It’s when the ten thousand days you’ve lived, and the ten thousand days you thought you had left are whittled down to three days, or three hours left ...
I did a little experiment. Some might be aware of this already, but it appears that it is possible to move a thread from one category to another IF on...
Darn good (and relevant) questions. :up: Why aren’t we always in that state of “flow”? It is probably unlikely that someone in history has lived the m...
That statement I think I understand and agree with. Nicely put. :up: These thoughts and the rest of your post, I’m somewhat more ambivalent about. Pla...
The mental approach to work and play can have a yin/yang aspect to it. When I find that some work I’m doing is getting to be like drudgery, making a g...
On The Waterfront. An examination of ethics that is very moving, engrossing, and entertaining all at the same time. It presents a landscape which is b...
I think the word “politics” derives from Greek polis or city. But with each passing day, the word politics resembles the word polemics more and more. ...
No, probably more like a one-off manifesto. Usually, when someone signs up and two minutes later posts a rambling screed, they are not heard from agai...
I voted for “other”. By which I mean having a broad category listing. Like all main philosophical discussions in the top 60% or so. Then “Interesting ...
The movies helped me get through the books more. Before the movies I had some trouble sorting out the characters and the places and the bad guys. Even...
That’s it in a nutshell. The Ring is the ultimate in centralized power, archetypal imperialism at its pinnacle, in my estimation. The temptation to be...
I :heart: Huckabees. Darn funny and metaphysical film. How often can you say that? Some dialogue: Mrs. Hooten: Albert, what brought you to the philoso...
The “whole” is the invisible half of reality. It is the larger half in fact, like the unseen bottom half of an iceberg. Being unseen, it is all too ea...
And I’d like to add that this is NOT to say the OP presents a simple problem at all , or even a situation that has easy (or any) answers. The question...
:up: :up: :up: Don’t think I’ve ever given a post three thumbs up. Maybe because usually I only have two of them. But I borrowed an extra one for your...
Oh, definitely! Agreed. But from our point of view. The pleasure is so large that it usually obscures the possible future outcomes. But from the hormo...
:grin: Lol. Probably more the result of hormones than the appendage, one would think. The sex hormones in both (all?) genders have many effects but si...
I had thought “inchoate” meant chaotic or incoherent, until looking it up. Here’s the definition. (Sorry for the pedanticism) adjective: inchoate just...
Forgive the side question, but... are you intentionally trying to bait Agu, or is it merely accidental? :lol: I mean, this thread is like waving a pic...
I just realized the irony of asking people who may be politically alienated to vote on something political. :chin: It’s just a poll, but still... you ...
Well, sometimes it just seems like you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t, and damned before you get the chance to do either. Similar to bei...
Sure, go and brag about it! :razz: Any possible further comments on this? Or potential solutions? Not that Washington is listening. Well, they’re list...
Ha! Lovely dark humor usually eases the pain for a moment. Like is said about Vegas: “the house always wins”. There are some honest, caring, hard-work...
While alienation is far from being a coherent political philosophy, one would hope that the ideas of the politically alienated would vere closer to a ...
Any possible appearance of a fascist future for the USA would be a plutocracy/capitalist corporatocracy. It probably already is. Orwell’s 1984 is now ...
:up: Yes, the “silenced majority” in the U.S. has lost much faith in the two powerful organizations of the Scylla Party and the Charybdis Party. Which...
Thanks for your reply. I am no expert in the UK political party system, but from what little I do know it seems to be a good deal fairer or at least m...
Also, (if you wish) it may be relevant to indicate one’s current country of residency. And country of birth, if different. (I’m in the USA, and voted ...
Is imperialism necessarily bad, or can its negative side be lessened? Has it spread civilization, helping modernize many countries? Or is it a mixed b...
Perhaps this could be a subject of another thread, but it seems to me of relevance... Compare and contrast, if you will, fascism with imperialism. Som...
:up: Definitely agree! And while we’re complimenting the software, the auto-saving feature is a real help. You have to intentionally erase something, ...
Following the example of nature, specifically our older siblings the animals is a good basic default position. Early humans watched what plants animal...
Of course, as well as ICE and FEMA. I see more similarities than differences between the last 5-8 US Presidential administrations. I would generally a...
Oh, me too. But there’s something different about Trump than any other major politician of recent history. Just near impossible to pin down, and I thi...
(@"Bitter Crank", saw your comments here, so thought this thread is currently relevant and could use a bump. (Or maybe not, who knows!) Good points ab...
Thanks for your reply! It would be interesting to see a video of the idea being seriously pitched to Trump of being president. Or maybe it would be sl...
:up: Thanks for that, well said. I’ll just add the obvious fact that for someone to be elected POTUS they of course must get hundreds of millions in d...
Yes... distracted, fooled, hypnotized, drugged, abused... not unlike a victim of date rape. Not to sound too cynical. Kind of a worst case scenario th...
For a while in the USA, it seems like the the Democrats and the Republicans are staging the largest production ever of that old Broadway favorite “Goo...
I would agree there is a split such as you describe (as long as we are discussing a general, big picture meta-view). However... I feel that it is dwar...
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