@"banno" Banno started a very long discussion on the old Philosophy Forum about whether Pegasus was real. It seems to me that many were agreed that Pe...
I still have my 1988 Mac Plus in the basement. Lovely thing it was, with the coat hanger tool to open the case, should one want to expand RAM, for ins...
If a fellow tries to fix his phone he finds that it is not so simple: Philips, blade, 5 point, tri-wing... etc. -- several special varieties to foil t...
I remember from my first teaching gig in 1968 using 'programmed learning' for adult literacy that "The cat is on the mat.". It used simple line drawin...
Fair enough. I once over heard some black workers discussing terms: "We used to be called niggers, then it was negroes, then it was blacks, then it wa...
Have you considered becoming a monk on Mt. Athos? Or becoming a holy hermit living in a cave? Something like that? After a few years of that the wretc...
No, I don't see it that way either. Grace isn't something one displays or does. Are you familiar with the religious idea of being "in the world" but n...
I don't much like southerners as a group, never had any sympathies for the Confederacy, believe reconstruction was too mild and ended too soon, etc. B...
The life you save may be your own? I think what Un is talking about, and he can speak for himself, is something called "grace". Grace is freely given ...
You don't have to choose "society's need for production". There is over production as it is. I know people who didn't, who haven't accepted the behemo...
Drop dead? No, just a snarky comment -- not a serious suggestion. Since you do exist, as unfortunate as that might be, it would seem that you could do...
No, people have been loathing Ayn Rand for decades. It's old hat. That you are 20 years old correlates well with liking Ayn Rand. Young adults, moving...
Welcome. I'm glad you took a step past reading and wrote something. Indeed there are things that could, would, and should matter 10 years later. Let's...
It would be possible to train a crow, or a parrot to do this, and note, these were banded birds, so... I'm rooting for the crows, but how naive the cr...
Well, I don't know how they do it either. I'm not sure how my brain solves problems (or frequently doesn't even recognize that there is a problem). Bu...
The real "grand scheme" puts humans and animals in the boat together. One of the ways religion poisons, is by splitting humans off from the rest of th...
It would be more 'reasonable' to think of reason and instinct as a continuum rather than either/or. Non-human animals can exercise some reason and som...
The ancient idea of "an eye for an eye" was an advance in justice. The victim of an assault or a theft isn't entitled to inflict just any amount of da...
How do we become moral people? We become moral because, as children, we fear punishment. We are told to behave properly, or we will be punished (requi...
Which you sound a lot like. Well, to the best of my knowledge, no body has given me the right to distribute money. I do have some ideas about what to ...
Karl Marx had nothing to do with the American Experiment, yet we committed genocide upon the aboriginal peoples in our territory and we brutally ensla...
Even though I am in favor of abortion being legal and readily accessible, I wouldn't for a moment suggest that aborting a fetus is a matter of indiffe...
Which problem -- the problem of class or the problem of getting a good education? For those in the upper classes, there is no class problem. They are ...
Or by the very pissed off. True, because that is what is possible for a psychiatrist and a patient given the present conditions. The larger, causative...
The deeper roots of opposition to abortion are that the fetus belongs to either a god or the father. An abortion deprives a god or a man of a baby. Me...
Many people think they live in a class free society, or that the class system is very fluid. They are not, and it is not. A good job and money will im...
How much human suffering is okay? We can't quantify or qualify it. Maybe we could say, "More than the individual can bear is too much." How much is th...
So far, everybody has been on target. Everything said above is true. But... You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and the student has no cho...
, @"et al" So, testosterone fluctuates daily and seasonally and declines after the prime years. I get that and it seems to be well researched (we've k...
At last! The missing piece of effective public health depression intervention. Hot cocoa stations (HCS) located at strategic intersections throughout ...
Too many people are calling themselves depressed or are being diagnosed with depression and being given anti-depressants. "Too many" because there are...
So, I would rule out all your definitions of depression except the first and the fifth. The others are not depression -- they are what you named them:...
How about formally produced knowledge disappearing behind the very high priced walls of academic journals? Journals didn't pay for the research to be ...
If the major publishers and media producers weren't out there policing their products, I would expect pirating would take over, and the quality of pir...
I don't think there is anything unjust about direct sales between creators and consumers of art work (music, writing, etc.) One could argue (it has be...
Printing presses and paper were expensive, there were all sorts of distribution and sales problems. I read the other day that Victorians didn't buy ma...
I really don't know much about patents, but practice is the reverse, isn't it? -- you can't patent an idea (like toasting bread) but you can patent a ...
FYI, "Happy Birthday" was declared to be in the public domain in 2016. Warner/Chappell publishing paid its way out of a class action lawsuit. So, at t...
I don't understand why there would be an "objection that such a society would have to run secretly". What are you referencing in the 'secret' part? It...
Is not @metoo at least sometimes exactly this? Suppose a former employee (10 years ago) makes this accusation: "Hanover required oral sex from me befo...
This is from Texas A & M University. It might help. I didn't get it either. The basic argument: https://66.media.tumblr.com/086d535e85cfff3d59d95586c6...
We all might as well. The 'st' on the end of 'whilst' is called an 'excrescence'. Apparently philologists don't like it. There are several excrescent ...
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