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A friend just returned from Kenya. He said the Chinese come in and everyone celebrates the hope that they're going to employ Kenyans. Nobody is employ...

Every story has two sides.

I agree. You never know what battles the people around you are fighting. I use that poem to silence the old internal critic.

Lima beans, corn, and black beans, all mixed together. Take Beano right before you eat it or a hurricane will come out your butt.

The Romans celebrated the story of a Roman farmer who, when discovering that marauders were attacking, put on his armor, went and kicked ass, and was ...

No!!! I don't wish all that pain and suffering on the world. I just see the silver lining on the possibility.

I agree. But we're always just one catastrophe away from a fresh start.

Tankie!! I think it's really more like this: a young woman is flawless and full of life. An old woman is shriveled up with one foot in the grave. The ...

I'll have to think on it. :smile:

You know how you might find yourself reading Nietzsche's assessments of history and think: "None of this is actually true, but there is valuable truth...

Oh, I see. I agree that there can't be a definitive definition of masculinity. It varies. In our world we associate blue with boys and pink for girls....

Historically women's rights tend to go to the back burner. As Frederick Douglass said in advocating abandoning support for women's rights after the Ci...

It's more that you can be well fed and well dressed, but still not know what it's like to be treated as an adult human being. It's called the "talking...

Thank you Dr. BC.

I've gone from totally failing to understand you to suspecting disingenuousness. I actually have a lot of respect for you, so I better just cut out of...

Look at the sentence again: All you have to do is look at what things are generally identified as masculine. I think you're in the minority in not bei...

It is for me.

It's not the size of the boat, man.

Toe condoms. Yes, I constructed my own out of bandaids, but it wasn't ideal because everytime I changed them, I disturbed the nail and I was afraid it...

I see that I'm as opaque to you as you are to me. We did upend how families own and pass on property around the time women got the vote. Prior to the ...

Me too. In my area, a lot of restaurants still aren't back to where they were. I usually give at least 20%.

I'm coming up blank trying to discern your message. But if it's working for you, :up: :grin:

So you didn't spend much time working for tips? That's why you don't feel a responsibility to take care of them. I'm guessing.

A manner of expression? I mean, masculinity as a kind of archetype has been around for thousands of years in multiple cultures. It's fairly easy to di...

It sounds like you weren't a waiter in college. What did you do to make money?

Are there characteristics we associate with masculinity (I'm talking gender identity here) that women never have? Like what? We aren't in a post-patri...

Masculinity isn't something males have a monopoly on. Women have the same characteristics, though they may be sanctioned for broadcasting it. That's w...

:up: Good plan.

I'll be old Hooktoe. You have to tip well in America, especially if gas prices are high, or inflation is high. That said, waiters make decent money in...

It was loose for a few days, but it's seems more secure now. Right? Poor thing.

Dropped a 2x6 on my big toe and it swelled up like a grapefruit and the toenail almost came off. So just be careful.

I guess actualism is just an interest of mine. We can put it to the side. The point is that talk of probability can reflect frequency. When it does, t...

If it's knowledge about a unique event, it's knowledge of logical possiblity. This is just an assessment of which statements about the outcome are sel...

Exactly. Frequentism is what underlies actualism, a form of determinism. Imagine that you're rolling a die at a craps table. You'll say that the 5 has...

I think probability can be taken one of two ways: it's either an assessment of some number of iterations (so we toss the coin 100 times, it comes up h...

Training for the non-mammal olympics.

The Buddhists in Minnesota throw the sand onto icy streets. :grin:

You seem to be drawing probability (with the word 'unlikely") and possibility ("necessary") into it. There are some good arguments for determinism, mo...

It's true. William the Conqueror died as a result of an injury to his groin caused by the horn on his saddle as he was proceeding out to squash someon...

Peaceful transfers are for losers.

Diligently construct your memories in chalk on the pavement Then sweep it up And throw it off the mountain into the wind

Because truth and an affirmation of realism are so basic to speech, thought, and action, even if you're in a dream. I think for some, the emphasis on ...

Yes, that path they're taking used to be a giant boulevard. Now it's tiny and much safer.

:lol:

Apparently when they don't go to Muhammad, he has to go to them.

They're hardcore. They do everything without rails. Awesome scenery, though.

This is Iran. It's amazing. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rbvs6-jI0oQ&feature=share8

Witt or Quine? Quine is famous for demonstrating that the ability to apply a rule in new circumstances has to be innate. You can't learn it.

Since the beginning of this, I'm more confused about what's going on over there. Is this going to be like a hundred years war where eventually nobody ...

Relativism appears to be built into thought itself, as we mentioned earlier wrt science.