How did you get the impression that I think that? Can you not distinguish between being apologetic and writing a KKK rally off as unimportant? I was s...
I've always assumed the average Republican does look at it that way (considering which party the people in that picture support if they support one of...
The OP didn't say that mental distress necessarily signals a social problem. It would be hard to argue that such distress couldn't be a symptom of a l...
The interesting question T-Clark raised was whether the violence we associate with men (I suppose from violent outbursts to wars) is reason to ridicul...
It definitely wasn't true of you, obviously, but many men and women absorbed images of gender roles where men were central to society, but peripheral ...
My point was that we can't really look to nature for a rudimentary form of male/female conflict (as latter day sexists would have us believe). Among s...
Some thoughts on threads being derailed. I think every thread I've started on this forum has been been pretty thoroughly derailed, often with moderato...
Very much so. My advice to the OP (about depression) would have been to go lean up against the wall near the 100-200 section of the library and wait t...
Unless it's actually a matter of S&M. That sort of thing can be a source of creativity. Its more likely to be destructive if its unconscious. Even bri...
The greateat of all crap is McDonald's, but you have to have evolved the little gills that allow you to digest the special sauce. I used to have those...
The cynic still has hope. That's what the angst is really about. Abandon all hope and there's nothing to be cynical about. The world doesn't need to b...
I think there's value in realizing that we're all just passing through, making "transient abodes." One of the terrible things that happens when we for...
Where there is national law, it would appear any such questions have already been answered (someone is already claiming the land). I'm not sure I unde...
I think the word "right" is being used so loosely in this thread that it doesn't mean much. Can a people have a natural right to a stretch of land? Th...
A central feature of a worldview is: who is in charge, and why should we accept their authority? As long as that issue is happy, the world is relative...
A peculiarity about modern art is that color becomes separated from objects. The blue you see is not exactly of the table cloth. But of course you cou...
19th Century Russians had an unusual experience with meta-narrative. Artists felt like the Russian identity had been invaded by a French identity beca...
I think that might be an aspect of your time and place. You have leisure time to dwell on it, and you do, so your mind probably wasn't dulled in child...
Sometimes when people screw up morally, they were doing what they thought they needed to do to protect themselves. The current president of the US is ...
Imagine that you become aware that you're acting out a role in a play. You peer around trying to get a sense of this play. What's the tone? Where are ...
I think he was wrong about that. Idealism at its extreme is the view from the grave, the world gone gray. The materialist is seeking to live fully in ...
"My own experience has led me to the knowledge that the fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which t...
It does matter which one you're identifying as an individual. The human population is presently not large enough to mainly be influenced by natural se...
If it's the same process, then we would have to say that natural selection isn't too significant in language evolution (due to low population size). I...
We need some type of submarine that allows us to travel into other people's experience, extend a periscope, and record the happenings. But we'd need s...
Bill Clinton and Obama were pretty free with expressions of emotion. On the other hand, imagine Hilary Clinton crying during her debate with Trump. It...
Oh! We start with raw interaction. Just spontaneous behavior. We find ourselves surprised and reflect on events. From this proceeds a proposition, whi...
I have this thought that logic is an aspect of the language humans use in conversations with the world. I didn't want to say that out loud, though. I ...
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Humans and dogs have been been in communication for thousands of years. Language capacity may be innate, but lang...
Is there something self-conscious or self-reflective about intentional communication that's missing from non-intentional? I'm having trouble putting m...
The idea was that our innate capacity for language influences the way we interact with our environment. But the sun is an example of a part of the wor...
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