unenlightened

Good grief! where do you find the time? I'm not sure, (because what the fuck was all that?), but I think I am going in the opposite direction. I want ...

The race that speaks with a forked tongue? :gasp:

What I'm getting at is that one looks at the world and oneself from the perspective of one's feeling. No one ever claims to look through rose tinted s...

Yes. it's dangerous, for a start. And false and inflammatory.

Is it to be expected that there will be much, or anything, common to all emotions? It does seem to me that I discover my emotional condition from outs...

I would have thought that any legal process would involve arrest, detainment, mandated appearances and questioning, imprisonment, or any combination p...

Nothing easier than not doing shit you don't want to do. It's not wanting that's tough.

The word for today is "resilience". In psychology, resilience is the capacity to deal with stress without trauma. I suggest that it constitutes a meas...

I stopped smoking after 50 odd years about 5 years ago and never had a craving. A craving is a desire to smoke, so if you have cravings you are in con...

Or, here is a talk that starts off with brain talk, and answers your question only in the last minute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_AGejpKZyM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXDWpBlPCY8 https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889?login=false

'overlaps nicely,' indeed. :roll: The word for today is "synchronicity". Jung suggests that when you notice it - meaningful coincidence - you should f...

What have intellectuals ever done for us? They have no idea how to save humanity from itself. None! But they sure know how to make themselves seem ind...

For all the old hippies, a requiem for humanity. Headphones for preference. Not ashamed to cry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya6gEGpCieI

The word for today is "overshoot". Overshoot is what happens to populations - eg rabbits - in the absence of predators. They overbreed, the population...

They'll always be a minority however, hard they work, like foxes among rabbits.

I'm just guessing - you tell me.

Love perverted? Do you think a serial killer is a helpful example of humanity? What does he teach you about taking pains? Perhaps the serial killer is...

Do you think we are going to arrive at more clarity with these questions? I think I explained things clearly enough. A goal that leads somewhere, and ...

The word for today is "painstaking". Are you now or have you ever been painstaking? what does it say if someone is willing to take pains over somethin...

If you chaps would have read Bateson, you might have accumulated the conceptual tools to think this through rather more clearly. Alas, there was not m...

I think it would be wise to leave stupidity undefined. It is where I always start and what I seek to leave.

This is all political correctness gone mad, like bin-men being renamed "refuse disposal operatives". What's wrong with calling them "waterfallers" lik...

Are you confusing a goal with a gateway? Goals are ends, gateways are beginnings. They can look similar.

And I was saying with my innocuous "ought to" only that this conversation has no meaning unless we are morally committed to truth. But what is the pro...

You don't have to accept anything. But you ought to accept the truth, otherwise there is no reason or meaning to our discussion.

And the true feature of the world in this case is that A society of murderers cannot exist. They die out.

Scotsman singing about the danger of undiluted water in what sounds to me like a fake Irish accent. But pay attention to the vital message as to the p...

Point of order. Feedback is not a place to have the discussion of a deleted topic. The mods have deleted the topic because it was poorly set out and a...

That would work fine for which side of the road to drive on, and result in some aphorism like "When in Rome, drive according to the rules the Romans f...

There is a game babies play of throwing their toys out of the pram. This is a non-verbal behavioural negotiation. For a while, the attentive parent wi...

Are there personal desire facts? "I like to breathe." sort of thing? To the same extent there can be moral facts. "Societies like truthful communicati...

Probably because they're a bunch of conspiracy theorists a doom merchants. Unless the policy was a secret one that directly contradicted their public ...

Conspiracy theory anyone? https://www.channel4.com/news/undercover-filming-highlights-saudi-plan-to-artificially-raise-oil-demand#

I didn't know Jesus did therapy, where do I sign up? Crucifixion without trauma - it's out of this world!

That is a really nice can of pedantic worms you have there. "The cost of this service..." cost is a noun so no tenses "This service cost me €20... " c...

You think that's odd? @"Hanove"r made me stop talking to him.

It is a rare and beautiful thing when a chap changes his mind even a little as a result of discussion. I am inclined to say it is also a good thing to...

You made me stop talking to you.

You know, I really believe you don't. That is the tragedy. But "Hamas made me do it" is pathetic.

And the answer you give is yes. The answer I give is no. Incidentally, I understand that British policy is never to negotiated with hostage takers, on...

The old flap of a butterfly's wing creating a hurricane. The human world is a chaotic system of unrivalled complexity, and there are unknowable moment...

Now a poem, one gives thanks for, but one does not ask for it to have a goal, not even to comfort the melancholy. But they illustrate my point. One do...

There are no worthwhile goals. If life is the goal, it is already achieved; if extinction is the goal it will be achieved eventually in every case. Se...

With only 4 times the population! Greedy beggars!

They are used as weapons of war. If you don't use them, then my original point stands, that the virtuous put themselves at a disadvantage by renouncin...

You need to show that what prevails is moral. And you need to show how a moral individual, or a moral society behaves differently to an immoral one. I...

Then you can't have an ethical system; you are reduced to 'you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours' backed up with 'an eye for an eye' and 'God fav...

This is an aspect of a very general problem for good people everywhere. Good people limit themselves to good, or at least justified actions. Bad peopl...

I can imagine history being very different if he had had a better primary school art teacher.