It isn't just the "sale" of necessities; capitalism is all about making a profit on all of those necessities that people... need. Eliminating profit f...
I've read that probiotics can/may be helpful, but if you feel better already, it could be coincidental or a placebo effect (placebo effects are nothin...
We're pretty crazy! I don't know whether it was bad food that led to all this crazy behavior, or not. I wouldn't be surprised. Something is causing a ...
People with OCD do experience a lot of anxiety, I gather. Of course! Good diet, reasonable exercise, and practical stress reduction are good things an...
True, but capitalist systems regularly produce a surplus from which the poorest can be taken care of, if the society sees fit to provide such care. Th...
The picture is mixed. It would appear that in a world of 7 billions of people, some of whom live in the developed world, a small fraction would be all...
I don't know. I have a fear of spiders and spider webs. Not all spiders, not all webs. I could elaborate, but you get the idea. I don't seem to have a...
My conception of OCD is that is a disease in itself, not a way of dealing with fear, not sourced in some disabling childhood trauma, etc. The disease ...
You are right about regional control being the ultimate objective. The post WWII position of the US is that control over Middle-Eastern oil is of prim...
At least sometimes mental illness is caused by living in a crazy society. A crazy society seems to affect some people more than others, but in general...
Not to absolve Obama for anything, but your emphasis on Obama is misplaced. How about the Assads--Hafez and his son Bashar? Between 1946 and 71 there ...
This statement gets at a contradiction in your thinking: Who is directing the dream you are having if it is not you? Aliens? It has to be you. The thi...
Oh right. On The Road, The Road, easy to get confused. I recently read Kerouac's ON the Road. I might have liked it better than when I was 21 than I d...
Poor Nazgul has been left to suffer alone, while the helpful philosophers have left his bedside to got into some side issue. I would suggest a better ...
Some of us, like me and thee, are old enough to remember when Transactional Analysis was the latest fad to make the rounds. As old Sister Gloria put i...
On The Road? Cormac McCarthy's book? Are you out of your mind? Nazgul, there is a reading approach I would suggest: Social Psychology, authors like Er...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5znh58WITU8 Games People Play Joe South Oh the games people play now Every night and every day now Never meaning what ...
Would the moderatos allow a poll on how many members of TPF own a waffle iron and know how to make waffle batter? Do they actually make waffles at hom...
Read books that you really, really enjoy reading rather than reading books that you think might offer a cure. Books do not cure depression, but depres...
Did you know that police and property managers have found that certain kinds of 1950s easy listening elevator (Musak) music (like Montovani and his or...
Oh dear, the poor boy does have some sensitivities left to be offended about ("") after all the head-banging heavy death thrash metal noise... Unfun? ...
Look, you have all these alleged "genres" like Ambient/Synth, Drone/Noise, Electronic (EDM, Industrial, Techno, Heavy metal, Extreme metal (thrash, de...
I agree about the disingenuousness of dismissing Trump voters as morons or fools. When people actually vote, that is, pencil in hand and ballot before...
You don't have broadway musicals on your list. There are people who would die without it. You didn't list music for film or music for video games. You...
"Classical" is the best choice because, even though it technically does apply to a specific period, it also means everything from medieval to modern--...
As of this evening, the Washington Post reports the naked shooter is "believed to be still at large". "Believed to be"? If the police don't have him i...
So, how big was the research and development team that invented the wheel first? How do you know it wasn't an early Edison who shrieked "eureka" and r...
No, because understanding about how misunderstanding arises just doesn't arise quick enough or at all, usually. I believe you asserted that "wallowing...
When I started college in 1964 I had a sort of 5 year plan: finish college, get a job. I did that. I did it a couple of times. Many years later, after...
I have the feeling there is a sub-text game here. None the less... We are designed to pick up the rules of language. It starts very early on, and we j...
Welcome to The Philosophy Forum. Warm, secure, unconditional parental-love is so important because it is the mainspring of human personality. Without ...
I guess. How about renard farci au homard et aubergine (fox stuffed with lobster and eggplant)... with a baguette. "Baguette... haw haw haw (but in na...
The two-party system is entrenched in the American government system, and without a parliamentary system (where minor parties gain some seats if they ...
Now mass murderers have added nudity to their outrages. The terrorist in today's Nashville Waffle House murder fled the scene in the nude. (He didn't ...
Yes, it is disingenuous. But... I believe that it has been demonstrated by political scientists that people don't vote rationally -- not the erudite c...
One of the arguments against establishing voter qualifications is that "individual votes, whether they be well informed or not" do not matter. It is t...
As for maturity, the truth is that "wisdom does not necessarily grow with age". As a 71 year old, I can cite examples of older and younger people who ...
I'm not arguing in favor of ethnic cleansing of course. There are obvious benefits to be derived from herding the Swedish population out of Minnesota ...
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