Everything. It's axiomatic: In order to change what is, one must first accept (acknowledge) what is. You can't do anything about what is if you deny t...
Well... that makes good sense to me, both as an anecdote and as a piece of theory. It is a positive emotion that enables us to relate to something as ...
An elder professor advised us, "be careful how you talk to yourself." Experiences are real, emotions are real, neurotransmitters are real, ideas are r...
"The conception of the wealthy 'taking from the impoverished' is a ludicrous belief" he said. So let's try it the other way around: "Give me your mone...
Have patience. There's plenty of time to call you stupid and drive you away. (Joke). In truth though, one never knows when one is going to be pounced ...
I've never taken a course in philosophy. Between this site and the old Philosophy Forum (now pretty much defunct) about 10 years worth, is where I've ...
I could easily join the Grammar Gestapo or the Stasi of Sentence Structure. I try to refrain. While error prone myself, I like to look for errors in o...
Amen. You might like the anarchist Frenchman Pierre Proudhon's ideas. In his 1840 book he declared that "Property is theft!" (What he meant by 'proper...
While homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals have unique concerns, we all share deviant sexual desires and behaviors. That doesn't mean that the eti...
I haven't read anything by Herman Hesse for a long time (decades). It seems to me that he may possibly have included some philosophical material in hi...
The One Ring was made to rule over the other rings of (lesser) power, to enslave the wearers. All of Sauron's rings were evil. (Sauron didn't make the...
As rational persons, we agree that nuclear weapons are a threat to all life on earth and should certainly be made as safe as they can be made. There a...
Dwarves Wharves! I'm a Smaug Denialist. Fortunately, I don't live in a European country where Smaug Denialism is a crime. Clearly the death of 6 milli...
The skills required to take care of people in developed countries (like the US) are quite different than the skills needed to help people in 3rd world...
The United States has had several episodes where it legislated and funded programs to reduce raw need. The Medicare and Medicaid programs are two such...
Are you familiar with the Catholic Worker Movement? The woman who started it, Dorothy Day, was first a socialist journalist in New York; her daughter,...
Give generously when you can and when, by one's best judgement, the gift will be well used. (When I give a man on the street a dollar, I assume there ...
The old timer sitting in the dirt begging was previously a clown subjecting innocent people to the horrors of incompetent clowning. He was beaten up a...
No, we don't because 7.4 billion people is a bit much to take on. Besides, "the rest of humanity" is a non-group made up of non-people. Maybe we have ...
Yes, because Universal Basic Income is... universal -- for everybody. No group is being favored. Besides the UBI isn't a benefit program for unfortuna...
My sphere of interest is larger than myself, my relatives, and my friends. I have no objection to giving a limited amount of money to persons in this ...
It isn't that anybody here needs a manual; some people need permission and encouragement. I never needed permission; you never needed encouragement; s...
We post WWII baby boomers grew up during the tension of the Cold War and the anxiety about nuclear war. Speaking for myself, I remain worried about nu...
You are not the only one. Contrary to the cliché, lots of people are not sexually liberated. Millions of people have soaked up very negative scripts a...
I am assuming you wish to have more orgasms. Not everybody does -- Garthbarracuda, for one, says he has little interest -- low libido, etc. Masturbati...
The last time I made a pizza was probably 60 years ago. Since then I have been totally satisfied by socially produced pizza -- either at a pizza place...
If you find an image you want to post, and are using a Mac and Safari, (I think Firefox is similar) hold the control button and click on the image -- ...
Thank you for providing this clarification. Clarity and precision are good things. Next time I'll keep a stop watch handy so I can make more accurate ...
So you have a low libido, have never had sex, and feel asexual. I sort of feel that way myself, now that I am fairly old. You should live your life th...
Select a good quality frozen pizza, put it in the oven, and bake it for 23 minutes at 325ºF. (165ºC). "DiGiorno/Delissio rising dough" is good. ("It's...
Why not? You stole Santa Lucia from the Italians for some devious pagan purpose -- why didn't you steal their pizza as well? And don't localize it -- ...
Since the definition of the male orgasm is to ejaculate, yes. However, if men take the time, the intense pleasure leading up to ejaculation can be ext...
The viewpoints you expressed are "not even wrong" but I will join the sensible mob in excoriating your post. Heterosexuality = patriarchal subordinati...
We can not know that god exists, and we can not know that god does not exist. There are good cultural and psychological reasons for believing in god, ...
Is this what you were really interested in all along? Fine by me if it was. A word in defense of Philosophy, English Literature, et al: One of the ess...
Your plumping for similar objects in a group being different. Some of us plump for the similarity of differing objects in a group. You find two green ...
We have something in common but opposite -- you're close to Antarctica; we get regular doses of arctic air in the winter, the frosty "Alberta clippers...
Schmucks? Now that you're a party member you're using Yiddish expressions? You must be a dog-whistling Zionist. (joke) Over in the Desire and a New Fa...
Is the Pope Catholic? I voted for "mostly". I was raised to believe politics matter, and in fact it does. Those who wield political power get what the...
First, very strange behavior that. And slippery too -- saliva running all over a nice gun, such a waste. "Happiness is a warm gun" somebody sang, 1968...
There have been enough conspiracies for us to take plots at least somewhat seriously. But the conspiracy has to make some sort of sense. The thing abo...
Stereotyping isn't an invention of social media. It isn't new. It's a normal cognitive routine of characterizing, sorting and grouping. Whether stereo...
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