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It would be reasonable for Job to complain about doing a good job of being a person and yet getting a lot of suffering in return. And if he knew it wa...

My High School. Good times.

If you click on the three horizontal dots to the right of the swoopy reply arrow, you have the option to 'share.' When clicked, an address pops up whi...

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The first amendment in the U.S. constitution says that people can decide for themselves what to believe. The secular is about having a choice rather t...

Well said. The status quo has been upended. The future is unlikely to be a reset of the previous deals.

Yes, work is necessary. Finding a way to make it worthwhile beyond answering that necessity is a good thing. Don't you experience satisfaction when yo...

That aspect of Russia having a European identity is why I wonder about all the other ultra-nationalists in different states. Those different culture w...

Maybe it should be given its own room. A Lounge for people who only want to only talk about that.

As a builder, working with materials is learning the best way to perform to make the desired thing. In agriculture, growing is act of nature combined ...

Great observation about the life span of psychological models. Jules Evan's observation that such models are vulnerable to becoming tools for nefariou...

An interesting feature of Finland being outside of the Article 5 protection is that they can respond to any actual incursion from Russia without it be...

I agree that work is difficult and is always related to an acceptance of conditions of what is possible or demanded. The discipline required to make s...

The approach of Vygotsky is interesting. He called for research that was not just based upon personal testimony. In opposition to the behaviorists who...

Six, Six, Six. Orderly for sure. I like the 5-7-5 but recognize it is arbitrary compared to a standard developed in another language. Maybe all future...

Oh. I will withdraw because of whatever.

Maybe so. I am not trying to prove Jung meant a certain thing. But his observation of how we talk about instinct is interesting. There is a variance i...

In Jung's On The Psyche, he presents the idea that humans have a dynamic relation with their instincts that other species do not.

I thought that Jung was presenting the pattern of instinct, that seems necessary for other creatures is something humans can fool with. The idea that ...

Since that has been the central issue under contention for every war ever, the observation lacks the clarity you were hoping for.

Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuaSz89GeAg

Do you mean like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2zKdIcOV5s

Three old landscapers, Disagreed over placements, Of two garden nymphs.

Interesting play of piano as percussion versus melody. Or both, if that is the movement.

London.

The "Biscuits with Gravy" sounds like the tastier dish to order on that menu, especially after Lavrov just said that Hitler probably had Jewish blood ...

Oh. I will try again tomorrow. Time for bed.

Are you asking me to quote what you have said to show that I have read you carefully enough?

The point is that the separation you have made between the interests of the Russians and the 'west' do not amount to a fundamental disagreement about ...

Russian Imperialists have bank accounts in Western Banks. The system does not work without that Capital. You seem to be the summer child of unfortunat...

So, what makes it special enough to oppose the 'west' as anything different from what they are up to?

I know some of the nefarious happenings after the fall of the wall. Your derision does not clarify the difference between capitalists I asked about.

One origin for prayer may be from associating an expression of gratitude for good fortune to whatever agency is making it possible. So, not a matter o...

The 'west' did not require the failed state of the USSR to transfer it's wealth into fungible goods and Capital secured in global markets. That is on ...

The role of an alien entity being able to produce "what you want" as an experiment to learn more about your species is scary as heck.

I don't watch any of the movie versions of Dune because I realize they will screw up my imagination of the books. I think Tarkovsky's Solaris is fanta...

Your last question is boring. I will leave you to your own devices.

It seems unlikely to me that the different lines of production you point to can be separated so sharply.

That puts the date pretty far back. Your idea suggests we knew ourselves as sovereign individuals long ago but lost that knowledge through unfortunate...

What distinguishes those two things? Or, asked another way, when did the fake stuff emerge?

What does bringing that about look like? The Enlightenment was motivated, in part, by the desire to not be told what to think by the powers that be. I...

I figured that referencing Ecclesiastes would indicate that I was not claiming some fantastic advance for mankind as such. Technology has made it incr...

It is difficult, if not impossible, to measure the misery of the present age with that suffered in the past. A fair amount of the testimony suggests t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clbqKFM5oQY

This response from the Russian military reminds me of how the U.S. decided not to wipe out populations in Vietnam they were capable of doing at the ti...

Yes, the thing about how MAD works is that a preemptive strike would require a massive saturation of fire to avoid having launch sources taken out by ...

An interesting counterpoint to Spinoza cancelling the notion of will as ether a prerogative of the divine or what individuals do is that he places muc...

You are right, the prime mover would have to be physical to be an efficient cause.

The books are labeled according to Greek letters. Are you referring to Lambda or Mu?

For fans of SRV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeLddbrzsHk Great ensemble playing between Bass and second and first Guitar (depending upon the part ...