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Indeed it is not. Season with bitter herbs.
April 02, 2018 at 02:41
What isn't it the case that what exists shapes human consciousness? That makes more sense to me than the other way around. Matter makes the man.
April 02, 2018 at 02:34
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...
April 02, 2018 at 02:31
"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'...
April 01, 2018 at 23:44
Hey, ND, we need a little leadership around here. edited for brevity.
April 01, 2018 at 23:30
Deleted owing to the conclusion that the OP was a charade. See later post by Mancini.
April 01, 2018 at 23:21
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...
April 01, 2018 at 19:18
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 ...
April 01, 2018 at 18:55
I think you will find that prosperity, security, safety, health, education, clean environment, etc. ALL depend on people having "faith" and confidence...
April 01, 2018 at 18:11
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...
April 01, 2018 at 17:56
I think it is basically true that "Consciousness is necessarily mysterious" for the reason you stated: we can not observe ourselves objectively. We ca...
April 01, 2018 at 05:53
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...
April 01, 2018 at 05:40
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...
April 01, 2018 at 04:15
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...
April 01, 2018 at 03:25
Yes, Thorongil, this is elementary stuff. Eating meat is a legal, long-standing, socially approved, culturally familiar, doctor recommended, popular d...
April 01, 2018 at 03:05
"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...
April 01, 2018 at 01:08
You are absolutely right in your quoting, "Eminent physicist John Wheeler". That said, I have no idea whatsoever how human consciousness shapes not on...
April 01, 2018 at 00:56
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...
March 31, 2018 at 23:44
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...
March 31, 2018 at 23:35
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...
March 31, 2018 at 23:31
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...
March 31, 2018 at 22:19
as it happens, I wasn't thinking of Heraclitus. It's the opening verse of St. John's Gospel.
March 31, 2018 at 21:41
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,...
March 31, 2018 at 20:08
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? ...
March 31, 2018 at 01:35
Even as far back as Leviticus lawyers had given weasels a bad name.
March 30, 2018 at 19:53
What was the big deal about a ritual bath? I mean, it's not like a blood transfusion from a sleazy donor or being boiled in lead.
March 30, 2018 at 19:53
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 ...
March 30, 2018 at 15:47
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March 30, 2018 at 01:46
There is no such thing as a useless erection.
March 29, 2018 at 23:56
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...
March 29, 2018 at 23:53
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...
March 29, 2018 at 17:23
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...
March 29, 2018 at 16:55
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 ...
March 29, 2018 at 16:44
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...
March 29, 2018 at 10:40
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...
March 29, 2018 at 10:23
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...
March 29, 2018 at 03:49
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...
March 29, 2018 at 03:44
Here's an article about neanderthals from Science News from 1975: https://78.media.tumblr.com/4ff9a98e0222175230a5971a4c045ede/tumblr_p6bqclgUyZ1s4quu...
March 28, 2018 at 23:28
Right. The neanderthals were not the clod-kicking club carrying characters of cartoons. They engaged in aesthetic activity (ochre coloring and holes a...
March 28, 2018 at 19:47
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...
March 28, 2018 at 19:43
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...
March 28, 2018 at 19:32
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...
March 28, 2018 at 17:22
"Why some people ask this question, 'is life worth living?'" is perhaps more interesting than the philosophical question itself. What it is that prope...
March 28, 2018 at 17:05
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...
March 28, 2018 at 16:11
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...
March 28, 2018 at 03:56
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...
March 28, 2018 at 02:49
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...
March 28, 2018 at 01:50
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...
March 27, 2018 at 15:26
Touché.
March 27, 2018 at 15:01
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...
March 27, 2018 at 05:00