It's an interesting Wittgensteinian sort of example. Your confusion arose upon awakening upon realization you might have misused the term "brother" in...
The proper outcome of a well administered childhood is the elimination of dreams so adults won't be distracted by what might be as they go about their...
I'm an interpreter of dreams (and I also do minor home repairs), so you've come to the right place. Yours is the cloth, the girls have the hands that ...
We can openly discuss what you've described, which is a societal reaction to stresses, without entertaining thinly concealed attempts at advocacy for ...
Consider this: "An example of the second class of prophetic figures is found in Proverbs (vii. 6–26):—“For at the window of my house I looked through ...
I remain in the decay of year's past, sitting next to Jacob Marley who drones on about something or another. I need the damn ball to drop so I can sin...
A hermaneitic to understanding metaphor: "You must well understand what I have said, for it is a principle of the utmost importance with respect to th...
I am, but once in next year, I'll resolve to call it next year the entire year. Otherwise, next year will always be the anticipated thing that never c...
A recent study followed thousands of vaccinated children over a 10 year period, and while it didn't show a specific rise in autism rates, it did show ...
@"Banno" lives in no possible universe, making his existence only possible in the impossible universe, which happens to be this universe. He therefore...
I found this story interesting. The right seems to be dividing out between the ideologues and the entertainers. The former are trying to push their id...
What you're referencing is an armadilloian super hero that relies upon shielding for protection over aggressive sharpened teeth or laser beam eyes. It...
Sure it is. Why can't the essence be behavior, as in only humans do X? And what is the self but the behavior, considering you went to great lengths to...
Explain this sentence. "True virtue" as used here describes an objective morality, but "billions of equally valid opinions" describes complete subject...
You're suggesting the statement "Bob is evil" asserted anything ontological in the first place. Whether "evil" has a referent (i.e. some tangible dark...
This doesn't follow. You're distinguishing accidental properties from essences, ultimately both arbitrary categories vague at the edges, neither disti...
Ambiguous situations appear in all contexts, from the moral to whether I'm buying the correct toothpaste, yet I navigate and effectively participate i...
What difference does it make? Will I treat evil differently if it has an independent physical referent or if it appears as a property of a physical en...
Perhaps. My post had nothing to do with religion, yet you're telling me the dangers of blind allegiance. I simply said one should stand against the im...
My son bought me Maimonides' "The Guide to the Perplexed." The introduction offered a succinct hermeneutic regarding metaphorical understanding and th...
If you're questioning whether there is an identifiable referent for "evil" or "the devil" (as the quotes indicate a differentiation between the word a...
It is only the atheist who knows of altruism, and with purity of heart, passes his wisdom, generation to generation. And yet you transcended this limi...
Let's see it after it's cooked. I've never had goose. It looks difficult to cook and too expensive to experiment with. I picture in my mind Brits eati...
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