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well there is no central control of what the term 'political correctness' means, it is just used a lot and people associate the meaning by how they he...

It seems like maybe you want to do away with terms like 'black community' as they maybe set up a dichotomy that wouldn't be there otherwise? This is s...

regarding 'disordered desires': Maybe a useful analogy could be the desire for food. We need food to survive, so take someone who doesn't have access ...

But people who criticism the promotion of political correctness in its present form, aren't usually advocating that people should have the right to sa...

no I think existing before conception isn't part of their argument. They are arguing that sheep find some value in their short lives...and that a bein...

I don't know; it is often an argument in meat-eating vs. veggism debates as in..'those sheep wouldn't have existed if they weren't brought into the wo...

but I think the answer 'excellent' was mentioned up thread a few posts back. I don't know if some work environments expect that kind of response from ...

I sort of see it the other way around; good manners is a subset of political correctness; it's just a kind of aspect of how it might present. If somet...

this may be ok if you feel fair to middling, but if you are really going through a bad time then saying 'I feel excellent!', might feel like lying...'...

I don't think science really is at a place where it can say what actually transmits information, but it seems that however this transmission process w...

In connection to words, I once heard that there was the idea that all words are rooted in the formation to references to the hand....I'm not sure abou...

I read that the development of hands, and the opposable thumb may have also acted in the same way, in that a person can have and idea, and then try to...

I think part of the problem here is the idea that the ball is some kind of object that isn't affected by things like the speed of light....maybe I hav...

Maybe one could argue that there would be no motion, on the other way of looking at it, everything could happen at once..!

the person might still be able to see their own body as they move it...if they are blindfold, then all they may have is their own thought processes......

but what do you mean when you talk about the 'real' speed of the ball? Is there somehow an objective speed of the ball?

yes, I know what you mean; your own experience is a perception of your arms moving as an example....but for the outside observe, who is not travelling...

Yes, well you can argue that time is some kind of objective thing, but it is clocks, and balls bouncing around etc that we actually experience and sci...

but how would you experience time, if it wasn't by measuring physical activity? For a guy in a rocket getting faster and faster, the speed of a clocks...

Janov used to go on and on about curing impotence or something related... :D When I say shut down on cognitive ability regarding love, I don't mean al...

I've wondered and thought about memes for years. i'm not sure what definitions of them there may be, or what research there may have been on the idea,...

I only use it because I have some belief in the idea of life before conception. but the idea of death and suicide leading to peace is just a guess or ...

perhaps I could add 'fear' as to one of the things which lead to suffering. Fear of the unknown, fear of what we might do in a state of boredom.

I mean 'jealous'..that's what the bibles says, isn't it..?

but in that argument, is there a 'someone', before they appear to have come into this world? I don't know the answer to that myself. I do think a pers...

sorry, another point... If on asks the question, 'is it ok to challenge a system A?,' and people's answer is 'no, it is not ok to challenge system A, ...

Yes, I think some people forget the purpose of profession sport, and that is because a lot of people enjoy watching it. Professional sport doesn't exi...

one of the things about the dialectic process is that it might; it just might, make you look bad...it might lead to someone expressing all sorts of op...

yes I seem to agree with everything in both these posts. Political correctness seems to disable the ability for real dialogue, for real dialects to ta...

I do think it is possible to attain peace; like an old soldier who has lived a varied life; he has fought in wars, and survived; got back and lived an...

I tend to think the source of suffering is boredom. As a species that evolved to solve complex problems, living a life without problems leads to bored...

why are such beliefs outside of reason? If someone believes they have had personal experience of anything, then that is good grounds to form a belief....

not much of a god then in those models then. :) no thoughts, no actions etc...more like a statue of a god.

I think for someone who bases their comfort/safety on large amounts of money, will never have enough to feel secure. You can have x amount of money on...

nothing you can sell, and no way to attain any way to pay? Then I guess someone has to fall back on people's philosophy of charity..or something like ...

No a lack or loss isn't a void. It is like a car that has run out of fuel. There is no void, just the inability to function as a vehicle. Maybe a Budd...

one thing that just struck me about 'agreements' is that, take the example of formal agreements between two countries. They are written up in some doc...

maybe in Newtonian physics a planet can be modelled as orbiting in a circle if it is in a two body system. My guess is that an equation that describes...

yes, that was my point. It might help some people understand a bit clearer why a pencil certainly can't either.

you can't draw a mathematical circle with a pencil and paper, but do you think, if you use a compass, that the pencil end of the compass describes a m...

if it is a choice, and not something someone wants to do, then yes. If I wanted to eat a cake, it doesn't take will power to do it, apart from the wil...

if we have the ability and choice to make changes, then we must have some kind of willpower. This doesn't mean it is that powerful; a candle is using ...

not that you asked me, but if you did, you might find an answer if you trained to do a half marathon, and then ran a half marathon.. :p Unless you hav...

there is the saying "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" I wouldn't say it was ins...

experts who promote, or would promote the idea that dieting is of little or no use, wouldn't survive that long in positions that try to address obesit...

So if we reach the conclusion that reality had no beginning, it is kind of mind-blowing, but what really is the problem with this?

One way to see issues to do with will power and changing parts of one's life is to think of a river. The amount of water passing down a river is somet...

like you say with weight loss people think that laying on the guilt is the way to get people to lose weight, which is one reason some people try going...

by true, it depends what you mean by 'true'.. :P We are complex beings in a complex mysterious universe, the workings of which we only have a vague cl...

maybe Jesus should have said, or maybe he did say: 'He who can promise not to commit a sin in the future, cast the first stone'.....