unenlightened

Mainly i just want to celebrate, but suddenly, a whole nuclear deterrent system can be put at risk with a bit of well planned espionage and sabotage. ...

I have not had a large life; As I approach the end, I am tempted to try and make something of it - a rounded tale that will have a legacy of meaning. ...

This is a classic. The intro alone is sublime, the vocals are ridiculous, the cross rhythms superb, This is rock and roll all scrubbed up and out on t...

Ain't that cool! I wonder if it works for less meaningful names?

|The assumption made here is that "the will of the people" is a coherent decidable thing. Here is a scheme that suggests it is not always coherent or ...

I agree; it seemed natural and organic. But if you think about it, there is not much natural or organic about it. Such things do not occur in nature, ...

Let me take you by the hand, and lead you to my local pool, I will show you something that will make you change your mind.

Round here at least, because folks are not all great at reading, toilets are generally labelled with a cartoon of a person either in a dress or in tro...

So engage! Stop playing the cheap attorney, trying to catch me out with leading questions, and respond to what I am actually saying. You cannot even r...

My wife does not have ovaries or a womb, but she does have breasts and a vagina. Should I be worried I am an unwitting homosexual? (She used to have t...

Of course! Whatever is considered acceptable is considered acceptable until it is considered unacceptable. Slavery was accepted and normalised. When I...

I don't think it is different. What is tolerated depends on the culture of the time in relation to the social construct in each case.

"All biological males are born equal in dignity and rights."

Yes, I remember it well. Have you read Faulkners' Light in August? In a deeply racist country, as in a deeply sexist society such identifications are ...

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Here is an interesting comment on the economic effects of climate change. Basically, since we have been persuaded that adaptation is easier/cheaper th...

You might as well ask 'at what height is a person tall or short?' Make up an answer in situations when you need to decide that is appropriate to the s...

frank is asking you. This where it started. I'm not sure what your comparison was intended to show by way of 'fundamental difference', but it was ill ...

Now that he has attained full status as dead white male, I shall have to seriously consider reading him. The observant amongst you might notice why th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6R6940sZZM

And grief is good, because it's the interest paid on loss — in this case, the loss of innocence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCf65Z2pe2Q

In some ignorant benighted countries certainly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws Thus the law was used to try and maintain the ab...

You prefer pontification; but only your own. I thought you were going to leave back there?

Good idea, your flames are no substitute for an argument.

Your racial absolutism wasn't very nice. And I didn't even mention black albinos, or non-negro blacks of Papua and Australia, or ... And discriminatio...

My wife is at least as white as she is black, but she is clearly black. such are the mysteries of race-mixing. Our daughters are only slightly black, ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYpSKgCePu8

Well the best of luck with that. We don't have to agree.

Well if you want to theorise, I might say it is the transcendence of identity. That is, whereas rationality identifies a self and acts in its own inte...

Concerning the object of one's love, one is painstaking. for example: https://www.sorefingers.co.uk Other body parts can become painful when other act...

Speaking of show offs, some clever dick writing for posterity ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGcjBB3UlM

I'd like some coherent story of what these NHI people are doing here. Are they getting us ready to join the interstellar community? — checking that th...

It doesn't matter whether the picture is big or small, coarse or fine; philosophy is what one does when the picture one has in mind fails to correspon...

I have read it. I think I will leave you to it.

Quite oppositely, time is needed for no change.

Well no, it doesn't. You have there a constant 'plank' and a change from 1 to 2. That is an ordered change. To the extent that if the plank were to ch...

Time is ordered succession. (So is space) Consider a ball rolling down a hill. The ball moves from moment to moment always downwards in relation to th...

This is technically off topic, but a survivalists handbook wouldn't make a topic and there is a whole philosophy of environment casually assumed in th...

That's according to Harry-biology, but other biological determinants have been suggested, which is why, according to me, there remains biological ambi...

I desire ecclesiastical cakes because I have enjoyed ecclesiastical cakes in the past AND I expect ecclesiastical cakes to be the same in all relevant...

They are all chained by desire, and their freedom is nothing but a conflict of desires. is that right? Desire is a projection of memory. Thus the dete...

And not all bears shit in the woods either. :joke: Well we have Leo XIV. It is not as gentle a name as Francis, but we will see, and I will judge by h...

Yes. I can find nothing here to disagree with, except your writing is pretty good actually, and especially for a non-native speaker.

It was said, on several occasions, such that I developed a stock response. I guess you are too young to have experienced the rigidity of gender norms ...

Indeed it is nuts; or rather "crazy". But it is not what I said. It is an uncharitable and invalid inference from what I did say. I don't much like sp...

You wouldn't and you don't. So please just ignore the crazy people instead of baiting them. Because in responding to them you are already implying tha...

I am happy for all sport to be destroyed, at least as a public display. And I am happy that women are generally not risking assault more when going to...

I apologise, it was a bit pointed. But I couldn't resist the opportunity to make the sharp point of 'what really matters' to people about sex, which i...

But The debate is about the law, about male and female toilets, prisons, and safe spaces, and these things have neither phenotypes nor chromosomes. Be...