unenlightened

Logic is like music theory. First we make music, and then we theorise about harmony and dissonance and so on. So first we talk, and then we theorise a...

Well if I were to speculate, based on my own prejudices, I would say that this result is due to the notion that women are 'the weaker sex'. Now it is ...

Fire. Makes the indigestible digestible, the uninhabitable, habitable, and keeps the predator from predating.

It's odd how criminals always have a hard core, whereas we have a soft core - presumably. And yet you run a hard hitting below the belt campaign - I t...

As long as you're not arguing with this, we're good. ;)

I couldn't agree more. As a long term member in good standing with both an education in the tradition and some original contributions, not to mention ...

True, but all the hating doesn't seem to do much either. On such a grand historical scale, it is impossible to analyse what effective action would con...

There seems to be a conflation of tolerance with forgiveness here. An incident from Educating Greater Manchester: A white van is delivering to the sch...

Can I have one too? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtFXmS9FmA

You have no purpose, you are purely decorative.

You might get various and contradictory answers from people here or elsewhere, and still not be able to accept any of them. It seems likely, because a...

'Fraid so.

It does exactly what it says on the skin.

And that isn't being first to the finish line, we hope.

I do not know, and I hope none of us finds out. But suppose you had suffered such pain a year ago, and survived against your will, would you regret yo...

Not posted in a recent thread: "Post scarcity leads to empty threads, and therefore a threadbare society."

Ooh, I know, I know! You'd discover your own imperfections. Fortunately, there are not many perfect women.

This is interesting; we haven't talked much about habit. Making tea has become a habit for me, to the extent that it bypasses both the motive of thirs...

If we were all wise, or even most of us, there would be no problem. The solution to climate change is well known, and not difficult to implement. But ...

Damned white of you to say so, sir. Wish were true.

But when you try to be more merciful than you actually are, you strain, and then it is not mercy, but righteousness, which someone is going to have to...

You put it very clearly. Logos against Eros; it's all very Freudian. You speak for logos, and I speak for Eros. This gives you the advantage, as I hav...

That's right. And if we are just arguing about the meaning of words, there is no real problem or disagreement. Yes, that is what a theorist does, and ...

While I am always happy to have a cup of tea, I generally suppose that it is myself that is happy, and that the tea has little feeling for me. I perce...

The way my ears can hear so much better than my fingers can play.

Well the second bit is good. Some science, some maths some psychology, some geography some politics, some religion, some sport; by all means put some ...

Anyone read the Wasp Factory? Gender politics meets Lord of the Flies. With hilarious results, not.

It doesn't. Plato wanted out of the cave; Freud decided that civilisation is identical with madness; Jesus declared that it is necessary to die and be...

Yes, that is the difference. But I think it is a real and crucial difference. I say that we do things, without motive, without idea and without a goal...

Don't fuck with wisdom. Don't worship wisdom. Treat her as a faithful friend. We use the same word, where the Greeks used different words, but we unde...

If you spend some time with very small persons, you'll notice that everything goes in their mouth; chocolate, lego bricks, electric cable, carpet fluf...

I don't think so. Imagine that terrible time before there was trade with China. The unenlightened of those days would never imagine liking tea in thos...

Ooh, yummy dopamine peaks, just what I always wanted. :D If I desire tea because it is pleasant to desire tea, then what's the tea for, and why would ...

I think if you examine this dogma, it doesn't stand up. In the first instance, it is an experience that is painful or pleasurable in some degree, or p...

There's something just a tad odd in complaining that Johnny Foreigner is better educated than you and in the next breath blaming him for dragging you ...

Odd, isn't it, how one can have the simplest idea in one's head, yet find that other people have difficulty with it? Earlier, I used the example of an...

Yes, I don't suppose it has to be a visual image; a composer might have a very nebulous sense of his goal as a piece of music on this sort of scale, t...

Since the date is 2013, I imagine the plan has been realised. But a plan is an imagined building, and a building is a realised plan. I don't think thi...

Yes. An intent is an imagined act, the act itself is behaviour. A plan is also an imagined act; as an architect plans an imaginary building, and the b...

Sometimes I doodle. For no reason. A goal is an image projected into an imagined future, and identified with. Goals are imaginary until they are reali...

Just as a footnote, here's a little story about how totally trivial, totally ignorable stuff that, for God's sake get a life, really counts for fuck-a...

All things are possible, and most of them happen. Men suffer rape and domestic violence too. And it is certainly not an improvement on women suffering...

That there is a lot of process, of function, both body and brain, or mental, of which one is not and/or cannot be aware, is pretty uncontroversial. Bu...

I hate it when people hammer things into my head. It is so spongy, all you have to do is put something near it and it gets absorbed anyway.

I like vague. The vagueness of a screwdriver is such that everyone uses one to open tins of paint, and some of us us it to stir the paint too. Yet it ...

You know that thing about rats deserting a sinking ship?

I enjoyed the schadenfreude of the crying white separatist militant, but this story is a rather sad one of a black turkey militant for a white Christm...

I'm not at all discouraged. But thank you for the endorsement of the regime, with which I totally agree. There is a tradition inherited from a previou...

Clearly not any president. Only white male ones perhaps?

I did say 'more or less', but I suspect some people mistake my caring deeply about how things are for being hurt. One can be unhappy about things with...