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If people didn't have such thick skulls, we would be able to hear each other's mental voice very clearly.

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Bribing Schopenhauer1 to post about something else would surely count as one of the spiritual works of mercy -- "comfort the afflicted". In Schopenhau...

We are bodies; bodies of cells (and big batches of bacteria that are, and are not, us) functioning together: matter, body, mind, cell. We are a packag...

The video is way too long to watch, and watching Zizek's continual body scratching, face touching, and hand waving for that long is just too painful. ...

There's another condition named after Pollyanna's sister--the Cassandra Syndrome -- hand wringing, doom-saying. God, I don't know which one is worse: ...

All good points. I agree that the critical decisions that need to be made will not be made by consumers. They will be made by governments. Producers w...

And the 1% will definitely do that, as is their habit. Daytime TV? Really? The control to which the 99% are subjected is far, far more pervasive than ...

Propaganda from the power elites (politics, finance, education, commerce, religion, etc.) is ubiquitous and generously distributed. The power elites n...

That might be the case. I can't imagine (literally) how consciousness might be changed. Assuming that there is anyone around in 10,000 years... So, gi...

I have something useful to add. To use Donovan's phrase, there is only one "elevator in the brain hotel". IF, in the fullness of evolutionary time, we...

It might be the case that our brains CAN think of 4 sentences at once, but only one sentence at a time can pass through the narrow aperture of conscio...

One of the elements of life that makes life bearable is forgetting. Real example: A week ago we had heavy snow in Minneapolis. The local news reported...

I am of the opinion that we can not overstate the complexity of the unfolding catastrophe of global warming, pollution (everything from oil slicks to ...

And in the fullness of time it came to pass, as he desired, that he was panned, damned, canned, and banned.

Good handle there. THX1138 is a pretty good sci-fi flick about a society where there was no privacy. It had a nice ending, when THX1138 managed to esc...

For you as an agnostic leaning toward atheism... I'd suggest that all the gods were, in fact, invented. Not only 'were invented' but 'are invented' ev...

Are you quoting somebody here? Nobody has "gorged on tasteless viands" for a couple of centuries, at least. In fact, you are the first person to use "...

Maybe we can say that it is natural for humans to search for meaning, and the results of that search (if not the search in itself) is 'religion'. It a...

Just fyi, "fuckyall" is spelled "fuck y'all." Otherwise it says fucky all--which might be appropriate too, but it isn't a standard curse.

Come now -- nothing of any significance has happened to you. You are by no means the first person whose post has been deleted. So, English isn't your ...

It was not a superb post, true enough. But it was good enough to lead me to think about pleasure and power. Maybe Nobody could rewrite it?

I'm not a moderator. My guess is that one of the moderators thought it was too stupid to keep. I thought your post was moderately interesting. Here's ...

All this is true: there is nothing good that can not be perverted into an evil. Patriotism, altruism, family, love, peace, justice, freedom, responsib...

Nah! We don't start thinking about the need to continue our species' existence until long after we've either done our share of reproducing (or we let ...

The elected personnel of government are a small minority; granted, they are a powerful small minority. But the "Permanent Government" is huge, and by ...

As I said, men and women have issues that are particular to each sex, and developing a clear understanding of those issues is worthwhile. So a 'men's ...

You're welcome. It just isn't a generational issue. The Industrial Revolution started in the late 1700s. Everyone since then has either suffered and/o...

Men have interests unique to their sex, just as women do. Men and women have a lot of interests in common, which should at least sometimes override se...

Yes. Like, if you have two feet, use them whenever possible. I realize that many people live in pedestrian no-man lands, where travel on foot is just ...

Some analysts have said that the opportunity to avoid the present crisis of global warming passed sometime around 1990--30 years ago. How so? Evidence...

Yes. That has been demonstrated many times that educated women bear fewer children.

Yes; affluent people reproduce less than poor people. Why, exactly, isn't clear. Maybe affluent people are too busy earning affluent incomes to raise ...

Projections of population growth may not be realized. Global warming is likely to have significant effects on food production, disease rates, availabl...

Don't worry about population. Mother Nature has the requisite ways and means to lower the population to sustainable levels. Just hope you're not aroun...

Where the question of a "right to die" comes to the fore is when someone wishes to end their own life, but is not physically able to do so independent...

I read a lot, and I can fairly report that there are many fine examples of pure, unadulterated slop out there. Awful stuff. Just wretched. And some of...

I don't know whether adhesive elites sticking together has hindered intellectual pursuit or not. I don't know how one could tell. It seems more likely...

Dear me! Whollyrolling. Sweeping up all "philosophy" into one master/slave pile calls for an extended defense. Your OP should have been much, much lon...

True enough. Fortunately for us, none of this matters all that much.

My guess (and hope) is that people mean "the universe seems to revolve around them", from their slightly skewed perspective.

It seems to me to be the case that human are self-centered. Of course, that isn't all we are all the time. But creatures with egos like their reflecti...

Maybe a bunch of brains thinking about other brains? That is one of the basic questions: What can I know? Like... Am I real? Are you real? Are our per...

And what do you think corporations are doing if not micromanaging people in a corporate system? So your boss is a jerk, he doesn't pay you enough, and...

You accidentally confused capitalism with socialism. It's the capitalists who are the elite class that takes from the poor. Socialist position: No nee...

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"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. They are not entitled to their own facts." Is "There Are No Facts. Only Opinions." a fact or an opinion? ...

The TPF owner is on a lithium drip, so he's very balanced.

I'm kind of quasi I guess. On the one hand, fanning the flames of discontent; on the other hand, not blowing up the fire department.

So what part of is antisemitic? That Jews are part of the intelligentsia, or that they form a network? That they are in Budapest? That they are associ...