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I wondered why I had not heard it before, because that is not what was said. Again you have quoted incorrectly. "The safest general characterization o...

http://www.iep.utm.edu/academy/ From the above link, but also available through other sources. "Sextus Empiricus enumerates five divisions of the foll...

No, I don't recall ever hearing that. Do you have a link to the source?

Try doing some reading yourself. Academy comes from the name of the place where Plato taught. I have not seen many classes being given in public garde...

Wrong, it does not. https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=academic+ And his was not the first Acad?micus either. Just because its common modern used goe...

Right. As I said earlier, most people don't want to work that hard. Why should they question things that will bring them no benefit? Lots of people do...

Pot kettle, kettle pot? I don't remember but I am sure you get the idea.

I think yours views are misguided as well, but I did not react negatively to it. I did not even say that philosophy was a study of something superior....

What he actually said was "The unexamined life is not worth living". Well that was his opinion anyway, I have never seen any evidence to back it up th...

But most humans are not philosophers, they resist it. That is why I asked why you see it s a duty for people to be philosophers.

For most people a meow is excess work never mind roaring. But why do you think of it as a duty? Is there some sort of built-in "ought to" function tha...

Hi Tiff, Sorry I have not been around recently but I have been really busy. I have looked in a few times but I did not want to start participating in ...

Come to visit us! Going to visit them.

Long live the highness. :up:

No, it is Wednesday.

If we can only understand the gods through actions, whose actions should we be watching?

Whose actions or deeds?

Very subjective. Especially with the worlds biggest religions fighting all over the place.

Ding ding ding. Everyone to your corner. The shout box should be used for shouting, not for arguing. Who really cares what happened, we all love each ...

Which one?

Glad to hear it. :up: I used to have those, but I can't afford to buy good whiskey anymore.

I think Posty was a happier person when he had the post box as an avatar. It must be depressing having a pig as a self image. Change it back.

Until you have proven yourself or the day after eternity ends, which ever comes first. :rofl:

OK, so now I know you. But that does not mean that you are awesome, I know a lot of idiots as well. Well V, if you put it that way I might try to cons...

If I don't know who you are then you cannot be awesome, therefore you are wrong. :cool:

Who the hell are you? :confused:

Someone put this in Wiser Words Have Never Been Spoken thread. Oh, hang on and I will do it. It is a well known fact that only certain AWESOME members...

No one has friends when the shit hits the fan.

I have not done any heavy reading for years, even though I have quite a few books lined up to read or re-read. But I have read some lighter stuff and ...

If anything I would say that we let society become the puppet master, but not the god. Society cannot be seem as a god because the common definition o...

Talk to the hand. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1061/1924/files/Raised_Hand_Emoji.png?9898922749706957214

You do not need to be a gun, or even explosives, collector to be dangerous to your kids. Most parents are careless with house cleaning products that a...

Don't hurt the community, the future of it.

The next big question is How far are they going to rise before we all get wiped out in the conflict?

Ain't that the truth! But then the yanks can be weird sometimes, present company are not counted in that generality. :wink:

You might be a coward, but you are a rooster. Now stand up straight and stop acting like an egg layer. And ducks don't cluck either, they quack. It ju...

Ducks cluck. Crows crow.

Sorry, but if you would explain instead of getting snarky it might help.

You would take away the scissors and explain why they should not do that. Education. Taking away the scissors without an explanation is the same as op...

So obsessive behavior is not behavior, that's news.

I know all about the battles in education systems, I have talked to many people around the world and they all have the same problems. And I have my ow...

And the only way to change culture (=behavior) is through education. Positive behavioral changes do not usually happen by themselves, they take consci...

That is why I said "in a couple of generations". They have a long way to go. But that problem is not just the American society, that is a world wide p...

I thought that the article was interesting because it highlights the points I have been making. There are just too many guns in the USA, the attitude ...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/21/17028930/gun-violence-us-statistics-charts

'Why haven't I won the lottery yet?' You are getting too complicated in your thinking. The reason is probably something simple. Did you even but the t...

Fake news. Moving on.

Not in the deep south definitely. I lived around New Orleans from early 60's to 71. It was not much fun sometimes. I went to all white schools, rode o...

I really don't think that the story is about racism as such. It is about peoples ability or lack of ability to adapt to change, Baden's "cultural stra...