https://media.newyorker.com/cartoons/5b36c812c08f3e2877a5c54d/master/w_600,c_limit/180709_a21946.jpg "It bothers me that she's not the least bit curio...
Posty, dear: Do you honestly think that the beneficial Lord, creator of universes, infinite, all knowing, all seeing, every present, all powerful, etc...
No, those who don't approve of casual sex should avoid it. Those who don't approve but do it anyway perhaps should be ashamed. There is no reason why ...
meaning they are depriving others. If we are all stingy with sex, nobody will get enough. I've had several hundred and I regret none of them. Though, ...
Of course -- religion isn't the only focus of community. An example: The Degree of Honor Protective Association began in the 1870s as a women's suppor...
There are good reasons why Christianity isn't a dead religion that do not hinge on acceptance of the Creed (like "was crucified, died, and was buried;...
My view is that much of what our brains do is not conscious. I'm not sure that there is even a place in the brain where consciousness exists. Rather, ...
Because the kind of thinking you displayed, and which apokrisis countered with pragmatism, is just not good for you. Thinking that way will give you h...
Isn't this true of most abstracted qualities, like goodness, health, beauty, evil, and so on? "Goodness or "beauty" don't exist on their own -- they a...
I thought that laurels were worn on one's head, not one's shoulders. But since The Truth has become annoying, we won't hold you to it. I do not quite ...
Pilate said, "What is truth?" Here's a song about the cold clear eyes of seekers of truth (from "How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying") Th...
The "tipping point" won't be like hitting a wall. It will pass pass like the very tip of peak oil -- it will be a non-event. Only in retrospect can we...
IF the West is declining (and we would want to define the ways in which it may or may not be declining) it isn't something that one president, be he R...
Am I so 'emotional' over it? Not really. You are right -- I and those in my age group will be dead before the "grande merde frappe le ventilateur" to ...
The Chinese, Indians, Middle Easterners, Europeans, and North Americans have not, and can not reduce their carbon foot prints either as much as, or as...
Do you mean "in lieu of getting paid, the moderators receive the occasional exquisite pleasure of executing an errant philosopher? Like, in the good o...
No one so far has noted the large turds in the Greater China punchbowl. Nobody is going to have a long term trouble free future; everyone is going to ...
One of the problems with the Constitution is that it is 200+ year old document written to meet the problems that could then be seen in late 18th centu...
This is not a truism, it's a dodge intended to derail any conversation about responsibility for manufacturing, promoting, selling, or using guns. Guns...
He could just send them a copy of Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals. Alinsky wasn't right about everything, but he was right about some things. Like, ...
Big bad Wolf, as in "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf..." as in the nemesis of the three juvenile swine, one of whom was a faggot, a second a hippie, ...
Yes, we share a lot of DNA with Pan troglodytes, our embarrassing close relatives. Trousered ape sums it up well. A combination of ape drive and human...
"Western Civilization" is a long project, stretching over 5000+ years. The "Western" part is what most of us here are heirs to, but there are also "Ea...
No, I wasn't clear. You and your self are synonymous. What is illusory is that the conscious self is an illusion created by the not conscious brain, w...
It's not this phantom "whataboutism". The material causes of misery among blacks, poor whites, hispanics, native Americans, et al grossly overwhelm th...
People only have so much attention span and so much emotional reserve. Spend it on tending to even only major slights against all the sensitive catego...
The self is an illusion, and it is an illusion that you create. The reason that "self is an illusion" is that so much of what the brain does is not co...
If one doesn't like the way society is organized, then let's save our outrage for the facts of "the prevalent power structure" rather than what some r...
I come from a place where nobody has ever picked cotton, and "cotton-picking..." is not a slur to my ears. But I see no good reason for somebody whose...
I think Narcissophy is better than philarcissism. Clearly you are operating under the delusion that you are cleverer, snarkier, sarcasticer, ironicer,...
Auto-fellatio deserves our respect, so let's not insult it by comparing it to philosophy. I am always in favor of questioning the utility of philosoph...
At least in formal psychoanalysis, the analyst often is an occasional "patient" of another analyst. Psychoanalysts undergo psychoanalysis as part of t...
What I mean by that, in my humble opinion, is that people are taught lots of things in school -- reading, writing, arithmetic, but not much about what...
There is good reason to be unhappy with how we teach people about our psychology. Exploiting psychological insights for commercial purposes is de rigu...
I was raised on the hereafter. It was a great relief to stop worrying about both heaven or hell. Of the two, hell has been illustrated and dramatized ...
I took a personality theory class as part of a counseling program too. It was the most interesting course on offer. Clearly we are personalities. Diff...
How could it be otherwise, and why would it be otherwise? What has not been hijacked to economic ends? I don't like it, but short of the revolution......
I have wondered that too. For instance, How did we figure out the structure of the atom? Clearly It didn't happen over night. The Ancients made some p...
The calculation of the "greatest happiness (or greatest good) for the greatest number" means that everyone will get something less than the maximum. O...
While "gender" may refer only to roles (and thus are open to interpretation); while "sex" may refer to biological characteristics (XX, XY, vagina, pen...
I'm not an expert on consequentialism (or anything else). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy lists the types of consequentialism: It would appear...
Our survival and the planet's ecology supply compelling reasons why we are well advised to at least eat much less meat than we do. Eat less meat, use ...
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