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A mask is like a coat you put on. The coat of a professional contains all those little mannerisms and speech patterns that go with being a professiona...

When we think of Nixon losing an election, we must be thinking of a Nixon who ran in the first place, as opposed to a NIxon who left the US to become ...

Disarming the public would be a bit of a nightmare.

You can, with the actual indexical, produce an necessary, a posterior identity statement, like: "The actual 1970 US president was Nixon." Don't worry ...

Yes, this probably isn't the ideal time to stage a revolt.

What should I focus on? What do you mean "especially one like the US"?

The USA was originally envisioned as a loose association of states with common interests. The federal government was supposed to be distant and fairly...

No, I didn't.

What? This forum provides a fascinating window into how people in various places make up their own USA and react to it. It makes me wonder if I'm doin...

Its not an argument. It's a fact. I wouldn't ask you to read a history of the U.S., but there's a wikipedia article on the 2nd amendment that would he...

As you might expect, there's a lot of information out there about it. Check it out.

That was the original intention of the 2nd amendment.

Surely he's not suggesting that. His story has to account for the epistemic engine implied by the title of the book.

I'm already chiselled. Not really.

Maybe a little. If color didn't exist prior to evolution, did smoothess? What about spacial dimensions? Time? Is there some part of our experience tha...

It's a set of chisels for carving marble. But she's not my wife. :blush:

Cool.

No. We're not going to die out. Study climate science. Avoid sensational crap.

This issue has been on my back burner for a while. I'm thinking most of us aren't ready for the world you envision. Consider this forum, which you pra...

Canadian postal strike! My most important Christmas gift is coming from Canada. Oh no!

Your view is typical of Gnosticism.

Did he mention that eyes independently evolved more than 50 times? The insect eye is not the forerunner of human eyes. Fish eyes are. I think he needs...

Have you read "What is Metaphysics?" I read it recently and loved it.

The US military and US industry were joined at the hip post WW2. It would be odd if there were no cross pollination. I may have overstated, though. My...

Familiarity with military life coupled with an interest in history. Prussian military organization was consciously adopted. It's a tool for managing a...

Did Heidegger eventually conclude that Witt was right? 'Whereof one cannot speak...' I thought maybe he did.

And the basic insight is Platonic. Maybe perennial?

The US military is organized Prussian-style. It's said that as men left the military, they drew on their military experience in the creation of indust...

What's your interpretation?

I agree.

Speaking of Trump, would we be better off without daylight saving time?

Remember Plato has Socrates say that every philosopher's greatest wish is to die so as to gain a vantage point on life in this world. There is no such...

The preceding verses identified Jesus as the Logos and the light. Logos is kind of like divine mind or intellect. So I think the verse is saying that ...

Sure. Correlate that to Jefferson's interest in education, though: dynamic tension between an assimilation agenda and democracy's need for educated vo...

Yep. Smoky the Bear fire suppression.

He's a Holy Fool. Holy Fools also sit outside of society screaming at it. Unenlightened has the character of a Holy Fool. They're usually very irritat...

I think he's riffing on the eye's inability to see itself. What does it mean to you?

I'm probably just out of the loop on rightist talking points. Help me out: what's a source for this comment of yours?

I'm guessing someone tried to explain some forest science to him. Do they rake a lot in Finland? Controlled burns are the tactic of choice here to eli...

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It's tricky, though. There may be gain in telling the truth. Good salesmen are honest. They pick the truths that serve. But I agree we should pay atte...

The OP specifically stated that ssu's info was "so proper it's incredible." But I'm happy to move on.

No. NPR says rain meant he'd have to go by car instead of helicopter. It wasn't important enough to him, I guess. He went to a different cemetery the ...

I would have had so much respect for you if you would have just said, "Oops, I picked up some fake news and ran with it. My bad." But you just came ba...

Why do you think it's about "good boys"?

For some reason I was wondering if the people who invented irrigation should be considered intellectuals. I dont remember why.

Hmm. Look, a poppy :flower:

Ssu, who presented the fake information as if it were true, is from Finland, isn't he (or she)? That suggested to me that Finns (which means "Whites" ...

Very timely in that it's fake news. But it tells us that Finland has yet to discover the umbrella. What, does the snow just blow off and you don't nee...

That's true. The unbuyable can be awesome or dreadful.