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July 19, 2018 at 07:40
Well, who's asking? If it is not the image asking, then you have already stopped. So it must be the image asking how not to act, and then it is obviou...
July 19, 2018 at 06:11
There is evidence that lying on your CV can get you a better job, as long as you don't get found out. But my point is that there is a self-image, posi...
July 18, 2018 at 14:50
Allow me to present for your consideration, the notion of affirmations. One is encouraged in some psychological quarters to seek to change the way one...
July 18, 2018 at 10:47
Bearing in mind that you're asking me, unenlightened (surely a foolish move?), I think it is a matter of identification. So, for example, there are fa...
July 16, 2018 at 20:09
The world would be a very quiet place. But at least we know that your house is in order.
July 16, 2018 at 13:06
Well yes and no. :wink: There's always the question, 'who is saying it?' So I am saying that the mind is more or less always divided, (except Jesus an...
July 15, 2018 at 19:27
In a word, 'paranoia'. Literally, a mind beside itself. In order to 'succeed', a lie requires a liar who knows the truth, and a patsy who is deceived;...
July 15, 2018 at 15:26
For parents, sister, sister's son, other sister's son, first wife, and every kindly person, now departed... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2svmUcsKe...
July 14, 2018 at 21:07
@"Posty McPostface" Happy birthday, almost.
July 14, 2018 at 18:51
I had to laugh. The old 'why didn't you stop me mummy?' defence.
July 14, 2018 at 16:03
Well if you equate ignorance with over-generalisation...?
July 13, 2018 at 12:43
Well he didn't, as I heard it. He said he was going himself. Demonstration, not argument. "Take a load off Fanny Take a load for free Take a load off ...
July 13, 2018 at 11:16
Paul is running from persecution. People these days run from commitment, from vulnerability, from suffering, and justify it with moral relativism. 'Qu...
July 13, 2018 at 09:09
Nothing to sell, so not trying to persuade. I'm trying more to understand another world-view than to infect people with mine. But it sometimes happens...
July 12, 2018 at 15:19
Not complaining are we? :joke:
July 12, 2018 at 09:54
Wiki One might think that the going, or the crucifixion, would have little impact - especially the second time around. but the point of the fable is t...
July 12, 2018 at 09:49
Meanwhile, the bastards who are preventing these rescuers from doing their job want dragging into that cave and leaving there til they change their at...
July 10, 2018 at 16:17
Here's a shout to all those cave divers rescuing kids. And whoever coordinated everything. And amidst the celebrations, one family mourns the diver wh...
July 10, 2018 at 14:19
That's how you break records without an organ; you can't inflate your organ, you inflate what you can. Just like you can't do anything with a pussy bu...
July 09, 2018 at 14:08
This, I think, is what the Tractatus is doing. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Print_Gallery_by_M._C._Escher.jpg Some interesting mathe...
July 09, 2018 at 10:19
A great question, and I like how you link the personal and the social, the child and the politician. And I will follow your outline and answer first, ...
July 09, 2018 at 07:26
Suppose we were talking about some other relationship, and I said... "But rejecting a hands-off approach to marriage does not mean embracing a "tiger ...
July 08, 2018 at 14:22
Fear of castration - "No organ." Penis envy - "Elton has an organ" Infantile rage - "we’ve broken a lot of records."[ Orality - "This is the only musi...
July 08, 2018 at 07:15
My experience is similar to yours, and the principle i have always followed is that one should treat children as if they are the people one would like...
July 08, 2018 at 06:59
We in Europe have moved on from concentration camps, and have now instituted more effective cheaper and eminently deniable dilution camps. Get with th...
July 07, 2018 at 15:59
They can add a beauty pageant if they feel like it - the rules are all made up.
July 07, 2018 at 15:38
My understanding is that logical space is something like digital space, an arena of representation as language, picture, thought, or whatever, and 'fa...
July 07, 2018 at 15:15
It feels entirely normal to me to feel like me. But other people think I'm weird. Living with Mrs Un has obliged me to become aware of being white, an...
July 07, 2018 at 11:17
You presume the nuclear family. What 'ought' to happen is a much more collaborative child-rearing, shared between siblings as aunts and uncles, grandp...
July 06, 2018 at 20:48
Of course he did. One does not take the trouble if one does not have faith. But congratulations it isn't, on my part at least.
July 06, 2018 at 20:36
It seems oddly relevant in more than one nation, unfortunately.
July 06, 2018 at 19:54
Happy Independence day an stuff.
July 06, 2018 at 19:21
In: Bannings  — view comment
Banishment is our friend.
July 06, 2018 at 16:10
Turns out Ald Don is afraid of balloons. Now how do we mass produce them?
July 06, 2018 at 16:03
In: Maxims  — view comment
You don't have to be mad to study psychology, it does it for you.
July 06, 2018 at 11:26
No, that's plumbing and market gardening.
July 05, 2018 at 14:03
If I put it politely for you, it is play that is the beginning of knowledge. Play is imitation, recitation, messing about. This is not nonsense at all...
July 05, 2018 at 10:53
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=it%27s+alright+ma+lyrics&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 We been sold this pup too many times. If I want an end...
July 04, 2018 at 17:36
I think it's fair. The doubt is constructed via a conception of an evil demon; the indubitability of the self is concluded from the fact of the constr...
July 04, 2018 at 16:37
More fake news from those wretched Republicans.
July 04, 2018 at 16:28
You're stuck in a loop, because you think you know what a loop is and how to be stuck in it. Don't start with knowledge at all, start with a method - ...
July 04, 2018 at 15:26
I think you underestimate Sellars. If "real" is honorific, then "unreal" is no less so, and 'doubt' is itself a mere fancy. To construct thought as th...
July 04, 2018 at 15:18
Of course. If I think, "all this is a dream" as anyone can, it is to hypothesise a wakefulness that is absent. But if all this is a dream, then a hypo...
July 04, 2018 at 13:38
In: Bannings  — view comment
Yes, one the things I miss from Paul's software is the transparency of moderation. Automatic notifications of edits and deletions, both by pm and publ...
July 04, 2018 at 12:43
If I knew, or even hypothesised, what Roderickite was - say that it was heavy and shiny - I would have a method, 'panning', for separating it from the...
July 04, 2018 at 12:23
In: Bannings  — view comment
You have to be tremendously smart, and really the best negotiator, and just have this really slick ability to see instinctively how to make things hap...
July 04, 2018 at 10:41
Have you seen those amusing cups that (appear to) change colour when hot water is poured in? Imagine a world where hot water has not been invented. In...
July 04, 2018 at 10:25
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n13/john-lanchester/after-the-fall
July 02, 2018 at 21:53
I'm saying more than the one, and less than the other. Perhaps I can put it more agreeably to you. As an individual, I see the personal value, as peac...
July 02, 2018 at 08:02