A run on the dollar would cause a great depression. Not the end of the world, but quite a bit more than a haircut. Actually, we just put it off. The b...
Just framing her as the establishment-candidate would have resonated with a lot of people. He either thinks he can't attack her because of her gender ...
I have done a lot of oil and watercolor... but it's been a really long time since any of that was abstract. BTW.. do you know anything about Chinese g...
In the events you described there's more going on than just death. When a younger person dies it's unnatural death. When someone you love dies, love i...
I think any argument for indirect realism is going to assume internalism: one can only be said to know P if one has access to some justification for P...
It was the first country to declare from its seat of government that slavery is immoral.... so not always. But a few short thousands of years from now...
The number of balls could be changing from moment to moment (the balls are really alien spaceships and they go into hyper-space as needed.) So both pe...
Cool! Do that. I've been experimenting with cutting the doodle people out and placing them in various collage-like situations. It started with photosh...
Because it's a positive assertion. We are sometimes mistaken. The only way that could be known is if we have access to the truth. If the initial premi...
I mistakenly thought you were supporting the Argument from Illusion, but you aren't. That argument begins by pointing out that we are sometimes mistak...
The Fed does regulate (though not in the legislative sense, obviously). It's along the lines of a fuel regulator in a car. Jefferson thought public mo...
In The Matrix, a multitude of people are jacked in to the same virtual reality. Who is the dreamer? What fascinates me about the idea that reality is ...
I was trying out a some new magic markers. The coloring was digital.. from an app called Prisma. Cool landscapes from . I've never been able to do muc...
What capitalism offers to innovation is a dynamic society (during the boom times anyway). Bell Labs is proof that a government regulated monopoly can ...
The fish is a symbol of fertility to some Jews. At some Jewish weddings the bride steps over a tray of fish. So Jesus causes fish to magically multipl...
You could start by being honest. Your title suggested that there's nothing wrong with racism, so obviously you know it is held to be wrong. The Nation...
I agree with this. Borrowing from J K Galbraith, we're each in motion. A visual image would be a vector. Good is what I'm reaching out for. Evil is wh...
Could be. But it's also possible that one is caring and empathetic by nature and the norms at hand say to choke those feelings down and put those Jews...
I don't know. Doesn't seem like much of a hermit who feels it necessary to justify being alone. Some would say that if you were born in the wild and r...
Likewise, you could be moral with regard to imaginary friends while off roaming the tundra. Offering that fact would be a poor response to the argumen...
I said I realized that people are different. For some, morality is mainly physical... the nervous system is quite capable of saying "NO!" For some peo...
This thread had me thinking about the ancient art of reading goat entrails. If the entrails have the appearance of a monster called Humbaba, it means ...
Law is mostly a tool for creating states, and if you don't live in an era of massive deregulation, it keeps your banking system from crashing the glob...
It was a question I experience morality viscerally. I work in healthcare and occasionally cause people pain. To do that I have to overcome resistance ...
Why not let your behavior come naturally? Be authentic. If that means being a freakin' psycho- killer...well, morals probably weren't going to help yo...
I was pondering exploitation via capital flows to "emerging" markets.... but yea... Skittles. There's a disease you can get from eating nothing but ap...
Obama explains to the UN what we should be doing to avoid global conflict bred of despair. Most of the projects he recommends would require the existe...
True. But if you and I did happen to disagree about what it means, there's no way to resolve the conflict (assuming we have equal linguistic competenc...
With speech, meaning can change depending on which word is emphasized, whether the ending trails up or down in frequency, by the facial expressions of...
Me as well. The conclusions of good research seem concrete to me in a way that elegant rational projects don't.. although I occasionally find I have a...
Are you a physicalist? My original theory was supposed to match-up rationalists and empiricists with beliefs about divinity, but it's not working out ...
Cool, thanks! This question might seem to be coming out of left field, but it's related to stuff I've been pondering lately. Does God or divinity play...
Could you accept a scientific theory whose conclusions can't be verified experimentally, but which is satisfying by virtue of the number of loose ends...
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