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I tend to think of poetry as the antidote to propaganda. Poetry adds meaning and propaganda destroys it. But beware, all that rhythms is not poetry - ...

No need to reinvent the karmic wheel. Folks have been ruminating on such vital questions for a while. You'll get more from a bit of historical researc...

The nice people who set up the Svalbad seed bank chose to assume an ecological disaster. They don't look silly because one hasn't happened, any more t...

I started to look at your clickbait, and then gave up. There is a level of fuckwittery to which I will not descend, and that is well below it.

Well the idea I'm playing with is to suppose that science and reason has created a problem and cannot solve it, because there is no reason to stop. Hu...

Well I'm open to correction, political or factual, but I'm only really aware of the phrase being used as a term of abuse. Can you find someone who has...

Well there you have it. Authoritarians with no authority, you can't get more straw of a man than that. That is to say anyone who wants to make accusat...

You may be right, or it may be that two straw men are burning each other. What really is political correctness and what do its critics criticise? This...

What I'm saying in general is that political correctness isn't an ideological innovation, it's about avoiding fights. People who assert the right to s...

'Excellent' is also the WRONG answer. The mistake is to think when I say 'how are you?', I am asking how you are. I'm not, and I don't want to know ho...

"A bore is someone who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." Because such ritual questions and responses are not to be understood literally, but as...

One of the things I think philosophy can do, and does do if you are doing it right, is to bring to light the deep assumptions and motivations that und...

Here's something that some folks have thought to be worth doing, and has already turned out to not have been quite as future proof as they thought. ht...

The earliest reference to the notion that burning coal might eventually lead to global warming was 1912, I think. A century later, the might has becom...

When you say 'almost' you mean 'exactly'. Oh but wait, I mean baked beans, you can't know yourself that you mean 'exactly', because you don't know tha...

Well happily, I can confirm that there is not "a green growing thing that I can see though my window" anywhere except on my computer screen. The only ...

So you agree that there is no uncertainty about there being a green growing thing that I can see through the window? Then my work here is done.

Yes. It's surprisingly (to me) popular, and I assume that is a prudential, rational 'ought' you're deploying. I, of course disagree, that this is at a...

Evidence of fear. 1. Wall building, border closing, troop mobilising, defence spending. 2. Intolerance of dissent, polarisation, hate speech. 3. 'Stre...

I'm totally cool with that. Let's do our bit to give some status to principled non-conformism, especially when it results in crucifixion.

It's from that era. The hippie response to the cold war/Vietnam war. Oh here's a factoid. 1.5 million people were internally displaced in the US in 20...

So, folks, this is the game I am inviting you to play. Stop finding reasons why the future cannot be known, because you all don't behave like that any...

I guess it depends where you live, but the time that I am reminded of is more the thirties. Nobody wants to know that a war is coming there is an angr...

I'm only quoting you because you're the only one talking about the topic. I don't mean to accuse you, and I'm not really even addressing you more than...

No, I don't think you're catching my drift. What I think of myself, that I am British, that I am a fine philosopher, red hot lover etc. is important, ...

Tinkering sounds so innocent, not like rape at all. My medical hero of the 20th century is President Carter . No big tech, just good governance and hy...

I think this is Deeply Shallow. As if nature is not our mother and sustainer. As if we are not the product of nature. It's odd, because this is the tr...

We can argue about nomenclature, but it is a different kind of uncertainty entirely, and one that W. also goes into exhaustively. Why muddy the waters...

I don't want to dismiss the personal side of identity, but lest you get too comfortable there, consider the character of someone in Nazi Germany - It ...

A few years ago now, we lost most the sandy beach as the council tipped thousands of lorryloads of stones onto the seafront to strengthen the defences...

I'll have one more go with you Meta, as all my other threads are full of trolls at the moment. if you ask a non philosopher to look out of my window a...

So I'm thinking about what I might do as say a gardener, in terms of perhaps building in micro climates to allow a greater diversity of plants, in con...

Let them eat words... A me'afisicll poem. I want you (I don't want much). I want you To feel the heart beneath my skin And honour flesh and blood with...

The odd thing about this analogy is that you seem to have it the wrong way round. The permawarmers acknowledge that every few years, the temperature w...

Because you keep hitting me with it, and because you haven't mentioned when repeatedly asked, any other source for your opinions. My turn to patronise...

Don't tell me what I know, you @£$%^*. I'll tell you what I know, which is that the past and the present are the only things anyone whatsoever of what...

I want a reference to this text book you keep talking about as if you've read it for a start. I know you can't predict the future, so I already know t...

But you don't have the title or author of the textbook for us, so I have to assume he or she is not a reputable scientist. Stop the fuck shooting the ...

Thanks for the factless reference-less patronising condescension. Sea-levels may fall as well as rise, terms and conditions apply.

He might be wrong. He might be horribly wrong. You might want to check some of those references, he might be a snake oil salesman, or a self-publicist...

Frank, there is a prediction made in one place, of social disruption, and even collapse in ten years or so. And you have attached that timeframe to an...

Has anyone read the article yet?

The above is a quote from the article that will be under discussion in just a few more pages, hopefully, and is a replica of the last quote in my open...

Has anyone actually read the article, by the way?

And that reads to me like you cannot provide any justification and so resort to ad hom.

Nice one Frank! Like I'm the one making unsubstantiated claims and disrupting your thread. You are the enemy of an interesting discussion, and like I ...

You don't know what a reputable scientist is, Frank, and you are totally unreasonable. What basis do you have for saying the author is not a reputable...

You are not going to have the last word on this one Frank. You do not have the reputation yourself that would allow you to say that the author is not ...

Remember folks, this idiot has no qualification in the field, and likes to make up random accusations that he cannot begin to justify.

As I thought, you're the idiot. You have made zero contribution to understanding anything, provided zero new information or perspective, and wasted a ...