One gets off the hook by not trying to get off the hook. This is old-fashioned:-- "We are all sinners..." Progress therefore is not made, because prog...
Saw you, and thought of this: "Othering" it is called; a psychological trick to justify irresponsibility and maintain complacency in the face of injus...
They do, because they speak the same language we do. I'm not saying causation is denied, but what is the focus? You said it yourself - things that "de...
No, not really. What is the cause, and what is the effect? I suppose you could say that the cause is a photon and and an atom. and the effect is no ph...
I don't know what atemporal cause and effect would be. I'm suggesting that temporal cause and effect are the 19th century paradigm of billiard ball ph...
Cause and effect are kind of old physics terms. We used to talk about acceleration due to gravity, as though the word was an explanation of the observ...
Your dehumanising language is deplorable! You wouldn't dare refer to @"Hanover" as "it". But anyway, if you read the biography, it's clearly a maratho...
Cool! the only other bread guy I've met is The Gingerbread man. Gingerbread is recommended for long distance runners because as the man himself says, ...
Just so. A physicalist has no use for the term 'natural' because everything is natural. We all know that 'Natural Yoghurt' is just yoghurt, and there ...
It's the definition of "natural" that is problematic. One the face of it, the laws of nature are merely descriptive of what happens. If something happ...
But making the correct connection with the target audience here would be more difficult. "It's the economy, stupid" but I'm not sure exactly what the ...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The victim of oppression is not helpless, but in need of help. But indeed help cannot come from the oppressor, rather the o...
I am saying that there are those standards, and we know what they are from looking at the best. but every now and not too often, a playwright will bre...
To a considerable extent we do agree; and to a considerable extent we disagree. But any consideration of what properties are shared by beautiful thing...
When I am an alcoholic, if you will not sell me your finest ethanol, I will have to go to the hardware store and buy meths. No tax on meths! Of course...
Both. If you had no feelings, then it would be hard to brainwash you into having them. But given that you have fears and anxieties, needs and desires,...
Thanks for sharing. As it happens, though, you are not just an insignificant speck, you are every insignificant speck, and every sentient being for al...
It's all a question of identity; what is reincarnated. what Karmic baggage is carried from one life to another. So try the flavour of this, and add a ...
I think I can help out on this one. There is a vast difference between the prejudice of the empowered and that of the disempowered. The very simplest ...
I'm likening the arguments about legitimacy. I am saying borders are never legitimate or illegitimate, they are merely established or disestablished a...
I think it would be called "resisting arrest" by the enemy. and I think they would call my UDI illegitimate. This is the difficulty that you do not se...
Such arguments have as much force as one wants them to have. A group's right to self determination has, necessarily, to be allowed before it can be ev...
Indeed. The notion that any country is some kind of peaceful, democratic paradise is without much merit. Nevertheless, one has to make a judgement abo...
He was a prick. And it is the nature of a prick to misunderstand himself when right as supporting himself when wrong. He was right about category erro...
War is always unhinged. But talking of price, one sees a high price being paid for peace, or at least a ceasefire, being paid by the citizens of N. Ko...
Mind is not a thing but a relation, a pattern, an interaction, an event, a movement. Not a brain state, but a(n embodied, active) brain's relation to ...
Sorry, I cannot resist just pointing, in case anyone missed it, to the relationship between mythology -"we're not much concerned with all that these d...
That's right. Or at least to an extent it is. but then the Triple Goddess has aspects of virgin, mother, and crone with the associated colours , white...
There are many people who have never seen a dead human. When you see the dead, they do not terrify, any more than a sleeping human terrifies. They are...
I'm not sure that was true, particularly of the many gods religions. It is true of the religions of the Book. All that 'begetting' is very much the re...
Robert Graves had an interesting theory that "The Old Religion" worshiped the Triple Goddess. This was based on the more natural matrilineal society. ...
My usual example is "three ducks in a row" duck, duck, duck. There are the ducks, and there is the row. When you have seen the ducks, you have seen th...
Yes, that is how I characterise the unknown - by reference to the known. Because there is no other character I could conceivably give it. And hence no...
Right. Well that's a load of codswallop, and maybe explains why you have everything backwards. Elephants have some awareness of death, and show intere...
Well that's something I don't understand - the unknown as far as I'm concerned covers all manner of wonderful, boring, delightful, agonising, unimagin...
I think Ryle, (and certainly I,) would prefer to say that the university is something that we do together; if the building is lost, and the library bu...
It's an invitation to ad hom argue. Anyone who disagrees with me, given certain conditions, is irrational. But furthermore, if the conditions were so ...
What's the Beef vegan myco-protein meat substitute? It seems to happen, as might well be expected, that social inequalities and prejudices are enshrin...
Consider the meaning of the sentence, "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" The context shows both the original boasting intended meaning, and t...
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