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Sounds right.

It's partly expressed in the message of Jesus. More broadly in the ethic of progress. The rich are fat and satisfied, so they have to reason to be on ...

So do you guys think it's true that the meek are not blessed.. because they're "just a bunch of meeks"? Can't remember who said that.

Virgil attempts to capture the spirit of Rome in the Aeneid. The Greeks are condemned for their unjust destruction of Troy, which was supposedly done ...

I still think the old site was raided for password trafficking, so discontent was warranted.

You actually weren't at the inception of this site. I was, though.

OMG, dude. You've got to check out Inferno. Down into the bowels of Hell, the team arrives at the bottom. Dante says to Virgil: 'So what now.. do we g...

Isn't it easy enough to avoid movies? Are you surrounded by people who have movies blasting continuously? Is it like Clockwork Orange where you live?

Yep. I know your type. Ideally we can honor our diversity. The poster boy for the way I experience theater and film is Chekov. I enter into a reality ...

Surely you have some stress when watching gore. Isn't that the point? Sort of like getting on a big roller coaster? My favorite horror movie is The Sh...

I'm picky about horror. I have a tender psyche.

The Wizard of Oz is very stressful. One lives through all the horrifying things the characters do on the way to the revelation of grace through advers...

That sounds like a Hollywood movie. Hollywood is in the USA, so your statement calls for a Virgil quote. "When Heav'n had overturn'd the Trojan state ...

Objectivity is a path to a neutrality. It hasn't been that long since alcoholism was considered to be a character flaw. Identifying it as a disease al...

"If you were to market One Punch Man's vocabulary as a toy, it would resemble a small box."

Invulnerability is a plot buster. Dude just goes around being invulnerable... doing whatever he wants.

Somebody call Karel Capek! We discovered Marxism! Sorry... couldn't resist

Wait.. I think you answered me without understanding what I had asked. Just a lot of talking past one another. OK. I'm out. Peace, dude.

Well.. can I just ask then: when I asked you what you've done with the discovery that you can reject the given, why did you say you had no psychology ...

Seinfeld did an internet show called Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. It's pretty good. It's funded by Acura (why do I remember that?) and every time...

Other? In English we say "I am cold." In German, it's "I have cold." Russians say: "The cold is upon me." Greek scholars say that Homer should be read...

Sorry.. I missed your comments. As I mentioned early on the thread, I rarely see TV commercials because I watch streaming TV. I'm in that category tha...

Would you share your perspective on advertising?

I did too. There's no theory here.

I don't think any theory at all has been presented. Terms were brought up and left undefined. Odd contradictory assertions were made and left unjustif...

Ineffective and counter-productive? Would it be better to be effective and productive? What are you selling? You know that the rise of psychological s...

Don't they have junkies in Mongolia?

He was a drug addict.

I don't know where Rush is. In a ditch somewhere?

Becoming is usually a present participle verb. As a noun it has a weird religious vibe. We await the Great Becoming.

I'd invite you to start your life over as a female and then if you're still inclined to discuss objectification with that brain trust of the species w...

So you aren't attacking anybody. Good. I've actually been schemeless, and it's a drag. Psyche is just an aspect of All. Psychic scheme plugs into All-...

What have you done with this freedom? What scheme do you love? Or live..

For Hegel, becoming is primal. Too mystical?

And you're bound by this knot as you speak of it. So you've painted yourself into a corner. I won't ask if that was your intention... that would requi...

OK. Self-examination is hard sometimes. I didn't acknowledge that. So a step in that direction: To some extent, advertising aims to be subliminal. Thi...

I did contribute, hypocrite.

It works pretty well when you control what books are in the library, what sorts of things economists get Nobel prizes for, which philosophers are aske...

I can see myself sitting in the middle of the island. Is this going to be a painting?

I only watch streamed TV. Hulu may still have commercials.. I don't know.

I'm not sure how the set of all non-elephants might be instantiated. And its membership doesn't come and go depending on whether anybody's thinking ab...

OK.

Men are externally yang, but internally yin. Women are externally yin, internally yang. Femininity is like the earth. It freely gives itself up. The p...

An accupuncturist told me that yin is expanding outward. Yang contracts in. Hip hop is yin. Soundgarden is very yang. But the two are aspects of every...

"Abstract" and "mental" are different. Numbers, math in general, sets... these are abstract objects, not mental objects. For me it's better to look at...

Frequently a world is an abstract object. Hamlet's world is abstract to some extent. That means that if I said Hamlet was Argentinian, you could corre...

Don't know. Most people have some annoying features. Weigh the good against the bad. Good rule of thumb: don't try to fix people. Just yesterday I was...

Stalling isn't necessarily a bad thing. Being unproductive isn't either. Life is the greatest of all gurus. Your friend is a disciple along with the r...

I'm an intensive care nurse now. I don't heal anybody. I held a lady's hand the other day while she was going through something crappy.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chance-randomness/