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...
Screw the civilized mystical Taoists, these are the primitive pragmatic tribal roots of Taoism. Contemplating your naval and playing politics might be...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A gestalt is merely a symbolic dialectical representation of yin-yang dynamics which, technically, are supposed to always be in motion as they transfo...
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 ...
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...
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-...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
While the positivists and others have claimed they will usher in the next scientific revolution it is the Contextualists and newer disciplines such as...
The answer is blowing in the wind, because quantum mechanics is a pragmatic science and the next generation supercomputers will illuminate the entire ...
Socrates said, "Know thyself" and championed the Truth above all else. Wittgenstein and pragmatists like him are all part of the Socratic tradition. W...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Looking foolish is anathema among academics who have spent thousands of years thriving by promoting themselves as no-nonsense workaholics and suppress...
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...
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...
Again, I said they were harmless potheads, not that they were imprisoned for pot possession. Most were convictions for trafficking. Tommy Chong, of Ch...
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...
The cops are not necessarily racist, they are simply doing their job which, unfortunately, today means racial profiling. They are deliberately targeti...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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