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Didn't Gandhi and King endure the violence of the British and the southern cops / mobs respectively? What about the Dutch, one might ask. They seem li...
December 29, 2024 at 03:53
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals an...
December 28, 2024 at 20:08
You are both right. Take the United States: Good soil, geographic advantages, forests, huge mineral deposits, etc. were tremendous advantages, gained ...
December 28, 2024 at 19:01
Thanks for your thoughtful insight, as always!
December 26, 2024 at 16:56
That's a pretty good joke, but it paled against the brilliance of Jamal's stunning "office plankton" post.
December 26, 2024 at 16:44
Office plankton! What accounts for such an ingeniously dehumanizing term--soviet bureaucracy or post-soviet kleptocracy? Whoever thought of it gets a ...
December 26, 2024 at 16:40
My basic political orientation tells me to be against nationalism, western supremacy, and imperialism. Socialists are supposed to see all nations as o...
December 26, 2024 at 03:49
Oops, wrong thread. Should be shoutbox. Well, never mind.
December 25, 2024 at 21:14
Feliz Navidad! On an entirely unrelated topic, The New York Times food editors wrote a column about canned fish -- sardines, mackerel, etc. It was a '...
December 25, 2024 at 20:29
A couple of times I have bought a dry aged steak when it was on sale at a meat market and it was exceptionally good. Maybe there are steakhouses that ...
December 25, 2024 at 03:28
Merry Christmas, 2024, or Bah! Humbug, whatever you prefer. @"Hanover" and @"T Clark" As for boiling clams, in these landlocked areas far from salty m...
December 25, 2024 at 01:24
As a child I wasn't sure that goblins (fiends from hell) didn't exist. I feared that monsters were lurking in the unlit coal bin in the barn when it w...
December 21, 2024 at 19:06
The sacred Shoutbox goes through periods of neglect every now and then. It's disheartening that our philosophically minded community would put tedious...
December 21, 2024 at 18:41
A hungry bear will just eat her alive. Nothing to worry about.
December 20, 2024 at 23:53
It's been a month, now, since total hip replacement surgery. It was much less painful than I thought it would be. 4 weeks is early in the year-long re...
December 20, 2024 at 05:04
@"Shawn". A happy pig story! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTteHDQAsAA
December 19, 2024 at 18:48
Of course -- what with the Narcissist In Chief being the prez. But narcissism, obsessiveness, mood swings, neuroticism, etc. are ALL normal when they ...
December 18, 2024 at 23:13
One of the things I find annoying about the drone business in New Jersey is the dismissal of observations reported by ordinary people. I live relative...
December 18, 2024 at 22:04
Back in the 1970s, one Saturday on University of Minnesota Radio, I heard speeches at a conference on extraterrestrial life. Ashley Montague, an anthr...
December 18, 2024 at 19:23
So, I either read -- or heard on YouTube -- a proposal that the drones over New York and New Jersey were probably US military drones looking for nucle...
December 18, 2024 at 19:11
I don't believe there are aliens flying around, and I don't spend time thinking about it. I prefer to get my fix of aliens visiting earth (or earthlin...
December 18, 2024 at 01:20
I just don't understand why aliens from distant planets want my used appliances and furniture. They could at least offer to trade something -- maybe t...
December 18, 2024 at 00:47
A good reason to stay alive while we can!
December 16, 2024 at 19:30
I like that. Great term--existential vacuum. I've experienced that a few times -- major goals which took years to reach, then achieved, then "now what...
December 16, 2024 at 17:43
I think you enjoy shooting down suggestions the way New Jerseyans would like to shoot down all these drones flying around.
December 16, 2024 at 04:41
:up: :up: Now back to suicide.
December 16, 2024 at 02:38
Hold on, hold on. Not every baby boomer retired on Golden Pond with ample resources from their financial planning for retirement. Maybe 20% of boomers...
December 16, 2024 at 02:26
Concern, anxiety, worry, fear, etc. with respect to something that seems abnormal (and may or may not be) is infectious--not just on social media, but...
December 16, 2024 at 01:55
I want my beer and pizza delivered by a hot handsome guy, not a whirring machine. Delivery drones are just another way of eliminating jobs. A drone wo...
December 15, 2024 at 23:49
As far as I know the cosmos does not supply ready-made meaning for us. You are certainly NOT the first person to discover that life may be, can be, ma...
December 15, 2024 at 23:43
I don't get it either as to why what certainly seems like a problem is being treated as nothing. I don't understand why a military would tolerate bein...
December 15, 2024 at 03:47
Crazy people?
December 15, 2024 at 01:55
Unfortunately, BC doesn't have a clue about the drones. Zip. Zero. Equally (or worse) unfortunate is that nobody else seems to have a clue either, or ...
December 15, 2024 at 01:51
Welcome to The Philosophy Forum! As of December 14, you have not posted for 6 days. My guess is that, after asking a very good question, you were perh...
December 14, 2024 at 18:41
St Paul, MN was first known as "Pig's Eye".
December 13, 2024 at 23:53
People, being what we are, tend to mix a lot of sentimental claptrap into their otherwise serious religion. Combine sentimental claptrap with a secula...
December 13, 2024 at 04:10
Had the CEO been black, it would of course make the news. What I was trying to point out was that a low-status victim would not have received nearly a...
December 11, 2024 at 21:08
Police found ANTI-CORPORATIST writings in Luigi Mangione's possession when he was arrested. Might as well have been a smoking gun. We can't have peopl...
December 11, 2024 at 05:46
Welcome to The Philosophy Forum. For many people, the time when they were "warriors" in the military was their most meaningful period of time. It may ...
December 10, 2024 at 06:29
I liked the empty space article (haven't read the other). Thanks for posting it.
December 08, 2024 at 18:56
I'd really hate being thought of as a neoconservative! Ugh, disgusting. As Billy Joel said, "We didn't start the fire". My view at the time was that o...
December 07, 2024 at 05:40
Whether or not mutually voluntary incest is morally wrong depends on the various codes societies create, defining which behaviors are good, bad, or in...
November 29, 2024 at 04:28
But do the entries have to spring from my own fertile imagination, or would somebody else's fertile imagination work? Suppose O Henry gives me suggest...
November 25, 2024 at 06:35
3 days post surgery; walking from one end of the small house to the other end. What was surprising to me is that, apart from incision, there is not th...
November 24, 2024 at 20:02
No - severed parts are sent to an obscure address where god-knows-what happens to them. Pet food? Soup? Bone china? Glue? A decorative arrangement of ...
November 24, 2024 at 19:49
Had hip replacement surgery 2 days ago; total hospital time was 22 hours. Is 22 hours of care long enough for joint replacement? Absolutely not. $%^&*...
November 23, 2024 at 23:49
Hot water would be bad too.
November 23, 2024 at 23:36
It's a conundrum. "I will protect American Jobs and American families" and similar luminous words, are positive sounding non-inferential statements wh...
November 21, 2024 at 07:38
Before the barrel there was the amphora, which in the ancient world were used to ship wine, olive oil, garum (fermented fish sauce), and the like. The...
November 19, 2024 at 01:14
The Dune Universe had the Bene Gesserit breeding program and Paul Atreides. What have we got? Donald Trump. .
November 18, 2024 at 04:29