How do I know whether or not I am anxious? Is it even one thing? It sometimes looks as if people are talking about different things - Does anxiety hav...
12 is the lowest abundant number. An abundant number, A, is one whose divisors (including 1 but excluding A itself) add up to more than A. Factors of ...
Hmm. It's quite tricky to talk about, and with this way of expression you are misleading yourself a bit. First off, there is nothing you can do in bas...
Surely this is not true. If determinism is true then what we believe is preordained along with what we decide and what we do, but all these things sti...
I believe he did not resign. I believe he dropped out of the running for nomination for reelection. A party matter, not an official presidential matte...
"barkeep" is pretty obscure, and should be used only to be pretentious and show off in the shout box and the like. "Barman" is more usual, or "barkeep...
I am literally over the moon about this phrase; it is the veritable pope's scratching post! I shall be claiming not many of these skill sets myself in...
It is obvious indeed, and it does not involve making a virtue of poverty or dependence as some have suggested. But it makes the individual responsible...
It's not all that hard to understand the principle of the thing. If herbivores have no control on their population, then they will breed until their n...
Just so, and well farmed animals will suffer less stress, be better fed, and protected from disease and parasites than their wild cousins. Even the mo...
That might be (but actually isn't) an interesting game, but it is no longer chess. Allegedly, rugby was invented when some idiot was supposedly playin...
It's the 'many worlds' interpretation of mathematics. Always "and", and never "or", but also "or"... Etc. Banno's thesis is that maths is invented, no...
Nominalism to me is the claim that language is made up by folks for their convenience, and the rules are likewise made up for convenience. It is conve...
If implications were horses, then logicians would ride. If implications were coaches, then logicians would still ride. Let A = "Unenlightened's testim...
What makes this the first distinction— "I" and "experience" ? Is there an experience of I or is there no experience of I. Either way, why the separati...
Now that is funny. The UK population would vote for it of course with the benefit of hindsight, but the EU, perhaps, would not be so keen to welcome h...
Most people are amenable. If you say, "Excuse me." they will get out of your way; if the traffic light shows red, they will stop; if people around the...
Yes, it is not particularly good news, but a sign of the fragmentation of society. It would be nice if one could campaign for Palestine recognition, o...
I think my first reaction to the result is not to emphasise the victory of the labour party, but more the quite astonishing rise of the small parties....
No, that's not what i said. Chickens are social, and their society generally consists of a dominant cock who kills or chases off other males, and a ha...
'No sequence of words or of logical symbols, however cunningly arranged, can oblige the world to be thus and not so.' Thus saith the unenlightened. Th...
The intrinsic nature of a human is to be a social animal. Bob's experience has taught him that there is only one form of sociality which is hierarchy ...
Yes, Mummy only says "be good for Mummy" when she has assigned 'badness'. In fact you have it backwards; one is told to be good, and thereby learns to...
"Be good for Mummy!" Here it starts; the helpless dependent child is told to be what they are not. I resist social control from the identity of the in...
I would distinguish it as being the meaning of the Fall as told in the Old Testament, and therefore strictly speaking, pre-Christian. But I am no scho...
Simply, there is no virtue in being un-fallen - innocence is the natural condition, and virtue arises from the fall along with vice as "knowledge of g...
We have eaten of the apple of self-awareness, and fallen into internal conflict between what we are and what we feel ourselves to be. To say that man ...
Is the end of life, or the beginning of life for that matter, not a necessary part of life? In that case, the end of life cannot have a different valu...
Those of us that understand that if there is intelligent life on Earth, it is certainly not human, have to face a catastrophe in which all certainties...
Look forwards, not backwards. I will be leaving soon enough. So will you. That is going to happen, and the population will reduce to a sustainable lev...
Teach your brats to cook, to grow food, to work wood and metal. And how to get along with the neighbours, which is by having all these useful skills t...
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