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So you're saying that global warming didn't climb to the top. It was chosen for its emotional appeal on both sides. It feeds the liberal's need to att...

Do you mean his threats are just for show?

I hope nobody is killed.

I was thinking about the warnings of scientists that antibiotic use is breeding antibiotic-resistant organisms and every day we're approximately one m...

Question: No reputable scientist says AGW (anthropogenic global warming) will end civilization or the human species, but every reputable scientists wi...

the line between the lips is usually one the darkest lines on a portrait. It's as dark as the pupils.

Read about Plotinus. There are some good Arthur Holmes lectures on youtube if your reading time is already booked. Booked.

What TMI is explaining is also a feature of Christianity. It's the esoteric meaning of the trinity. The father is the One. Holism, man. Holism.

99% of all species that have ever lived are extinct. :sad:

Most of Humpty was stuck in the horse's hooves at that point.

Cool. I was going for a wave/particle duality for holism/atomism. It's clearer to say that meaning holism says that a word's meaning is bound up in th...

They brought in a bunch of horses to fix a broken egg.

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Ok.

Idealized? The cups are in use. I am a monster, btw.

I was talking about meaning holism. Imagine a sea of beliefs and inferences that repetitively crashes upon the shore of contemporary speech, making av...

This is true for some believers, but not all. The concept of divinity has been around for the whole reach of human history. If you take a holistic app...

I wasn't talking about a short-term adaptation to sea level rise. I was talking about long-term adaption to a warmer climate for the next 10,000 years...

Somebody said a holocaust survivor was killed. That got to me.

I understand. My hypothesis right now is that dominance of the state over industry and banking requires tyranny of a monarchical or Czarist sort (basi...

Hmm. Now I'm more curious. I'm reading some other books now, though (trying to assess Uncle Karl).

An economy with privately held companies just doesn't seem very communist to me. :)

What do you mean?

I would say yes, those distortions are aspects of personality. There's no sane person down there waiting to pop out. What do you think? Do you know ho...

Are there still communist regimes?

I agree. Personal identity isn't ego by that definition. I don't think so either. Losing can reinforce identity by producing a journey of overcoming, ...

It's going to be unusually hot for about 10,000 years (assuming we burn all the coal). Most if the CO2 will have dissolved into the oceans by then and...

"As twentieth-century philosopher Georg Simmel wrote, “money by its very nature becomes the most perfect representative of a cognitive tendency in mod...

We will have to adapt.

Sigh.

Fucked how? If you mean our descendants will have to adapt to a changing world, that's true. That was going to be true in any case, though.

How are you defining ego?

True.

If corporations own the US military, then corporations are stronger than any nation, right? What the US could do is default on its loan and bring down...

I don't know. Did you not say that non-logical statements are nonsense? I don't think I have the experience of either making logic or manifesting the ...

As if logic is a puppet master? No, I wasn't suggesting that. I thought you were saying that non-logical language is nonsense and non-truth-apt. I was...

You were saying that our communication must be logical. Our communication is often about the world. Does it follow that the world must operate logical...

Alibaba doesn't own any of that labor. It's e-commerce, right? Does it have to be in a particular place?

But nations will compete to give Alibaba a taxless home. They want the jobs.

I didn't know "self-possessed" can mean calm. It's sometimes used to describe a person who has a strong sense of identity. They just sort of process e...

Didn't you say that illogical statements make no sense? Then is it not per you that "making sense" means adhering to logic?

What would be involved in confiscating the property of Alibaba.com? Or would it just be about taking the property of the owners of it?

Rethinking it, I believe some people are just naturally self-possessed.

If leftism were to ascend in the world, some would probably take that as a sign that goodness and righteousness had won out. Of course, anything that ...

I agree. Any sort of conflict may or may not boost identity.

Sure! I was thinking of "persona" and "personhood" when I wrote "personality." I was contrasting it to material aspects of who you are like your mater...

You were talking about the requirements of thought. I asked if that's conflict or questioning. Schopenhauer would say conflict, I think.

Exactly. Puce people have bad breath. Everybody knows that.

Actually I thought you were saying you knew the complicated part. I misunderstood.

But doesn't it amplify your gayness if you're around people who are uneasy about it? Imagine being brownish in a crowd of brownish, versus being brown...