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...
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...
You are both right. Take the United States: Good soil, geographic advantages, forests, huge mineral deposits, etc. were tremendous advantages, gained ...
Office plankton! What accounts for such an ingeniously dehumanizing term--soviet bureaucracy or post-soviet kleptocracy? Whoever thought of it gets a ...
My basic political orientation tells me to be against nationalism, western supremacy, and imperialism. Socialists are supposed to see all nations as o...
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 '...
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 ...
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...
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...
The sacred Shoutbox goes through periods of neglect every now and then. It's disheartening that our philosophically minded community would put tedious...
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...
Of course -- what with the Narcissist In Chief being the prez. But narcissism, obsessiveness, mood swings, neuroticism, etc. are ALL normal when they ...
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...
Back in the 1970s, one Saturday on University of Minnesota Radio, I heard speeches at a conference on extraterrestrial life. Ashley Montague, an anthr...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
People, being what we are, tend to mix a lot of sentimental claptrap into their otherwise serious religion. Combine sentimental claptrap with a secula...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Whether or not mutually voluntary incest is morally wrong depends on the various codes societies create, defining which behaviors are good, bad, or in...
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...
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...
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 ...
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. $%^&*...
It's a conundrum. "I will protect American Jobs and American families" and similar luminous words, are positive sounding non-inferential statements wh...
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...
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