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The uncategorized whole is the greater truth which determines the identity of everything and what Socrates called the "Memory of God" that none can re...
November 27, 2016 at 17:18
Screw the civilized mystical Taoists, these are the primitive pragmatic tribal roots of Taoism. Contemplating your naval and playing politics might be...
November 27, 2016 at 16:48
Its memory systems logic with a chicken flock providing the classic example. The lights are on when nobody is home and the mob is going on autopilot j...
November 27, 2016 at 16:35
Whether you believe everything is causal or not, east and west must meet somewhere on the same ground and our poetry is how we combine the wisdom of b...
November 27, 2016 at 16:23
Its a western anarchistic hippie thing that evolved into what is known as the Rainbow Gathering. Back to the land hippies would meet in a national for...
November 27, 2016 at 16:18
I think they're confused myself and if they want to be a brain in a vat then they can certain help each other out and don't need my help.
November 27, 2016 at 16:10
I have yet to meet anyone who wants to be a brain in vat.
November 27, 2016 at 01:57
Happiness consists of those feelings people say they want making it impossible to give someone the best life possible if they simply don't want it.
November 27, 2016 at 01:30
That and five bucks will buy you a cup of coffee.
November 27, 2016 at 01:14
According to me. They say when you master it you become part of what the Taoists call the "Yin World" and whisper about among themselves knowing no ou...
November 27, 2016 at 01:11
Its written in a specific paradoxical style that encourages the reader to interpret it however they want at the time. If you are pissed off you may ar...
November 26, 2016 at 17:55
A gestalt is merely a symbolic dialectical representation of yin-yang dynamics which, technically, are supposed to always be in motion as they transfo...
November 26, 2016 at 17:14
It is perhaps the third most published book of all time and its commonly said it takes half an hour to read and a lifetime to master. I'm a master of ...
November 26, 2016 at 16:33
Boredom is a first world problem and not natural at all. The price of living in an aggressive culture where contentment is for losers.
November 26, 2016 at 16:22
Theoretically a photon could leave the Big Bang and travel all the way to a Big Crunch without ever doing a damned thing only to repeat the journey al...
November 26, 2016 at 16:12
People live how they want to live and are pretty similar with at least half being enough to drive anyone mad. As Yogi said, "90% of this game is half-...
November 25, 2016 at 23:03
It can be if you want it to be, but its the only sizable butch matriarchy left in the world today and their lifestyle is rather primitive.
November 25, 2016 at 22:45
You have it backwards, alone and often combined the US NATO allies could not fight their way out of a wet paper bag by themselves. That is why we keep...
November 25, 2016 at 22:11
The US has no interest in allowing Russia anything. If Assad wins the war with Russian help it is much more advantageous for the US to finally invade ...
November 25, 2016 at 19:35
Transgenders have to contend with the fact that the males who resent them the most are the ones who find themselves most tempted by homosexuality and ...
November 25, 2016 at 18:15
I offer free lessons in how to use a dictionary and search engine. These are just the things they allow the public to know about. Micrsoft just announ...
November 25, 2016 at 17:38
There are already contingency plains to put self-assembling robots on the moon to mine helium 3 for nuclear fusion. You send one assembled robot and h...
November 25, 2016 at 17:23
Putin needs to expand the Russian economy. Almost nobody can compete against the US, Europe, and Asia dominating the world economy and Russia is being...
November 25, 2016 at 16:07
Again, my enemy's enemy is my best friend and if Russia thinks that China, Belarus, and India will come to their rescue if they aggressively attempt t...
November 25, 2016 at 15:28
Again, international politics are always about my enemy's enemy being my best friend. China getting along better with Russia than the US is merely mor...
November 25, 2016 at 01:24
My enemy's enemy is my best friend and Islam hates capitalism without something like sharia law imposed, which isn't terribly capitalistic. Like commu...
November 25, 2016 at 00:54
They aren't a single culture or even a single nation, but a bunch of warring states that been fighting among themselves forever and repeatedly invaded...
November 25, 2016 at 00:38
Timing is everything and in international politics my enemy's enemy is my best friend, but Russia is nobody's friend and everyone's enemy. Obama can s...
November 25, 2016 at 00:26
Russia is not the whole continent. If Putin wants to live in Siberia I'm sure we can make arrangements. Russia proper is just another country surround...
November 25, 2016 at 00:23
Russians support strong men dictators like Putin precisely because that is what their situation requires, but its simply not in the US interest to all...
November 24, 2016 at 23:40
A theory of everything is coming in the near future and, according to all the evidence, it will be a pragmatic Contextualist philosophy that will esta...
November 24, 2016 at 23:12
While the positivists and others have claimed they will usher in the next scientific revolution it is the Contextualists and newer disciplines such as...
November 24, 2016 at 23:03
The answer is blowing in the wind, because quantum mechanics is a pragmatic science and the next generation supercomputers will illuminate the entire ...
November 24, 2016 at 22:45
Socrates said, "Know thyself" and championed the Truth above all else. Wittgenstein and pragmatists like him are all part of the Socratic tradition. W...
November 24, 2016 at 22:12
My own family is Irish Catholic and knows what the score is. When we immigrated to this country we became gang members and crooked cops. When Lincoln ...
November 24, 2016 at 20:50
Fundamentalists of any kind tend to use the pulpit as a political stump. They tend to represent more rural views and how rural people everywhere have ...
November 24, 2016 at 20:43
The gun and the money do almost all the talking worth listening to just about everywhere in the world and popular religions merely reflect their socio...
November 24, 2016 at 19:18
LOL, that's what Saddam Hussein thought when he invaded Kuwait which was a country that didn't even exist until the US set it up specifically to pump ...
November 24, 2016 at 17:35
They are not the Soviet Union anymore and are fighting people inside what where their old borders, but please feel free to claim they are stronger tha...
November 24, 2016 at 17:20
A newer argument is that authenticity is the issue rather than knowledge. Without authenticity the brightest lights can be left on because nobody is e...
November 24, 2016 at 17:19
Looking foolish is anathema among academics who have spent thousands of years thriving by promoting themselves as no-nonsense workaholics and suppress...
November 24, 2016 at 16:53
Rubbish. The US military is equal to the next six or seven largest in the world combined and the US dollar underscores practically every economy in th...
November 24, 2016 at 16:36
Putin is nothing more than a petty dictator with an overblown ego and any ambitions for bringing back the Soviet Union are nothing more than your aver...
November 24, 2016 at 16:05
Again, I said they were harmless potheads, not that they were imprisoned for pot possession. Most were convictions for trafficking. Tommy Chong, of Ch...
November 24, 2016 at 15:48
My position is that they were harmless potheads, not that they were imprisoned just for smoking pot. These people are being given an average of 88 mon...
November 24, 2016 at 15:17
The cops are not necessarily racist, they are simply doing their job which, unfortunately, today means racial profiling. They are deliberately targeti...
November 24, 2016 at 02:13
They were not outrageously false, but certainly a bit exaggerated. Instead of one in five it is one in eight federal prisoners. Statistics also suppor...
November 24, 2016 at 01:42
For a decriminalized substance its still responsible for 45% of all drug related arrests and our new attorney general is quoted as saying he thought t...
November 24, 2016 at 01:22
What's to elaborate on? If the self is all that there is to be known then both good luck and bad luck reflect ourselves and the simplest explanation i...
November 24, 2016 at 01:03
With solipsism a paradoxical version of Occam's Razor applies that the simplest explanation is both correct and incorrect and, as a result, more often...
November 23, 2016 at 19:08