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Women. losing rights by changes in law. The U.S. is suddenly the new Tehran.

If you look back on the comments, there is much litigation of the past but very little hope for a future. He could be making fun of trump or serving h...

Nice. I resemble that remark.

A guy from New England, for sure.

I think the key point is that giving to us an 'agent who thinks' is standing on the outside trying to look in: Science does try to uncover what is hid...

What I liked about Selzer is that she refused to speculate how her method would work in other States. Her groove was "try it and see what you find."

It reminds me of that time in High School when I was an unwarned participant of a game of chicken on a street out West as a passenger in a rusty Impal...

People using signs are alive. They give life to the signs through their use. Wittgenstein recognizes that a process must be happening organically that...

So, a guy asks you to imagine having sex with a porn star. But he becomes appalled that you thought he was thinking of ejaculating upon her. But wait!...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5gLZqeCSnE

It is odd that the Trump campaign went to New Mexico. They have many ethnic divides but nothing a flyby gringo could capitalize upon. The place is not...

And there is the gnashing of their teeth and the lamentations of their women to hope for. A thread of humiliation weaves the bromance into a single ha...

That's the Bannon message in a nutshell. The joke will be on those people when their fortunes decline further through the expansion of monied interest...

Just wanted to acknowledge the congressional element of your observation. A group who has voted reliably is suddenly in play.

The Tiki torch crowd will shake their burning sticks no matter what is said. The thing about saying this in NYC is the long history of the people from...

Agreed. There is a strong conservative interest in those groups who vote for their perceived interests even if it aligns them with people they otherwi...

Having one of the speakers of the MSG rally held last night joke that Puerto Rico is garbage is going to piss off people on both sides of the politica...

I don't want to make light of the peril of another Trump administration. I am only saying that the most dangerous parts go well beyond a particular pe...

I take a less apocalyptic view. I survived Covid when Trump was talking about quack cures and the power of bleach. One has to only listen to him speak...

Your take of his persona is odd for me to hear. I have been working in construction for almost 40 years in NYC. He has long been the client you do not...

Of course it is a business. They serve their market just as the Washington Times serves theirs. If it was a matter of only the marketplace, the paper ...

Another big news organization in chaos from big money pulling for Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIYdQS9Plw0

I am not sure how to talk about these different experiences in a modern context. In the Republic, the most repeated ratio is the individual soul being...

The 'moral panic' language can be found on Fox, Washington Times, Breitbart, and Red State. The sources for the 1/6 action at the Capitol being engine...

According to Kelly, Trump did not believe him when he pointed out that some of Hitler's generals tried to kill him. I am sure you are right about the ...

I get why you say it is non-nihilistic but it changed the shape of my nightmares forever.

John Kelly reports on Trump's approval of Hitler in some respects. The pooper scoopers who follow his every move will probably not pick that one up.

There are many elements to your thesis that require different kinds of responses. I will stick to one question for now: The principle of sufficient re...

There are the accounts of Socrates' daimon giving him warnings. In Phaedo, the voice said he should set poetry to music. Plato shows him as withdrawn ...

I am curious about your age and level of education. What might help one person could be meaningless to another.

Bleak House by Dickens. A return to fiction after a long hiatus.

The role of the daimon is not as clearly set out as the powers that make a life a certain length. The most terrible idea of the spinning thread is tha...

My focus remains on where Plato has taken us in Book 10 after showing the poets in a new light. To that end, I am trying to get a better handle on the...

It sounds like the ring is supposed to encircle the unexposed half. I get a lot of that at work.

Interesting idea but I doubt it. Every site needs to restrict changes outside of its programming. Such a feature from the outside would be tantamount ...

I will try to put forward a more nuanced response in the coming week. For now, I will make two observations. In Homer, fate is the timing of a mortal'...

I don't want to stop up my ears like Odysseus. I wish there was a feature that would let me blot out text by painting it with the cursor and the app r...

I want to take this observation into a new direction. If the relationship between a soul and its daimon is over at the end of each life, that underlin...

Continuing upon the theme of Book 10 as a kind of peace treaty with the poets after struggling against them in the earlier books, Aristophanes shows h...

In regard to our discussion of the meaning of the two different words, I was not arguing for primacy for either term. I was only arguing for a differe...

Baier's need to control the message is the message.

It is two different Greek words. I meant to say that with my first comment on the passage and now realize that I did not introduce enough background t...

The two words, 'forgetting' and 'carelessness' are both clearly in the account. I fault the translations that fail to convey the difference between th...

The question of 'drinking too much' oblivion reminds me that the mythology of Hesiod and the Orphic mysteries have the role of Lethe set over against ...

Just a quick note on the Greek: the place next to the river is called a plain: "??? ????? ??????" ?????? (pedion) is defined in the lexicon as: flat, ...

Excellent attempt at reframing the odd into the normative. Your job is secure until it does not matter.

He freaked people out. Like hearing Hendrix in the beginning.

I agree with that interpretation. I also agree with your view of Odysseus as a 'repurposed' life. The distinction between the choice and the "assignme...

Yes, the choice of the soul does seem to be separated from the work of assignment by Lachesis. I am not sure how it relates to your previous comment a...

I wonder if the language of Hesiod plays a part in this: The relationship between the choosing and the daimon seems to be an assignment by a daughter ...