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Despite Americans constantly insisting that every vote matters and they must choose from among the lesser of many evils, there is no evidence whatsoev...
October 18, 2016 at 17:19
When is a joke not simply a joke? This year the federal government finally admitted they have classified a few jokes as "Vital to the National Defense...
October 18, 2016 at 15:10
Philosophy can have a sense of humor.
October 18, 2016 at 00:53
Richard Feynman said the minute you think you understand quantum mechanics you are wrong! The corollary joke being if you believe you don't understand...
October 17, 2016 at 19:01
Some hippies like the Rainbow Family Tribe are anarchists that embrace some tribal traditions and often see the world from a much more tribal viewpoin...
October 17, 2016 at 15:09
Over half the world doesn't perceive time as linear as westerners do. It is more organic and there are times when time behaves more like it has a life...
October 17, 2016 at 01:34
We are the world, we are the children of a greater truth, Our beautiful words hang in the air between us, Defying even unbalanced gravity herself. Rai...
October 16, 2016 at 21:55
Time is the fire within which we burn, while memory is the ice within which we freeze. One without the other is simply impossible like having an up wi...
October 16, 2016 at 18:34
Stephen Pepper is a famous Contextualist author in the line of Wittgenstein who wrote "World Hypothesis" describing four rudimentary worldviews. Treat...
October 16, 2016 at 17:19
We are all climbing the same mountain with many paths to choose from, our feet shape the path as the way shapes our feet while, when you don't know wh...
October 16, 2016 at 16:30
Sorry, but you are wrong about how the brain works according to all the neurology. The human brain is organized on a fundamental level as an analog se...
October 16, 2016 at 15:50
Time is the greater context and its contents transforming into one another with quantum mechanics providing the best example. The Quantum Zeno Effect ...
October 15, 2016 at 22:42
He's accomplished as well, but wasn't when started out. Neither were the Beatles. Leonard Cohen is right, it is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest.
October 15, 2016 at 21:26
Ah good, someone who knows more about the subject than I do in some ways! Life, the universe, and everything can be considered a metaphor from which a...
October 15, 2016 at 16:47
Someone saying, "She's Hot!" is an example of contextual vagueness and how words only have demonstrable meaning in specific contexts. Whether the spea...
October 15, 2016 at 15:25
Of course, but that merely makes Dylan a great entertainer rather than a great musician. Bruce Springsteen is another great example and is known as "T...
October 15, 2016 at 15:11
There's a difference between an entertainer and someone who can actually play an instrument. Next you'll be telling me someone lip syncing to someone ...
October 15, 2016 at 00:22
Every classic work of art including music has turned out to express a Fractal Dragon equation. Literature tends to express multi-fractals with Finnega...
October 14, 2016 at 20:40
No accounting for taste and, personally, I have no taste for accountants.
October 14, 2016 at 19:26
His musicianship has been widely criticized. He was never very good on harmonica and his guitar is pretty sloppy as well, at least, when he started ou...
October 14, 2016 at 19:08
The Nobel committee has obviously been making more political choices in recent years and Dylan's poetry is extremely political. I believe they see the...
October 14, 2016 at 17:36
Words only have demonstrable meaning according to their function in specific contexts and even the neurological evidence supports that grammar is acqu...
October 14, 2016 at 17:30
Japan had an epidemic of suicides when their economy fell in the toilet with mostly young men who had no hope of finding work killing themselves in a ...
October 12, 2016 at 17:28
Its merely a political argument, rather than a philosophical one. Sexism, racism, speciesism, etc. are all concepts that gained popular recognition wi...
October 12, 2016 at 16:08
The idea that we have a choice in the matter is a narrative. Even objectively speaking, according to the evidence collected by Donald Hoffman if the h...
October 11, 2016 at 16:01
Habits are the end of honesty and compassion, the beginning of total confusion! Academics attempting to be objective about everything have inspired pe...
October 11, 2016 at 15:20
When money does all the driving, nobody is steering and the guy with the gun in the backseat decides what is socially acceptable. The more wealth ineq...
October 10, 2016 at 20:17
A quick search on the subject confirms your opinion. Thanks for the heads up, it seems it is modern evolutionary biologists who reject the term. Evide...
October 10, 2016 at 18:26
Darwin rejected the idea of survival of fittest and claimed evolution was all about which species is more adaptable to the specific environment, while...
October 10, 2016 at 15:31
After forty years of research academics have finally proven that the republican party is organized along the same lines as a flock of chickens. Its re...
October 10, 2016 at 15:19
Its an objective fact that our words only have demonstrable meaning in specific contexts. For example, if someone says, "She's Hot!" they could be tal...
October 10, 2016 at 01:08
The amount of working memory is the only criteria anyone has ever discovered for measuring someone's career potential. When looking for a career the q...
October 09, 2016 at 23:29
Just a word of explanation, I'm agnostic and all my poetry reflects that fact treating both mother nature and father truth as merely ways of making th...
October 09, 2016 at 22:06
Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, and people are social animals. To ask if we are too social is like asking if fish swim too much or birds fly too muc...
October 09, 2016 at 17:57
Whether existence is ultimately nonsensical or not, the fact it can be objectively perceived as such means meta-ethics, rather than ethics or morality...
October 09, 2016 at 17:20
I'm writing a book on the subject and this website doesn't have enough bandwidth.
October 09, 2016 at 16:49
A paradox is an example of a metaphor in that it has no clear identity. We are the belief makers, we give it all meaning, and in doing so create our o...
October 09, 2016 at 16:45
Politics obey the Law of Contention which is the aggressive enforcement of the principle of the excluded middle. Its the same systems logic of a flock...
October 09, 2016 at 16:20
Natural law concerns what Socrates called the One Truth or memory of God that none can remember in all its glory. Its the greater context that the unf...
October 08, 2016 at 22:33
There is no single morality and studies have repeatedly shown that even common sense is a myth. The only thing common about common sense is nobody see...
October 08, 2016 at 22:30
We already have gladiators fighting to the death on football fields. They may not die as nearly as often on the field, but they certainly cripple one ...
October 08, 2016 at 21:29
You're wrong, no zoo can still make money if their animals are unhealthy and fighting all the time. The US can talk all it wants about blacks being eq...
October 08, 2016 at 20:56
I'm not arguing that money and guns shouldn't be doing the driving, merely that political correctness is one of the few ways of preventing them from e...
October 08, 2016 at 20:17
When money is doing all the driving the gun tends to do all the real talking making political correctness one of the few peaceful ways people have lef...
October 08, 2016 at 19:40
Oh, how silly of me.
October 08, 2016 at 16:29
The moment I become perfectly humble I insist the whole world know. Classical logic obeys the principle of the excluded middle, meaning every version ...
October 08, 2016 at 16:28
The fact that the world around us is analog rather than digital has been widely accepted for a long time and quantum mechanics have already been used ...
October 08, 2016 at 15:19
Greenland uses geothermal energy to run everything including to smelt aluminum which they are the largest exporter of in the world. They are merely le...
October 07, 2016 at 17:48
Without awareness robots possess no knowledge, only incomprehensible data.
October 07, 2016 at 15:19
Experience is a river that remains the same by constantly changing. There are many lesser truths, which are both contents and contexts in different si...
October 07, 2016 at 15:17