Mongrel

I do. But it doesn't take the place of getting recommendations from real people. Best science fiction book you've read lately? You're an identical twi...

Well.. I'm guessing I know what you'd say about this, but I've never asked you before. It has to do vaguely with new atheists.. There are elements of ...

What the heck is SJW?

I don't know who Frankie Boyle is. More power to him though. Are you from a small town? From a big one? Large family? Orphan? What's the Sapientia tal...

That's interesting. Do you still identify with new atheists?

I vaguely remember Barney Frank. I didn't have a TV at the time.

That's cool. Hand the phone to your cat.

For my friend, I think it's probably just a little late. If it had been possible for him in the 1980's.. I could definitely see him as a congressman o...

So this is how stupid I am: I knew this gay dude who's an enthusiastic Republican. I asked him once why he didn't get involved in politics considering...

Don't you have some oblique statement to make about sexual harassment?

So what views have you developed?

So you must have been thinking along philosophical lines before that. Do you remember anything in particular (pre-11 years old, I mean.)

When would you say you first noticed your brain was philosophy oriented?

True. When the US government starts building concentration camps, we'll take out the president and whoever else we need to. If we don't do that... if ...

Why?

But... you could have picked rock climbing... or hunting arrow-heads. Why philosophy?

I'm also too young to be Baby Boomer and a little old for GenX, but the music and general vibe of GenX is definitely me. So.. same question: what brou...

Don't be sorry! I just thought if I was going to interview Thorongil, I should say some things about myself... otherwise it would be like a weird poli...

You're the piler-onner I recently accused of being Thorongil. If that's who you really are.. then sure. Answer the question.

Dude. I don't know you. How am I supposed to know if you want an explanation or not? How about we do a Thorongil interview?

Don't understand it, but you don't ask for an explanation. Well... there you have it.

I don't know you very well, but I note that you don't ask questions very often. It's just.. dictate dictate dictate. Maybe as if no one around you kno...

I was expressing apathy, but I don't think it was to you. Unless it's just one jerk with a bunch of sock puppets... Possible, I guess. Boring.

True. You have to look at who's saying it and in what context. They're taking advantage of the fact that the vast majority of us are complete morons.

White nationalists talk to each other in code when in public. "Law and Order" has been code for racism since the Nixon administration. That's why my j...

Well, we have Newt Gingrich's view: "Arf. Arrrrr... Rhaaafff rhafff rhaff arf arf grrrrr.. Arf!"

Yep. You're doing great. Keep going.

Most historians are convinced that the Chinese never traveled the so-called silk road.

Everybody loves left-over Jews.

It is? Awesome. Then you should be able to tell us what the Chinese received in exchange for the silk. Otherwise, you're just speculating that it was ...

Yes. I have. By virtue of those routes Chinese silk was in Egypt around 1000 BC. I guess you could call that global trade. Boring.

Boiling point varies with the pressure of the air. Most people would assume you meant normal atmospheric pressure.

I guess I am (not in favor). Global trade actually started with the Atlantic slave trade and that event demonstrates one of the insidious aspects of g...

It's kind of like asking whether one can walk across a golf course in spite of Zeno's Paradox. Some would say rigid designators are the tool for handl...

Sure. Such scholarship abounds. A lot of it is by topic, not religion. So for instance, Bernard McGinn edits a collection of essays on apocalypticism....

The requirements for being recognized as a Muslim scholar are pretty extensive. That's a position within the global Muslim community. Critical scholar...

It looks like that essay is focused on the motivations behind the creation of an Islamic state... which can be beautiful. No more beautiful than the v...

He needs to read more British dystopian novels. It's technology he's complaining about, not liberal democracy.

You're both right. The distinct features of white Europeans and black Africans have been recognized for millennia. The changing fortunes of Europeans ...

Well I hope your winner isn't the guy who makes you spontaneously exclaim "Oh my God!" over and over.

I don't think I've ever been able to enjoy myself at your expense, Benkei. I have no idea what's going on in your country. I'm not proud of it. It's j...

Answering the question why? means identifying a relationship, right? Maybe it's not always between two different things. Maybe it's.. how does this ca...

Could you expand on that?

But language use takes place in time, doesn't it? Propositions aren't linguistic entities exactly. Their expression is linguistic.

Yea. I understood the attraction to Trump. But it was clear to me that he wasn't what he wanted people to think he was. So my vote went for gun contro...

The system or subversion of the system... it's that Trump was free of the establishment. Why didn't 2008 result in substantial reform? The establishme...

I work with this lady.. I say lady.. she's younger than me. She's black, she has a kid, and she has this kind of far-reaching insight about how events...

Or we can label x a cause and wonder what the effects will be, or claim that Pascal's Demon already knows. But I think you're saying what I don't know...

I'm kind of politically clueless so I don't the answer to this: is it normal to pay-for-play the State Dept? I mean.. I was disgusted by that, but was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ6uMfqKckw Um. It was on my pandora Hans Zimmer station. All hail Fuckface von Clownstick. Yay!