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I'm experiencing that my care-refrigerator is empty. My give-a-damn-camera has no film. I have a metric ton of oh-that's-too-bad.

I'm not following.

Sounds like a recipe for angst?

I cant find the other vantage point. Somewhere in the world somebody is getting royally screwed right now (and not in a good way). Why does it matter?...

Oh yea, I forgot.

It's not about that. It's about the Supreme Court leaning to the right.

:up:

Republicans don't want to investigate because of the time it would take. If Democrats take the Senate in November, they'll leave the Supreme Court sea...

Ultimately, the immaterial is that which is not material. Mind could be a species of the immaterial or it could be synonymous with immaterial. Depends...

Sorry for calling you a shithead. I just thought you were being unnecessarily insensitive.

Material is not-mind. Mind is not-material. As Banno pointed out, to choose one side is to declare the other side illusory. That's problematic althoug...

I think Kavanaugh tried to rape Ford. I also think the Democrats purposefully set this up without much concern for the impact it would have on either ...

What is it that's supposed to be super-experiential?

That was probably one of those pro-gun anti-abortion people.

He's imploding.

I'm starting to doubt that it's going to work out for your boy. Three accusers. Make that four with witnesses.

yea, well. I'm busy.

This is kind of Nietzscheque in that it's drawing a captivating narrative out of a chunk of facts that can be just as easily used to draw the opposite...

Make it Go Away :cry:

So the flint has value prior to being recognized as having value? Some sort of mind-independent value? A physicist would agree. From a certain point o...

How do you handle that? Put them both in a blender and press puree?

One of the problems with tracing out the trail from palace economies to market economies in the late Bronze Age is that we just rely on bits and piece...

Intrinsically? Sure.

Ford's description makes sense. What she describes is pretty common. The simplest explanation is that Kavanaugh has a history of sexual misconduct.

What I'm reaching for is a picture of primal ownership. I'm thinking that items of technology or adornment are experienced as extensions of the self. ...

Interesting view. You're concerned with salvation. In some cultures there is a historic link between salvation and trade, as if salvation can be bough...

That's a disturbing thought. It would be nice if there was some proof.

Honestly, I wasn't flaming. It's what I really think.

I saw it. It's just annoying. It's annoying that it's brought up without any proof at the last minute. What are we supposed to do with that? That said...

If he ever runs for pope I hope you'll bring it up at the last minute.

I knew it! Who was it? Mom's boyfriend?

You're kind of going on and on about it. My theory predicts dastardliness of some kind in your history.

Imagine that you're a resident of a subsistence economy that's closed off from the rest of the world. You tend a pumpkin patch for about 30 minutes a ...

Frequently the people who are quickest to defend the accused in cases like these were themselves victims of sexual abuse. It's a cycle of violence thi...

It's not a good look. Anita Hill on TV. Roe v Wade up in the air. Can't we find a Republican who hasn't tried to rape somebody? And Baden, the US and ...

I'd like to sketch out a few different types of economies and look at how the trade transformation touches people's lives in each one. Anthropologists...

Do you mean one type of data? Obviously the conscious mind handles all sorts of things other than qualia.

Yes. I think a real evangelist approaches his target audience with respect and compassion, quick to translate their values and beliefs into the langua...

Latino Americans frequently understand English, but can't speak it. I think people are probably predisposed to expect or look for meaning in the same ...

Ok.

Yeah. The pendulum swing is a cultural thing that individuals contribute to and are influenced by. Is that what you mean?

Ok. But nobody would trade 20 yds of linen for 20 yds of linen (if the bolts were identical.)

What do you mean? Kinds?

Transfer of property rights? That's how gift economies are described, but there's worry that this is an ethnocentric description.

Imagine a pendulum swinging through the spectrum. The end points on either side are states of meaninglessness. But at any point between the end points...

Think of a person who is making a sequence of sounds. You suspect it's a foreign language. What would confirm for you that the sounds can be analyzed ...

I'm not criticizing. I think Marx would have been interested in the ancient palace economy and why it disappeared. I'm off to read more about that. Th...

Ok.

The thing that's odd about a speculative bubble is that people buy a commodity (such as swamp land in Florida circa 1929) with the expectation that th...

I think you're overlooking that as the numbers get intellectually bigger, they get physically smaller so it gets easier and easier to fit them inside ...