we must...
Now you have elucidated precisely, specifically by the provision of contrast, all the things that I resent the nation-state for. The state provides a ...
You seem very convinced, James, that the nation is, indeed, a "plutocracy"; I am less so. I'm not prepared to say whether the U.S. is, in fact, a "plu...
@"Athena", this is presented within The Old Regime and the Revolution, no? I would like to look this up, and read about AdT's thoughts on this. Can yo...
That is unfortunately true. The leadership of the Third Reich (who probably never even read Nietzsche) cherry-picked utterly uncontextualized terms an...
The weakening of the concept of "perpetuity" both in general and in particular: familial, social, environmental, etc., has definitely weakened the con...
National anthems are symbols, just like national flags and any other type of nationalist symbolic device. Their purpose, whether there is war or there...
man, you speak with remarkable shrewdness when not imitating a sailor firing the big "F bomb" guns of the main battery. It is very refreshing to read!...
Sure, it's not been fully realized, but we can yet draw some conclusions about the relationship (or the lack thereof) between state brokerage of socia...
Ah, sorry...just can't help responding to this one. When you say "fall into", you mean as if one slipped on the bank and fell into the river? This is ...
Yes, these are true concerns. I almost expect to hear a daily cry of, "(Big)Daddy(government)'s home!", and I almost want to say that everybody should...
@"T Clark", don't know if you have ever read this one (I'd be surprised, since it is fairly well known), but it's long been a favorite of mine. It is ...
A rhetorical question, but let's spell it out, nonetheless. The ammeter, not possessing a brain, and so without a mind, can have neither intellectual ...
Yes, certainly. She either may or may not learn something new about the external reality...what I like to call "the universe", but at the same time, s...
one thing that I have gathered from this thread, is that I will have to remember you and @"dimosthenis9" as my go to guys for all things Nietzsche, pr...
Nietzsche's "will to power" seems as if it would be an independent concept, even to Nietzsche himself, from bare "will". Given the semantics of the no...
what I mean by saying that I "consider myself a pagan", is that I have personally renounced theism as a tenable belief system, and am seeking to find ...
Ah, sorry about that. I didn't mean to insinuate anything about yourself. Considering myself a pagan, I have things against folks like Crowley, Helena...
@"I like sushi" initiated a thread in which he used the unique term "philossilized" in decribing certain lemmas. I suggest that "will" is quite an "un...
and you liken him to...categorize him alongside F. Nietzsche? The fact regarding Crowley is, that I would not have expected to find such a man's, make...
This accords well with the definition of "will" as "firmity of purpose" or "fixity of intent". As I say, however, I think this only part of the pictur...
Well, fellows, thank you for redeeming my thread with some interesting banter, and thus saving it from ignominy. This has been a question in the back ...
That's a good consideration as well. It jibes somewhat with my own definition of "will" as "the inner drive to control events and to establish situati...
Verbal senses: 1. I will take you home. 2. You will do as you're told. 3. The rock will fall. Nominal sense: 4. It's God's will. and in addition: 5. I...
thanks much for replying; I was about to cry and ask @"Baden" to give me a gobstopper. I realize that lexically, "will" has a somewhat, though not ext...
This is the meaning that Francis Fukuyama gave to his "end of history" thesis in his book "The End of History and the Last Man", which posits that the...
The analogy fails. You may reject the periodic table for being a social construct based upon rheorization, but if you do, there yet remains the fundam...
I have always found it much more difficult to distinguish preformances of Baroque music, when played by two competent musicians, in contrast to, say, ...
@"tim wood", much historical comment has been made about Glenn Gould's interpretations/recordings of Bach, especially of the Goldbergs. I have listene...
You asked, and I answered. In fact, the instant conversation was entirely in response to a question that you yourself asked: ...to which I, being in f...
@"Xtrix", here below find an article which I have just encountered, pertaining to my above alluded to fears regarding uncontrolled deficit spending by...
Your'e right on, Crank. Google Translate makes a mess of even the shortest Latin phrase. It seems unable to handle the inflection of words. Does "Deep...
I have read a teaspoon's worth of text about Buddhism, not because of any of it's doctrines, but rather because I feel that the basic methodology invo...
There is too much at stake, politically. The FDA is part of the Executive Branch, which is now headed by a man who, unlike former President Trump, is ...
I do not deny the existence of arrogant prevarication and certainly even of graft within such agencies as the FDA, but I think given the high-profile ...
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