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Given that the above black shapes are meaningless, I seem to be able nonetheless to understand and respond. This is because we share the socially cons...

That life is a competition is a nonsense promoted by folks who have been lucky, because it makes it seem that they deserve their luck. It is good fort...

Yes, I think so. Secret government is necessarily undemocratic government. That is to say, if there is a feeling in the workforce that they do not wan...

That is not true. I am presenting a view that is open to challenge and might be wrong, it is a hypothesis. But it is not wrong because it rules out fi...

https://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html Rugged individualists have a difficulty understanding the "co" in communication. Communicati...

Certainly, enough is never enough for long. Last week an avocado suite was the height of bathroom excellence. This week it is unbearably gauche and mu...

Bonobos (our closest relatives) are highly promiscuous and use sex to defuse tensions avoid fights, and promote social cohesion. For humans, it is muc...

Best psychodrama since unsliced Cuckoo's nest. When are y'all going to make the film of Sometimes a Great Notion by the way?.

Some Jolly good British films to do you all good! Mike Leigh films: Mr Turner. Happy-go-Lucky. Vera Drake. Ken Loach films: Cathy Come Home. I, Daniel...

Indeed, and how do you find out whether or not it does? I do it by waiting and seeing how things turn out. That is to say, with hindsight.

Yes you are. But I am going to continue to judge foresight by whether it conforms to events and not whether it fits my analysis. As far as I'm concern...

No, you've been found out. So you escape from contradiction into falsehood. And in so doing, you undermine your own being, because it is now clear tha...

You analyse the predictions after the event. A good speculator makes a fortune, but you tell the good from the bad with hindsight.

Because Murphy's law, therefore fail-safe design. Thus airbrakes are designed so that the pressurised air is required to keep the brakes off, rather t...

Well if you are trying to deceive us, you don't deserve an answer at all.

If it is part of your well-being to speak meaningfully, then this clause is a performative contradiction. 'The chap's died', implies you are talking t...

Analysis is always with hindsight; talk requiring foresight is called speculation. With hindsight, I would say that if you look to social media and ne...

It seems appropriate to put a link here to another discussion where i have been pontificating on identity at some length. It's a very long thread, I'm...

Indeed, rather like the way drapetomania seemed mainly to affect Blacks. Perhaps its a new variant of hysteria.

A fair number of us, actually. Are you protecting the right of your ex to choose, or your own right to be irresponsible? Sheesh I'm even sounding like...

You might want to go back and actually read what I said. I literally spelled out the economic and social pressures that typically make a woman seek ab...

It's not like cutting one's hair. I assume that women do not deliberately get pregnant in order to have an abortion, but that it is rather an unpleasa...

I wouldn't swear to it, but I think before the rather recent liberalisation of abortion, one could get an abortion on mental health grounds in the UK,...

Thanks. Yeah, I would not be happy with drawing any very definite conclusion from that. It looks more than a bit undergraduate to me. There is, I woul...

First, wages for pregnancy and nursing women and childcare, Give the up-coming generation and its needs its real value in society. Which is near the t...

Is there any model aside from the social that can explain this increase? This all feels to me rather like the question of abortion. Given social press...

I'm describing very generally the conflicted nature of the human psyche, as an explanation for occasional violence and violation. Power, as opposed to...

Yes. a child is helpless and dependent and cannot resist the demand to be this or that. The teenager is starting to become more independent, more resi...

Not at all, ask away. Do you mind that I don't really know the answer? There's a phrase that haunts me; "Be good for Mummy." One is told to be somethi...

I don't know. In a way Marina's experiment was a set up. It would have been dull if everyone had been kind, and there was no sex or violence. So there...

Roads, for example. Each individual making their own roads according to their own standard would be confusing and lead to potential conflict at every ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_0 When the experiment is done, the results are not nice. Such is what we are.

'Fings ain't what they used to be. It's less apt here than it was at the old site for 2 reasons: 1 the old was explicitly run to produce an archive of...

People often see them that way, but I prefer to see them more as self-defence on behalf of the community, the way I ban goats from my garden. They may...

Sounds more suitable for kindergarten than a grown up discussion. If you are thinking about justice, I would suggest you are misconstruing the situati...

And the penalty for this bad behaviour is to be shot and eaten. :death:

One of the mysteries of life. My economics starts from 2 principles. 1. “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the univ...

You can think whatever you please, but I find it is preferable to order one's thoughts to align with the world. Satisfying conditions of certainty com...

I think the aim of meditation is just the first bit: The rest is the usual busy-ness and recitation of thought trying to explain and give purpose wher...

Then you are dead.

You try again.

No. 100 people and the accumulated wisdom of 10,000 years of human civilisation and the accumulated capital of 7 billion years of evolving life all co...

Physically, the buck stops with the world. Senses evolve to indicate threats and opportunities. They have survival value to the extent that they do th...

Logically, it's a simple claim: there is a unicorn, it is running. There is no problem with it at all except it happens to be false concerning this wo...

We need one of those signs: The boss is not always right. But he's always the boss.

Do you imagine that writing predates religion? Let me tell you a different story. I'll call it "Animism". As Mankind developed through spoken language...

Yes. I'm saying that Any combination of male/female/no-sex brain and body, along with any combination of hormone regime that naturally occurs is bound...

Like I said, it's a meta-theory. It describes how psychological thinking goes on, and so each psychologist thinks it describes his own theory - quite ...

Yes indeed. the statistical complexity lends a comforting air of scientism to what is a fundamentally philosophical, social-democratic, and conceptual...