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Indeed, and here you are repeating it. And again you have no justification whatsoever, because there is no Viking argument, and there is no mention of...
August 07, 2019 at 16:39
In a monochrome world, colour words would have no application. In particular, the term 'monochrome' would have no application. But we have gone from o...
August 07, 2019 at 15:19
No, trolling the thread = calling me silly and hysterical and presenting absolutely no argument or insight but rather attempting to shut down the disc...
August 07, 2019 at 14:50
Nanu nanu. I think you must have been sleeping through Human societies 101.
August 07, 2019 at 14:42
Really? I mean REALLY? You think my discussion of international news from the other side of the ocean is a hysterical reaction that hurts the country?...
August 07, 2019 at 13:41
Sure. It's a matter of social relations. The numbers have no importance here; the importance it has is the importance it is given, just as the value o...
August 07, 2019 at 11:52
You have absolutely no idea how many lives my posts might save or cost. Perhaps a potential shooter will be transformed, or possibly pushed over the e...
August 07, 2019 at 11:32
The County of Sutherland in Scotland got its name from its position in the Viking territory. The word 'thing' is derived from the Viking word for thei...
August 07, 2019 at 08:39
Builders also have a disdain for Architects, with their airy-fairy notions of form and function and beauty, and no proper understanding of brickwork. ...
August 06, 2019 at 12:10
Hmm. Perhaps I have a different idea of what reason is. The thrust of the op is is that 'I don't like Mondays' does not count as a reason, even if it ...
August 06, 2019 at 07:54
This is not an invitation to the most wonderful life, but to the most wonderful dream. There is no contest between them, and I do not endorse and nor ...
July 31, 2019 at 13:16
I'm so glad you're seeing somewhat what I'm trying to get at. Yes 'I' can't change/stop 'the cycle', because whenever 'I' act on 'the cycle' I'm just ...
July 30, 2019 at 18:20
It really doesn't matter what comes after this, does it? and even if it does, why should it? Sometimes the right answer is " Hush! Go and clean your t...
July 29, 2019 at 11:53
I might say that personhood is a legal status granted to certain 'companies' (bunches of people with property?) when they have ritually drawn up and s...
July 28, 2019 at 20:11
The sort of thing Jung wants to get a handle on with the notion of the collective unconscious is - well, something like 'zeitgeist'. So he might talk ...
July 28, 2019 at 16:54
Just to be absolutely clear, I am saying that since it is false that "No people are not dinosaurs." it must necessarily be true that at least one pers...
July 28, 2019 at 15:21
You think wrong, regions are not 'excluded' but declared empty or declared populated, the one being the negation of the other. So the negation of 'All...
July 28, 2019 at 13:10
Under normal circumstances you are right, but the puzzle indulges in multiple negatives. So though the truth of 'All unicorns are horned' has no exist...
July 28, 2019 at 10:51
The hunger of the lion becomes the stampede of the buffalo. Don't equate psyche's energy to physical energy; a powerful idea does not have a big engin...
July 28, 2019 at 10:31
... bloody Morrisey. Self indulgent exploiter of the vulnerable, and all round shit. I had to listen to some of that crap, damn you.
July 27, 2019 at 13:57
Well you have said a lot, but I will not answer just this... Let's just say that there is that possibility, and that it is not something willed or per...
July 27, 2019 at 07:38
Well it is rather like being left by one's lover, one can be liberated one can be imprisoned, one can be sad or glad, enraged, one can feel murderous ...
July 27, 2019 at 07:07
I'm sure I know nothing at all about your feelings, I'm just trying to make sense of your posts.
July 26, 2019 at 15:45
If there is no emotion, then what is shut down? I think you should watch the film again. Bliss? I think not.
July 26, 2019 at 13:40
Yes, the source, in general is trauma, and the shut down person is shut into the trauma and forever reliving it as flashback and recreating it out of ...
