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Can't think of a more sadistic way to dispose of them?

Of-bloody-course insects are conscious! How else would they be able to find food, shelter and mates - not to mention Mexico. An even more fundamental ...

Fair enough. Don't instruct me what I need to do, and we're even.

Not at all. You can still appreciate and explore the complexity of transportation systems, foods, relationships, laws and customs, economics, cinema -...

Only this: Science looking for the universal of trees. It's not important. Just got up my nose for a minute.

Coulda sworn the taxonomy of trees had already been established. There is still no universality of trees. They are all individuals - except that one s...

It doesn't matter. Most of the suggestions and links I offered are not my own ideas anyway - they're out there in the webisphere for anyone to access....

The 'universal of trees' doesn't sound like science to me. Certainly each tree has practical uses - but that would be commercial and exploitative. Con...

Well, that's a relief! I never meant to start those world wars. You either disregarded or strongly disagreed with them at the time, so there wouldn't ...

Leddum! My local ecologist would chide me if I failed to. (Guess which I fear more!) For scientific purposes, we complicate by considering and investi...

and so you observe : pine, maple, pine, pine, pine, pine, choke cherry, pine, pine, pine, pine, pine, maple, pine, pine, pine, pine, pine pine, pine, ...

Interesting topic. I'll have to sleep on it... No, I won't. I'm both. First, on an unfamiliar topic, I want as much information as possible and since ...

That's an interesting article. Actually, I'm one of those weird people who rinse out the recyled cans and put the lids, as well as any broken glass in...

I'd like to have it explained.

I doubt that. There is a good deal of bigotry in America, and the thing most notable about bigots is that they're never indifferent - even to things t...

The rebellion of youth certainly figures in the antagonism. I'm not happy with the designation 'naivety' to sum up the chafing of youth under the cons...

What, then, do American fundamentalists make of Afro-American gospel music? I suspect the biggest problem with some music for the American brand of ma...

Prescribing therapy: https://www.tripstodiscover.com/top-nude-beaches-in-the-united-states/ Like so many things we fear, it's just a question of accul...

Why does heaven need to be bland and unchanging? Imagine a preferable alternative - and that's your heaven. Custom made for every angel.

I'm familiar with the same phenomenon regarding Jews, Sikhs, Catholics, Muslims, Black people, kitchen maids, women, children, dogs and horses. Sex do...

I see where that may be part of the mix. The far right seems to have collected just about every irrational fear, loathing and phobia in its deplorable...

The Rainbow Olympics? Oooo, I'd watch that! I can think of some new events to introduce. And, it wouldn't need the local population to pony up vast su...

I'm aware. And professional-level sports bore me rigid, so I don't care how you select for them.

I have. I rather think we're in more danger from puffed-up politicians, preachers, entrepreneurs, movie moguls, sport and screen stars, future SCOTUS ...

Not much. No more, in fact, than making up a league of peers for any given sport.

Have you actually met any people of any sex, or are you just going by magazine models?

My contention is: it isn't a fear at all; it's a pretense and part of the mask behind which systemic misogyny lurks.

Apparently, the real big issue is concern for the safety of 'genuine' females if false claimants are allowed into their sacrosanct space. I rather thi...

Hey, some of us are okay playing with the men who chose the alternate gate. We'll make a fine, convivial team and have more fun than the rah-rah-rah e...

In a sane society, there would be. Everyone would be able to participate in a league of their peers, and nobody would be paid astronomical sums to pla...

I never said that! Over a long life - more at the short end, admittedly - I have found some men very, very far from disgusting. I said some users of p...

That probably isn't, unless he tried to use a urinal and failed. In case anyone wondered, here's an unscientific, non-philosophical, unsophisticated P...

It's about toilets! Anyway, How is this a philosophical question, and how can it have a philosophical answer ? What is a man, a woman, a person, a cam...

I doubt it - though I didn't read most of the pages. What is a woman? According to the evidence here presented, it's someone who can be discussed, arg...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o9uKNgF96M Sure. But that's a long, convoluted railroad journey from the influence of Socrates on european and subseq...

Both of those young people have names, mothers, ideas and desires of their own. But they don't own those pictures. The images being in the public doma...

As eye-candy goes, 8.62 - he'll either improve with age or go to fat. As for the metaphor: controversy over Darwin's work > attackers and defenders > ...

Been lots of places; done lots of that; collected many teeshirts and wore them down to dust-rags. It'll just have to do.

Another good reason not to do anything significant - you might end up inadvertently inciting riots, starting a civil war, giving a sadistic dictator a...

A whole lot of guff about influence and legacy.

The beauty of it is, we can't hold him responsible: he's not here to answer charges, nor to be feted or abused. (Just as well for poor old Darwin, eh?...

Maybe, but I refuse to hold Marx responsible for Stalin's deeds.

Between 400BCE Athens and 1400CE Europe? Not much. So much for Socrates' influence on culture! Absolutely true. It's my bad, negative, counterproducti...

I'm not suggesting. I'm stating flat out: Nothing I have seen, read, heard or experienced leads me to believe that any one person, no matter how wise,...

No, of course not. And I wouldn't dream of hindering anyone's struggle for improvement. This whole sidetrack got started with my skepticism regarding ...

Etc, etc. I know. Lots of people were influential in their time, and for decades after... and maybe the centennial outcome will be nuclear war between...

Fine. So what? If any one particular person's 'legacy' altered history, or left a trail of bitter vendettas, or inspired people to seek holy orders, o...

I see. Absolute proof, then. It seems to me; therefore it is so. No; hence the 'quotation marks'. It's something you held up as a talisman; as worth s...

I'm allergic to H-based arguments, but yes, that too. Influence is as influence does, and interpretation-at-a-distance is so very elastic!

And Aristotle taught Alexander the Great Butcher. Socrates himself didn't set up shop as a master or found a school or lead a movement, or even commit...