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But it's about 14K per 100K where I am, and that's low for the US. I think we're worse.

I thought that was the US.

For real?

Fourth wave hits Europe. Well that's just great.

I heard some old guy say he didn't like Trump. That's my research.

Ahh! I'm slow in getting started. Got busy. I'll get back to it this week.

Where they came from:. A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey check it out!

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Recall that for Parmenides, it doesn't really make sense to say a thing is not, because if X is not, then how were you just talking about it?

Wow. That's a good question. The One is an idea that goes on to haunt philosophy all the way down to Schopenhauer. It's hard to address Parmenides be ...

I agree, we fill in the blanks. I think Aristotle agreed with your assessment of Parmenides: that he thought things are one in essence, but plural in ...

There are a number of theories about what Parmenides actually believed, centered around whether he truly believed that the plurality our senses seem t...

Ooh. I'm gonna have to drop you off my radar. .

I really don't think so. We have very different perspectives on the whole thing. So yes, we talk past one another.

Could be. I just told you that it doesn't really matter much who you vote for, not wrt fundamentals. If you really understood that, then why are you u...

I don't think you understood anything I said. :up:

The question is:. can you accept that American democracy has been subverted to create a super wealthy class? Can you accept that the US military has b...

The two are closely linked. For metaphysical possibility, you can just posit a god that makes it happen. Physical possibility is trickier. That's whet...

I can start a thread tomorrow and try to make an introduction. I haven't read Parmenides, and I've heard it's thick, so unless a more experienced phil...

I think we usually start a thread, read portions, discuss, derail, get back to the text, derail again, ask a moderator to tell somebody to shut up, go...

AWESOME

If Australia was huge, its crimes would be huge.

@"Manuel" Would you want to read Plato's Parmenides? If not, Descartes?

@"Banno" You know better than that. here and here

I don't think it's just about philosophical discussion. Chomsky demonstrated that language acquisition has to be an innate ability. Innate abilities l...

You don't have to be vaccinated. Simmer down.

In the Iliad we're watching a conflict among the gods and this plays out in human life as a bloody war. MI Finley says the early Greeks took this lite...

Imagine you tell a friend about a headache and she asks, "Did you know you had a headache at 3:00? It isn't gibberish, but you'd still probably ask fo...

That's because we're geniuses. Or not. The protocol broadcast by monotheism includes projection and shadow, all that stuff Jung was all over. The mono...

The founding of the US didn't have much to do with conflicts with Native Americans, I don't think.

Start another thread and don't mention vaccines.

I think you'll have to try that again and don't mention vaccination.

I wasn't speaking metaphorically. Ancient people didn't own the elements of the human psyche the way we do. They thought a divinity created fire and g...

Moses Finley says they're the same (pretty much). We think of the psyche as something an individual owns. Ancient people saw the psyche plastered over...

They're the same thing from different perspectives.

There was a study about how people behave when they're sick. About 50% seek to be cared for by others, and 50% want to go off alone. That's kind of ho...

:grin: I think the wolf is a symbol of wildness. We're domesticated dogs, but we never lose our wild roots, and in fact everything we are springs from...

We could. I think it's basically the same thing that gives a wolfpack stability (got an awesome book recommendation about that).

They can tweak the virus fairly easily. That's what's great about thus kind of vaccine. But yes, we just had a delta wave where I am. We're now expect...

Stability comes and goes in human social groups. Humans make large scale groups that can last for centuries. It's usually most stable near urban cente...

Vaccinated people develop infections, but they don't usually get critically ill.

Fascinating

Did you get that book yet?

That was the temperature during the Eocene. Yes, we know exactly what it looked like.

I agree and never said otherwise. The world won't be unlivable during the worst part of the warming. I'm astonished that you put so much energy into t...

100,000 years isn't permanent. I don't think it's picky to say so. The fact that warming will come in a dramatic spike (the size of which we don't kno...

Bush and Rumsfeld are still alive?

Because basically what it means is that a source you trusted was really really wrong, as in must have made up the stuff about permanent global warming...

Did you get David Archer's book?

I just saw two doves fighting over the bird feeder. It's the end of the world probably.