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What's the alternative? (I'm asking). Isn't psychology also imposing forms?
July 16, 2021 at 00:30
Idea for a business: meat flavored milkshakes and fruit burgers.
July 15, 2021 at 22:57
This is covered in one of the articles Kenosha linked to. Advocates of prehistoric war aren't motivated by this sentiment. It's based in the evidence ...
July 15, 2021 at 19:17
Let's agree that it's an open question. Otherwise I'll have to believe what everybody says about your ability to research a topic: that she's a crack ...
July 15, 2021 at 19:14
Nymphomaniaca don't derive pleasure from sex? That's weird.
July 15, 2021 at 18:24
My ability to read is a nymphomaniac.
July 15, 2021 at 18:12
Ok. That's fine. l did say earlier about "on the table."
July 15, 2021 at 17:49
I said that due to genetic and archeological evidence, the possibility that violence was prevalent among early humans is a consideration that's on the...
July 15, 2021 at 17:32
Yep.
July 15, 2021 at 17:27
If you could be bothered to read your own links, you see that you pointed to an article on chimpanzees. We aren't descended from chimpanzees. Nobody i...
July 15, 2021 at 15:14
Disingenuous. Your justification is morbidly obese.
July 15, 2021 at 15:01
Archeology contradicts the thesis that prehistoric people were peaceful. I can't cut and paste the info about genetic indications of prehistoric war b...
July 15, 2021 at 14:37
@"Kenosha Kid" The archeological record shows that there was a fair amount of violent death prehistorically. Human genetics provides a puzzle that cou...
July 15, 2021 at 13:17
Just thought you might be interested.
July 15, 2021 at 02:50
Cool, but if you break it down by country, you can see fertility rate vs CO2 footprint. https://www.webmd.com/bipolar-disorder/guide/bipolar-disorder-...
July 15, 2021 at 02:17
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53409521
July 15, 2021 at 01:55
Maybe. Doesn't mean they weren't violent.
July 14, 2021 at 23:37
Homo Sapiens.
July 14, 2021 at 23:33
Our genetics indicates we have around twice as many female ancestors as male. That points to prehistoric war as the norm. There could be other reasons...
July 14, 2021 at 22:33
They lost their Czech identity.
July 14, 2021 at 20:49
German Czechs were subsumed. German Jews weren't.
July 14, 2021 at 20:40
Intolerance is cultural survival mechanism where there's a lot of competition. Cultures that lack intolerance will be subsumed. Racism is a particular...
July 14, 2021 at 20:17
https://youtu.be/J4X2b-CEGNg
July 14, 2021 at 16:19
Oddly, his son looks nothing like him. https://i.insider.com/5e5f1aa8fee23d3380167ea2?width=1300&format=jpeg&auto=webp
July 14, 2021 at 14:14
Damn inconvenient moon wobble!
July 14, 2021 at 14:09
We should give bonus abilities to people with high votes, like you can ban anybody you want for a week.
July 14, 2021 at 01:19
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Transatlanticism.jpg
July 13, 2021 at 19:42
Yes you can.
July 13, 2021 at 16:11
Really?
July 13, 2021 at 16:09
You need a Prime Mover.
July 13, 2021 at 14:34
One source for the necessity thing is Aristotle. That form was transmitted to Christianity through Aquinas. The general theme is the need for some fir...
July 13, 2021 at 14:23
I think there's a section of the media, like MSNBC, whose practices mimic Fox news. They draw a crowd for the same reason Fox does: they provide a rea...
July 13, 2021 at 13:55
I'll accept your decision as long as you danced around a fire all night long with a rattle.
July 13, 2021 at 01:28
'kay
July 13, 2021 at 00:04
Does it?
July 13, 2021 at 00:02
Yet conservatives are pretty generous when it comes to private aid to communities. There are three religious charity groups where I live. They're busy...
July 13, 2021 at 00:00
Why odd?
July 12, 2021 at 23:42
Doesn't that seem childishly black and white? As if the other side isn't equally corrupt? There are some philosophical differences, otherwise people a...
July 12, 2021 at 23:40
The financial sector has become a giant tumor. I'm not sure the patient's going to survive. :grin:
July 12, 2021 at 21:32
You're an extremely angry person. It's gonna get worse after you read that
July 12, 2021 at 21:30
An insurmountable credit crunch would make the economy spiral downward, right?
July 12, 2021 at 16:48
It was a lockdown baby.
July 12, 2021 at 16:29
I think Trump's success was from the fact that he seemed like a disruptor, so it's not really two sides at odds. It's a growing grassroots movement to...
July 12, 2021 at 15:09
If you only read the first sentence of my argument and misconstrue that, I won't put any energy into presentation the next time. You reap what you sow...
July 12, 2021 at 13:44
It started in the 1980s. Read David Harvey's Brief History of Neoliberalism.
July 12, 2021 at 13:04
"In China, there is a restaurant called “Translate server error”. The owner attempted to translate the Chinese word for restaurant into English but th...
July 11, 2021 at 15:10
Monotheistic gods too. His abiding point is about what the Christian metaphor means. But it's amazingly easy to de-adapt from that stuff when the impe...
July 11, 2021 at 13:00
Ron DeSantis is expected to run in 2024, and would pick up Trump's supporters (unless Trump runs). It's a sort of boneheaded vibe. It's a little conce...
July 11, 2021 at 02:12
Nietzsche would say Bartricks is relying on a metaphor that works for him, though he doesn't realize it, and that the atheist is doing the same thing....
July 11, 2021 at 00:00
Our debate has its roots in events of the 18th Century when much of Christianity turned to fairy tales in the eyes of the educated. As Nietzsche point...
July 10, 2021 at 21:41