When I am most free, I am least concerned about freedom and have no feeling of freedom. I make no choices at the crossroads, but dance to the rhythm o...
Hey guys, the Donald would not appreciate you talking about each other on a thread that is all about Him! "That's very very bad folks! I will get you ...
Imagine yourself having a serious conversation about Spanish politics, in Spanish, with a native speaker of a different political persuasion. And brea...
Well Spain is a very different place to the US, or the UK where I am. That might account for our different intuitions. Living with Franco after the ci...
A fallacy is what results when the fallible philosophise. Fortunately, we have enough gods among us to keep us from failing and falling into fallacy w...
You don't have to convince me that the right can win elections and be more popular than the left. You have to convince me that they favour widening th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season#Elliptical_Earth_orbit Alas, Google teaches that there is always a right answer to every question, when in fact v...
It literally isn't, because citizens tend to be more leftist than conservatives statistically. But literally provide any evidence of what you say, bec...
It is almost inevitably the case that making it easier to vote tends to favour the left, and making it harder favours the right, because people with m...
You're making the very simple, complicated. these are not equations, but evaluations of f for all the possible values of a & b. the right hand side in...
I'm struggling to see what you are trying to do there. you want to be simplifying, not complicating. You cannot begin at the deepest level because re-...
Poor old Trump, the media star, never gets a fair break from the media, does he? Poor old Trump, the compulsive litigator and packer of the supreme co...
As soon as that is clear, worrying about election rigging and democracy is redundant. The people who pull the strings of the public will pull them any...
The lunatics have decided to remove the foundations and fly the asylum to the land of freedom. I don't think they'll get very far, but I wish i wouldn...
That is rather interesting. Particularly the equivalence drawn between Bernie and Donald. I'm reminded of the French revolution as much as of the rise...
Well aren't we all putting on our wigs and getting excited! I maintain that the defendants version of the truth is liable to be that they are not guil...
For humans, it seems to be very important, at least to most folk most of the time, and to some extent for other intelligent and particularly for socia...
It is your suggestion so the form of meaning is the form of meaning to you. Therefore, (The form of meaning is X means Y) to @"hypercin". Whereas. (Th...
When you have a nice thick heavy ice sheet grinding over the land for a few thousand years, it doesn't do much to improve the topsoil. Greenland will ...
If you are very good, and say your prayers, then Jesus will protect you while you sleep from all the goings on. You would not believe what goes on whi...
This is not as likely as you might imagine. The obvious places are the very cold regions like the North of Russia and Canada. But the problem is that ...
I've always related this stuff to justification. To 'know' is to have justification, which is to have evidence. so the problem with knowing that this ...
Here is a timeline of environmental history, good news and bad news. There's a bit of an American slant, and curiously, no mention of Marcuse that i h...
Are you looking at the 9th canon where he constructs an ever deepening series of nested a's and b's? Page 55 in my version? If so, you just take the w...
Meaning is a three way relation. for example, reality means 'harsh' to @"niki wonoto", or the salmon run means "breakfast" to a hungry bear. The form,...
Today is Wednesday. The above statement is true as I write, but may well be false as you read. Logic would prefer to be timeless and eternal, and has ...
. It started really with the beginning of the British Empire. Slave produced cotton, and sugar both subsidised and incentivised mass production, trans...
The essence of a thing is the rigidity with with which we designate it. the essence of :— Frodo is the ring bearer. King Arthur is the legendary hero ...
Yeah but, no but... I have a problem with putting it like this, because it seems to be making a distinction between what the world is composed of, and...
Me too. My first thought was essential oils. If it doesn't have the all important aroma, it ain't lavender. Then I thought of this: And that takes me ...
Well folk do seem to adopt 'isms and defend them against competing 'isms with more enthusiasm than I can find good warrant for, and I don't want to be...
Absolutely! Hurrah for moderation and un-zealotry! Well I would certainly hesitate to condemn Einstein in these terms, with as much hindsight as I hav...
I am unsurprised, but nevertheless still baffled, at how far beyond our collective event horizon people are prepared to lay bets and debate the odds. ...
It doesn't require evidence. At the moment humanity as a whole gives less than a half shit about environmental sustainability. But when 90% have drown...
Answer your own stupid questions in reference to your own ignorant pontifications. The energy of the sun falls upon the earth and is sufficient to the...
Gregory Bateson, Roots of Ecological Crisis. 1970 I'm planning fairly soon on re-reading Steps to an Ecology of Mind and starting a thread if anyone i...
China has not quite finished its industrial revolution. The West is just beginning its green revolution. Just to point out - there is no shortage of e...
I'm not sure what the question is, and I'm even less sure what a Christian is. But here is an answer anyway. Violence is an enactment of malice. For e...
I am back from 'the flat of no internet', where the heat has been drying the paint before I had time to spread it evenly on the wall. And happily @"Mo...
Er, not at all. One can have an entirely deterministic and very simple program to find the value of pi that can run forever producing new digits that ...
Whenever one's investigations of the world lead one to the conclusion that one is not in contact with the world, it is wise to doubt the results of on...
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