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When I was a massage therapist, I chose as my marker of success that I'd have a service wash all my massage table sheets for me. I did get to that poi...

Yea, same thought occurred to me. Light is associated with knowledge (in some cultures?). The night is scary because the monster in the darkness is un...

I think the association of light to good precedes consciousness of varying skin tones.

Isn't he celibate?

I hope your business thrives under the Trump administration. The US government usually has limited control over the US economy. Though it's become com...

When I'm intent on displaying my stupidity I prefer to do it by cartoon.

I've been reading Geneology of Morals (after Gay Science). Paying closer attention to the parts I sort of ignored before.. the blond Aryan conquerors ...

True. And the genius tweeted 'Let's have an arms race' or some such.

It's all fun and games until somebody creates an image of a continent full of smoking corpses.

Exactly. It should be made up at least 30 minutes before commencing tome.

Nietzsche just makes it up as he goes along.

They bare their teeth sometimes.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. -- Emerson

In my mind I'm gone to Patagonia.

Don't think so. If you're in North America, you're an asshole. There's nothing about being in North America that causes asshole-hood, so we're just lo...

Well, there you have it. I should just read the Guardian.

I think Emptyheady has been radicalized.

China is presently building about 20 nuclear power plants to go with the 35 they already have. And anybody else who needs fossil fuel to climb out of ...

Sure. I was the one in the crowd claiming that the comparison was inappropriate. I was silenced by the rage. It's easy to forget exactly how angry par...

I think suspicion of experts is more typical of rightists. Their point is that Nature is the super-expert. Convolutedly, this outlook was shown to be ...

Those who are in power usually do dominate the conversation, don't they?

Since Gore Vidal said it, probably. People regularly compared GWBush to Hitler. There was nothing particularly fascist about him. I haven't heard many...

True. Some people are alive because of medicine that probably wouldn't have been developed in an efficiency loving environment. A lot of people suffer...

I understand. It was the prevailing mode in American politics in the 1800's. Lincoln decided not to participate, earning the nickname "Honest Abe." Bu...

They're all spies.

But bullshit is useful... meaning as use and all.

Cool.

Why this book is on google, I don't know. I've had it for many years.

The same thing was going on before spin-consciousness. We just weren't as aware. But it's ancient. The Romans peddled propaganda. Facts are for histor...

You say it's difficult to step outside power structures "for we are embodied within them." The master and slave both have to die to be born anew as eq...

I don't think it's always possible or warranted. Fear is paralyzing when it takes over. Any self-directed action is a sign that fear is diminished. An...

True. And I guess simply abandoning fear is a kind of emancipation.

I'm not familiar with Foucault. Does he talk about self-oppression?

I guess everybody's got a Stern Gang that gets wild and crazy from time to time.

And recently the crowd mourns that there isn't more of this kind of work. "Provide more wage slavery" is basically the Trump mandate, right?

Exactly. Cool article, thanks.

Why are there cracks to fall through in the first place?

I've been spinning yarn, which for me is a hobby. For Gandhi it was about self-sufficiency which provides the power to stand up with dignity. Why was ...

When I hear "equivocating" I think that we started out with one meaning and covertly flipped to another. Conflating means treating two meanings as one...

I've been doing a lot of spinning lately. I bought a Navajo Churro fleece for cheap. It makes a coarse yarn good for rug making. I started thinking ab...

I think it would have to be truth-apt before it could be necessarily true. We would have to know what table the statement is about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rQC7XC79w4

Descartes takes his date, Jeanne, to a posh restaurant for her birthday. The sommelier hands them the wine list, and Jeanne asks to order the most exp...

Terrapin pointed out the significant factor: Kripke denied descriptivism in favor of the chain scenario.

Andrewk said: "Under Kripke's approach, it seems possible, on a formal basis, to imagine that Obama is a mountain." Way to go TGW. You've got people b...

I don't think this has anything at all to do with Sartre.

Did you choose what you are?

I don't think so. It's more like the measurement problem. Sartre was a wild guy. He was in the French Resistance during WW2.

Trolls are boring.

An abstract object is not in your head.