For your consideration, without consideration if it be good art, the question is whether the picture hanging in my well appointed hotel room of Columb...
Still not perfect because it would deny the accidental artist, the person with the creative flare whose speech is like poetry or organizational skills...
Just self-deprecating ad hom Euro-elitst humility parading. Aesthetic qualities can be present without the object being art, as in a beautiful sunset....
Inherent in argument from analogy is drawing distinctions in those things being compared, as the two things compared are obviously not exact, but only...
The distinction between art and not art you wish to suggest is that between the naturally occurring and the man-made (which i shall return to momentar...
How, pray tell, can something lack cosmic practical utility? This probing question insinuates the impossibility of purposelessness under a divine crea...
No! Un-ha! If it exists, it has meaning, which is to fulfill a purpose. The artist paints to for a reason, to fulfill a purpose, that without would re...
Ah yes, becoming an ascetic for aesthetics, a common homonymnic reaction. I too have foregone all eat and drink, have walked miles with pebbles in my ...
That sexy man in the video is in charge, and he explains the rollercoaster ride he and his colleagues went through in the number assignment process. I...
I couldn't find that, but I did find this riveting lecture discussing the challenges of designing the index. These are the challenges of a true adrena...
Every nursery ryhme is indexed in the Roud Folk Index, so you can take a moment and read them all. There are over 200,000. Hey Diddle Diddle is #19478...
The game may be immoral or objectively unfair, which could be a reason to opt out, but, saving those concerns, victory favors the competitive. If bein...
You mention trinity and the primacy of love as a value in a thread about faith and think no one will notice the consistency with Christianity? An argu...
I don't agree with this, though. I think the line between poetry, for example, and literalism is just one of degree. A good amount of our language is ...
You're underdevloped. That is true, and I did watch more mindless television when I was younger, which I consider art. It might just be the time inves...
My dog just told me it was raining by coming in and being wet. That's a form of non-linguistic non-artistic communication. I told her she was a good w...
The physics of the toilet is also fascinating. The sudden release of water from the tank causes the pressure build up and release and you get that cla...
So this is a complicated statement, crossing categories with strong Christian allusions (lthe trinity and primacy of love (John 4:8 "Whoever does not ...
My view is all communication is art, representations of reality, some better, some worse, some least literal, least photographic offering truth most c...
What does 80 oil orange even mean? Seems to be missing a unit, and wouldn't orange oil be a cleaning solution? I think this Coca-Cola is going to tast...
But art also might reveal a higher truth, which isn't mentioned in your erudition. I find that the value of better theater, the type not strung togeth...
If that's not your view, I stand corrected. I take as an example a prior quote of yours though, "this goes beyond the merely epistemological point, to...
And that encourages me to continue. For my next piece, I requested it draw me a picture that captures the essence of my last question related to temer...
I ran it through ChatGpt as I suspected you wanted it analyzed: ME: i want you to pass "temerity" through the following languages and then back to Eng...
So I was saying artists' and philosophers' observations about humanity would lead to greater inhumanity if accepted by greater humanity, but then you ...
I found an old copy of Slaughterhouse Five I started reading. I wonder if the point of Western intellectual tradition, particularly literature, is to ...
If plank state 1 is followed by plank state 2 without apparent rhyme or reason and that negates a meaningful concept of time, either you're requiring ...
My post didn't say anything about the dictates of reality, but then condescendingly suggesting you can feel free to live under whatever delusion you w...
My favorite word is "set," which holds the record as the word with the most meanings at 430. My favorite usage is usage: II.6.c.1775– " A right to sit...
I would think a basket of canned meats and fishes, with assorted grainy crackers and perhaps spreads would make for a fine gift, maybe a thoughtful re...
"The word archipelago is derived from the Italian arcipelago, used as a proper name for the Aegean Sea, itself perhaps a deformation of the Greek ????...
Tinned fish is a delicacy these days. Previously I associated it with low quality, the thing of convenience stores or tuna for sandwiches. I'm not ful...
It's the discovery of a variable. If the earth revolves in a predictable pattern except in one strange moment, you'd want to know why if highest truth...
I can't disagree with the post to the extent the poster found comfort from his internal struggles by interpreting his world as he did. For me, I like ...
My grandfather once took me to Rainbow Ranch, a rainbow trout pond where you paid for what caught by the pound. I was easily one of the greatest fishe...
I think there is a reason that feces is instintively foul, which likely relates to it being generally unhealthy waste, although my dog doesn't seem as...
Modesty rules pre-existed Victorian times obviously, going all the way back to the time when Adam draped his junk with a fig leaf. Bathroom privacy is...
You don't get naked when you cook, so it's not necessary to put an oven next to the bathtub. Bathrooms are private places, which explains putting toil...
There are differences between spiritual cleansings (baptisms, mikvahs) and hygienic cleansing (scrubbing the grease off your paws). I take "ablution" ...
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