unenlightened

It depends what year you were born. If it happened to be a leap year, then yes, you would be a quarter the age, but otherwise, you would not have been...

The problem is not liberal society and it is not primate behaviour, instinct genes, testosterone, or what women are attracted to. The problem is men b...

'We' don't have to behave that way, and many of us don't, which is why no judge will accept this as even mitigation. Primates are quite variable, and ...

http://www.bps.org.uk/networks-and-communities/member-microsite/division-clinical-psychology/understanding-psychosis-and-schizophrenia I thought I'd l...

Me and God are pretty close, but I know better than to try and tell Him how to run His bailiwick.

If that's your aim, you need to petition God, who will turn you down.

Yes. There is a difficult balance to strike anyway, because given the chance, a student might use the power of threatened accusation - such things hap...

No I'm not. Stop being so uncharitable in your reading. Princesses should not have relationships with their servants, because they have immediate powe...

It cannot be stopped entirely, but it can be helped to stop by having conduits for reporting and recording such incidents. One probably wouldn't want ...

I don't know - what if?

I would like to put this a bit more strongly. I would require that a philosophy department not hire charlatans. To translate this to our community, an...

Well since we're sharing, I was groped while working as a childminder by the neighbour's prematurely sexualised seven-year-old girl. A highly inapprop...

Yes it would.

But the aftermath is part of the relationship, so in this case it is not presumptuous. But one ought to be presumptuous in any case. One ought to pres...

So a philosopher discovers the meaning of life the universe and everything, and posts it on a forum. Is she; (a) banned; (b) understood and agreed wit...

That's your idea of a joke? Posting pictures of me to ridicule my disabilities? How very dare you?

Well there's a shocker. As of this moment: Some work needed therefore.

Applying Occam's razor, "God did it" is an economical explanation for everything.

Not so. People who think it is too strict tend to get banned, and people who think it is too lax tend to get bored. Natural selection ensures that mos...

My only ever essay for the politics dept. title, "What is Democracy?" was written overnight on speed with no references or reading of set books, consi...

1. I am not a moderator. 2. I have no arguments, it is my prejudice that is authoritative. 3. I'll shut up now, thanks.

I was the most active admin for a few years on the old site, and have been fairly free with my opinions on this one. I'm happy for you to remain unsur...

My diagnosis is that you are spouting nonsense. One cannot argue with nonsense or present evidence against it. I am totally sympathetic to your desire...

Amen, brother. Sometimes even we saints find ourselves in a situation where frankness is incompatible with moderation. Bite tongue, deep breath, count...

Always happy to facilitate a little learning.

My moderating practice has been on display for long enough. I'm really more interested in what other people think they are doing. I agree entirely wit...

Interesting question, glad you asked. I'm out to make the world substantially better, by promoting communication and mutual understanding. Accordingly...

By and large, it is unsurprising that the people who post on the site on average like the way it is run. It's a bit like asking meat eaters if they li...

. So come back tomorrow. Feyerabend has some observations and a theory, which makes him non-pseudo, but his theory is not at all that it is worth read...

Seems to me we need an idiots guide to pseudoscience. Here's an idiots guide to the methodology of science. Take a look around; measure shit, kick it,...

A legitimate protest is like a polite swear word.

What's the difference between a populist and a democrat?

How can I convince you that this is entirely the wrong thing to try and do? I won't even try, but instead suggest just a small adjustment that will ma...

Most physicalists used to subscribe to some version of the stuff and structure ontology. There is stuff, and stuff is structured, but structure is not...

I'm with the thought police. Can I see your poetic licence, sir? Do you verily have a rhyme for your necessarily? Recite after me:

Unreadable thread.

Hey, we're all whiteys here. I am a fucking long way from proclaiming the innocence of the British, either historically or currently. The human race i...

Well it does, to the extent that the agreement we reach is such. It may require restitution as well or instead. I'm thinking squaring accounts, reachi...

I find forgiveness rather odd. In order to forgive, one must first condemn. It seems like an internal moral economy; you done me wrong, you owe me - b...

America is founded on mass murder. It's not an inexplicable aberration, but business as usual. This partial list only includes mass killings of Native...

Compost. Or, if you are an embryologist, selective cell death is the process whereby fingers and toes are differentiated. But suffering and death are ...

The eternal cry of the toddler: "Why do you let me fall over, cruel Mummy?"

The Geometry of Philosophy. Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel Like a sno...

Victor Spinetti reminded me that before the first world war, there were no passports or immigration controls. His grandfather walked from Italy to Wal...

It's not a necessary truth, but in your case you are quite right. :P

Clearly you were not brought up to have a stiff upper lip with which to administer The British Empire. That whisper, 'Big boys don't cry' sends a shiv...

Disagreeing with me is known as 'the enlightenment fallacy'. My favourite lightbulb joke: How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, ...

Well I gave a couple of examples. I can give some more. But in general, if there is a right to do X, then that negates the right not to have X done. I...

Nor will you see any evidence of counterfactual hypotheticals. An argument is the best you can hope for. One can fall out of love. Here's a thing abou...

This is your fantasy. My largely uninformed opinion is that most Texans are too fat to run around, and too stupid to advocate what is in their own bes...