Yes, hopefully we will wake up. I think the younger generation are ones who can see the challenges. Most of the older generation are either hiding the...
That's unfortunate, if I had shares I would have sold them before now and invested in real estate. The value will remain high until the housing crisis...
I don't think any country will be able to prevent the epidemic spreading through their population. They might be able to slow it. But they don't want ...
Yes, in the UK it was caused by parents mollycoddling when political correctness got involved in school discipline and smacking was banned at home etc...
Shouldn't that be 10-20,000 deaths per million, (i.e. 1-2%)? Yes, large sporting events will be some of the first gatherings to be cancelled, the Olym...
If you answer my ?, then I answer your ? Seems fair. I don't know if the points I have made about Brexit over the last year can be reduced that way. C...
Well Brexit is going to be interesting from Thursday when the government is going to spell out its negotiating position. Today the NFU (National Farme...
This thread is about coronavirus, so it would be better to continue this line of discussion on the Brexit thread. You realise do you not, that the pan...
Well our country is still reeling from the correction in 2008. Following 10 years of fierce austerity, most of our local and district councils and pub...
Economic shrinkage = economic decline, in our current capitalist system. The wealth we had been enjoying before the sub prime mortgage crash was built...
That is a rather naive view, has it occurred to you that capitalism requires endless growth and expansion? You are advocating economic decline, or at ...
I think it would be worth pointing out at this stage that the word Enlightenment is a blanket term used to describe a wide spectrum of exalted states....
Are you happy with a new endemic virus which is highly contagious and a mortality rate of between 1 and 2%? It wouldn't be long before everyone would ...
An interesting scenario would be a world wide pandemic with a mortality of between 1and 2%. Presumably before this point, some countries would shut th...
My concern is that when the virus becomes endemic in the Middle East, that it will become a breeding ground and a more deadly strain would develop. Un...
This is a big subject, which is approached from a number of schools of thought and practice, each with their own terminology, so can get confusing due...
All these things you mention can be practiced seriously and in a controlled manner by someone who has the capacity to do so. Or be guided through by a...
Agreed, although this does not diminish the benefits which may be available in religious orders. For example the monastic, religious, or spiritual lif...
Again, this is a matter for philosophers, not for artists, viewers, the art establishment, the wider public. At least not as a requirement for art to ...
I think that is for the viewer to decide, that's not the way I saw it. Unfortunately I don't know what the artist statement said. But I know that in r...
Reminds me of Billy Graham rallies. The US is having trouble ripping off India in trade talks, so they wheel out the populism to twist the arms of the...
Yes, I don't deny that some do, but that is a philosophical interpretation, wheras on the ground, things are more complex and embedded in the cultures...
try telling your body that when, for example, you feel the cane of a Zen master on your back. But more seriously, we are half physical body, a body wh...
Perhaps leave Alan Watts to one side then, you could try D T Suzuki. But as I said find your local eastern philosophy bookstore and familiarise yourse...
The problem is that there are a myriad of sources of eastern philosophy and practice and no universally accepted interpretation. So you have to do the...
I expect Trump will be spreading rumours about the rumours about Saunders being in collusion with the enemy. The way he will do it will be to hint at ...
All the avenues of imaginary, or conceptual art were explored, covered and represented by artist during various art movements during the 20th Century....
Yes, I did nearly move to France in the summer of 2018, but didn't in the end due to the uncertainty of Brexit. Now I have bought a nice new house wit...
Not so, if anything and everything can be art, it is the artist who states what art is*, or if a philosopher were to state it, they would by default b...
What you say is a matter for philosophers, not for artists, or viewers. How familiar are you with artistic developments of the 20th Century? Because t...
You seem to be reducing the discussion to the physical object of the artwork. I have no objection to this, this a a focus of mine too. But I acknowled...
I should have been more specific, by humility, I mean within the person, rather than in human interaction. It is weird that humility in the person can...
Interesting you seem to be saying that humility is an affliction, an unfortunate feeling, like sadness, or grief. You are the first person I have come...
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