Paine

Does this source quote from a specific text from Plotinus?

This is an issue where Aristotle's argument about the inseparability of form and matter comes into play. The call for a comprehensive causality means ...

I am lucky enough to live in the house I remade for myself. So, both made and found. The 'made' is also a matter of finding in regard to what I could ...

Aristotle considered the matter through developing different ideas about seeds. That some bits of material were ready to become something else is in d...

I like the way Kierkegaard talks about it. Love builds up. Beyond forms of affection (or the seeming absence of such), love assumes the presence of lo...

I am not site admin but I think that should be okay since a place for websites is provided in the profile.

It does. From the Site Guidelines:

Yeah, the tree chopper looks like he was timing his blow. It does seem he is already too late if the bison can clear the fallen tree.

Quote the sources.

Are you withdrawing the claim that first person claims to be God (other than God) can be found in the Scriptures?

The rate of homelessness in most places is significantly proportional to the cost of housing. Real estate markets are strongest in "blue" states becau...

The use of the "Son of God" and the "Son of Man" have different roles in the writings before the Christian era. Something to be pursued in a different...

Where in the Scriptures does someone declare this? There are those who claim that such a person exists. Big difference.

What I am arguing is that laws against harmful speech are not an infringement upon free speech as defined by the First Amendment. The First Amendment ...

The damage of fraudulent speech, as demonstrated through Common Law, is measured by its demonstrated result. The level of criminality that may be invo...

Not at all. The importance of education as it engages what each person and family consider most important is what shapes what gets to be public. The s...

I understand the differentiation you wish to apply from your previous comments. My comment hoped to express my doubts that such should (or could) be a...

Yes, to have the collision between 'truth and falsity' as described by Milton requires a shared secular space where the autonomous person is allowed t...

Agreed. I think Rousseau agrees.

For sure, I don't want to celebrate the quality in that way. And hard-core assholes do not regret anything. But I do not feel triumphant.

Property is the result of the luck of inheritance or the gains of conquest. Rousseau described the initial move as the result of calling a certain are...

I view the matter as starting with the tyrannical and learning better. I regret many episodes of what I did while parenting. As much as I don't like t...

if you have got it right in the first sentence, how does the 'acquisitive' spirit featured in the second type differ from the original desire?

Having spent the last ten years in the midst of the 'cultural war' up close and personal, the freedom to lie is a component of the desire to disrupt a...

The cat has been found.

Those questions are interesting to me as a reader of Aristotle because of the emphasis Aristotle put upon only being able to speak of potential by mea...

That was Marx's argument What?

Good points. I count the use of language that includes the use of the word 'vermin' to describe other people as an immediate disqualification. I would...

I thought it had something to do with disassociating from the whole 'Uncle Tom' vibe.

Trump changes the denigration of the first message to match the defense Vance is giving for lying about it. They are a team now. Try to keep up.

I feel I am not in Kansas any longer. I thought we were talking about believers in the Deep State.

I don't recall when any of those people slandered a specific community in this way. It is the degradation that you keep ignoring.

No, I think people can speak for themselves.

I see it as a device to reduce agency to a play of puppets. The puppet masters cannot be seen directly but they are responsible for all you do encount...

I cried "fire" in the theater because I need to clean up the mess in the first three aisles.

Hosea illustrates how different the views of the Kingdom of Heaven are between different Christian groups. Paul quotes Hosea 9:21 in Letter to the Rom...

A supreme being would be responsible for our production. Our ideas are just our ideas. As the Proverb says:

You follow the lack of concern for people exemplified by your Leader. Amplifying lies is not moral behavior, especially while holding a large megaphon...

The damage done to the community falsely vilified by a Presidential ticket is reprehensible regardless of whether it leads to violence or not. The fea...

You are reversing the power relationship involved. In Genesis, we were thrown out of the Garden after we tried to become equal to God. Similar smackdo...

That presentation is also a vital part of the call and response that unfolds at his rallies. He polls the crowd to ask how he should respond to his 'm...

A lot of stories about Supreme Beings include reports of what happens when you get too uppity. I am inclined to err on the side of caution.

With the addition of Lara Loomer to the Trump Brain Trust, a wide disparity is revealed in the skillsets of the Deep State Provocateurs on hand to do ...

I recommend starting with Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality. We use natural resources for our ends. But the idea of property is a claim restricting c...

You are ignoring the request for the one thing.

The burst into the dining room with all the food is Trumpier than Trump himself. Desperate hunger portrayed as barbarity.

Derrida. It may actually be interesting. I always lapse into a coma before I can find out.

You could use it as a verbal contortion of an American sitcom. "I see that you are staying at Pettifog Station." It receives deeper meaning from being...

We are getting footage confirming the carnage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6CBR4yjPhw

I don't think Marcion was involved in the vivid imagination of different agents of creation as drawn out by many Gnostics. Both, however, have an inhe...