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He didn't have a chance to ask him, did he?

The above part is raving. There hasn't been a trial. We may disappear Assange banana-republic-style. Or we may try him for hacking a government comput...

I was with you up to this point. There hasn't been a trial. Why are you raving about something that hasn't happened? Anyway, we need to question him a...

This is the theme of Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death, and it also shows up in Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Jung. Nietzsche is probably the most fun, so...

I was so wrapped up in the idea at the time that it didn't even occur to me that I needed to say more. We're each locked in a love-hate relationship w...

It would have to be "The houses are..." We could change the metaphysical background of the statement and still be picking out the same objects by "the...

When you say "house" you could be specifying something that can't change into a flower. That would be Kripke's essence. My only point was that where "...

People once thought the moon was divine and that it could help them if they prayed to it. Once we discovered that it's just a big rock, were we talkin...

I think the idea of a proposition comes from reflection on our interactions with the world which frequently have the form of questioning. Where am I g...

I'm practicing inscrutability. I've found that the best course is to do things that truly make no sense.

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Why would we want to make an immortal pig?

They named the human-chimp Roger.

I think that graph is showing data from 2015. We would need another graph from the 1970s to determine what happened to Baby Boomer views over time.

That's cool. Do they have a graph like that from the 70s?

@"praxis" BTW, the Russians now have a human-chimp hybrid. And no, I'm not going to tell you how I know that. Look it up for yourself.

An American is believed to have interfered with your country's election. Where do you want this American to be tried? In the United States?

What's clear?

I don't know.I came across the idea somewhere that we just naturally swing back and forth. Maybe Trump marks the point where we swing back.

We don't need no American Empire. :fire: My youtube broadcast of that contains a warning that RT is funded by the Russian government. Does yours say t...

Wait, look at this story

The guy said he wanted support groups where men come together. That probably would break down pretty quickly because of the differences in experiences...

Sure. But your message was that white people have nothing to whine about because they're white. That's ridiculous. Everybody has a struggle of some ki...

You may be right. Do you know what percentage of boomers were leftist in the first half of the 70s?

I try not to play the race card too often. I'm afraid if I wear it out I won't be able to get another one.

This is what the main character in Fight Club is looking for, but he can only find groups that address illness or divorce, so he resorts to pretending...

In the US, the well-known racist dog-whistle is "law and order," which Trump explicitly used during his campaign. His success put Republicans into a s...

What could you do to make the movement more substantial and significant in peoples' lives? Focus on the problem(s) you really want to solve. Prioritiz...

There is a men's rights movement. Google it. You could just start participating and decide for yourself if it's valuable to you and others.

Anyway, fdrake's answer is something I can understand. The targets for the dog-whistles are voters. The whistle is supposed to advance a feeling of un...

Is a desire to limit illegal immigration necessarily a manifestation of racism? I realize the two become entangled, but there are practical reasons fo...

I see. It's exactly the same in the US.

You mean of an irritating, non-institutionalized sort. Just a greater tolerance for intolerance. Not dispossession, disenfranchisement, or lynching. R...

Is that brewing in the UK? I'm asking.

But baby boomers were leftist when they were young. That didn't last, did it?

I listened to all the Dale Martin lectures on the New Testament and I really learned a lot.

We also have the means. Educate women. Give them opportunities to contribute creatively other than childbirth. Population growth stagnates. It's not h...

Abraham's line is initiated into priesthood by Melchizedek with bread and wine: the same kind of meal that transformed Enkidu from wildman to civilize...

Hebrew poetry reminds me a little of 12-bar blues: repetition and resolution. Maybe that's a leftover from oral transmission?

I haven't thought of phenomenology as starting from the premise that existence is ultimately subjective. It think Heidegger would say that subject and...

So I have a subjective world (my world) and you have yours (your world). Where we agree, we call that the objective world. But what's up with agreemen...

Not as written, no.

You mean the real Bible?

Look at this section: You started by rejecting the "objective world", but then speak of noticing how people see the world in different ways. What's th...

Leo's post needs tweaking in order not to seem self-contradictory. I think I understand what he's trying to say, though. It just needs more sorting ou...

In the light of our recent thread on QM, do these edits to Leo's post make it acceptable?

I think you're just hand-waving.

What's the harmful baggage in a statement like this?: Do you not understand what it means to have the experience of remembering?

I was just asking how your theory of mind relates to Wittgenstein.

The story is constructed to keep you from avoiding my point. Information can be subjective or objective. Information comes in a variety of forms inclu...