Mongrel

Legitimacy is an ancient idea. Throughout most of the life of this concept, it has tied government to religion. The oldest known piece of literature i...

I don't think he is. He just fights dirty and he doesn't color within the lines. A long time ago I nicknamed people like that "sharks." When you appro...

So Trump has created a situation where if you speak out against him, you are, by default, speaking for the establishment. There's long standing suspic...

I don't think it makes sense to talk about the "legitimacy of oppression" here.

Fascinating topic. I grew up with a cousin who has perfect pitch. I was telling her once that music always seem to be beyond my grasp, always disappea...

Oh give me a break. Of course you do. You're just like Unenlightened. You relish the thought of the 300 million people starving to death or whatever t...

Yep. "Plague" is associated with divine retribution. During the Black Death, a weird Christian sect developed made of people who would walk through ci...

Yersinia pestis. Yep, bacteria.

Dude, what do you think the CDC is for? The US is secretly a Marxist project (true it started before Marx was born, but don't forget time travel).

They think it was a bacterial infection transmitted by fleas. But the organism they identified still pops up from time to time and it doesn't have the...

That's interesting. I've been reading about the Black Death. Did you know it's not for sure what organism actually caused it?

Well nobody hates actual people. Your Muslim dentist nextdoor neighbor is just the salt of the earth friendly guy with his two beautiful daughters got...

Fine. But I still get the radioactive cockroaches, deal?

Well that's what you get for listening to Trump. Or me. Or anybody. And I agree about the robots. All hail.

OK. Likewise the "Muslim ban" is bullshit. It's not a Muslim ban. It gets turned into that. And likewise (my new favorite word), saying "no" to an off...

Lorn has developed tendrils that have wound their way down into the depths of my psyche. I think I should probably notify the NSA, but I don't know if...

The University of Kentucky doesn't have a parliament. But yea.. you feel like "No Trump," so you want to express how you feel. I think that in the sam...

One aspect of the contradiction jamalrob pointed out is duality vs unity. On the one hand it's indubitable that each individual must be related to eve...

I thought he was going to be more isolationist. Instead we're going to put Iran "on notice." What is that supposed to mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mauV2NdCs60 This song is about spending a lot of time waiting in traffic.

This is a curve. What are we using the x-y axes for? http://www.shmoop.com/images/algebra/alg_fn_linfneq_narr_graphik_6.png

Curved relative to what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez7RUSCUhzk

I can't produce any quotes to show that. Schopenhauer was pretty paradoxical, though. So if N did reject paradox, I'd like to know how he understood t...

It sounds like you're describing the source of inspiration, the part of a person that's undefined and so the realm of pure potential. Is that close?

Well what's the relationship between a human psyche and spirit?

It's expensive to settle refugees. The US govt is joined by charities to pay for it's annual intake. Is it that Australia just doesn't have the money ...

I understand what you're saying. It's just that repeatedly in US history, the right answer ends up being forced by a temporary dictator (Lincoln) or a...

This actually happened to me one time. I dropped the box, but it turned out that I had stored a bunch of C4 in the bottom and the impact blew everythi...

He did want to say that the thing-in-itself is the Will, but he later backed off of that and agreed with Kant that it's unknowable. But in lesser ways...

Maybe so. So it would be ruled on state by state? I'm fine with people spending their money on vagina hats. It's good for the fiber arts industry.

A Constitutional amendment would be the backlash. After that, the Supreme Court would have no power over the issue and Hanover could stop whining abou...

After it's all said and done, Schopenhauer has only mapped out the contours of thought. He has pointed out certain statements that are indubitable. Bu...

It could happen. I think the chances are good that the matter would subsequently be ended by a Constitutional amendment. It seems to me that there are...

Not equate. Cause and effect are two sides of the same coin. They can't be independent of one another. The existence of an effect means there must be ...

I've been assuming he's using "subject" the way Schopenhauer did (since he was a big Schopenhauer fan). For S, subject and object are interdependent (...

Good question. I read it a long time ago. I'm not overly in need of a re-read. Seems like the text would be on the internet somewhere.

N mentions Rome repeatedly as the image of master-morality. I think of Marcus Aurelius' view: what's good is a healthy, joyful expression of one's pot...

It was on TV, so it has to be true. Well. it's the best seller now. I don't know how long it has been.

Since inauguration, Amazon's #1 best seller is Orwell's 1984.

Slept in an oven. I'm pretty sure Nietzsche came from a loony bin.

:D

A bog is a bunch of mud that occasionally produces reanimated witches and iron age pigs.

I think we should have daily random readings from M Shelley's Frankenstein. Except we can't figure out what random means.

Bog

Your concept of social conservatism is from the 1950's. PM me if you want to talk about it further.. if not, vaya con dios.

Sorry, Ag. I live in the so-called Bible Belt. It's my family, so I think I know them. You don't understand the US culture at all. You've been identif...

I have no idea how you got that impression, dude, but it's wrong.

I'm just going to assume you're being serious here, dude. I gather you wouldn't be able to tolerate the way of life that is now common in my world. No...

When he says the lightning is a subject which causes the flash, I don't think he exactly means animism. Like if I say a baseball broke the window, the...