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Justify it. I've put the theory out there that you are a religious person, justified by your obsession with religion as evidenced on this thread. What...

Why do you think it appropriate to air your prejudices about religious people here? Why not have a look at the book we are talking about and see if yo...

Galaxies and weather systems tend to come in spirals because {mathematical explanation you might half understand about chaotic systems.} Six thousand ...

I cannot comment on your comment itself of course, but the comment-as-I-read-it is clearly nonsense. This unfortunate unknowability of threads themsel...

It would seem to apply equally to proofs of non-existence. On the other hand, I do not require the existence of a blind woman carrying a pair of scale...

It is true; the Japanese obviously do not understand the I Ching. It's an aid to understanding the times, not a magic lucky charm.

Whichever one the I Ching predicts will win of course. And that without a fight.

Too many questions, my brain exploded. Here's the evolutionary version of the axiom:- "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." 'Why?' you will ask, and I w...

When one consults the I Ching with the yarrow stalks, the first thing one does is to lay one stalk aside. This represents the unchanging aspect of bei...

The appropriate analogy is smoking. Not many people die of smoking - quite a lot of smokers die of lung cancer. Do not imagine that smoking is harmles...

a couple of preliminary comments: 1. Words have meaning in virtue of their negative space; running is not walking, or not flying or not stationary. 2....

Indeed. Well I have been involved with the Free school movement and the home education movement and in my dotage I involve myself here and elsewhere o...

I don't like to talk about knowledge as a possession. I give freely what knowledge I have and in that relationship I learn. Will has no power, but is ...

Hi. I am very interested in education and developmental psychology, but I am struggling to understand your thesis in this thread. The above seems to b...

Fuck me! If that's what you gather, stick to hunting.

My point is that a few generations ago this was a commonplace occurrence. At that time, and all previous times, one could not afford for 'no words' to...

To think, to legislate, to act with intelligence, one has to draw a line in the sand as to what is a person or not a person, or what is alive or dead,...

I know something; perhaps you know more. And back on topic a bit, it may be middle-class self-satisfaction that cannot believe that the working class ...

I'm sorry to hear that. :cry:

I suspect that these were more likely middle-class than working class. My recollection is that even in the good old days, you needed to be pretty damn...

Explain?

Alternatively, worry less about your own life and more about all the people who have it far worse and could really use your help. Parents, jobs, educa...

Leisure. If you are poor, you are likely to work hard to become less poor, because that is the obvious way to do it. You probably don't have time or e...

It's always nice to find 2 individuals thinking the same conscious thought - especially when their very agreement proves them wrong. :rofl:

Consider the situation in Nazi Germany. There were many laws that applied to Jews, and of course any resistance to transportation and the 'final solut...

There is no obligation to handle stuff here. If people are unpleasant, ignore them, and if they are hateful report them. I hope you will feel able to ...

Interesting discussion, guys. So the idea is that the veil of ignorance obliges one to take an approximately neutral position that favours equality in...

Internet phenomenon. but see also any number of charismatists. Why Loreal? Because you're worth it. Why Mcvomit's? Because I'm loving' it. Why David I...

But Trumplestiltskin can spin straw into gold.

But that is trivial. People like easy answers and comfortable answers better than true answers and no answers. They like to be empowered even if it is...

I really don't think so. Oxygen breathers depend on oxygen producers - animals depend on plants. Ecological studies show how very very dependent we ar...

A fascinating read! You can find my full response in the after-post that follows the end of this post.

Yes. are you familiar with Eco-philosophy at all? There is quite a lot of work been done over many years. Arne Naess is probably a good place to start...

We're not viruses, we're mammals. But your thrust is rather that we are pathogens to our environment. This is a fairly common occurrence, and there is...

There's a conflation of producer and innovator, as creator of new goods and new markets, entrepreneur, as trader in goods from here to there, and rent...

He's a bit of a joke really isn't he? But Anyway, {quote= Jordan-the-Moron} Wiffle waffle. {/quote} will format your quotes nicely if you replace the ...

I agree, well said.

Honestly, I don't care "if all the hippies cut off all their hair."

Do you not think that dealing with "contamination" is an important part of the modelling? I agree, and have mentioned before that the way mods behave ...

They fall like gentle Autumn leaves in the dialogical breeze - if you want to rake them into a pile, go ahead, I'm not going to get possessive about t...

Solving the world's problems at other people's expense. Everyones favourite philosophy; everyone's favourite politics. Shitbags of the world unite, yo...

Absolute tosh! You have it all backwards. Because we can safely fly on a jet, we can have confidence in our scientific principles. Because the magic w...

"God did it." explains everything and anything, and therefore nothing. It's not a hypothesis but a mantra. Science is about observation and more impor...

I imagine a group of tetrachromates developing their own language to name the varieties of orange from 'crumby to 'gooey' or whatever. And Some tetrac...

It is futile to make such arguments. I am too lazy to explain.

As sure as eggs is eggs.

You're the one talking about it, you tell me. I don't think there is such a thing. I think an old man has inherited a name from a baby. "Robert *****"...

Would you admit that my mother might have aborted me? Or that the midwife might have bungled my birth so that i was born with cerebral palsy or some o...

The transmission of the moniker, "unenlightened" is finite, and a baptismal ritual called "signing-up" was undergone in which the guidelines were read...

That's an argument, but as a reductio it doesn't quite reach the solid ground of contradiction. bert1 could have been unenlightened (if he had registe...