Of course I do; I'm an old hippie, but sometimes it's the other way about, and the orthodoxy is violent and the rebellion is peaceful. My point is tha...
When I was young, the youth culture was all about flower power, giving peace a chance, peaceful protest against the Vietnam war, and nuclear weapons. ...
The new man of power and the new man of violence is a drone flying nerd; the hard drinking hard fighting Russian type real man cannot compete. When I ...
"... that man should change ..." is a value. It is, in its total vagueness, the value of the left, having abandoned the class war because of the loss ...
There seems to be a muddle of terminology that is creating or at least facilitating disagreement and rancour. It starts here. Values have no sex. So w...
And how does one know what is mine and yours, except through memory? Dementia becomes fatal when it extends to losing the function that controls breat...
We are more or less of one mind about this. :joke: The way I usually think about it is that it is a question of Identity, or rather, of identification...
That's true. I have presented another position, with other reasoning. In short, I agree that 'free-will' is incoherent; that is the extent of my engag...
I used to always have tea at breakfast, but I have changed my habit and nowadays I always have coffee. Not being able to explain such things is integr...
This is somewhat off topic, because it doesn't deny fossil fuel effects, but merely ignores them. But we all love Milankovitch Cycles don't we? https:...
I was going to mention this too. My experience of sleep paralysis is that one can learn to recognise it, and to struggle less and just wait for awaren...
Dreams can be realised iff 1, they are realistic, and 2, they are enacted. On the one hand one cannot make fantasies real by the power of thought, and...
I am faithful to my wife. there is a story from i know not whence. A bridge across a chasm; you might look at the bridge and wonder if it will support...
I think almost any climate scientist would be more qualified to speak on climate science than Kelly. If you need a plumber, don't consult an electrici...
Ah, happy days are here again! Everything he says about the lack of a realistic plan and the vast expense that government commitments imply is pretty ...
This is a partizan channel. And here is a Canadian politician talking to anyone who cares to listen, and at the end directly to the US government. Wor...
Divide and rule is always the rule, and solidarity is the only resistance, but solidarity can become an oppression of its own. So education, so humble...
What is happening now is the collapse of capitalist democracy. There is a transfer of power from democratically elected politicians to the oligarchs. ...
I don't understand. The state of oppression is exactly a state of inequality, and the solution is exactly to move to a state of more equality. So how ...
If you're waiting for your oppressor to liberate you, don't hold your breath. Rather, as Paulo Freire explains, it is the oppressed who must liberate ...
In terms of philanthropy, I commend to you one Jimmy Carter, whose foundation has worked quietly to eliminate the Guinea worm, a truly disgusting and ...
"I may not get there with you, but I have seen the promised land." (MLK) Herewith, a call to arms, along with a realist's mea culpa. https://www.youtu...
Thanks! I'll be a bit more verbose then. :wink: Here is the economic situation. The invisible, or blatantly obvious, hand is operating according to ne...
Again I have to disagree with the great man. The state of slavery is not primitive; it is a sophisticated systematic exploitation of one group by anot...
I hesitate to argue with you John, but it seems to me more likely that the dawn of civilisation would most likely have been matrilineal, because there...
This is true, but they are not the product of a lack of empathy, but of a mindset or ideology that is socially induced, that actually relies on empath...
Scientists are a conspiracy to attract funding? But these are businesses, putting their money where their mouths are - or rather withdrawing their ris...
The tradition is always to adapt, ornament, simplify, hand down as sacred and never to be altered. Every purist knows this, but none will ever admit i...
A long shot, but is any other one amused or entertained, by the relatively fabulous Joyce Grenfell? If you don't know, here is a sample. https://www.y...
There's not necessarily a contradiction. His critique of religious ethics boils down to 'you can't establish an 'ought (conclusion) from an 'is' (prem...
No arrangement of words, howsoever cunning, can oblige the world to be thus and not so. Words have to follow the world as servants and let the world d...
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