unenlightened

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...

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...

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...

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...

The world would be a very quiet place. But at least we know that your house is in order.

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...

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;...

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...

@"Posty McPostface" Happy birthday, almost.

I had to laugh. The old 'why didn't you stop me mummy?' defence.

Well if you equate ignorance with over-generalisation...?

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 ...

Paul is running from persecution. People these days run from commitment, from vulnerability, from suffering, and justify it with moral relativism. 'Qu...

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...

Not complaining are we? :joke:

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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 ...

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...

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...

We in Europe have moved on from concentration camps, and have now instituted more effective cheaper and eminently deniable dilution camps. Get with th...

They can add a beauty pageant if they feel like it - the rules are all made up.

My understanding is that logical space is something like digital space, an arena of representation as language, picture, thought, or whatever, and 'fa...

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...

You presume the nuclear family. What 'ought' to happen is a much more collaborative child-rearing, shared between siblings as aunts and uncles, grandp...

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.

It seems oddly relevant in more than one nation, unfortunately.

Happy Independence day an stuff.

Banishment is our friend.

Turns out Ald Don is afraid of balloons. Now how do we mass produce them?

You don't have to be mad to study psychology, it does it for you.

No, that's plumbing and market gardening.

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...

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...

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...

More fake news from those wretched Republicans.

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 - ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n13/john-lanchester/after-the-fall

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...