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Such an admirable and much needed project!

Do you require specific names and addresses, or can I just say "key figures in fossil fuel industries"? That group should keep you busy for a while. I...

I have no idea what you mean by "The Linguistic Quantum World" but the phrase does trip a switch in my head, maybe in the medulla oblongata. When we '...

It's a good thing and a bad thing that "belief is reality" is false, to the extent that your reality conflicts with mine. Beliefs certainly exist -- t...

I couldn't tell whether BEATNIK POETRY was beatnikery or a beatnik satire. Hard to tell, often times. here's some documented beatnikery, Had I been th...

I have always been happy with IKEA's food (meatballs, potatoes, gravy, berry sauce... what's not to like? The last time I was there they were out of t...

Some people (especially 6 year olds) sometimes reject food if one part of the meal is touching something else on a plate. Probably an anal-retentive a...

On the one hand, it's remarkable what creative engineers can accomplish. On the other hand, it's remarkable what creative engineers decide to work on ...

Yes, real bread is expensive. Most of the time I make my own. But bread takes time to make and if you make, like, 3 or 4 loaves, you need either many ...

Mortgages are a serious matter, for sure. In the US they tend to be 30 year loans. Of course you can pay them off early which greatly reduces the tota...

There are a lot of adult children living at home with their parents in the US also. Why? A lot of it is about finances. Some adult children are living...

That used to be the case, but then European Union bureaucrats got involved, and bread no longer bursts forth from anything. That would be unsanitary a...

Trader Joe and Aldi are owned by the German company Albrecht Discount, which is located north of Spain on the other side of France. We may have discus...

Sheol looks a lot like the oil deposits under the Middle East. They were ahead of their time.

It's the Great Apostolic Blunder Machine***, made of patches, work arounds, bridges to nowhere, arcana, fog machines, heresies even to the heretics, s...

Whatever we are doing, thank heavens it works. :naughty:

I've liked David Sedaris ever since I heard his story about being a Christmas elf at Macy's, which includes his rendition of "I'd love to be an Oscar ...

@"Schopenhauer1" I was awakened in the middle of last night by a train of thought passing near my bed on a rarely used track. My preferred claim for t...

We experience the good things in life in parallel with the bad things, not in a sequence of contrasts. The good and bad things come and go in our live...

These statements suggests that your concept of God is too small. A being who is present in all times--past, present, and future; and in all places, kn...

I like to drop in a Latin phrase every now and then too, but it's helpful to provide a translation or English definition, especially when one's Latin ...

I find some amusement in the length this thread has reached, given what seems so obvious to me, that life is definitely, obviously, overwhelmingly NOT...

@"schopenhauer1" ... the Shortcomings of Popular Secularist Philosophies, or secularism in general? Harvey Cox, a distinguished and maybe even popular...

VS I have spent years seeking blessed assurance among Christians (and resisting it). Later I sought blessed assurance in secularism. I have spent year...

That's very interestingly.

But that's what "pasta" is. Paste.

a given amount of water requires the same amount of energy to heat from a given temperature to 212F (100C) in a microwave as on a gas stove or electri...

It's still over my head, and thanks for the links. I'll check them out at greater length. Had I been born later, say in the 1970s instead of the 1940s...

Thanks for the information, but it is a bit out of my limited technological depth.

It didn't cause huge life-altering events, but I've had that experience--a book on architectural terracotta in a bin that I found fascinating. I had n...

Well sure. Books don't photosynthesize, metabolize, or metastasize--so not life itself. But like all symbolic things: an arrangement of stones, scratc...

I suppose I could stand to add another appliance at my age. I recently bought a blender to replace the 40 year old one, and I use it regularly (fruit ...

Welcome to The Philosophy Forum! You ask, "Is self-blame a good thing? Is it the same as accountability? Or is blame just a pointless concept." Blame ...

That's true of bread, too: Don't add the yeast if the liquid is hot; knead the bread for 15 minutes; rising dough should double in size; bake at 350/3...

Is that Jif extra crunchy? Apple, blueberries, bananas, etc. are all acceptable add ons. Swiss cheese on a peanut butter sandwich adds protein. Elvis ...

Billions of people have been cooking rice for thousands of years. Why can't you--group of otherwise erudite persons--figure out how to cook a reasonab...

The world was not designed for our continual happiness and comfort. Deliberate acts by conscious, malevolent agents and acts of indifferent nature may...

40ºC is hot and difficult to endure, especially if the heat lingers through the night. One night during a very hot drought in 1988, the temperature in...

Purple persimmons are one among many things I am unaware of.

Things are fine - thanks for asking. Been busy reading, doing yard work, house work, that sort of thing. How about you? I see you and the other regula...

Persimmons start out orange and stay that way all the way to the end. A hard orange persimmon is inedible -- waaaay too astringent. When they are oran...

two points against Hedges' viewpoint: A very large share of Germans cooperated with the Nazi regime because non-cooperation (let alone opposition) was...

Right. Incumbency IS very powerful, BUT as the calendar says, the November election is a little over 100 days away. No matter what the POTUS or VPOTUS...

My mistake. Bananas still don't grow on Burj Khalifas.

I disagree with you fairly often, but you are right on the money here.

If you really thought the poor could get "free housing, free healthcare, free education, welfare benefits, and so on" you would no doubt be in line to...

One might well ask the residents of Dubai where they will get their food when the age of oil is over --certainly not by their own efforts, being in th...

A problem of comparing democracy to monarchy is that there are few ruling monarchies with which to compare democracy. There are many more non-monarchi...

I'm not quite that generous. Significant brain damage, but recoverable after at least 4 years of intensive therapy for people who have brain injuries....

An apt comparison, but even rabid jackals, never mind healthy ones, form 'packs' or 'tribes'. As in 'a pack of wild dogs'. Jackals are canids. The que...