Before we came along there were large megaflora growing in the dirt, quite happily, thank you, with rough bark and green leaves. The leaves fell off a...
"Undergraduate tuition and fees: In-state tuition: 2,293.5 CAD (2015)" so said a blurb about McGill. But that is in-state tuition, which Posty wouldn'...
2017-18 Tuition and Fees at Public Four-Year Institutions by State and Five-Year Percentage Change in In-State Tuition and Fees provides current insta...
I think a college education is a good thing PROVIDED you study something that you find very satisfying, do not have high income expectations based on ...
I think you will find that prosperity, security, safety, health, education, clean environment, etc. ALL depend on people having "faith" and confidence...
Early in this discussion thread I stated that... That is the basis for my statement that carnivores should eat less meat. It may at some point be nece...
I think it is basically true that "Consciousness is necessarily mysterious" for the reason you stated: we can not observe ourselves objectively. We ca...
I take a consequentialist approach to the question. We favor some actions, and call them right, because they contribute to something we all want. Murd...
The beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict goes back to the beginning of Zionism (late 19th century and forward) and the flight of Jews from Ge...
I don't care. I disagree with you about the morality of eating meat. True enough, slavery has been considered a moral institution -- by a good deal mo...
Yes, Thorongil, this is elementary stuff. Eating meat is a legal, long-standing, socially approved, culturally familiar, doctor recommended, popular d...
"Why?" he asks. I like cooked animal, to start with. I grew up eating meat, milk, and eggs. The animals we raise for slaughter were domesticated for t...
You are absolutely right in your quoting, "Eminent physicist John Wheeler". That said, I have no idea whatsoever how human consciousness shapes not on...
That is true: I could have been, and could be in the future mistaken about the morality of meat eating. But it probably won't be based on the rights o...
I wasn't claiming that my chopping a chicken's head off was a good argument for meat eating. I was simply indicating that I knew, on a first hand basi...
I guess it would depend on what one was actually eating, and whether one used strong flavored vegetables and spice. Indian vegetarian items are at lea...
I too am an omnivore, and I too recognize that my diet is problematic from some angles. I have bits of pig, chicken, cow, and fish on hand, and I look...
It's a non-problem. Until some point after the big bang, from which all things follow, there were no beings anywhere (leaving out God here, the Logos,...
Oy vey ist mir, Tiffany liebchin, you're just not trying hard enough here. You want to be Jewish? What were you thinking of - Orthodox? Conservative? ...
Happy passing over. I can just picture you slaughtering a lamb, slopping some of the blood on your porch door, and then roasting it over fire in your ...
It's not an altogether unusual situation--not that you are going to find any comfort in that. If his bi-polar disease isn't being treated, he could be...
I'm surprised that you, liking architecture as you do, have only been to Chicago once. It's a wonderful place for buildings. The big ones down town, y...
Is he worried about having a CT scan or is he worried about the surgery that might result from a diagnosis? (that would be my guess.) How old is he? D...
I am a reluctant atheist, baptized Christian. I have no grievance against believers, or God either. I am quite familiar with St. Matthew's gospel and ...
Americans, by and large, don't expect each other to keep religiosity to themselves, any more than they would expect people to keep their state of orig...
Australia and the United States are different. Australia may be majority atheist (don't have any survey data handy) but the U.S. is majority theist. A...
Congruence between ideals and life. It doesn't happen often enough, but sometimes it does and then one finds out where one's authenticity lies. Authen...
Yes, suicide would seem to contradict what I said. But if the biological drive to live was not inherently as strong as I suggest, there would be a lot...
Here's an article about neanderthals from Science News from 1975: https://78.media.tumblr.com/4ff9a98e0222175230a5971a4c045ede/tumblr_p6bqclgUyZ1s4quu...
Right. The neanderthals were not the clod-kicking club carrying characters of cartoons. They engaged in aesthetic activity (ochre coloring and holes a...
Which behaviors are in our genes isn't entirely clear, but certainly some fairly socially unattractive features are bred in the bone. Homo Sapiens hav...
It isn't a matter of belief, the evidence is in a comparison of denisovian and neanderthal genes (of which there are complete reconstructions) and hom...
Speciation in progress: https://www.sciencenews.org/sites/default/files/2016/06/main/articles/053116_ti_moth-butterfly_feat_free.jpg BLACK AND WHITE A...
"Why some people ask this question, 'is life worth living?'" is perhaps more interesting than the philosophical question itself. What it is that prope...
It depends... IF you have many sex partners in a population with a low rate of HIV, the chance of transmission is low. If you have sex with only one p...
This is true, but I don't think that a "lack of seriousness" is exactly what is bothering you. People working together in an economy establish standar...
I found your comments usefully explanatory. There is something fishy about the Harvard International Review article. It seems to fly in the face of wh...
As are most people. The person who seeks out and takes all available risks will probably be dead before too long, and the person who avoids all availa...
My guess is that risk aversion vs. risk tolerance is largely determined by genes but shaped by nurture. I think if you could follow people longitudina...
Not to worry. Nobody who saw you in the aloha shirts thought that you were. Just joking, sarcastically, as is my wont. Now, the second shirt reminds m...
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