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So you agree that it applies impartially to West and East, North and South, Capitalist and Communist, saint and sinner. :smile: But then you want to t...

Really? do you have a recent war to which it doesn't apply?

Here's a nice little podcast for you. https://shwep.net/podcast/platos-parmenides-and-metaphysics/

Ports and oil, I'd imagine, using Deep Throat's principle, 'follow the money'. Talk of ethnicity, democracy, denazification, de-islamification, or rem...

Yes. Exactly my point. War is always an agreement.

I think he would have been even more popular if Ukraine had submitted.

Too many. To think this is a question with any significance is to espouse a dogmatic ideology that necessarily creates its negation as the eternal ene...

I would hazard a guess that no one here would suggest that flattening cities, killing civilians, fighting in trenches on a potato a day, or letting mo...

A hard hat is recommended when standing under anything that does not firmly cohere.

Are you sure? https://thegrayzone.com/2022/05/15/operation-leaked-emails-intelligence-coup-boris-johnson/?fbclid=IwAR0AxHvhLxxd1ctbnuG3UMXCKv8mcSQPpp7...

Religious people swear using religious terms, God's teeth, by the holy mother of god. One uses terms of significance to add emphasis, and if you don't...

I'm in the same boat. But It is a test with an 'attenuated' live virus that is of the monkey pox family at least, and recent enough to have a connecti...

Government is nothing but words, with the implicit threat of violence.

Meanwhile, another blow is stuck for FreeDum. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/may/23/us-supreme-court-prisoners-ineffective-counsel-challenges?fb...

Here is a more recent test experiment that just might be connected. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(22)00027-1/fulltex...

This is not a very jolly thread is it? I'll try and inject a sliver of optimism. The treachery of psychology is abhorrent and inexcusable, and has mul...

A philosophy is not an argument, but a way of thinking about things. This is the way I think about philosophy anyway. An argument can sometimes be mad...

It's not the new covid, its the new AIDS, aka 'gay plague'. We old fogeys who have had the smallpox vaccine have nothing to worry about even if we enj...

We're desperately short of proper communist propaganda on the thread, so here is my humble contribution to restoring the balance somewhat. https://lab...

How did you build that straw man from anything you read in my post, when "will" with or without scare quotes is not in my post? Self-realisation is no...

https://www.academia.edu/43293587/The_Importance_of_Others_Marx_on_Unalienated_Production Speaking as one who has from time to time worked to maintain...

Death is a symptom of many diseases.

"Is the patient breathing and conscious?" This is the first question they ask on the emergency medical line. To be alive is to be interacting with the...

Philosophers tend to conflate intelligence and consciousness. As though a chess grandmaster is more conscious than a waiter. The usual class bias!

Is that not a base thought?

I see that the evil in the world is in me, and I ask what to do about the evil in me, as if what I might do is unaffected by, and separate from, the e...

The way I would put it is that thought is not consciousness, but a mechanical process of symbol manipulation that one is sometimes half conscious of, ...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224905185_The_nature_of_the_present So the elimination of the present, which is what physics does, entails th...

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/05/15/operation-leaked-emails-intelligence-coup-boris-johnson/?fbclid=IwAR0HWxt43EWJNiPriGvmzJM9qJUjm3Bctm2QiFMxGocFxsnRz...

I am finding the place is becoming unpleasant to read, and I don't even like my own posts very much. Personally, I don't mind if there are threads tha...

I would say that a yeast cell, say, has no language, and no means of representation that could correspond to reality or not in a way that I would conn...

Very sensible. First is it true? then, (if I am), am I good? and am i beautiful? can be considered. One believes that truth is the first principle of ...

What is = what ought to be = what is desirable? If you can honestly say that is your experience, then I think you must be enlightened; I am unenlighte...

If truth isn't the first principle, one cannot really believe the second and third principles.

It's a long time since I read any Rollo May, I always thought of him as a decent conservative trying to understand these wild modern radicals - as per...

How can we know that we can have hallucinations? It seems to me that we could only know that if we could distinguish hallucinations from the real. Whi...

You ain't no Robespierre, and I ain't nobility. I am a worthless philosopher, and you are a peasant.

Noblesse oblige. It is incompatible with liberty. Peasants do not have to care.

The UK queen devotes herself to serving the people her whole life; politicians only serve a term or two, and civil servants merely 9 to 5 weekdays, so...

This has the ring of truth. And if it is true, there is nothing to be done short of complete military defeat at any cost. It certainly makes more sens...

It's probably worth thinking a bit about what a judgement is and when one makes one. It looks to me that judgement is what is called for when the limi...

It certainly seems basic common sense reinforced by current events that to be an unaligned neutral buffer state between two larger powers, is to label...

Your question calls for good judgement. The author's judgement as you report it here seems mechanistic, not good enough for you or me. Back in the 70s...

These trees have roots and branches, but are not plants. https://medium.com/@gp_pulipaka/an-essential-guide-to-classification-and-regression-trees-in-...

#55. https://shwep.net/podcast/naomi-janowitz-on-ancient-jewish-magic/ We live in a social world of constructed meaning, and and meaning is made of ri...

Facebook just dropped the Lathe of Heaven into my brain-feed. I didn't know there was a film of it, but it's such a freaky book. Haven't watched it al...

Knowledge is habit; repetition of the past.

May I commend to you both the power of silence. This is too tedious to even try to understand. There are some really interesting links and points of v...

Oak is poisonous to goats in such large quantities.

According to Peter Pan, you can fly if you think happy thoughts. Personally, I prefer to grow up, and keep my lamps trimmed and burning, for this old ...