What is left but gallows humour? These are the people and the institutions that we are mandating to 'take back control'. We're idiots, babe... https:/...
It's the Scottish ancestry coming out in a crisis. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-news-live-vote-result-theresa-may-deal-withdr...
Thanks! I guess the way we're making your governance look modern, competent, and vaguely rational, you can afford to be generous. :wink: Does the huma...
Well that was the point, and I'm glad you joined up the dots. But the implication is that even for God, comprehending is exactly equivalent to living....
I think this is the point. If the lumberjack's chainsaw turns out not to have a chain, and the trees turn out to be telegraph poles, then one is entit...
My daughter is in Australia. Her father is in Wales. we belong to each other, but neither owns the other. One might want to analyse relations of ownin...
Try a slightly tedious but maybe pertinent computer analogy. The Great Electrician/Programmer has created the computer and knows every circuit. and al...
Here you go chaps, all your difficulties made completely irresolvable. http://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/pdfs/ogden-richards-meaning-all.pdf Pay par...
One starts philosophy in the middle, and not only in the middle but in the middle of confusion and contradiction. One is using language and asking wha...
Yes it does. It is happening right now to the media. If you sometimes use language to deceive, you will not be trusted, if you do so as often as not, ...
Why do you think your one-liner is going to be more clear than my several lengthy posts with references.? What is it about unscientific that requires ...
No. The use of a screwdriver is to drive screws. If I use it to open a can of paint, it doesn't stop being a screwdriver and become a can opener. If y...
Carrot and stick May style. 'Back my deal and I'll resign - defeat it, and I'll stay forever.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abqZn6SFiWs&fbclid=IwAR...
In case someone is interested but has missed the substance of my position, I will try and summarise/illuminate. Back in the early seventies when I was...
My complaints are many, and they are mainly generalisations admitting of honourable exceptions. My complaint against you is that you are making person...
Isn't it strange. I entirely agree with you. I offer some criticism, I make some connections between psychology and psychiatry, but I have actually be...
Excuse the cliched example, but suppose I live in Germany during the third Reich. And a group of people - the Nazi Party - find my dislike of Hitler, ...
Exactly what mental illnesses can be said to exist? Medicine is supposed to be science based, so one would not, I hope, claim that biochemistry is irr...
And the medical profession doesn't campaign against smoking, over eating, poor sanitation, or poor air quality? I seem to remember a story of doctors ...
I wonder if you want to play in the world of possession? The Native American culture, as far as my little understanding reaches, has a strong sense of...
Leo, that is an unfair question, of the type that no one can answer convincingly who has not lived through it. We know that it is very hard to resist ...
Of course they are not completely wrong, or even half wrong. But at the same time they are not only completely factually wrong but completely morally ...
I think we can get even more to the point. Without dismantling mental health facilities or banning drug treatment there are many steps that can be tak...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/mind-fixers-anne-harrington/583228/ That heedless refusal has played out here rather clearly. Eve...
Not only do I know what maladaptive is, I also know that ...is not the same as... ...or... Well right there in your appeal to your own authority, amus...
D'you know I think I made it up! At any rate I cannot remember whence it came. However Over here if you add to the 5% in sales, a reasonable fraction ...
Most psychology graduates end up in advertising. In the adverts, the road is smooth, and sinuously winding through wonderful scenery. The man is maste...
Sure. I don't want to ban adjectives, and your example illustrates the difference quite clearly. Personally i would want to include what so-and-so is ...
Compassion is an overflowing; it comes from an abundant fullness. The gritted teeth of will, nor the urgent need of inadequacy can hope to reach it, b...
Happily, that is so, and happily that is not so. There is no Grammar King and every man does as he pleases, and yet there is grammar, there is philoso...
I'd say it was more an abuse of language. My fantasy and your fantasy can be different just because they are not reality. Reality is unqualified; that...
*sigh*. But you use words, you use gestures, you use the conventions of society to express your politeness. No they mustn't. I use words to convey mea...
Well sure.you're talking to Mr 'identity-is-relationship. And that explains why one can have a meaningful relationship with a dog and not with Siri.Bu...
We'd be over-run with cranks and crackpot theories. There's a lot of it about and it is very vocal. Even a second-rate gardener has to do the weeding ...
If God was in charge, we could all rest easy in our armchairs, but alas moderators always have to make judgements they are not qualified for, and so w...
With respect, I am wrong more often than you think. But when I play devil's advocate and all I get is ridicule and argument from authority, I smile qu...
Well I thought it was interesting, and no more fanciful than many a respectable mainstream origin story that has had the official seal of approval fro...
I think the EU has more or less reached the 'fuck off and die' position, where a no deal brexit is preferable to having to deal with this miserable ma...
Dogs are like Siri, you know they understand if they do what they're told. I have some sympathy with this, though I disagree.I'll try and explain. My ...
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