It doesn't say, and I'm not sure that 'somewhat disabled' is quantifiable. But my feeling is that 'most' folks who manage to achieve a mental diagnosi...
Here is a necessary truth, a founding exemplar for something like a TRUE opposite. 'Up' is the opposite of 'down.' No one can argue with that! Except ...
For the god-Squad, speak instead of The practicing of the Presence. The Christian monastic and mystical tradition is very close to Buddhist practice b...
In general, a word has meaning by virtue of distinguishing that which it is from that which it is not.This is a cat, that is not a cat. But there is n...
The dude was my head of department in his dotage when he thought he had proved the existence of god after all. I think the conception of religion as b...
I remember the bad old days when there were "no spitting" notices on public transport and other public spaces. What an outrageous curtailment of freed...
That is a mighty big pile of words, and I have read some of them. I am never inclined to think that piles of words can oblige things to be thus and no...
I have now listened up to #37 which completes a series on Plato. Now back when I was at ninnyversity (early 70's), Plato was presented as the founder ...
Because history, and/or geography, 'we', the righteous, will not be defending Ukraine. So Putin's calculation will be the cost/benefit analysis of inv...
Are you chaps aware of the concept of tokenism? It's the grownup version of Uncle Tom. So, for example, you promote a vertically challenged lesbian fe...
"Is anything ruled out?" Ruled out by what? In chess, it is ruled out by the rules of the game that a bishop can move from a black square to a white s...
The redshift of the distant universe (most of the other galaxies) is due to the expansion of space over time. The more distant the source, the older t...
On the one hand, dogs are noble, brave and loyal, but on the other, fanaticism is rather disparaged these days. This is because science has multiplied...
The classical Greeks used to slaughter each other over just such heresies. But these days Ph.D's do not blink at irrational, transcendental, imaginary...
A conservative, and British patriot, an ex-prime-minister, a long way from my politics; nevertheless, I commend this speech to you all. The particular...
Thanks for that, useful info. Reasons for being unreasonable: https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/10/15/five-zombie-economic-ideas-that-refuse-to-die/ Ther...
It may be so. Then it is a dishonest question. She is asking for sartorial advice, but really she is asking if you love her. One should answer both qu...
If you are asking, "Does my brain look big in this post?", I have to tell you it does not. Telling people what they want to hear when it is not true i...
So you are content with I {the seer} see myself {the seeable}, and theorise me {the unseeable} -- or thereabouts? Fair enough, if you are content. I s...
Ah, I see, now. It was my comment about brain-speak that is a problem for you. My apologies. If I might explain just a little, what I have been concer...
Racism is like theism in this respect, that the reality of the 'ism is independent of its truth. What counts as a race, and what counts as a god are n...
I'm somewhat underwhelmed by your generous respect for my right to be wrong. "Don't keep fighting the good fight!" he says, inciting the end to violen...
My advice to you is to inquire into the significance of this piece of meat you obsess about. Notice that it doesn't have as much control as it thinks ...
I think we need to adapt our society as fast as the virus adapts its DNA. In particular, there are intersections with climate change measures that see...
Here's a non-technical overview of the possibilities for the further evolution of covid. That it becomes rapidly insignificant to humans does not seem...
Well if you have to speak of evil, then you seem to be already in a theological discourse, in which case you need to understand the way that language ...
Again we are not of one mind here. I say 'single-minded', and you hear 'bully' or 'tyrant'. But a tyrant is not single-minded but is deeply conflicted...
I suspect that folks sometimes confuse being censored with being censured. If there is no censorship, you can say stupid and hurtful things, and when ...
Firstly, the myth of the heroin addict is not all it's cracked up to be. After Vietnam, GI heroin addicts were generally able to give up the habit wit...
I don't much like brainspeak. I have never seen or felt my brain and I am not convinced I have one. Nor do i believe that you or anyone else is more e...
I am a little sad to read this. Whenever I try to to operate on myself, to judge myself or force myself to do or to stop doing or feeling something, w...
I think you have the answer in your title, to this the most important question of philosophy: -- "How shall we live?" If you have the great good fortu...
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