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Maybe it is a good thing! Maybe it's a good thing if the Russian economy is collapsing. Well the point of your little lecture looks a little weak. I h...
May 10, 2024 at 06:26
Is that international law, or a law of Nature, or a local convention? I know how the unemployment figures are manipulated and function in the West, an...
May 09, 2024 at 18:57
It doesn't flip things vertically or horizontally but in the third dimension - front to back. The confusion arises because humans have bilateral symme...
May 09, 2024 at 14:11
Well I'm not sure, but I understood that to be a translation snarl. If one put it in the negative - as 96.5% employment, it would be catastrophic, bec...
May 07, 2024 at 15:47
Everything is bigger in the US. Even their mediocrity is mediocrer.
May 06, 2024 at 20:04
A purpose is somewhat like a row. Sometimes, it is possible to get your ducks in a row. But when your ducks are in a row, you do not have your ducks a...
May 05, 2024 at 20:54
This modern stuff all sounds the same to me. Here's something a bit different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ubgv0-Nk7o&list=RD_ubgv0-Nk7o&start_ra...
May 05, 2024 at 20:11
I have met several pigs and they are delightful fun loving creatures. It is only humans that drive them into depravity; left to themselves, they like ...
May 05, 2024 at 16:53
Hey, long time no wallow dude. Everyone has been very sad and playing with their food since you were away. I hope they will have the decency not to be...
May 05, 2024 at 10:48
What if we stopped trying to "bring up" children to our high level, and instead tried to bring ourselves up to their high level? What if we treated ch...
May 03, 2024 at 13:13
This is rather long. But I think it is worth plodding through, and thinking about. For instance, the simple notion that the largest waste product of m...
May 02, 2024 at 19:23
So eat them and tell us the right answer. I reckon it's a sparkling lava flow enveloping the jungle slopes of Mt. Somewhere. Guaranteed to keep your f...
May 01, 2024 at 13:59
No, I said it, but i was only joking. Sorry if I offended. But in general, I think it is an always a mistake to psychologise philosophies and philosop...
April 30, 2024 at 18:05
There are two types of people; those who think people are always one type or another, and the rest of us. :wink: In contradiction to the thesis of the...
April 30, 2024 at 17:42
You know it isn't, but for the farmer's good. But we no longer do it to human boys for the pleasure of the singing voices of castrati. That's progress...
April 30, 2024 at 17:21
No, the more you define things the less understandable you become. Take a coffee cup. there is a hole that I can fill with coffee, and then there is a...
April 28, 2024 at 19:01
A word has meaning to the extent that it makes a distinction between that which it indicates, and that which it does not indicate. To exist is to stan...
April 28, 2024 at 18:29
I have not fact-checked this, but offer it as is:– sneer, dismiss, disprove, approve, or something else; personally, I cried, but I am a milk and wate...
April 28, 2024 at 13:55
As long as the depth is measured in fathoms, (unless it is unfathomable, of course), I have no problem with the depth of moral depravity, unless it it...
April 24, 2024 at 14:12
I appeal in the name of pedantry that the title "The Breadth of the Moral Sphere" be changed to "The Diameter of the Moral Sphere".
April 23, 2024 at 19:22
A fundamental law of Trumpism is projection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCqtMDDYVy4
April 23, 2024 at 19:15
Oh yes it is. We are on the side of truth, and they are the enemy.
April 21, 2024 at 12:00
Fortunately, its always the other side one has to fact check, one's own group being open and honest about everything.
April 20, 2024 at 20:00
Indeed, that's why only the virtuous do it. Even Trump/Putin/the boogieman will tell the truth when it's convenient.
April 20, 2024 at 18:22
Yes, but suppose they catch one of the smart guys one day... One ought to assume that sometimes torture is efficacious, otherwise no one would ever be...
April 20, 2024 at 16:12
Criminal trial: day 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmwU9iruTck
April 15, 2024 at 18:05
It seems to be localised. If consciousness is transparent, to the extent that one cannot see the rose tint, or whatever the opposite is (blue?), then ...
April 15, 2024 at 15:24
Slate is very available, but I'm wondering if the difference between a wall and a fence is a matter of thickness only or permeability, or something el...
April 14, 2024 at 20:24
What's the difference between a loaf of bread and a slice of bread?
April 14, 2024 at 20:03
Stone fences are popular hereabouts. https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/snowdonia-slate-fence.html?sortBy=relevant
April 14, 2024 at 19:59
Good grief! It's a preamble to casting the first stone, obviously.
April 14, 2024 at 08:36
https://global-tipping-points.org Here is a large report that explains some of the tipping points and what we might expect and what we ought to be doi...
April 13, 2024 at 16:44
Another rat departs the hopefully sinking ship, armed with enough insider testimony to plea bargain his own case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNjR...
April 13, 2024 at 12:28
I particularly like the idea of the facts not noticing me. Please share that strange liquid with me!
April 13, 2024 at 10:28
Unfortunately, it turns out not to be possible to put oneself on one's ignore list. So one has no other recourse but to be an intelligent and interest...
April 13, 2024 at 10:03
What one knows is what has been. What another knows one might learn if one pays attention quietly to what they are saying without rehearsing what one ...
April 12, 2024 at 21:33
You cannot beat letting animals speak for themselves in their home environment for giving a rounded realistic picture of their way of life.
April 12, 2024 at 17:35
Some interesting (to me) discussion of the inexplicable (to me) convergence of the right and the evangelicals here in the first 25mins of this. https:...
April 12, 2024 at 17:32
The original and best ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VTn6VlUXNA
April 12, 2024 at 14:08
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Camus Not a moral nihilist at all, but a deeply moral thinker. Perhaps it is not so much John Deigh who mi...
April 11, 2024 at 20:55
I almost never make arguments; I prefer analysis, explanation, analogy, illustration, even pontification.
April 10, 2024 at 22:00
Yeah, but that's not an argument.
April 10, 2024 at 21:50
In a word — no. The word "red" and the meaning "stop" are reliably connected with the top light of the traffic signal. This is what we need to agree o...
April 10, 2024 at 08:56
To who? I talk about identity as if i have none and for sure that leans too far. But perhaps "we" can find the balance together? Something and nothing...
April 10, 2024 at 08:08
I wouldn't take it that way, but I would take it as undermining any attempt to claim that the male of the species is more rational than the female, an...
April 09, 2024 at 12:24
Indeed, one is always in a mid-life crisis whenever one philosophises - in the middle of a muddle. Life is only completed by death. and identity is me...
April 09, 2024 at 08:10
It is a puzzle because for a few centuries one experience has been taught as if it were the only experience that had meaning. to hear that there is an...
April 09, 2024 at 07:49
Dilato ergo summus. No objection from me. We all have mothers after all.
April 08, 2024 at 20:04
A whole philosophical tradition discovered it was unreasonable in declaring that "all swans are white". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theor...
April 06, 2024 at 20:30
Explicitly, from the beginning, the op declares that the division he is expressing is "Non-externalised", which I take it that @"alan1000" is identify...
April 06, 2024 at 15:03