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Funny thing is it comes up first if you write in "the philosophy forum". Google.at it comes up 3rd with "philosophy forum". Meow! GREG
August 03, 2016 at 20:24
I doubt that this guy is not heard of by anyone, but I quite enjoy Alain de Botton. Since I don't really read (dyslexia), I tend to listen. I can't sa...
August 03, 2016 at 20:15
I'll go with "The Great Divorce"... ... as it could be said "Black Wednesdays Matter". Meow! GREG
July 27, 2016 at 13:43
Well... ... if so, that makes me no one or if I'm part of everyone then you are dead wrong. Meow! GREG
July 26, 2016 at 20:10
Not that this really matters much at this point, but I sent out over 200 "sort of invites" to PF members informing them of this, as I called it then "...
July 23, 2016 at 15:38
I sort of agree with you, but only in parts. The off topic bit about Navy Seals... well I was recruited back in the day (age 21), as I on the smaller ...
July 11, 2016 at 10:23
I rather agree here with unenlightened... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g WOW! ... and that's just one sentence. Anyway... Questions are a...
July 08, 2016 at 08:54
Perhaps a bit off the topic or maybe prior to the topic, I simply chalk it up to the Dunning–Kruger effect when it comes to understanding Trump suppor...
July 04, 2016 at 09:42
I doubt that this is "the implicit message", but in some cases perhaps an implicit message": Where's the lie which means I've been lied to? Meow! GREG...
June 30, 2016 at 20:45
So I take it none of these "great sources of information" were being sold by an underpaid and overqualified Eastern European Philosophy Professor or w...
June 29, 2016 at 21:02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7HNJVnn9Ms Meow! GREG
June 27, 2016 at 14:47
Makes me wonder what the Feminist definition of "Pat Robertson" woud be? Meow! GREG
June 26, 2016 at 10:10
My take... ... whatever! I just book a vacation to London. (amazing how cheap the vacations have become in the past few days - and suspect they'll be ...
June 24, 2016 at 09:00
Well... ... Alan Greenspan? “Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If...
June 23, 2016 at 14:34
Well... ... I'm not in the UK or in the USA. I'm in Europe. All I can say is that the EU has cut the UK a deal that no other member nation in the EU h...
June 23, 2016 at 14:25
According to my wife, it is what women in her generation attempted to advocate as to gain an even playing field and that girls under that age of 25 ha...
June 22, 2016 at 09:11
Indeed... ... here's a bit of info about Austria and election. Each political party in the Parliament is allowed a maximum of €7million for their elec...
June 22, 2016 at 09:06
What part of "Flannery O'Connor wannabe" are you pissed off about? It wasn't mean as a complement for this Means guy. Gee whiz! I'm not stating that h...
June 21, 2016 at 17:11
Why is this shocking? Doesn't the NRA, as they have always done... like any "good lobbist" has done, simply buy the votes of the Senate for their own ...
June 21, 2016 at 17:00
"The declivity where he sat to rest was part of a railroad bed blasted out of the hard shale and lime deposits cut by the Hudson River, which was just...
June 20, 2016 at 09:14
Well... ... this really says it all. "In California the sun isn't everything No the sun isn't everything There's just something about the light That l...
June 08, 2016 at 10:51
Take your pick... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtCittJyr0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJzSXn_54A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmPNuruWMTA ...
June 08, 2016 at 10:29
I wish I saw this warning yesterday before I posted a song link in FB, but it did get quite a few likes (even "loves"). https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
May 31, 2016 at 08:23
I hope things are fine. I have a trip to the USA planned for December. I cannot do it earlier or later. I have to travel to a very conservative hot be...
May 30, 2016 at 15:02
Well... it would be only interesting to rubberneckers and those who like to watch horrific accidents on the highway. Truth is, I feel that this was a ...
May 30, 2016 at 14:48
I'm fairly sure it is both. Atleast he has presented an honest face... that is the honest face of racism, sexism and jingoism, which seems to be the u...
May 30, 2016 at 14:32
Meow! GREG
May 29, 2016 at 10:30
That's the spirit! (you know I can't do that even if I tried!) Meow! GREG
May 29, 2016 at 10:25
I sort of had that fear. Prior to the seeling of the old place, it seemed to have a strong decrease in, well... engaging conversation. The slipt proba...
May 29, 2016 at 10:24
Sounds like a typical election year in the USA. I suppose there was a religious spin to it all. Probably less to do with theology and more to do with ...
May 29, 2016 at 10:15
Have I missed anything important since I was gone? Meow! GREG
May 28, 2016 at 20:16
Between my probable need of a petty elbow operation to end my baseball season before it begins (maybe my career, because I'm considered to be too old ...
March 22, 2016 at 23:08
Not that it really matters, but I'll be taking more of a break from things. I'm not really having a crisis or some existential whatever. There have si...
March 22, 2016 at 21:51
Sorry, I've been gone for a bit, but have had the unfortunate ability to keep up with this national embarassment in the USA called the presidential pr...
March 22, 2016 at 21:48
What I find amazing is how many people do not know the difference between Socialism and Social Democracy. Here's a useful link: https://spfaust.wordpr...
March 22, 2016 at 21:33
Generalized label: I despise lables Form of government: representative social democracy (NOT SOCIALISM) Form of economy: a bit too complicated for jus...
March 04, 2016 at 18:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db0Y4qIZ4PA Meow! GREG
March 04, 2016 at 18:03
That's the Galacian Flag. http://mw.micronation.org/w/images/c/c2/Galacianflag.png http://mw.micronation.org/wiki/Galacian_Flag Meow! GREG
February 03, 2016 at 14:45
... and this one for 'most confusing' flag: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_the_Falkland_Islands.svg/2000px-Flag_of_...
February 02, 2016 at 13:08
This is my vote for the most 'eye-watering' flag: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_Greenland.svg/2000px-Flag_of_Green...
February 02, 2016 at 13:06
How about "agnatalism"? It could possibly imply that one is undecided or simply doesn't care about the debate of natalism v. anti-natalism. Meow! GREG
January 31, 2016 at 11:45
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I'll go with this one today: Aldous Huxley — 'Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other...
January 28, 2016 at 15:01
Beyond the answer of Americans being citizens/long term residents of the United State of America and Europeans as citizens/long term residents of coun...
January 26, 2016 at 15:33
That sort of makes me have concern for you... ... I'm not used to many people finding my quips to be of any use, so pardon my uneasy feelings. Knowing...
January 21, 2016 at 12:16
I'll just do one question at a time... to many to deal with at once. I'm not too sure if this is a question or really an implication(which I am far mo...
January 18, 2016 at 14:47
Who? I think it is more an action... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU Iran, Iran so far away. I just ran, Iran all night and day, I couldn'...
January 17, 2016 at 11:27
I'm not too sold that the 'kind of faith' used in the rejection of Theism is the same as the faith employed by Theism. *** I'd like to hear why it is ...
January 16, 2016 at 10:39
We have very similar places of 'worship' in Austria where courageous young emaciated men wearing neon colored unibody suits of neoprene standing on ov...
January 15, 2016 at 16:40
Personally, I find it spooky when actual smart people agree with me. My first response to that is 'what the fuck did they do wrong'. Meow! GREG
January 13, 2016 at 17:09
May 24th... ... same as Queen Victoria, Bob Dylan, Alfred Molina, Patti LaBelle, Jim Broadbent and (murderer) Steve Grogan. Meow! GREG
January 13, 2016 at 13:08