Most likely the latter. I do not know if Donald Trump has an actual strategy. Maybe He is merely acting out his personal kinks. The effect however -- ...
There is quite a bit of evidence that affluence is a key factor in people opting to have fewer -- far fewer -- children. The theory is that with high ...
As John Keats said in is poem about some Greek crockery, at the end of the fifth and last stanza, When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt...
I don't know why I thought you said scripture was the source. Christianity was hatched in Jerusalem, but it grew up under the influence of Athens (and...
It seems that one would have to separate out the philosophical background of Greco-Roman thinking from Christian (or Judeo-Christian-Islamic) thinking...
Again, things have changed over time, and many women are in something of a bind. They used to stay at home and care for children and do homemaking wor...
I don't know why you would read what I said that way. man (generic human) is first and foremost an actor, one who performs roles in life. How one inte...
People who have been forced to think poorly of themselves because they are homosexual, disabled, black, short, blind, deaf, etc. internalize self-hatr...
Stop cringing. Performance in terms of all the sorts of life-tasks men engage in: the job, mowing the lawn, painting the house, keeping the car in goo...
So, another kind of pride is "Gay Pride" the feeling and the ideology that being gay and that men loving men is good, and about which no apologies nee...
Pride is one of the 7 deadly sins, along with greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. Pride cometh before a fall. Pride particularly galls the h...
This is an excellent example of what embodiment means -- a physical body relating to the physical world in actions. While rock climbing is not somethi...
I would mention EMBODIMENT by James B. Nelson, which is a book about the theology of being flesh and blood. Since its publication in 1978, we might ha...
16! That's amazing. I was 16 once, about 57 years ago. I'm interested in religion, but I'm not religious. My working assumptions about the world are p...
If you were less limited, you'd know that one leading candidate for the phrase is Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the modernist architect, who phrased it "G...
I hate to break it to you, but there are definitely limits. My patience, for example. As far as I know, the speed of light is the fastest that any obj...
No, everyone on earth does not have the same capacity to feel as everybody else, and everybody doesn't have the same brain. "Feelings" and "emotions" ...
"The public" has never taken on the responsibility of general welfare. Whatever has been done (and for long stretches of time it would be "not much) h...
Not all of religion lacks experiential evidence. Some other reasons people engage in religious activity: They like getting together in church and sing...
I get Centrist Marxism, followed by Eco-Marxism: 94.7%. Marxism-Leninism: 0%. I did the test twice, and got slightly different results. I like these s...
SophistiCat was asking a rhetorical question. How about adding "history" to the list, along with "something to do with the human condition. Psychologi...
People are no more "brainwashed" to believe a some deity or batch of deities than they are brainwashed into accepting the existing economic/political ...
I think so too, but... Homo sapiens hunt and gather successfully (presumably using their higher cognition) but primates also forage successfully, with...
No one has won a Nobel prize for philosophy because there isn't one. Old Alfred figured that If philosophy hadn't accomplished its aims after 2500 yea...
He shouldn't be dismissed, no. But as a Sanders enthusiast, I am worried about the combination of his heart and age. He appears to me to be in excelle...
@"Hanover" I don't think Trump is a Nazi--even a crypto-nazi. He could be more easily described as having some fascist tendencies if we think of fasci...
Sanders was born September 8, 1941; he's 78. He'll be 79 before the 2020 election, about as old as Reagan when he completed his second term. The age o...
Excellent analysis. Thanks for posting the video. Opposite the riff raff in Erie, PA and the various deindustrialized areas of the US (and the UK) are...
I haven't smoked cannabis, a lot, and I used to enjoy it. Somewhere along the line the way I reacted to it changed (or the pot I was smoking changed) ...
as Samuel Delaney said, "Science fiction is not ‘about the future.’ Science fiction is in dialogue with the present… indulge in a significant distorti...
A question I have not read about is, "Why did the British (in our case) select Africans as the slave of choice? Could they have selected some other gr...
I like @"S". Sounds like getting shot-by-cop suicide. "First they came for the assholes, and then there weren't many left." Thanks for a positive comm...
Bitter Crank died and stayed dead. Everything allegedly written under his name is produced by an autonomous computer program, which by the way, is loo...
Risk tolerant, resilient, and somewhat forgetful people are OK with the existence of bad experiences as long as people can cope. War, for instance, is...
Life is inescapably a mixed experience, and not a mix of equal "good", "bad" and "neutral" parts. "Neutral" rules the roost. A large portion of life i...
Quite so. And what is inescapable is just inescapable -- not good because it is inevitable. The best one can hope for is "good work" -- work that is p...
I also remember seeing a B&W TV screen covered with the plastic sheet in 3 colors at a friends house. This had to be in the early 1950s. I couldn't ha...
"If a condition of life is inescapable, does that automatically make it acceptable and good?" No, of course not. What is inescapable is inescapable. W...
Well, manna falling from the sky would be nice, but in fact I was never waiting for that to happen. Of course I recognized that a living is got by goi...
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