It depends on whether one is walking alone, and where. For me, any idle solitude is good for thinking about a specific subject. For solving practical ...
Who: They are the modern aristocracy. How: mass communications: media social networking platforms; news sources Through their communication networks, ...
This last one covered the entire globe in less than a year. It's the sixth major epidemic in the first 20 years of this century. 2003 SARS; 2009 swine...
Paramount requirement: stop making wars, preparing for wars, cleaning up after wars. Firstly, they keep disuniting both peoples and purpose and second...
Yes. That's where you seem to feel most at home. Exactly. Dysentery is quite a messy condition. The different stages of enlightenment achieved not onl...
It doesn't matter. They're defeating themselves. They have to, because you and I and all the other powerless widgets, in spite of all our efforts, hav...
That is not the person I described. The person I described has so far done everything in his considerable power to thwart all attempts at uniting peop...
Hey! What you got against kittens? I have some pick-your-own on the back porch. Free, but wear work gloves. I have sometimes wondered where a thread w...
Right. So, we ask: "What does it mean?" and somebody - anybody at all - replies "Love" or "King and country" or "42" or "MAGA", and we put that on a f...
AFAIK, we haven't met any extraterrestrial alligators or mosquitoes. Either they didn't get here yet, or we're all pretty damn special. So, to whom is...
Only? Survival is important to most of us. When do urban muggings and home invasions typically take place? Even after. Have you tried crossing trough ...
That makes me squirm a bit. I like to be able to follow a story without benefit of electrode implants. I don't mind the odd flashback or memory or dre...
What makes you think you would be in charge? Let me put it this way: If Picard were to visit Earth today, do you sincerely believe he would recommend ...
I can only view the "meaning" or existence of an entity other than myself as an object. If meaning is subjective, why are so many humans of different ...
I understand that. How many man-hours of their effort, how much of the natural resources on which they rely for subsistence, do ordinary people curren...
To assert that one does not need to justify one's existence in terms of submission is not meaninglessness as defined by the 'meanings' vaguely outline...
Which is exactly what we need to do, if we are ever to stop slaughtering one another on the orders of our 'superiors'. As long as there is willing sub...
A social animal feels incomplete without a society. A human life is more productive and rewarding when its activities include shared undertakings, com...
No. Both meaning and utility are external; they are assigned by the maker, agent or user. You described how a rock might serve humans - entirely in hu...
That question is just as pointless as the other. What is the meaning of a rock? What is the purpose of an earthworm? What is the significance of blue?...
That's an intriguing concept. A little spooky, too. Could make a really good story, but I - and I assume many other readers - would be sore vext if it...
You don't see a logistical problem? https://qz.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-visit-the-international-space-1850461158 That's just getting one person in...
I don't think it needs to be longer; I think it could use a little tightening here and there. It seems to me a bit hesitant at the start, a bit vague....
That's supposed to be a first draft?? I'm hard put to get something that polished with three edits. Very sophisticated writing. The subject leaves me ...
One of them is hoping to - already has the throne and succession lined up; another is shooting for godhood. You're the one hung up on monarchy, not th...
Hell, no! They're wearing $6000 suits and sitting in boardrooms on top of very tall glass buildings or flying around in private jets, being served end...
Well, it goes back a long, long way through our ancestry. Monkeys are easy prey at night, and even the strong, aggressive hominids were at a disadvant...
That doesn't mean it stops annoying me. I expect songs to have a tune and lyrics and it annoys me when they don't (Oh, man, does it ever!) even though...
Because they took different titles. It's a good enough disguise to fool many. Only it's not measured on the cosmic scale, but in human life-cycles. It...
Certainly, by bats, jaguars, clandestine lovers and prisoners in fluorescent-lit cells. Our association of night with all things sinister arises from ...
I've never tasted Scottish wine. Your whisky, OTH, is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.... We dabble in both, make some decentish potables. Parsnip...
Yeah, right. Every two hundred years of so, we rise up against the oppressors and cut off their hydra heads. Even while the revolutionaries are bindin...
I can't. And I have tried, while I was physically up to volunteering and marching. I still give money when I can, and write a lot of utopian guff. But...
And the effect of that past upon the present. Three main obstacles to the progress you envision: It took 13 years to build the World Trade Center (bad...
It's so full of disparate topics and ideas and individual convictions, in no coherent pattern, that it belongs nowhere in particular. It reminds me of...
The footage of a beach covered in oil, all in motion with floundering fish and waterfowl and some good guys attempting to save them was shown on broad...
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