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That's not going to happen, even for a few weeks to prevent the no deal that is the Lib-Dem signature policy this week they will not support Labour. T...

Me too. Used to be blue, now red - it's like there's been a change of government...

Someone just sent me an amusing photo of a blue wheelie bin, with the traditional sharpie legend added: "I identify as a green bin." Unfortunately I c...

I gave you an argument. Address the argument with something other than hot air. If your experience is of yourself reading a book, you are entitled to ...

Uniting the Conservative party means winning the election.What divides the Tories is always losing; they hate losers, and in the end everyone is a los...

The real debate is whether the squid are orchestrating climate change on their own, or are being aided by extra-terrestrial allies. https://www.thegua...

Well that went well, didn't it? Suppose I were to say that all that can be known, and all that can be talked about is experience. That seems like a ni...

Well done Bartricks! You can defeat a dead man. That's my kind of robust philosopher - one who can tell a horse from a house and is proud of it.

I sometimes use his words to explain myself. I prefer not to use my words to explain him.

Why not allow that people use the word in different ways; that some refer to a momentary feeling and others to a long term commitment and maybe yet ot...

It's an analogy, but the limit is death. In words, it is a paradox. but in fact, it happens all the time. I turn right, and walk East, or I turn aroun...

That of course is your own experience. Don't expect anyone else to see things the same way.

I like this: Looks like @"Banno"'s (3.) to me. I used to live in a mountain village in South France. Every year, every able-bodied person came togethe...

I am a person who always goes North. It's who I am. Although I am tired of going North, so tired I cannot bear to live with myself, I cannot stop, bec...

Pontificate on a philosophy forum. And read 'fit' the way a kitchen installer would. 'If it's not properly fitted, it will fall apart.'

Shoot the messenger dept. A random facebook meme:

This is a bit of a minority report it seems, but loans are a matter of business. Is this a good investment? Is the return potential proportionate to t...

I think in England we even now have community owned roads and squares, that are fairly well looked after, likewise public beaches.

So many things have happened that were inconceivable not long ago. But the currently conceivable danger is to the conservatives that they will split t...

Not at all. I'm a tyrant. So, (1.) the Environmental Committee issues a dictat from time to time that declares the fish allowance this year, and (2.) ...

You need Pirsig's Metaphysics of quality. Sure it is meaningful to say this album is superb, that album is flawed; I reject 'incomparable' but will ac...

I agree. So perhaps we can now start to have that debate about where and how to draw the inevitably arbitrary line so that it approximates to proporti...

Well actually we do both. The biology is that humans are born helpless and remain vulnerable and inarticulate for some time. They have a very limited ...

It would suggest that there are problems with sexual behaviour, and that we should make some rules and try and enforce them. There is a tradition deri...

The text also opined that if 13-year-old girls in France had the right to receive the pill, then they also should be able to consent. A bit of a non s...

I'm saying roughly that the quintessential Hamlet is the standard by which we judge any Hamlet. It doesn't even have to be the best. "The performance ...

Is it? Give us the rationale, pray ...

Yes, and I was trying to make life difficult for you. One tends to attach the labels rational and irrational rather freely, and of course a 'superstit...

Well I believe on the basis of walking out my front door many times that there is no danger of falling into a fiery pit if I walk out of my front door...

*rant* It is surely time to remove this odious little man and elect the right honourable member for Old-fartery North to head a government of national...

And some of us have already started sharpening our axes.

This all turns on the misconception that sex is something that men want and women tolerate. The truth of course is the opposite. Women spend billions ...

The number of things you didn't mention would make a long list. Fortunately, I am not confined to rearranging your words. Unfortunately, your topic th...

God favours the big battalions. What God favours is necessarily good. The big battalions are good. Might is right.

Clearly we need a Greta thread so that people can sneer at a sixteen year old for being sixteen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s The whole world belongs to you, so don't wait for anyone to give you a scrap of it, or imagine you can giv...

No, I mean that it will tell you eventually that at times like this, "the sage puts down his book and picks up his shovel." or something rather like.

I'm not altogether clear where you are taking your stand, aside from making Apollo your god.But I would say that a question cannot be 'wrong' in the w...

Several. It doesn't hit you in the face, does it? There is comfort in troubled times in the idea that even sages must deal with the times, and there i...

Loads. Jung was quite into it, and I see it as a consultation with the unconscious and particularly the collective unconscious. One has to assume that...

Yes, but not for a long time.

It's been demoted to the lounge - because it's crap, presumably. The power of language eh?

Well I can see I'm wasting my time talking to you lot.

Some idiot might attempt it. Bla bla neurones, bla, pathways, bla behaviour, bla. I prefer mental terms like 'belief'. People tend to believe professo...

Sure, not everyone can be educated either, but enough can that it matters what poison they drip into your ears.

The advertising industry illustrates how very widespread this estimation is, and how much money hard nosed business women are prepared to put where th...

You are a joke, pal. No one here will take you seriously, so best cut your losses.

"And what I say three times is true." _ The Bellman.

Peace is the meaning of death. One rests in peace. The meaning of life is strife.

"Ask not what philosophy can do for you, but what you can do for philosophy." John F Kennedy.