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We have already built various superhuman devices - superhuman diggers, lifters, throwers, calculators and so on; so my first question is what you inte...

Then why would he so triumphantly post about air conditioning sales going down? I like a charitable reading if one can be found, old man, but yours is...

You really are an idiotic argumentative twerp. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1798490/world-s-hottest-city-where-streets-are-air-conditioned-spt...

I already told you. Air conditioning.

This is not a good song. But it is all this thread deserves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeE05NisgHo

The normal human body temperature range is typically stated as 36.5–37.5 °C (97.7–99.5 °F). Because movement, digestion circulation and all life proce...

That is about the most profound little exchange I have seen on this site. Thank you both for your insight and honesty. I, too have to think for myself...

If it does, it somewhat betrays Tolstoy's meaning, which is that there is no drama in a happy family; this relays the same observation that is made ab...

Let's pretend ... Freedom is the prerequisite for morality and immorality. All a bit Hegelian, but potentially explanatory.

Answer philosophers' questions.

Well UK has a few dark passages too you know, like the slave trade and the empire and inventing concentration camps and deliberate mass starvations of...

If I was God, I wouldn't do what I would do if I was God.

@"javi" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Df191WJ3o

You use the words how you want, but we are discussing Sartre's usage as translated. The way he talks - "Existence precedes essence" - So my existence ...

I think you have that the wrong way round. the existence of the steel is what precedes the essence (being) of the knife as a sharp edged form thereof.

Being and Nothingness comes out of the occupation of France by the Nazis. There is nothing soft or warm in the kind of freedom that survives under a t...

Alas, not even that excuse!

My humble apologies to the heroic pea! My finest linguistic achievement was to be mistaken for a Belgian in Southern France one time. Like being mista...

The French do a mean chanson. Here, if you don't know it is one of the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k63grkip5I

I'm not sure that he ever wrote about it. But my surmise is that the freedom that he was concerned with is peculiarly human in that it involves the co...

Stop imagining that there are these two kinds of people; the patient thinkers like you, and the others, infected by religion. That is itself the root ...

God is well known in matters of power to favour the big battalions, and particularly those with big guns. So whenever you see a pro-life stance allied...

That can only work if folks are honest with themselves about their motivation. Are pro-lifers actually full of love for infants and children, and in p...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VQHxL3GBlE Ear-twisting chord sequences. Yum.

Possibly. But I would turn it around, and ask what could possibly make a woman become unnaturally anti the new life within her? Whatever that is would...

If you want to baffle the world with statistics, you need to do better homework. About 49% of the world's population is male, and of the rest, there a...

I point out that real estate is treated very differently to creative rights. One can certainly assign copyrights and patents on a voluntary basis to a...

I'm sorry to hear that. I will venture some small insights that haven't been mentioned. It is a grave sin to test love. Because the test can only be t...

Not on this message board, obviously. But there is a rumour that the mystical can be made manifest. That is what Zen is about, is it not? And the Dao,...

The man has a shadow, which is normal for a man in sunshine. But where is the shadow of the beast? I conclude that Indiana was infested with were-biso...

God preserve us from interesting philosophers!

Hi there, welcome home! You ask good questions already, and you have some good answers. There is a good old Catholic and defence lawyer method advocat...

Sounds fishy.

Tomato chutney today. Ingredients: onion, tomato, apple, spirit vinegar, sugar, stem ginger, cardamon, cumin, coriander, chilli, garlic. Method: cook ...

If I wasn't so spastic, my guitar might gently weep a bit like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbmy6Uzd-rI

When you explain the joke, it isn't funny. You had to be there. What can’t language express? Diddle-de-dum! The state of mind that expects or offers a...

Can you translate Marcuse into English for me?

It must be me, then. Yikes! Bob Dylan, Idiot Wind.

You're one of 'them' aren't you!

The deep state is the atheist's substitute for God. What would be unbearable would be to accept that no one is in control at all. There are just a bun...

It is defined by law. Human laws are various and varied through time and space, I am not the person to explicate the precise laws applicable to your p...

He wrote 2 books; Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Lila. Read them in that order, or just the first. The first is about the metaphysics ...

If you haven't, read Pirsig.

Also rather interesting and Modal. The harmonies remind me of the Uilleann pipes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WkrTyrR-WQ

I was reminded of these the other day. Neither jazz nor classical, but the dreaded folk. So sue me, poseurs. Watch on youtube. https://www.youtube.com...

I'm not sure if I understand this, but if I do, then it goes something like this:— the cliff doesn't mind if you have a theory of gravity or a theory ...

The stretch from psychology to all science misses a rather important difference that is peculiar to the 'human' sciences. When one studies electrons, ...

That's not irony - that's policy!

So which book was banned and burned by both Nazi Germany and the US? "They" do not want "you" to read this! The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Yes, but always psychological reform, never social reform, because ... actually, the medical model still informs the social structure that is psychiat...