It strikes me as just... weird to reference a mobil device as a clochard given the meaning below. I don't see how gadgets limp, sleep under bridges, a...
You might find the idea of 'embodiment' useful. It means that personhood is realized as flesh, in a body. The way that we are embodied is an aspect of...
Some people think that 'mind' is separate from the body. Apparently, they accept all the brain activities that are connected with managing the body--t...
Welcome to the Forum. I'm not quite clear about how you can be conscious and bodily--all that requires flesh, blood, nerves, digestive juices, et al--...
Culture and experience comes into play here. Why didn't the Jews revolt? Strike back? Kill Nazis whenever possible? One reason is that they had been s...
Back in the late 1980s I had a late night job in Minneapolis. One night I saw a very young child -- 3 or 4 years old, 5 max -- on a sidewalk riding a ...
Compare the accounts of individuals who remember that when they were children, they were allowed (or ordered, even) to be outside the home unsupervise...
I never needed it. Try a sitz bath. "The Pale of Settlement included all of modern-day Belarus and Moldova, much of Lithuania, Ukraine and east-centra...
Drawing lines isn't the point; it's placing the line so that potentially useful discussions are not casually discarded by moderators whose judgement i...
Perhaps "Nuclear crisis – 2024 and the strategy of a nuclear war" was not the greatest OP, but, given the existential threat even limited nuclear war ...
Interesting. As a child I lived with monsters at the window, under my bed, in the attic, cellar, and barn. They required darkness to exist, and I foun...
Well, nothing's stopping you. The gods we care about were first created 2 or 3 millennia ago. However, every believer (and many non-believers) recreat...
Adam and Eve also showed that they were courageous, capable, nurturing, and persistent since they survived the expulsion from the paradisiacal Eden an...
That's what I mean by 'diverse narratives'. The story of Job is like the story of Adam and Eve or Noah and the ark. It's not an historical narrative, ...
On the one hand, we created God so we can know everything about God. On the other hand, our God character says He is unknowable, and not like us. Thus...
Remember that the Bible was not, after all, written by the Holy Spirit in one go. It's a collection of diverse narratives for various purposes--NOT a ...
:roll: Dueling Bible verses. Psalms 52:1 1 Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eye...
Some people treat evil as an active agent--the devil at work. Others have characterized evil as an absence--absence from God; absence of love; absence...
Hmmm, suckling pig, roasted! How many adults will a suckling pig serve? Is the apple in its mouth baked, raw, or pickled? How does one go about carvin...
Pigs like bowling balls. Tires work too; better that than having the pigs figure out how the latch on the hog barn works. https://www.youtube.com/watc...
I disagree with @"LuckyR" that inquiring into the nature of love reflects something significant about the inquirer. I hope your rough patch is smoothe...
According to the Apostle Paul, "Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not s...
Bob was robbed! Typical. Avant guard artists are prone to passing off indifferent blobs as somehow inspired works of art. Rubbish! What Bob desired wa...
I agree. It conforms to the standards of good flag design: no text, very simple image, if any; complementary blocks of color. The thing about flags is...
That's what I have read about Basques too. The Indo-Europeans weren't the first people to occupy the land between Portugal and India. Pre-Indo-Europea...
in the lower left is a man digging his own grave with a pick; the shovel was good for the dirt on top, but now he's into the rock. Poor man; depressed...
From a slightly different angle, "pre-heat" means "before heat". So there is no heat in a pre-heated oven; no seasoning in pre-seasoned steak, and pre...
Flag fans now prefer very simple, corporate logo type flags -- as far removed from any annoying and inconvenient history as possible. The old flag acc...
The whole "pre" prefix is problematic. How can the oven be heated before it is heated? How can food be 'pre-cooked"--cooked before it is cooked? How c...
Psychopaths have a bad reputation. Extreme psychopaths are intolerable in society, but a very smart executive with maybe 5% - 10% psychopathic tendenc...
On a more serious level, my current daily read is The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. It's a very thorough and scholarly biography of Robert Moses 188...
Long before Aaron James published his erudite book on assholes, the term had spread its meaning from "slightly annoying" on one end to "flagrant rejec...
Admirably diverse. Kibosh has Irish roots, kvetch is yiddish. Kibosh has a nicely gruesome origin -- referencing methods of execution: Slanguage, A Di...
That's not fish soaking in soy, that's a famous painting by the abstract expressionist artist, Deidre Dimvkit. She was featured in a storage unit show...
Most of us live under a capitalist system of property which is owned by individuals or collective entities like companies or a statez. J P Morgan Bank...
It takes about 12 years to become a psychiatrist. A good therapist will probably need a masters or a doctorate -- that's another 3 to 5 years, minimum...
The motto of The Radical Therapist", a leftist, anti-psychiatry mental health zine from the early 70s, was "Therapy means change, not adjustment." Tha...
We are culpable for a lot of high crimes and misdemeanors (some of them in progress RIGHT NOW) but how can any species hold itself responsible for wha...
It isn't hard to find a thread where petty things are being argued over -- like "You didn't understand what I said." "Yes I did." "You don't understan...
Crows and parrots seem to have hit the intelligence jackpot much more often than other birds, but birds--any bird, pick a bird--are capable animals me...
I would post a link to a New York Times piece on gulls from a few weeks ago, but I'm pretty sure you would find it secured behind their pay-wall. Gull...
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