July 26, 2019 at 08:01
Probably. Except... When does anyone ignore the messenger of pain? I think only when something really important is going on, like a football match, or...
July 25, 2019 at 13:18
I wonder if I can persuade you to un-ask these questions with a joke. Q. What's the difference between a thermostat and a living being? A. They both r...
July 25, 2019 at 09:14
I wouldn't dare to speak for the trees, unless I was a poet. But I think they do care, as it goes. But I was pointing to something more straightforwar...
July 24, 2019 at 13:42
I'd like to talk about control with you another time, but it seems bit out of place here. But in the meantime, consider the views of this fellow: "Loo...
July 24, 2019 at 08:14
I don't know, why do you ask?
July 22, 2019 at 17:03
Even more so in this thread, I need to speak for myself... I recall the unenlightened of yore, a youngish single heterosexual male with __ a strong se...
July 22, 2019 at 08:33
It's a great temptation to answer the question, but if you consider ... you will see it is impossible. There are beautiful and ugly feelings perhaps, ...
July 22, 2019 at 08:12
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You completely ignored the gracious silence, so... What great pity it is that everyone is not so unfailingly cheerful, respectful, polite, sane and in...
July 20, 2019 at 12:49
Well I'm not that great an economist, but if one shop always has an advantage because *whatever*, the other shop will always go bankrupt. Perhaps that...
July 19, 2019 at 13:31
I'm not sure I can, very much. But let's say that at the extremes of left and right there are views that cannot be espoused without penalty. So on one...
July 19, 2019 at 11:03
Yes. And it provides stability; we like stability. But there must be other factors involved. Taking the beach analogy, the beach has a fixed length an...
July 19, 2019 at 08:02
Anyways, identity is ritual, and ritual has this property of great stability and great ability to transform. Likewise a society can be immune to the i...
July 16, 2019 at 17:06
That'll do for me. The aim is to get away from the mechanical model, so the harder it is to find the levers the better. Or perhaps I could say, follow...
July 16, 2019 at 16:51
I went quiet for a bit becauseI ran into the old 'whereof one cannot think, thereof one must stop posting' thing. There's a lot of interesting stuff b...
July 16, 2019 at 13:35
Another interesting question is what they get up to while you're awake and unconscious of them.
July 15, 2019 at 21:49
FWIW then, recurrent dreams are often related to very earliest experiences. Marion Hall as womb with complicated access, therefore, disorganising file...
July 15, 2019 at 11:38
Laziness is the engine of progress. The wheel was invented by someone too lazy to carry stuff, the cooking-fire by someone too idle to chew, and every...
July 15, 2019 at 10:54
What does 'simply' mean here? One might substitute 'just'. Therefore justice is simplicity. Or possibly the unit of meaning is not the word, but the p...
July 14, 2019 at 08:43
https://twitter.com/therealholli/status/1149046964715057152?s=12&fbclid=IwAR2rCbWvxbkkDKH6IudRFhGUY6gUFIzBOyelhQQjnsYjbswILaYHUoU4oQo I wonder if any ...
July 13, 2019 at 11:18
This is just the beginning. Liberals, internationalists, and Christians are going to be sorely tested as political and economic based migration is dwa...
July 13, 2019 at 10:37
Nice to have you aboard! I'm going to play hardball about this; it's a question of time. Something is new at time t, and thereafter it is not strictly...
July 12, 2019 at 08:46
Thought was never alone, but tends to think it is. I want to dethrone thought, not annihilate it. Rather as technique in art is the servant of a creat...
July 11, 2019 at 13:00
Thread theme tune. Let us speak of freedom... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQbSPuxRs4
July 11, 2019 at 11:47
Guilty as charged, your honour. Where do I stand to deny myself a place to stand? But this I dispute. This is the path we have been pursuing, and it c...
July 11, 2019 at 11:28
Well that is not at all the implication I want you to draw. The social and symbolic is already real and cannot be suspended. There is no person absent...
July 11, 2019 at 09:09