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I don't remember that being the question. I thought it was some people moaning about the kids these days. Some people think you're a bit of a dick - g...
May 26, 2018 at 08:15
Perhaps your nemesis and mine have got together to form a bridge team - 'The Nemeses'. We wouldn't stand a chance...
May 25, 2018 at 20:14
Not at all! You have made a new line, and people have not just fallen, but jumped in it. Congratulations! Viva la revolution!
May 25, 2018 at 20:03
Oh dear! Maybe that thread should be closed, if it is such a problem? Or maybe people who are over-sensitive should go somewhere else? Or possibly, mo...
May 25, 2018 at 19:23
Yes please! One only knows one has a conscience when it carries some weight. It is one of the difficulties of being very nearly perfect. Or to put it ...
May 25, 2018 at 19:03
C.G. Jung „The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious In other words, these people are manifesting the symptoms of our insanity; there is no "one" ...
May 25, 2018 at 14:18
Not different at all. Clearly, the incel has failed to deploy the Tic Tacs. Or, just possibly, he has deployed the Tic Tacs, and they failed to do wha...
May 25, 2018 at 11:38
Neigh, nay, ribbit.
May 24, 2018 at 09:52
All I see here is the epistemological frame. How does one identify the 'right frame', when the frame is what establishes what is right? I thought Bann...
May 24, 2018 at 07:59
Pigs are cool. Pigs are jolly, sensible, friendly, intelligent folk with no 'side'. Chicken are fine in their way, but they tend towards paranoia, and...
May 23, 2018 at 06:57
It does seem as though folks fall into a a response of agree or disagree, as though that conceptual frame (my understanding is that frames are concept...
May 23, 2018 at 06:27
I see Posty's got his ear to the ground.
May 22, 2018 at 13:54
Thought I'd just leave this here where @"StreetlightX" won't find it. https://www.academia.edu/36644050/HORROR_VACUI_THE_MEANING_CRISIS_OF_THE_GLOBALI...
May 22, 2018 at 11:01
With only one pillar in your psychology/philosophy, you are a solipsist. That is Posty's sad condition - one can never relax on a shooting stick. If t...
May 22, 2018 at 10:29
Dude, assuming rational self interest is assuming no love at all. They are opposed. One might have children to ensure someone to change one's nappy in...
May 21, 2018 at 20:51
Your daily inoculation of paranoia. https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/wikipedia-is-an-establishment-psyop-c352c0d2faf
May 21, 2018 at 20:25
Perhaps we all have a right to be fed and housed, and when there is a society where everyone is reliably fed and housed, it might start to make sense ...
May 21, 2018 at 16:26
Not a transaction, not a deal, but a gift. Love is what it's all about, it is an overflowing, it is a passion, the passion. Love is taking pains, and ...
May 21, 2018 at 16:10
May 20, 2018 at 09:49
If anyone is interested in exploring race a little more, Patricia Williams' Reith lectures are very good, and probably available elsewhere if the BBC ...
May 19, 2018 at 07:29
Right. So when you said ... ... you should have said "On average, "as a group" will be followed by some prejudiced comment.". I'll forgive you this ti...
May 18, 2018 at 16:54
What about "generally"? does that follow the same rule? If I say "Generally, men are stronger than women", does that allow for Poor Baden and Steven H...
May 18, 2018 at 15:10
If I say, 'men as a group are stronger than women as a group', am I saying that every man is stronger than every woman? I feel as though I am invoking...
May 18, 2018 at 14:35
Shitty actors and royals; they're in your face all the fucking time. That makes them family. https://news.sky.com/video/dont-mention-the-wedding-to-em...
May 18, 2018 at 12:53
No worries, dude. It just struck me as one of those liberal sounding phrases, and I wondered if it actually meant something liberal. Our family saying...
May 18, 2018 at 07:02
But obviously you don't honour my opinion if you think I am wrong. You honour my right to my opinion - but what does that mean? I have my opinion alre...
May 17, 2018 at 20:59
What does that mean? I mean you're certainly entitled to your opinion that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but what does it mean?
May 17, 2018 at 20:32
I'm just going to have to come out and say this. Some families are strange, and some strangers are stranger than other strangers. Equating race and fa...
May 17, 2018 at 16:26
Nice move there from black and white to family and strangers. You make it so fucking acceptable that I can't help thinking there must be life in that ...
May 17, 2018 at 15:18
And you... And I am specifically saying that they are specifically equivalent, except that one is responsible and the other is irresponsible.
May 17, 2018 at 15:02
You don't, obviously, but I do and have. I'm not thanking you though, or thanking the Klan, I'm thanking @"T Clark" for exactly not doing what you hav...
May 17, 2018 at 14:18
Well I know it's not all that common usage, but personally, I like to distinguish between racism, the ideology, and racial prejudice, the human condit...
May 17, 2018 at 13:53
Thank you for your honesty. I wish there were a few more like that. People are prejudiced; shock news.
May 17, 2018 at 13:26
Dude, wanting comes really cheap, but peace has a higher price than either side thinks they can afford. As Tweedledum and Tweedledee said, "there is n...
May 16, 2018 at 13:41
If the correct answer is 25%, then the correct answer is 50%. If the correct answer is 50% or 60% then the correct answer is 25% Therefore, the correc...
May 16, 2018 at 13:24
Is this something different to making sense of a 'sketch' as a duck, or a rabbit?
May 16, 2018 at 11:46
Self definition v other definition. Other definition: If the Nazis decide you are a Jew, it makes no odds what you think you are, it's off to the conc...
May 16, 2018 at 11:30
We, you and I, are on the same side, which is the side of the angels, and the side of humanity. That's what everyone thinks. So when we disagree, and ...
May 16, 2018 at 10:18
But as you say, it is exactly the scope of 'universalist principles' that is at issue. Whether or not 'all men' includes women, blacks, Palestinians, ...
May 16, 2018 at 09:40
Can I unpack this just a little? Let's say that ego is a centre of identification. I am... a philosopher, a husband, a Scotsman, a fine fellow, etc. M...
May 16, 2018 at 09:14
Don't be deceived by appearances. Once I have trained my guard dogs, I don't need to patrol my domain in person, any more than the rich and powerful n...
May 16, 2018 at 08:41
So let's suppose that there is a conflict between big-enders and little-enders about how to eat a boiled egg. And let's assume that both sides are equ...
May 16, 2018 at 07:32
The ANC?
May 15, 2018 at 13:42
You may be pretty, but you cannot be sure. As it happens I am (a) highlander.
May 14, 2018 at 19:04
No. We're talking about social facts.
May 13, 2018 at 18:52
Neither. I see it rather like being a teenager: a fucked up phase one has to get through on the way from sensible childhood to sensible adulthood. But...
May 13, 2018 at 15:20
Yes. There are forces that give importance to these bits of metal and paper, such that the individual cannot find food or shelter without them. I like...
May 13, 2018 at 06:54
Take money, for example. What a lot of time we spend exchanging little bits of metal and paper. Or marriage, or nation,
May 12, 2018 at 21:20
Sometimes folks do not do what they ought to do, and thus what ought to be is not. Given that what ought to be cannot reliably be found in the world, ...
May 12, 2018 at 20:36
I always find it odd that folks who like, " you can't get an 'ought' from an 'is'," can't accept "you can't get a 'will be' from a 'has been'," - and ...
May 12, 2018 at 19:30