O what a ball! Intensity of movement, nerves and sound! The hearts were beating in three beats and not in twain. And ladies were inviting gentlemen To...
-1- Trial - by misunderstanding, Spines together - crevasse between. Look to side - step into exile, Hands like briars - limp at the seams. Through se...
Check out Adam Smith and Ayn Rand. These were philosophers who conceptualized capitalism and arrived at its intellectual explanation. Without them cap...
"It seems you're suggesting that some people are oxymorons" Funny Praxis, I said that some people decided that morality was a bad thing because it, li...
Sing to me, my sweet angel, My elegant angel of love, Past all destruction and danger You soar just like a dove - Over the lapping ocean And past the ...
Though it may get me labeled a traitor And it surely won’t make me rich In the face of all those who hate them I announce: I love the French. For De T...
"lol are you seriously recommending the news as a source of vital information in order to understand a group of people? haha, imagine if someone asked...
First start by reading the Quran. I had a friend named Nicholas Starkovsky who translated the Quran into English while extensively annotating it, you ...
Under a coxcomb of a milky white Isaac has built a graying pigeon cage The crozier irritates the graying quiet Gradations of the air the heart can gau...
I will send a piece of me to you Through the thinness of the morning air, It will penetrate your eyes of blue And remain inside your heart forever. I ...
"I hear you. What would you propose to improve things? For what it's worth, I think that in practice, social stability trumps most other consideration...
My response is what you take it for. Once again, I refer you to the original: https://sites.google.com/site/ilyashambatthought/logic-religion-and-spir...
Where I live, Salvos have been running a drug and alcohol rehab and doing an excellent job. I got involved with their church and do volunteering there...
"Everything in the OP is ad hominem, conjecture, speculation, assumption, nonsense. Experiencing an event or sensation and fervently attributing it to...
"Sounds like bullshit to me." No. Most of the Marxists whom I have known in America came from privilege. The "working classes," as the so-called Redne...
I live near a tourist destination that is very popular among young European people. Most people come from Germany, but some from Sweden and Netherland...
Insanity - and good reason, Disgrace - and honor, All, that brings on thoughtfulness, Is spilling over - In me. - All the penal passions Become as one...
My incredible! Almost edible! Infrared and, well, Ultraviolet! Full of warmth and light - Gorgeous, timeless sight Taking mind on flight To the never-...
"Perhaps you might be inclined to if your experiences offered some kind of spiritual insight that you felt could benefit others. Again, I’m just curio...
Sing to me, my sweet angel, My elegant angel of love, Past all destruction and danger You soar just like a dove - Over the lapping ocean And past the ...
"Abyss has opened, full of stars" - Lomonosov Abyss has opened full of stars. Pluto to Venus, Moon to Mars - We see the universal force Charting the c...
I am talking here about experiences with less than a billionth chance of happening whose only possible explanations are spiritual. As I posted to anot...
"Can you give an example?" I know that I'm not supposed to post links, but your question is answered as follows: https://sites.google.com/site/ilyasha...
" As I understand it what you’re saying is that supply of art is undermined by interference in the demand. This suggests the world of artists and prod...
"Can you explain this for me?" Treating artistic interest as psychopathology results in a hideous waste of resources in "treating" people capable of a...
The problem with holding winners accountable is that they believe they have earned what they have and owe nothing to anyone else. They should be held ...
"I think their art in terms of realism blossomed in literature more than anything else and became popular world wide. Is that what you’re referring to...
"Can you explain how this solution might work? Or why it would be a good thing if it did work." It can work because it has worked in the past. It was ...
"Western culture is highly materialistic/rationalistic. How do you increase aesthetic values in such a cultural environment?" Look back to 1920s and t...
"Politeness or violence is the choice we're faced with. I choose politeness. Violence achieves nothing worthwhile." Rudeness and violence are not the ...
I am used to my behavior being judged, frequently very wrongly judged. The point of the OP is that for rules to be binding they have to be made offici...
"Evil is knowingly acting immorally." Not necessarily. In my example, the hackers were knowingly acting immorally, but they were not evil. That as opp...
"You are doing exactly the thing you want others to stop doing namely - labelling some behaviour as bad purely on the grounds that you think it is har...
I am saying that in order to be valid a rule has to be official. That means, subject to checks, balances and accountability. At no point am I controll...
It is relevant to political philosophy because here we have people doing a very wrong thing, and nobody is challenging them about it. I do not see how...
It is great when people come up to an agreement as to how to behave - except when in doing so they decide to put people in gas chambers. There are all...
I have the right to confront wrongful attempts at control, especially when people doing so are in violation of the law. If I wanted to exert wrongful ...
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