TimeLine attempts a clever response by employing a double entendre. That's OK. It's not a suburb double entendre, but it's as good as we are going to ...
That may be, but again, that's life. Life is not worrisome? It's mostly worrisome. Life at its suctive best. (Suctive=that sucking sound you hear, lik...
It's not a solo ballet, it's a waltz. Nature leads, culture follows (or you can have it culture leads and nature follows. Either way somebody is stepp...
There are all sorts of people playing various games in the world, and on the Internet. You might be playing a game here as well. I wonder what your ga...
"I" am here. Some people may project a prettified image of themselves, but most people "here" don't, as far as I can tell. Pretty much I operate on a ...
If some people here are bottoms, you're a top! Which you should take as high praise. Posty: If you don't stop to think about it, it won't seem lewd. A...
That, and then there is the fact that we are primates, after all. We have progressed far enough that we don't fling feces at each other, but the urge ...
Human potential can't be wide open if human nature is limited. Human nature is limited--maybe not limited enough (he said, sarcastically). For instanc...
A great deal of "humanness" is determined by our genetic inheritance, just as a great deal of "whaleness", "dogness", and "fruit flyness" is genetical...
Humans are pushed by desires toward cooperation. An individual can accomplish only so much alone. Only through working together can surpluses be creat...
The main problem with dirty sexual jokes in the Shoutbox is that they are quite often not as funny or as dirty as we would have hoped for. Discriminat...
A pipe bomb was dropped off last night at an Indian Restaurant in Mississauga, a Toronto suburb. 12 people were injured when it exploded. Police said ...
We do have strong instinctual drives to eat, to be warm, to have sex, to live in groups, to exercise our intellectual capacities, and so forth. Our ps...
One, your post did not get a fair response. Two, right you are. I don't know any "incels", but I have known disappointed unsuccessful men all my life-...
I was reading a bio of Joseph Goebbels yesterday; Goebbels became the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He wasn't an 'in...
As James Thurber concluded at the end of the very short story, The Very Persistent Blood Hound, "The paths of glory at least lead to the grave; the pa...
I too was apparently destined or required to serve time in various air-conditioned brightly lit satanic mills of bureaucracy, wherein I was as unprodu...
The reason that abortion, family planning, and birth control are linked together is that there are two underlying issues: One is the 'fetus fetish' wh...
For some damned reason, some people don't like the word "pity", so they have decided to redefine the term pejoratively. Outside of the small, prickly ...
I'm not sure you can even separate "society" and "culture" like bricks and mortar or warp and weft. Society is a culture. Culture shapes society -- th...
You'll get one cigarette 4 minutes before execution; it's traditional. You WILL smoke it, even if you never smoked before, and you'd best look like yo...
If meaning is use, and "pity" is often used to mean compassion, then it doesn't only mean to sneer with a lip curled in disgust. Nothing. Some people ...
Who told Noble Dust that he was getting beans? If he is lucky he'll get stale bread and water. As for you, noodles cost money, ya know. We can't be to...
There you go! Shakespeare's shade has been muttering, "What the hell are these knaves nattering on about?" Meanwhile Marlowe's shade has been mutterin...
If the doctors are short sighted, they will happily make everybody live longer, even though the earth can't support 7 billion people living 20 years l...
There are "lumpers" and "splitters". Bentham is 'lumping' everything together in two categories: pleasure/pain. Splitters are not going to be happy wi...
"What is the greatest possible good for the largest number of people" is a question much more appropriately considered by 'collective' agents such as ...
If society is a god (which is very odd concept), then there are some other contenders for godhood like heredity/natural selection, environmental facto...
Well, it could be the case that Shakespeare utilized this scene to explicate a philosophical problem, granted. In a paper, one would take up the large...
At what point in the house purchasing process did you notice the house consisted of one small room? Just joking. Here's a realtor / lawyer joke: If a ...
Phillip Roth died, 1933-2018. I read a number of his novels and thought they were pretty good. I might try Portnoy's Complaint again. The first time I...
Not so fast, Sherlock: Granted, the law does not require the parents to actually love their child(ren), or even find them sort of likable and/or amusi...
You have said this before, so I guess you're not joking. Do you really think that 75,000,000 baby boomers are all clowns? Come now! After all, a lot o...
Well, let's tell the whole story here, King Henry VI, Part II, Act II, scene i, starting at line #795. Simpcox, the alleged formerly blind man, comes ...
Agreed. To make a short story very long... It's very difficult "to think straight" about race, class, and culture in the United States because of an u...
A Somali couple recently from Finland visited the church and asked about teaching Finnish in the Finn's school. That's America: A Moslem couple from S...
Yes, "alone" but not necessarily "lonely". We are "alone" in that we can not merge with our fellow beings, because we are not a hive creature. But the...
The Greeks thought there were several kinds of love: philia - deep friendship love Philautia - love of the self (good self-love is essential; bad self...
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