There are obvioulsy some thoughts not within your control, like hunger, disgust, fear, etc., which is consistent with there being some physical action...
Not sure if this touches on your question: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/doxastic-voluntarism/ This is a discussion of whether you have control o...
A black collarless shirt, three button sports coat, oversized rims. This screams hip casual, I'm here to enjoy your finest food and drink, but I refus...
Maybe I need to clarify my analogy. "You were all baited like fish by the grocery store" means you were all baited, like fish, yet you were baited (me...
I was reminded of an old girlfriend today. so I wrote this poem about stuckedness. I planned my getaway just past noon, but somehow ended up in your l...
I feel like this conversation bounces all over the place. You can be individualistic and egalitarian simultaneously. You can also be hyper competitive...
A high sense of self worth does not equate to feelings of grandiosity. It's a Wonderful Life did not portray George Bailey as someone who thought high...
Yeah, but the loss to South Korea generally and Hyundai specifically would be far greater if they closed up shop and created a bigger trade war with t...
The answer was shouted by the silence of my one hand clapping, Wait, that seems evasive. A better answer would be that it looks like Trump is sending ...
Speaking of which, in the old Godzilla movies, the actors dressed up in rubber suits and wrestled around on miniature models of the city. To the build...
Movie stars are also smaller in person when you see them. But once I got really good seats at a Braves' game and the players were monster size from up...
I'm watching the 1955 Godzilla Raids Again. I happen to be watching it on NYC in my hotel. Quite a coincidence, if you believe in such things. /upload...
Coincidentally (if one believes in such things), an old Godzilla movie is on TV right now. The bulk of the movie is about tracking Godzilla'a emergenc...
My brother's wife's father would travel the world to watch birds, but actually to cheat on his wife. Imagine how the birds felt to be someone else's e...
What you're saying perchance isn't just that pseudo idealists (those with idealist tendencies) confuse the mental as the only real, but it's that's tr...
Consciousness isn't an inherent feature of the physical universe, but a description of the physical universe without reference to consciousness is inc...
No. That suggests Jung was some sort of Berkelian idealist. He was not making any metaphysical claim at all. He was only indicating our psyche is medi...
Substitute "the world" with "your world." Actual quote from Jung is: “Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the wo...
But this is the bigger problem. We've grown addicted to having others bottle our water and brew our coffee. If we did it ourselves most of the time, d...
My research reveals that it was the Black Frost in Brazil in 1977 that resulted in the largest spike in coffee prices that the world has ever seen. ht...
I awake to a prepared grapefruit. I assume some being does the preparation, but whomever is purposefully kept from sight so as to not ruin my day with...
I caught the scurvy, I was in a bad way. Doc said eat an old style bitter grapefruit. I was like hell to the no, let the good Lord carry me away. I pu...
Metaphysica of sociology. As in, what is a society (or subpart) composed of. The "ant trap" (name of his book) is the error (his thesis) of falling in...
I'm glad you brought this up for discussion. It's not our imagination. Grapefruits actually have changed. They're now redder, smaller, and sweeter tha...
My son is working on his Ph.D. related to AI and MRIs, particularly prostate cancer identification. They're also trying to use AI to enhance lower res...
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