On the subject of shitshows, what do my American friends and fiends, or any others make of this: https://eand.co/why-were-underestimating-american-col...
You need to read with a modicum of charity. I'm not an idiot. A disease that kills its host can of course survive the death of its individual host, bu...
I occasionally mention on these boards, a person I call "Mrs un". If you want a definite description, "Mrs un is the woman I live with." Or an alterna...
No. It's a nonsense. If my neighbours and I were constantly fighting and trying to steal each other's stuff, life would be impossible. But we don't. W...
I think this is wrong. 'Whereof one cannot speak' is not the same as 'the beetle in a box.' There is a world, that is bigger than language; there is n...
I'll add to your addition that the control of sexuality is always part of social control. It passed from religion to the state, and has now passed fro...
Well just as it is not the system of nation states, but each nation that should/could be democratised, so each global corporation needs - and I'm not ...
Trouble is this Establishment v People mythology can be overlaid on the Right v Left mythology, and neither align with the leave v remain split, which...
No it wouldn't. It would be a third people's vote. The first vote was in 1973, and the result was to remain. But there is always something suspect and...
I'm struggling a bit here. Is this a preparation for an explanation of why footballers are rich and nurses are poor, despite the former being useless ...
The law should take account of reality. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15721164-600-let-me-out-its-the-fetus-that-decides-when-its-time-to-be-...
I'm thinking of changing my name to 'Mumenlightened.' 1. is probably true, in which case one cannot unlearn it, but might come to cease wanting it. It...
What have you learned? 1. Acting pathetic gets (m)other(s) to run around after me. 2. Doing nothing keeps me safe from failure. 3. Something else, ple...
Architects design possible buildings. And some of them get built. If they are good architects, their possible buildings conform to the laws of structu...
I don't think so. Well I suppose if you declare the existence of dragons having not explored, then it is in a sense. But if you live the ongoing catas...
You ain't. You can confirm that we agree that the red bus is or isn't the same colour as the red hydrant; that we are using 'red' consistently. W's cl...
Folks sometimes talk of the sensation of red, ''what it is is like to see the redness of something", and in talking of such one is, as it were, pointi...
Too much for what? Folks post about their concerns, and no one is obliged to read or participate in topics that don't concern them. There might be an ...
Can we stop talking about Jesus please. Nope. One cannot discuss the philosophy of religion without mentioning religion, any more than one can discuss...
Excellent topic, excellent discussion. If you haven't, have a listen to this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-K2JTTdcmY What I particularly like...
This self referential sentence is unproblematic; most are. Paradox only arises when a self-reference negates itself. For there to be a limit, there mu...
The main point I was wanting to make is that when one points to something and makes a sound, one cannot point to the sound. One does not need to under...
So here we have the authoritative explanation that it is the rain that rains. And should you be so foolish as to enquire whether the rain raineth cats...
A couple of anecdotes that may or may not illuminate. I used to keep a cow. One day I was in the field picking rose-hips, and Ermintrude wandered over...
Until you know everything, which might be a while, this is always going to be a problem. But rather than give you a reading list of every significant ...
If Nixon was a golf-ball, he still wouldn't go straight. It is the nature of counterfactuals that they posit a possible world that is not the case - a...
One doesn't. But every life ends with death, so the unknown appears on both sides of the comparison and can be cancelled out. One is left with a short...
Yes, that is the hope. But if I tell you to fuck off, and then kill myself, have I told you to fuck off? Of course I have. The only thing that has cha...
If you have an incurable degenerative disease, or are in untreatable continuous pain, I present no argument. If you are starving, homeless, and helple...
One of the findings of Rosenhan (1973) which deserves mention is that although the staff did not detect the sanity of the subjects in any case, the pa...
I assume you are talking about things like intrusive thoughts, interpreted as 'voices', perhaps being 'beamed into their heads', or conversely that th...
Games are going to keep on cropping up here, so I think it's worth mentioning some games without rules: sandcastles, cowboys and indians, trains, bric...
If we were Native Americans, We might adopt names with meaning. Instead of speaking of 'Nixon', which after all identifies anyone who happens to have ...
Well the Guardian is fairly reputable, and two sources is better than one, whereas the Canary is new and 'radical', and that article seemed to be sour...
I can propose a couple of possible worlds: (a) a dull world where the number signs have gotten swapped, or (b) a rather confusing one where Nature abh...
Not me, but suppose that I could ... {insert un-stipulated possible world example here} ... if I stipulate that a possible world is un-stipulated, is ...
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