You should have quoted H G Wells and agreed with him, instead of quoting me and agreeing with yourself. Even quite smart people have to respond to you...
Thus the facile, cynical and condescending, and above all old-fashioned Hobbes on the failed state. And you provide a couple of supporting examples, t...
In the tropics, there was a traditional form of agriculture called 'slash and burn'. You create a clearing in the jungle by chopping everything down a...
It's a well known magical property of the name, Donald, that it sets the owners' pants permanently on fire. In these circumstances, their death is a b...
I don't think it works like that. Consider that you can make a doughnut from the plane in two ways; make a horizontal cylinder and bend it round, or m...
A hole is the surroundingness of a doughnut; a row is the alignment of ducks; a marriage is the joining of two matched parts. If you treat the doughnu...
Not at all. Fall down the hole to discover its reality. The confusion of reality with materiality is where we're at here. Space (and/or time) is real ...
It's bloody ducks in a row all over again. 3 ducks exist and when you get them lined up, there's a row. Ducks in a row, not ducks and a row. Stuff exi...
Well then I am confused. How can that be troubled by another? If your identity is secured at the cellular level, then it is secure and untroubled by a...
Mockery, yes I think I understand. In my youth, I think many men felt rather the same way about gay men. Being accused of being gay was the one insult...
That is what identity is; the entire being as identified by the being. I wonder, if you can share a little, what it is about a transsexual that is a t...
Has anyone read The Wasp Factory? Have a look at what humans commonly do. 1. Club foot. A natural condition that without surgery and corrective plaste...
That is the law in the UK more or less. But it doesn't work very well because Incomplete sentences - because what doesn't quite make sense is not quit...
Every thread needs a theme tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7FKc1JQe4 These are indeed, the posts philosophy can do without, but doesn't care t...
A "professional philosopher" is a hidden oxymoron. A philosopher is a lover of wisdom and therefore necessarily an amateur. The only professionals in ...
I think it's more backward looking than forward looking. We had deals with the old colonies before joining the EEC as was, and the economy was doing b...
Yeah, it's a very old mod joke to decide why every historical philosopher would be banned. But as the actress said to the bishop, "You're no Marcus Au...
There's plenty of writing that's good, but doesn't belong here. And some that is poor, but belongs. Philosophy is an actual topic and a tradition, in ...
Perhaps. Pre-enlightenment, anyway. The sense I make of it is the OT mythological sense. I read the story of the Fall as a psychological explanation -...
Yeah it's really radical, but kinda obvious. Your idea of me is entirely abstracted from text. If you passed me by on the street you'd contribute to m...
Somebody smart will be along in a minute, but while you wait... In the beginning was the text, and the text was with God, and the text was God. One mi...
Laziness and weakness are the great civilising characteristics of humanity. They are what motivate every labour saving device ever invented, from the ...
Well you are the expert on yourself around here; I have no clue at all except what you write. And if the chemicals in your brain say its chemicals in ...
I've been watching the boobtube, and I have discovered that if you buy a new car, all the traffic disappears. I used to think it must be because every...
"Are you ready for bed?" asks your significant other, presupposing that {censored}. I'm looking at this, and thinking that it looks a lot like what is...
There is a cure for individualism, which is to notice that it is impossible to be independent or self-sufficient. That depression is a social disease ...
It is certainly true that people have views on the validity of their views, the truth of their beliefs, and so on. {I would suggest that they think th...
It's a genius idea. The great thing about logical fallacies is that they can be formalised, and that means automated. The site could be run by Modbot,...
Hmm. I wonder why that is the question. I had thought the context gave the sense clearly enough. When one talks about faculties of the mind such as 'b...
I am diametrically opposed to this view. I believe it would be conceptually inconsistent if there were a reward for doing good deeds, because it would...
There's nothing unusual about cruel. So no amendment needed; the usual cruel punishment will do. (As if there were kind punishments like being forced ...
I suggest this example. It is of the utmost important to acknowledge the difference between logic and psychologic. Psychologic is necessarily reflexiv...
New Zealanders have this annoying habit of inflecting every sentence at the end to make it sound like a question. In Wales, the equivalent is achieved...
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