The good Samaritan in the parable did not suffer. He did not put himself above the others who did nothing, he helped a stranger and made nothing of it...
The rather tired old ideological dispute rehearsed above for a page and a half is precisely the one you set up in this sentence, between the happiness...
This is such an odd formulation. Let us try the experiment. Let us collectively agree to aim for happiness. I think the first thing we need is a const...
If wishes were horses... the explosion of human population growth happened as a by-product of the industrial revolution. If we were still fishing with...
Sure, Global warming is simply one aspect of the degradation of the environment caused by human overshoot that results by from myopia of self-centred,...
Middle class white males might be being emasculated by synthetic oestrogen pollution. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028202043...
It is utterly insane that humans have voluntarily, by consensus, given up their own freedom of movement in favour of that of machines they have create...
It is the vulnerability of organic life to damage in accidental contact with machinery that results in the domination of the machine unless regulation...
Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ. A cliché in time makes Jack a dull boy. Yeah, we know it's all the CIA making trouble and controllin...
If you study the weather, you quickly come across features consisting of regions of low pressure with winds circulating around them. these form sponta...
"True independence" is doing what Russia wants, and if you are so foolish as not be "truly independent". Russia will come and liberate you, and give y...
I dare say Ukraine would like a neutral Russia too. It seems to me that you nor Russia can understand what 'independent' means. It means you don't hav...
It was you that suggested that Ukraine was supposed to be neutral. If that is not the justification for the invasion, then it can only be that Ukraine...
Yeah, of course; didn't you know? Any compromise at all is worse than death. War is always folly, and always a tragedy. Come to that, human life is ma...
In the long run, we are all dead. In the meantime, if one starts from the fundamental irrationality that the wasting asset of one's life is worth spen...
(I think this is how they talk in that region; you have to make allowances, because they don't have the benefit of a decent history, or a proper cultu...
Just the sound of it will give you cancer, people are saying. I'll be holding a press conference on that soon; i don't want to say anything right now,...
A slightly more balanced analysis: https://mickryan.substack.com/p/the-battle-of-kursk-2024 And some obviously biased "latest news"... https://www.you...
Scrambled eggs in the microwave, or hardboiled eggs in a cup of water. Babies don't really fit in the microwave unless they are very under-ripe, when ...
Yes of course. Wagner are being recalled from Africa to do it! It might take them an hour or two... You wonder why the Ukrainians ever bothered to res...
Well I could make sense of what the professional military analyst I linked to was saying. Perhaps the Ukrainian military is stupid, and so is my analy...
Herewith, a little talk about the possible aims of the Ukrainian Offensive. Seems to make some sense, what say ye? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4m...
So much the worse for idealism! Don't come crying to me about it! The true nature of reality is that it is naturally real, and what one can say about ...
So what do we think it is, that it isn't? I cn tell you some things I don't think it is; it isn't; neurons, perceptions, thoughts, imaginings, qualia,...
I agree. To 'forgive' someone who is not guilty is impossible, although it might well have a great psychological value in such a case to both parties ...
If evolution happens (to humans also) because 'reality bites', then it follows that evolution must necessarily put pressure on humanity to have a real...
If the car won't start, one needs to identify the fault in order to fix it. Whether one forgives the car or not does not seem to affect things much. I...
Just so. If everything is evidence that God did it, then everything is evidence that unenlightened did it. But since unenlightened is not God, there i...
I agree with you here, and one of my favourite philosophy books is an exhaustive and exhausting treatment of the varied definitions of the word "meani...
Or is it a statement about the meaning of words? Like a definition is about the meaning of words. Oh dear - it looks like your topic is not philosophi...
I thought some might find this interesting. A non-mathematical wander through black holes, white holes, simplified solutions to Einsteins equations, m...
In case there are still any waverers out there; here is the spokesperson for Fictional Serial Killer Cannibals for Harris giving you the straight dope...
We have changed the climate without intention, but almost certainly not in all regions beyond our ability to adapt to. However, human population is in...
"... success for the several hundred thousand years before civilization". Can you say what you have in mind in this phrase? The way I tell the story, ...
That is easily answered. We have all the information we need to find the value of the nth digit of pi, and it can be discovered with complete certaint...
Just so. I would suggest that OCD sufferers have such undirected anxiety, and they try to allay it with ritualised behaviour which they become addicte...
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