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I had actually considered Camus when I was considering examples of truth through fiction. He in particular presented his philosophy through fiction. I...

I do not believe in any of this superstitious nonsense, but I do have a hamsa hanging in my kitchen window to keep out the evil eye. I do this because...

I thought you were suggesting that I extrapolate from your experience what you felt to be the limitation of fictional writings. As in my To Kill a Moc...

Had a cup this morning as well. Parallel lives.

Racism being bad is either true or false. The empirical conclusions obtained by experience are either true or false. I'm not just referencing the emot...

Parables and fables are specifically designed for the purpose of providing truths. But the same can be said of more extensive works. And that holds no...

Racism bad.

To Kill a Mockingbird, for example.

This better describes what analytical philosophy in particular aspires to achieve, but not necessarily continental philosophy. To the point though, ph...

I was actually recruited here by an international search committee to provide insight and hope for a troubled world. I've not disappointed.

There are a number of concerns about TikTok that do make it different (like concerns that is being used to track user's locations and invade their pri...

This brings this issue back up: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1142828852/tiktok-senate-federal-ban-state-agency-governors The US government getting i...

It's funny because my intent was not darkness, but the opposite in the way @"praxis" interpreted it. The guy was entirely fucked up, from being a want...

So far you guys have given really good feedback. We work best as a team.

I made this shirt online that we can start selling. I had a few other ideas if you like this one, but this is the only one I'm going to offer up for f...

A thought, not necessarily a perfect one, would be to next time present the stories upfront with the author's name known. The lack of anonymity would ...

Um, are you not recalling how I made homemade scones? Sounds pretty anglophile to me.

Nope.

My forefathers fought for thousands of years for the right to a private ballot, and I'll be DAMNED to just give it away like that. I liked it.

I didn't see the cancer as the focal point. I saw him as a self absorbed bore who droned about the same stuff over and over, with the observer trying ...

They are counterexamples to your comments about "religion." This means your criticisms are not of religion but of particular religions. 23% of believe...

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Judaism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism This shoul...

Why do you have to be so difficult? Let the man post his pigs in peace.

No, I'd have said that you had to eat the pig after it ate the corpse just to be safe. We're entirely different sorts of people.

Alright, so you stand opposed to the totalitarian, infantalizing, ready-made religions. What about those that are not?

None of those pretend to be scientific, but are just people, like you, offering their opinions.

You stand opposed to state sponsored murder as a means of population control, you don't blame the average citizen for the acts of their brutal governm...

And yet you offer no cite to this ancient doctrine and ignore all the cites set forth in the Wiki article specifically on the point of psychology of r...

I've never come from a position of literalism, nor from a position that the Bible is the revealed word of God. Are we really again going to trot out t...

Sour grapes refers to the development of a negative attitude due to an inability to obtain something actually desired. You can feel free to read the p...

Yeah, but this is where the conversation unfortunately gets stupid, with you positing a baseless theory and then awaiting disproof of it. You're not a...

I don't find this psychoanalysis at all useful. It's based upon knowing close to nothing about me, your having no expertise in the matter, confirmatio...

That's the whole "there are no atheists in foxholes" thing. I don't know that I fall back on religion when things go bad as much as I try to figure ou...

It depends upon the person and the religion. My religious views aren't in place as an anxiety medication that you happen not to need. I personally don...

It's not a failing. It's an admission that the foundational elements of reality are unknowable, and you either start with Cartesian doubt that ultimat...

Maybe this is another @"Michael" story, where it's really just a recounting of something that happened online, but this time he's keeping it more subt...

Religion doesn't empirically "find," to be sure, but it does assert objectives truths. This is unlike science which does not assert objective truth. T...

Your response is inadequate. The question was not why religion never found its way to India, but why Christianity didn't. If religion had not found it...

My wife has really taken to chicken farming and we're going to get a bigger coop. Whatever it is you see in pigs, she sees in chickens.

Now you know it's mine. I'll have to come up with another gem. I do want to further develop my language hack talk. It's somewhere between child make u...

https://images.app.goo.gl/uFikgsYisg8h7Np38 My sweetie.

When I was a kid growing up in the swamp, we had gatorhogs that would sneak up behind you and crush your head with their jaws. They got most everyone,...

I'm not sure I'd have driven the bus, but I'd have seen if the radio in the bus worked or looked for immediate help nearby. I mean it's a very cool st...

Yes, back on topic. I'd have guessed this was your story based upon the shifting perspectives, reminiscent of your Plum Pie story if I'm remembering r...

It means drive with abandon. I promise.

That's one worldview. The other is that there is deep hidden meaning in everything. But that's not to say I disagree with your view that you can cance...

I'm not convinced he is of the proper Davidic lineage, although some say he is. That's my major reservation. A lesser issue I have relates to the impo...

There never was a first Christ, so how could he return?

Or maybe I've already submitted two entries and I'm asking questions I already know the answer to to lead you astray.

I know, right? What did I write? Do I have time for another entry?