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The reason for this is that the mass of a falling object is negligible in relation to the mass of the Earth. the mass of the Earth cannot probably sti...
July 30, 2023 at 08:29
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July 30, 2023 at 08:10
I just gave you the background you asked for.
July 29, 2023 at 18:16
Maybe read the Wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huna_(New_Age)#:~:text=King%20wrote%20that%20the%20seven,is%20the%20moment%20of%20power. Have y'all...
July 29, 2023 at 18:08
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I just watched the congress hearing above. Three independent witnesses all very sober and well qualified, being taken very seriously by government and...
July 29, 2023 at 17:45
Abstract generalisations of this sort can best be defined by considering their negative space - that which they exclude. What is unreal, can be virtua...
July 29, 2023 at 08:15
I agree about that. But again, who involves themselves in such arguments except committed believers and equally committed disbelievers? As if religion...
July 28, 2023 at 08:59
I see. Well perhaps we have a substantive disagreement after all. If one invokes Christian imagery, one is laying oneself open to the accusation of et...
July 27, 2023 at 16:30
Of course, how could you stop me from feeling persecuted if I felt persecuted. I don't feel persecuted at all, as it happens, at least, not by you. Bu...
July 27, 2023 at 14:51
The video didn't do it for me. but this is more clear as a non-starting point to start from. https://smartnightreadingroom.files.wordpress.com/2013/05...
July 27, 2023 at 10:49
Have you realised yet that this thread is a waste of time? I sometimes refer to Aesop's fables. They are morally instructive, even for people who do n...
July 27, 2023 at 08:20
One man's meat is another's poison. In this context one human identity is poisonous to another human identity, so one needs to identify self and poiso...
July 26, 2023 at 14:47
It always looks more like solid ground to me when the causes of war are identifiable as economic rather than ideological. So why would there be a big ...
July 26, 2023 at 12:25
Yeah, that was a little ironic dig, as I am attempting myself to offer a social science/anthropological analysis, from which view it all appears as pe...
July 26, 2023 at 09:44
W.S. Gilbert. Iolanthe. The peculiarity of gender and sexual identity in this culture is that what Nature contrives must first be hidden from public g...
July 26, 2023 at 08:51
Zeus was prone to eating his children too. It's a god thing.
July 25, 2023 at 21:27
I have done so, and have no such belief because I have also studied something of Indian, Chinese, and African cultures. And I have found much of value...
July 25, 2023 at 21:00
On the contrary, one cannot understand oneself and one's potential biases without some study of the history of the culture in which one was raised. Li...
July 25, 2023 at 20:40
Tell me more about what I should let go of, and how you know its value so well. Some say that it was a Christian society that brought about the enligh...
July 25, 2023 at 18:41
That is excellent, because the way it enters is via the devilish wrong understanding, like wot da Bible say. But I think there is also a simpler, and ...
July 25, 2023 at 18:17
A straight line, or a curve? Climb the mast of a ship in mid ocean and look to the horizon. It appears in a clear day as a very straight line that is ...
July 25, 2023 at 12:13
It looks to me, reading this thread, that your disagreement with @"Srap Tasmaner" is curiously founded on a mutual reification of 'science' — an ironi...
July 25, 2023 at 11:37
Indeed, the way I heard it, a narrow gateway, you could only get a camel through unladen, or a rich man dispossessed of his burden of wealth. There is...
July 25, 2023 at 09:31
I think they paid for it already. If DeSanity will contract to be my slave along with a few generations of his descendants I'll teach him whole bunch ...
July 23, 2023 at 18:56
There is only this page, and only I am on it.
July 23, 2023 at 16:23
Nice obituary. A lifetimes' work, to add one informative idea to the human mindscape.
July 23, 2023 at 12:15
I have to report that there is as a matter of fact a state of absorption sometimes called 'flow', which I have experienced, mainly playing music, but ...
July 23, 2023 at 08:28
I have to admit that I have seen no reasonable evidence in this thread of any poster being terminally stupid, uncaring or insane. If I had, I would ce...
July 22, 2023 at 08:13
What argument?The rest of us call it ad hominem fallacy.
July 22, 2023 at 07:45
But you sure like calling them out, o fair-minded one!
July 22, 2023 at 07:43
Or racist xenophobes.
July 22, 2023 at 07:26
Yeah I meant love that takes pains, not that gives pains. Old-fashioned Christian life-laying-down love. "He ain't heavy, he's my brother."
July 21, 2023 at 21:31
Ah, I see. There is some ambiguity in the word 'love'. I'm not referring to the emotion in that sense. Would you be happier if I used 'care', or 'affe...
July 21, 2023 at 21:20
And boars. And bores. Well yes. we're back to power here, are we not? Puissance — what (any)one can do: which is a function of culture (the system) ra...
July 21, 2023 at 16:30
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/21/russia-arrests-pro-war-putin-critic-igor-girkin-reports Igor No-mates, it seems. Can anyone semi-informe...
July 21, 2023 at 15:39
Childishness is performed subservience. Reminds me of a thing I noticed about some US women - voices like the Chipmunks. Cute indeed! My ignorance of ...
July 21, 2023 at 15:20
Why do you call it paternalistic rather than maternalistic? Don't confuse paternal with patriarchal here. The infant is helpless, so the power relatio...
July 21, 2023 at 15:02
Interesting thread. Is consciousness cognition? Or is cognition something one might be conscious of. Or can both be true at once, such that consciousn...
July 21, 2023 at 11:22
That's a bit oppressive of you, isn't it? If your theory is also The philosopher psychologist assumes the position of superiority, which is a power re...
July 21, 2023 at 08:14
Well I have to say it is not always nice to hear what you say
July 19, 2023 at 19:21
You say negotiation, others say appeasement. Peace in our time can mean a God awful bloodbath in someone else's time. Well the thread moves fast, so y...
July 19, 2023 at 19:10
Of course they haven't. Of course there is no magic line. But there is a social inheritance that is expressed for example in nationalism, and ethnic i...
July 19, 2023 at 17:48
Speaking of history, I feel this thread is in need of a mention of the Holodomor, so here it is. https://shron2.chtyvo.org.ua/Zbirnyk_statei/Canadian_...
July 19, 2023 at 15:54
Russia at the beginning of the 20th century was still in the process of emerging from the medieval organisation of society. The liberation of the serf...
July 19, 2023 at 11:37
This is my method psychologically, but don't apply it externally; don't wait for the roof to mend itself, or even for yourself to spontaneously become...
July 18, 2023 at 09:15
Yes, that is where the words stop; there is no how, no method. You know, there are 'methods' for relaxing, but they are actually not methods but distr...
July 18, 2023 at 08:43
It isn't a method, you are quite correct. But if what I say is unhelpful, carry on by all means with your topic, and I will interrupt no more.
July 18, 2023 at 00:10
I was hoping my post was an illustration of that. I don't think I can explain it much better. When one has a problem, it is generally the result of a ...
July 17, 2023 at 23:57
So because one does not live and smoke in the mind, but in the real world, one has to make up one's mind. Otherwise, one remains in two minds about it...
July 17, 2023 at 23:41