Thank you. And now let's go back to your qualifications for calling Dr Jem Bendell, a Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Instit...
I think it's fairly clear what is a quote and what are my own words in my posts. But in case it isn't, I have not myself used the phrase "mass extinct...
Just to be clear, this not some way out nut job cherry picking statistics to make a radical fruitcake conspiracy theory. This is an expert in the fiel...
There is a way, You type the words on a lap top and then click "post comment". Science is all about predicting the future. Weather forecasting is not ...
I think to try and deal with this in terms of rebels and conformists is a mistake. All one can say with any confidence is that the atrocities of a reb...
I was talking about my wife, and she agrees with me. You can say it's a matter of opinion, but that too is a matter of opinion, and your opinion is wo...
You come out with these things as though they are evidently true. It's not true. things are valued at the time; memories are valued at a later time. I...
Here's the switcheroo on display for all to see. No, it wasn't worthwhile now because you've just specified that I don't know what you're talking abou...
It makes no sense to me. A daffodil is a beautiful thing, though the flower only lasts a few days. It is still a beautiful thing if I do not see it or...
I'll have a short go at arguing this to be the case. Let's assume for now that there is a scientific method, a blueprint that applies universally to a...
Birth and death are temporal boundaries to my being the way my skin is the spacial boundary of my being. I am small and the universe is large; I am br...
Yes, I'm not really in the nostalgia business as such, because (a) it was crap at the time, and (b) it lead to this. I hope I'm doing something more i...
I have the money ready for you, which I have inherited from my uncle who was the minister for exciting things in Nigeria, and is unfortunately a bit d...
A lot to go at here, so forgive me if I ignore some stuff. First, a defence of my memory, from a very brief google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5...
I think one thing that makes closures more attractive here is that it leaves a trace, and the moderation is otherwise almost totally invisible. If onl...
This is peculiar. As if doubt is some ubiquitous and penetrating miasma that will infect any mind not entirely closed. As if, as I open my front door,...
It was too good to last. Sure. If you're a moderator, moderate. Get things wrong, apologise, resign, get banned, whatever. I started looking at the th...
No, deletion looks better - strong and competent; closure looks like 'I don't like this but I don't know how to deal with it. So delete the shit. Cave...
I don't much like the closing thing. Flamewars, ok, guidelines ok, otherwise, if people want to waste their time going in circles why not give them so...
Yes, I have heard that rhetoric too. I remember there was a version I heard at school - "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game....
'The absolute' is a special philosophical realm of 'you're not allowed to question'. See also 'absolute bullshit'. I hold to my own absolute truth: no...
No. If I am certain, I have no doubt. If I am doubtful, I am uncertain. But since these are both frames of mind, I don't even know what it might mean ...
Humiliation is the feeling of loss of status. In a zero sum game the winner gains status and the losers lose it in proportion. I don't think that. Peo...
Well no. When the absolute is excluded, and when one acknowledges that this includes absolute doubt as well as absolute knowledge, something we seem t...
Well they can all just fuck off and die, can't they? No. I mean yes. I mean no. If you haven't experienced humiliation, then clearly you are too fuck-...
I don't understand all your references, I'm sorry. But read that 'can be' in the light of the necessary limits exemplified by television. If I am head...
Indeed one cannot, and so one does not make such a judgement. In making that judgement one would have already raised the question that the judgement w...
No I'm not. I'm saying it doesn't make sense at all, to me to you, or to Norman the Norm. You can accuse me of this, but not Wittgenstein. He's "just"...
No, that's exactly what I don't need to explain, because that is exactly what I have just explained it doesn't make sense to ask for further explanati...
There is a confusion; if as I have been suggesting, humiliation is loss of status - a public matter, if somewhat nebulous, of social standing, then we...
Yes. The fact that I have just answered the questions you are asking, indicates that circumstances are not normal. Let me put it simply. Normality is ...
Who is Norman the Normal? Expecting the German invasion, we Brits turned the signposts around, and took down the railway station signs. Some people co...
That's a wrong question. Agreed. and I think this is where authenticity can be invoked. In your example, the supervisor is not doing the job, the job ...
I'm not sure where you and @"csalisbury" are going with this. My first suspicion is that it is a purely mechanical effect - "the system" empowers and ...
On the brave contributors to this thread, especially the ones I have humiliated. All those other chaps you have mentioned can go about their business ...
And his is why I am identified as troll as hostile, as sexist. Because I always insist that there is an other to every identity, and every identificat...
Yes, it is screwy and knotted, how could it be otherwise? You surely don't expect race to have any legitimate significance, beyond the arbitrary socia...
Y'all might like to consider humiliation in relation to status. Consider two humiliating scenarios. The first is being overtaken by an inferior, for e...
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