I write a lot about identity. Most of my threads are about various aspects. And this is, I think one of the best ways of discovering it. This is why I...
"There can only be one winner." Said with faux regret fifty times a week on a gameshow near you. If dignity is a zero sum game, then humiliation is ho...
I find it hard to choose between a dog's answer, that Humans are really smart, and a cat's answer, that humans are uber-dumb. But you cannot count on ...
I think it is not wise to question such confessions. In times of great pain, such as stitching up a cut, my doctor applies a local anaesthetic. I see ...
I can be diligent or occasionally lapse in my adherence to not stepping on the cracks, or wearing my underpants back to front, or that other thing I d...
Yeah. Gallows humour. This is what happens when supposed leaders and opinion makers are guided by focus groups and opinion polls - endless chasing fan...
Comment of the day. Some government spokesman burbles on in a brexit 'statement'. Reporter comments, "Well if you understood that, you probably weren'...
Of course! I almost said it there already without realising, Fractal geometry - Symmetry between different scales. . Well it is so beautiful - the wor...
It's in the thread title. Perhaps you haven't been on the same topic from the beginning. The thread is supposed to be about an ideological war between...
I don't think so. One of the things I have tried to stay away from, but others have wanted to go into is the rather uncommon cases of individuals who ...
That's interesting, because it is exactly the feeling I have about the complaints about the APA guidelines; that if a closer look had been taken, it w...
The quote is "True premises and a valid argument guarantee a true conclusion. An argument which is valid and has true premises is said to be sound (ad...
Consider the commonplace idiom, "Boys will be boys." I think this is understated. It does not merely excuse, but actually approves. This is not to say...
"you ought to realise this is ridiculous" is true. Therefore, you ought to realise this is ridiculous. But Hume never made the claim as it is attribut...
The domains are connected by statements that declare what ought to be. The connection once made, logic can do its thing; it is in making the connectio...
Why do you want to say this? It seems obviously false, as you have just declared it to be both. There is little point in this logical trick, even if i...
I you had read the link in the op, you would have come across this: That is a clear description of the effect of parental upbringing being undone, and...
Thanks for that, interesting links that I need to spend some time with, and a very useful cosmology. I have lived with this in the background as I hav...
Could be interesting. I lived in France for a few years.One of the historic differences is the revolution. It may seem extravagant, but the class divi...
I dare say we will survive, but the UK is losing influence, losing money, losing jobs, losing trade. We already have gone back to folks dying of malnu...
Have a chat with Plato, who thinks that democracy is a degenerate form of government. https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/hide-and-seek/201607/pla...
It has to be admitted that the distinction between the physical, social, and psychological cannot be maintained absolutely. The transvestite might sha...
Given the distinction between sex as a physical phenomenon, and gender as a social construct ( and one might for clarity compare the physical phenomen...
Yes you're right. I sacrificed exactitude to brevity there. Allow me to correct myself. To consider acting is not the act under consideration except o...
The way I understand it is different. Suppose I am considering what to have for lunch. Maybe beans on toast, or maybe omelette. Neither of these is pa...
My impression is that he follows my suggestion rather better than I do. I think he might say that a hero is a personification of an ideology, and an i...
My link is to the purported non-fictional world, I suppose, and folks are orienting themselves according to just the sort of outstanding landmarks tha...
'Lost of errors' seems appropriate. It is surely the mark of a fantasy world that it separates neatly into heroes and villains? Consider this supposed...
We are standing at a cliff edge threatening to jump off. We are blaming the cruel world. Don't imagine there is much power in reason to influence us; ...
Note the 3 terms. 1. sex - biological. 2. gender - undefined. 3. gender identity. A feeling/identification. Compare: This fills in the gap and gives u...
Anyone who answers declares themselves a reptilian or else another exploited sucker. Either way they are unbelievable, and this is thus a world view t...
Clearing out the attic, and it's full of work done and forgotten. Stuff that I might get round to using, too good to throw away - wood, cloth, and abo...
You think you are joking? https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2018/oct/26/black-sheep-the-black-teenager-who-made-friends-with-racists-vid...
Let me offer some un-prevailing ideas. 1. Property, ownership, and money are social constructs. Therefore; 2. Billionaires are rich because we agree t...
Just so, it is a pragmatic distinction but no longer absolute; one has to allow a degree of arbitrariness in claiming a significant difference between...
In the good old days, there was a grand triple order - God, Man, Nature. Now folks that want to manage without God have a problem, which has been poin...
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