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Once while pondering how information can endure on the skin of a black hole, the notion passed through my mind that this might actually be life after ...

I think I'll avoid it. But I was thinking: why claim Nazism? Is "white supremacist" too tame? Does "white nationalist" not get the point across? When ...

I didn't even know what 4chan was. Is it an American thing? I'm afraid if I go look I wont be able to go back to sleep.

It's a sign of being jaded when you see people as irredeemable. I do it too.

What is that?

Maybe you could engage and draw out his views on racial purity if your perpetual snideness would allow it.

Very upstanding of you, but with that attitude your best bet is to put on your Asian peasant hat and blend with the ashes like a Taoist master.

There's definitely a winner. :wink:

If it's devisive it's not advantageous, but is it? Trump has already started subtle sexist attacks on Warren. The multitide of Republicans will still ...

It does include myth, but the message of Jesus isnt really about how to be a good person: it's about the fact that you're not.

And if you lose the game while you're trying to inspire your opponent?

I dont think any scholar believes that. Luke wasn't supposed to be an eye-witness anyway.

How is it identity politics? It was underhanded politics. Is there an advantage to being civil? Other than owning the higher moral ground?

Democrats dont have a candidate who can beat trump in 2020. Am I right?

Nice. I checked it out on Google Earth.

It is gigantic as warts on the face of humanity go. I'm on the Atlantic Coast.

USA.

I'm reading Little Dorrit. Interesting choice.

I see. Have you ever read anything by Charles Dickens? If so, what? And what is the greatest Norwegian work of art in your opinion?

True. Why isn't Norway in the EU? Just wondering.

Look at what's needed to engage in real debate. Then assess whether those elements exist. If not, you can try to take the higher road. That's what H C...

Wait, what arena are we talking about?

Adapt to the climate, don't expect it to adapt to you. In the present state of things, there is no middle ground, no possible compromise, and so nothi...

I say use what you've got and be unreasonable and ruthless about it. Expect the same from your opponent.

Some organization is required in order to feed billions of humans. Allowing individuals to be rewarded for effort has worked well in partnership with ...

The Enneads by Plotinus Little Dorrit

The guy who started the Ayn Rand thread said he found in Rand strategies for survival, but nothing about why one should survive. But aren't most of us...

I think aka stands for 'also known as'.

I think sporting in general evolved out of either hunting or military exercises. I say that because of the history of sports. You're saying that it ha...

Like Meta, youre trying to stomp out my question instead of exploring it. WTF?

I agree. But why substitute this half-measure for the real thing? To boost the population? Or is there some more transcendent reason?

From 58: "The higher the ideals, the lower the results." Good for us whiners to remember.

So you've changed your tune. Baseball is entertainment, not an end in itself. Is it entertainment (as opposed to work) for the very reason that it's p...

Why not see sport as an end in itself? Really?

Eclectic disenchantment

Schopenhauer was Kantian, so I've always assumed Nietzsche was as well.

This is Schopenhauer's pessimism: that existence is a blind striving toward satisfaction. The ultimate satisfaction is the end to all striving; the en...

That ain't right!

Isn't it mostly rocks?

It's not breaking any rules of grammar. As for what it means: look to context of utterance. If it was computer generated, then just stand there flaber...

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I'm guessing that at some level they do know the holocaust happened. It's a show of disrespect to the victims to say it didn't. I'm sure that's not al...

I'll give you that. Beyonce.

Right. I wasn't criticizing Austria. I was pondering censorship, pros and cons. The more important point is that suppressing morons makes them martyrs...

Some parts are pretty amazing. What do you have? A peat bog? :razz:

It was said that imprisoning Irving made a martyr of him. Your post made me think about what Jon Stewart said: that Trump is a direct result of a stea...

What stands out to you as a significant Senecan contribution to Christianity? Obviously the greater contributer to Christianity was Plotinus. The stoi...

Trump is like Seneca in terms of his opinions about wealth. Jesus said the meek would be blessed. Eventually his followers would become convinced the ...

And yet everyone knows who Jesus is and it's the rare one who knows anything about Seneca. Thoughts on why that is?

That truth is an unanalyzable concept. If you attempt to present a definition, you assume your audience already understands what truth is because it's...