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I enjoyed that story about your life.
April 13, 2019 at 06:48
Anywhere means: "From all places everyone has looked, the cat is on the mat." That is consensus subjective or is that just what you mean by objective?
April 13, 2019 at 06:41
""From my perspective, this sentence is in English" is first person perspective. "I like ice cream" defines "like" as "from my perspective." The gramm...
April 13, 2019 at 06:36
Your test isn't whether it can be said in first person, but any person. This is because "person" simply references perspective. That is I/you/he likes...
April 13, 2019 at 06:19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotelianism#Islamic_world Guess you have to start reading. What is European culture? What food do they eat, language...
April 12, 2019 at 17:16
As another example of similar censuring, this time of a university law professor who used the N-word in class and later in the presence of a student, ...
April 12, 2019 at 16:54
Not sure if you guys saw this video of Trump after the Mueller report. He never ceases to amaze. https://twitter.com/i/status/1109962032995069952
April 12, 2019 at 03:15
Such has always been the case, just done with intuition and guesswork, using what limited information we have to make decisions about who to date and ...
April 11, 2019 at 13:14
Your value as a human being is unquestioned and infinite. I'm not challenging that. Your role as a worker bee has a specific amount of value. That is ...
April 10, 2019 at 21:04
I know what the Vatican is because I am generally educated, not because I've been there. As to my claims that it is tiny (it's 110 acres), it has a ve...
April 10, 2019 at 18:04
My point was that it was logically inconsistent to blame Americans for the sin of stereotyping when it comes to Muslims and then for you to openly adm...
April 10, 2019 at 13:04
Sure, there are those who live in reality and accept it for what it is and those who don't. You have utilitarian value as an employee, and it has to b...
April 10, 2019 at 00:08
This describes not only an unhealthy attitude of both the interviewee and interviewer, it describes a poor decision making process. I've been intervie...
April 09, 2019 at 20:27
My thoughts exactly. I was about to move it, but then I thought maybe there was some clarification that could leave it here. So, @"S" why is this here...
April 09, 2019 at 20:18
I can't excuse terrorism, regardless of whatever excuse a terrorist might provide, including the unpersuasive "you made me do it with all your hate" a...
April 09, 2019 at 18:45
Do you really think it's "most likely" our poster is a Christian terrorist, or is this post just more hyperbole devoid of philosophical or academic va...
April 09, 2019 at 13:47
I would agree that democratic rule is superior to theocratic rule. We really don't have current day Christian theocracies to use for comparison agains...
April 09, 2019 at 13:30
The psychologist fallacy, holding that it is an informal fallacy to assume your idiosyncratic psychological bias is shared by all: https://en.m.wikipe...
April 09, 2019 at 02:11
This suggests happiness in being unhappy.
April 06, 2019 at 23:24
So rednecks are self sufficient and hard working and hippies shiftless, except the ones who aren't. What about blacks, Jews, and Asians? What does eve...
April 06, 2019 at 11:59
For the record, I was born in 1966, which makes me one of the first citizens of Gen X. As one of its eldest statesmen, I can say that it is was and re...
April 05, 2019 at 20:10
There was a very powerful anti-Vietnam movement throughout the war, which many would credit as hastening the end of that conflict. In fact, I'd say Vi...
April 05, 2019 at 19:55
I really don't know what you're talking about with this observation. Maybe you lay on us a joke you think super funny that the old people haven gotten...
April 05, 2019 at 18:03
The OP was referencing baby boomers, not those over 100 years old. As noted in the Wiki article, "Lynchings were most frequent from 1890 to the 1920s,...
April 05, 2019 at 12:32
All for the chicks and the money.
April 04, 2019 at 23:58
It's not so much a question about whether I agree with Buckley or Chomsky. It's a question of whether they deserve special attention because of their ...
April 04, 2019 at 13:24
@"Ilya B Shambat" We've really left the topic. My original comments about the Swedes related to the incorrect statement in your OP where you over-gene...
April 04, 2019 at 03:40
/uploads/resized/files/sl/j9wyr78w1xdnnw33.jpg Art Deco courtroom pew.
April 03, 2019 at 18:48
They were probably not liked at one point when they were vikings, wearing those cool horned hats, wreaking havoc, raping and pillaging. Nowadays they'...
April 03, 2019 at 12:25
This is massive over-simplification, suggesting that the US, every country in west Europe, every former Soviet bloc nation, and the Jewish people all ...
April 03, 2019 at 02:46
The hubris is in self-declaring one's self an intellectual, suggesting one belongs in the court of philosopher kings. It is at the heart of liberal el...
April 02, 2019 at 20:49
Don't hate the haters. There's a certain joy in casting aspersion upon others. The disagreement I suppose is in what we each mean by "to some extent."...
April 02, 2019 at 20:12
Yes, that is true, the intent does matter. The intent to be reckless versus the intent to do actual harm does matter. In fact, the law respects as muc...
April 02, 2019 at 17:00
I know why you wish to absolve yourself of guilt, but I'm simply pointing out that the law follows the same logic that I do and it isn't just some arb...
April 02, 2019 at 15:34
It seems less relevant whether do-gooders are arrogant and whether do-badders and do-nothings are humble than whether good, bad, or nothing is being d...
April 02, 2019 at 12:59
No it's not. You chose to drink knowing it would compromise your judgment, so you're fully responsible for the mess you created. I suppose if you real...
April 02, 2019 at 12:34
As I see it, the distinction between patriotism and nationalism is one of oppression and control, with the former accentuating and promoting the posit...
April 01, 2019 at 13:07
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It's sexist, poorly thought out, and a continuation of your ongoing nonsense about how you love your mommy.
April 01, 2019 at 02:40
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And now we've taken a hard right turn. Women have their place and men theirs. Lovely.
April 01, 2019 at 02:35
I contend that patriotism was higher under Reagan and GW and that it is now more acceptable in the US to be critical of America within America, which ...
March 31, 2019 at 02:57
Where is the empirical evidence for the claim that patriotism or nationalism has increased under the current administration? Without it, this thread b...
March 31, 2019 at 01:50
The OP asks if bodybuilders are poor neurotic men, which logically asks three combined questions: Are they poor, are they neurotic, AND are they men? ...
March 30, 2019 at 21:12
Introducing names into this discussion tends to humanize the people we're talking about, and I'd rather think of them as hollow literary constructions...
March 29, 2019 at 18:24
You meet the rule perfectly. In my case, though, my ex is crazy, but I am lovely beyond compare, so there is at least one instance of the rule not bei...
March 29, 2019 at 18:15
You sound like you still love her.
March 29, 2019 at 18:14
An interesting distinction worth discussing. It might be that the universality of the rule is based upon reality. You have no counterexample, consider...
March 29, 2019 at 18:11
Something I need to tell you guys, and this is sort of important... I brought my dog inside and she smelled terribly of shit and upon exploration I no...
March 29, 2019 at 18:09
I do know what I'm talking about. I said she was crazy and you were an asshole, and you confirmed both of those things. I didn't say you didn't get al...
March 29, 2019 at 17:57
You're just reciting the universal rule that all ex-wives are crazy. The other side of that rule is that all ex-husbands are assholes. That's what the...
March 29, 2019 at 17:37
Everyone knows that men act differently than women. It's obvious. Other than certain outliers, little boys emerge from the womb acting differently tha...
March 29, 2019 at 17:35