No. I don't believe that countries are illegitimate if they took someone's land without their permission. The history of our species involves waves of...
The idea that diversity is a universal good which communities at all levels ought to seek is a current vogue, at least for the last several decades. "...
If the worker-owned and operated People's Communal Motorcars set up a dehumanizing assembly line on which they themselves or some other unfortunates, ...
Yes, "the pursuit of happiness", the state referenced in the D of I, is a background not foreground state. It is like "fitness"; when one is "fit" con...
Like, satisfying the urge to kill only leads to medium range happiness, because getting rid of one asshole merely creates the necessary opening for th...
Morality was developed among ancient humans, probably before there were words for it. An individual's, family's, and tribe's survival required complia...
I am not sure how the heart -- that cardiac muscle located behind your ribs, usually on the left side of your body -- was tasked with feeling emotions...
There are intermediate stops in-between where we are and a communist revolution. Like, progressive taxation. At the present time, we (the U.S.) has la...
Hey, buxte baby, get your genuine rose colored glasses right here, on sale now! for the next 15 minutes only! And if you buy three pair, you will get ...
An obsession with sentence diagramming is a previously unseen disorder. Just out of curiosity, what is your interest? Most people won't study sentence...
Since living things have evolved to exist through reproduction and have been reproducing for a very long time--thus proving that the reproductive driv...
"Being alienated from the products of one's labor" is not an obvious condition for industrial workers, let alone monkeys. "Alienation" in the case of ...
It is not clear what your objective is. Do you want to learn how to diagram sentences more effectively, or do you want to learn how to write more effe...
Since our brains and our brains capacities were developed over time through evolution, it's probable that other animals have some degree of consciousn...
You can get "Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences on Amazon, but it isn't written by Sister Berna...
We used to have to do sentence diagramming in high school, like this: https://78.media.tumblr.com/235633c9c4b3121160ccc6697f4c9160/tumblr_p7d73nEtqK1s...
I wouldn't have given Dylan a nobel prize. Or Obama or Henry Kissinger, either. Peace prize, my ass. Some of Dylan's lyrics are exquisite, but a nobel...
No doubt you were thinking of this kind of barrel furniture. https://78.media.tumblr.com/68d800f183247c27e0abe87d96088abf/tumblr_p7cpnxv8511s4quuao2_5...
Geodesic domes are of great interest, but I think they are not suitable for traditional decor. A style suitable to the dome hasn't been developed. Pos...
Yes, that is one of the reasons for specialization and working for organizations rather than working individually. I know how to do a few things that ...
I think the rich have rather more numerous ways of getting their rocks off than giving prizes to the peasants who ply them with pleasure. Besides whic...
No, we don't want to hurt the kangeroozies. They're cute, sort of like really big squirrels. Probably viscous if provoked. Nothing worse than the angr...
Oh, sorry TimeLine -- I left Australia out. Maybe Australia would be a good place for a asteroid to impact. Aussies are about due for something intere...
So, it would have been a BIG surprise party. Let's see, now... Which continent would we prefer the asteroid have its big impact? (This is a circumstan...
about 8:30 p.m. on January 3, in 209. There was a really bad cold front that moved down over the Balkan peninsula and was stuck there for a week. Stif...
The biological evolution that had anything to do with "language evolving" happened a long time ago -- likely some time in the late stone age, once we ...
Most of it gets purchased. THAT part is under control. After it leaves the store, most of it will end up in an open dump, a landfill, a municipal inci...
Masculinity and femininity are built on the same human chassis and share a lot of parts, share a lot of performance features, but the vehicles that ro...
Welcome to The Philosophy Forum. Great topic. It seems overwhelmingly likely that gender does have something to do with it. Antaus, you are quite righ...
ONE good thing about all the underpaid, exploited adjunct instructors who would like to be professors, but are not going to be, is that they are free ...
But is the condition of being an asshole pre-determined? Perhaps the many people who are assholes can not avoid being assholes? Is it the fault of bri...
Yes, at last -- something that is finally gender neutral and appropriately so. Thanks, but ... the text in my post is from the Amazon site -- I should...
Sap, are you being an asshole again? Hey, Amazon has a book about assholes. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Ivt6oXNOL.jpg There's a...
Things could be worse. Minnesota and Minneapolis are in the middle (or "midst" as they say on the other side of the pond) of a blizzard on the 14th of...
By the way, I'm inclined to be in favor of the rebels starting their own art school. I generally approve of rebels. But... whether they can make it wo...
We are long past the time when only a small number of wealthy people sent their children to college to study whatever they felt like studying, or what...
No, suffering is not inherently meaningful, and I am sorry you are suffering, whatever the cause. Back in the 1980s and early 1990s when gay men gener...
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