Isn't that what various incarnations of the private school are doing? I get it -- you would like to run your own school. It's a very exciting prospect...
True enough, Britain ended slavery before the US did. To what extent were the terms of the Factory Act honored in the breach, and how much in their ob...
Of course I don't know what you posted that merited deletion and a banning threat. Try not to gratuitously antagonize anyone. I understand (from perso...
Possibly could have been avoided. Had the colonies been a British possession during and after the Industrial Revolution, and given British mills' very...
There's only one owner of The Philosophy Forum and that's Jamalrob. The several moderators are all volunteers and do not have time to watch every word...
I have known about Reimer's case for quite some time. It's pretty bad. According to Wikipedia: "Recent academic studies have criticized Money's work i...
As you know, politics make for odd under-the-bed fellows. The vaguely defined left and right share some similar cognitive defects. The arbitrary gende...
One of the cheats in the gender discussion is the construction "gender assigned at birth". 999 times out of a 1000 gender is identified by glancing at...
In 1962, in his book “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible”, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated his famo...
I have read writers on the left and the right who are not lunatics, but sometimes it seems like the same toxicon (Latin poison) has addled the brains ...
That's precise enough -- close enough for government work, as the saying goes. So, many small bore holes rather than a few big ones. Another geotherma...
Little know fact, maybe. The pre-refrigerator ice industry was started in New England in the early 1800s, taking ice out of lakes in January and Febru...
I'm wondering about heat transference. what is the medium between the hot magma and the pipes in the chamber containing the water that is to be turned...
I was never a scientist. I have spent a lot of energy and time overcoming a mainline Protestant religious upbringing and its world view. Some time bac...
It's also a way for envious people to cut large figures down to size. "AH HA!!! Lewis Carroll might be famous for this supposedly great story, but he ...
I've heard that too. It might have some truth to it, and it might also be bullshit or wishful thinking. Maybe I haven't produced anything great becaus...
Your insightful comments about helps explain the problem raised by @"FrankGSterleJr"'s OP. Despite the several 'sexual revolutions' that have happened...
Distinguishing the artist from his art is a basic skill. As KK observed (hyperbolically) most of his art heroes turned out to be monsters. I hope he c...
There were Victorians producing what we can confidently label "pornography" for sale. It was an up-market trade. Some of it was soft -- from gauzy sof...
It isn't 'selfish' to want to be young (again) but you still are young (unless there is something you are not telling us). So make the most of it. Peo...
Exactly. Photographing young naked girls or boys should not, in itself, be a cause for concern. The children didn't mind, the parents didn't mind, and...
Other animals also have built-in clocks. Dogs, for instance start looking out the window for their favorite person to arrive home from work at about t...
And I am very happy about the demonstrations. Can public resistance bring Putin down? Given big enough demonstrations that continue long enough, and w...
Think more. You and millions of young people your age feel like you lack worth, or drive, or... something and you all worry about death. Should you se...
It seems like V. Putin is as firmly in place as any of his soviet predecessors were. Who would remove him? Street demonstrators? Angry voters? Truth-t...
We are living it daily, with all the joys it entails, as well. What about our favorite foods; natural scenes of which we are fond (sunsets, birds, tre...
"Is the material world the most absolute form of reality?" What is absolute reality? I'll cast my vote for a material world, composed of matter which ...
North Americans, anyway, referencing North and South America sometimes say "the Americas". Then there is the Organization of American States which con...
Once upon a time I thought the United Kingdom was irrevocably one country (or realm). Now there have been ballots cast as to whether Scotland stays or...
There are peculiar patterns in the press and in entertainment. The New York Times, the country's newspaper of record, frequently views events through ...
The UK seems to have clearer class lines than the US, but what happened in the north of England has happened here too. The American labor movement did...
My assumption is that the police behaved wrongfully, but where would one find unbiased lawyers? Whether they are prosecuting or defense attorneys, the...
As some sort of leftist, I agree with you that a lot of the subjectivist, post-modernist, anti-truth, political correctness..." of the left is wrong, ...
You answered your own question. BUT... If you want to compare communism, fascism, and capitalism, you should do it in the same time-frame. Soviet comm...
That the government should supply safety nets, and people not have to depend on private charity, is not a myth--it's a collective choice. The states w...
The active campaign has been so pervasive and long lasting that it is "invisible". There has been a recent spate of books on housing like EVICTED and ...
On various occasions I have done searches for various phrases of at least several words, and it is surprising how often a particular phrase is--not to...
Of course I could have avoided doing wrong. I wasn't under some sort of strange compulsion. I understand that many people commit acts that some (or ma...
I agree, the likelihood is minimal. A few hundred years for recovery is plausible. I think it would depend on how much literacy were retained, and whe...
A number of environmentally oriented writers (like James Howard Kunstler and others) have pointed out how critical petroleum, in its many refined form...
Really? That seems like an extraordinarily optimistic view of human behavior. I've knowingly done bad things as an adult. I knew, as I contemplated th...
That is certainly the case. Over the years quite a few participants have laid out personal problems, sometimes ethical dilemmas, and identifiable ment...
Hey, Gus and Jack: I'm pretty pessimistic about our collective future. Cultural collapse, dark age, environmental catastrophe -- similar consequences....
Our dark age will be the result of an inability to materially sustain our culture, decayed or not. I predict a "dark age" ahead, but "extremism, polar...
"those with a philosophical bent" will be as affected by over-exposure to social media as anyone. Take a less well known social media app, "NextDoor",...
What on earth is the matter with chatting over a beer that should be disparaged? Samuel Johnson's discussion group met at a bar/restaurant and include...
Might be traumatic brain injuries (a lot of that going around lately) that causes would-be philosophers to get thick as a brick and kill themselves by...
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