Mongrel

Imagine a surgeon who doesn't get paid to do surgery, but instead pays his patients. A comedian who pays to tell jokes?

'I realized that everything is in vain, and I hated life. And this too was in vain.' -paraphrase of Ecclesiastes, which restates the message in a text...

Anybody watch that Scientology documentary?

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The moon-god, Nanna, was the god of wisdom because of the use of the moon's phases in astrology. In other words, the moon is a larger-scale clock than...

Indeed. 'I think, therefore I am you.' - Feuerbach

I can't share the experience of seeing blue with a congenitally blind man, but I can convince him that there's something I can't share. True sharing m...

I learned that my friend has a fairly accurate sense of time by comparing his feeling to a clock. He said 30 minutes is the length of an I Love Lucy e...

For many years I was party to a rewarding relationship with green and orange. But that's fallen by the way now.. The only green I abide now is somethi...

I suppose so, penetrated as it is by the Persian Gulf.

Sumerians probably invented it. They wouldn't have possessed the concept though. Greeks would have been in a good position to conceive it.

Civilization is a concept that was fleshed out during the Enlightenment. The debate about the nature and worth of civilization was linked to a focus o...

It's the next level of development after building a basic society. And there are monuments. Actually I'm not sure.

All true civilizations have monuments.

The OP is futurism that I've pondered for the last couple of years (since I became skeptical about there ever being a global government.) In futurism,...

The object seen is partly visual data and partly ideas. The idea of the tree is the core about which all the green and grey, light and dark orbit. Why...

Holy Moses. Architectural head gear. House hat. Maybe castle ruins.

Bunch of dudes standing around watching a human sacrifice. One says, "You know... I never liked that guy."

http://static.lazyemma.com/wp-content/leuploads/2016/11/09121719/63_582313ce7c72c.jpeg

I don't think it's clear where 4 leads, but I agree that it's the open door.

Aristotle wasn't an ancient culture. (I'm mocking your style.. ha)

Ancient cultures pictured morality in different ways. The ancient Hebrew perspective is fairly materialistic, linking morality to a covenant (deal) wi...

That's cool. Don't usually get to peek into somebody else's thinking processes..thanks!

My criteria is just.. was I still thinking about that comment 10 minutes after I read it... then it was cool. What's your criteria? What's an example ...

Think about that phrase "express yourself"...all the ways you announce who you are.

That was PBS. You may recover from your irritation, but I doubt it.

It's a little shocking to discover differences. I have a poor sense of time and I don't have a constant inner voice. It blew my mind to discover peopl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zzSqL--d_I

Thong or speedo?

If you post a cool comment to this thread, quote and then copy. That way people can easily go back to the original.

Notice that clicking on the blue unenlightened will take you back to the thread from which the quote came. That's because while I was in that thread, ...

I didn't say "immediately."

Yes. Some fundamental things I take to be true without any evidence at all. It's atrocious.

Pirate.

Makes sense. I did say in the OP that I don't hold it to be a hard and fast rule that religious people have better coping skills. It's really just som...

Bitter? No, I don't think so. I'm not judging. Just observed it. I'll admit PICU personnel aren't particularly romantic about such things, as you prob...

Feel free to present your own view of things. Or not.

The "or something" is a cocktail party. Possible offer of a chocolate martini on the table as junior's name has already been changed to "donor" in the...

No I don't have any scientific articles. It's just something I came to expect during my time working in a pediatric intensive care unit. Parents who s...

Well put one that you think is cool. Quote yourself if necessary.

Marxism has an apocalyptic character. Apocalyptic religion is an Indoeuropean thing per Bernard Mcginn. But the quote helps frame my point. I don't th...

You're sounding kind of aged. Damn youngsters and their hedonism!

Seditious? Anyway, there's a difference between science and atheism.

wut

Oh good.

I hadn't thought of it that way. But yeah, I think you're right.

Or maybe you didn't realize it. Still gotta go. Bye!

You just realized that the sentential form fails. You moved on to the propositional form. Gotta go.

"His thesis is true" is not equivalent to "His thesis." The sentential form is an obvious fail. You can try propositions.