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Science is a combination of logic and observation. It's all built on assumptions about the value of deduction and inference. No logic at all is requir...

Still, the more pain you've experienced, the more you understand what others are experiencing. Any theory that can't accommodate that fact needs work.

So you're saying I know about your pain by virtue of being able to use "pain" correctly, not because I have reflected on my own pain.

So it's possible for a toddler to learn to use "pain" with no reflection on her own pain. Probably, toddlers do a lot of parroting. So then what?

Yep. With you so far.

I earnestly don't know. With pain, it's not an attitude to a proposition, so how does one place it in the public domain?

It works very well for me. I'm sorry it's giving you fits.

Convention says I know your pain by thinking of my own. I've never had a heart attack, but I know what pain is, and I can imagine it in my chest. I ex...

Again, this puts pain somehow beyond the individual. As if it's a cloud people touch.

When we ask about motive, we're asking about the purpose for an action. What did you want? What was your reasoning? I understand your goal oriented be...

What about motives. Is that also partly intersubjective?

Do you see yourself in people of other races?

I've been thinking about the image of the Devil lately. He shows up in the gospels to tempt Jesus with wealth and power. I'm waiting to see if he show...

Climate Change

There's no should. Love reveals unity.

Half sane then. That's better than none at all.

Democrats egged on looters?

Trump played to white supremacists. He played to QAnon. When the president is egging on armed wackos, it's a little more than that Democrats are demon...

The primary issue was a belief that Trump had been elected, that evil forces had interfered with the election, and that Mike Pence was committing trea...

Sigh. Fine.

Yes, white supremacists were there. Since the inauguration they've been trying to gather up what's left of QAnon to flesh out their ranks. Note that t...

This sounds like Rumi: Muslim platonism.

I get what you're saying.

That sounds kind of crazy until you compare it to: Blessed are the meek For they shall inherit the earth. How do you inherit the earth? What do you do...

They've been mixing for a long time. The average African American is around 75% African. Here. African genes for appearance are dominant. If that wasn...

Right now American poor people are being munched up by drugs, disease, and gun violence. There are always more though because they keep coming in from...

So as whites, blacks, and latinos become genetically mixed, the race problem will go away, but inequality is too deeply rooted in our kind of civiliza...

Was Bernie Sanders trying to initiate that kind of change? What do you think will happen to today's progressives? Will they sell out eventually?

Nobody felt threatened by the marchers.

I don't know.

What are you talking about specifically?

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Some don't have the luxury of being able to forget what they look like. But yea, being able to see past race is a good thing.

The justice system is biased. Subtract the racial bias and there's still a bias against the poor. I'm glad academia thinks about it. Aren't you?

Maybe it's an attempt to keep the focus on race since the events of the summer. Every year this happens. Every year nothing changes. So let's just act...

How much of it is really continuous with historic racism, and how much of it is the outlet for today's fears?

Yea, I'm just sincerely burned out on the extreme rhetoric. If you just want to sling insults, could you please go elsewhere?

That actually makes sense. Cold wars have occasional outbreaks of down scale violence. Otherwise it's just tension. Who are the people engaged in this...

Red-lining is an example of systematic measures to keep the US from developing a diverse society. The goal was segregation. Let's poetically call that...

That looks good.

What it will mean for the virus to become endemic. I guess all that's left is to wonder what China will do living in a world where this virus is endem...

How did it go? I'm finding that getting back together with people is kind of strained, like we don't remember how to do it.

That makes sense.

I've burned a lot of food and destroyed one copper bottom heirloom pot, so, I like the timers.

Are you equating objective with truthful?

You're a busy guy. Better get back to it.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Right. Otherwise we'd have one mind and two bodies.

Metaphysical possibility is close to logical possibility. If you can imagine some god who made pain as a kind of invisible field or ocean where differ...

Sorry, that printed before I was through. You each saw tokens of the same sentence. It had been pointed out that the first word was a token Banjo used...