Certainly one of the tasks somebody dumped it (certainly not us; it must have been the neighbors) or the plastic bags drifting down the street--all th...
You are not excused. My amusement and enlightenment derived from your posts is more important than your uni courses. Quite absurd, really, you thinkin...
Think again. Animals and plants provide numerous and essential services to us (and each other) that we have ignored at our peril. Take bees: Every pla...
If you aren't sure about the hereafter, get sure by joining the Church Without Christ, where the lame don't walk, the blind don't see, and the dead st...
You and your boy scout training may not have helped, but I am sure the cocker spaniel was eternally grateful. Did it learn anything from the experienc...
Chest compression, mouth to mouth, old fashioned approaches -- the failure rate under good circumstances is about 90%. That means that 9 out of 10 peo...
Grant, Kresge, Woolworth... Dentists use acrylic for some procedures -- making small impressions, lining of temporary crowns, that sort of thing. The ...
In a word, no. I find the fascination with AI, and the fantasy that we are the creation of mad scientists to be exceedingly tedious. It has potential ...
Odor is a neglected topic. I can't say that petroleum refineries are my favorite smell, but there are some industrial smells I like. One, which some p...
So much of it IS lifeless. Of course, a lot of buildings are built for utilitarian purposes and the building owners decide what the cost and quality w...
The Empire State Building was always, and will always be, far more attractive than the WTC buildings that aren't there anymore, and the one that is. A...
You went to downtown St. Paul? Why would you do that? You must have been misdirected. I love some parts of St. Paul -- DT isn't one of them, anymore. ...
Please remember the first term in the acronym "AI" -- artificial not the genuine article. It isn't just a matter of "intelligence". We already have so...
Personally, it seems like a no-brainer debate to me. Most people are not saving enough for retirement -- even a minimally financed retirement. Some pe...
Well, I don't think so either. But if someone conditions the question in this way, it has been put into the category of calculated risk. Whether somet...
So, if the situation is that there is an immoral act; I will get away with it; and nobody will ever know or find out; I would be tempted. Immorality i...
Without reading Plato's Republic, one can pretty well predict the consequences of many or most people behaving immorally and getting away with it. Soc...
Opposition to Social Security now comes in the form of privatization. "Let's get rid of the Social Security Trust Fund and invest that money in the st...
Yes, but the difference in degree is significant. No. There have been political shifts rightward, but the Democrats (liberals) who passed Social Secur...
People do behave in ways they know to be immoral, and fairly often get away with it. For instance, many people engage in sexual activity that is defin...
Good. We need a longer-term view. The US built some of the European style social programs like Social Security to reduce economic hardship among the e...
Well, we haven't actually found any dark matter yet, so how does anyone know how it would behave in a "universal black hole" whatever that is? Somethi...
Here are the Earthlings 30 declared universal human rights. You might ask yourself just how universal these are on earth, let alone among organisms fr...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/St_Louis_night_expblend_cropped.jpg/1024px-St_Louis_night_expblend_cropped.jpg Yet another E...
Unlike the son, the father liked boxier shapes. This is Christ Church Lutheran in Minneapolis. by Eliel Saarinen, 1949. It is a national historic land...
If you didn't like that Saarinen facility, then you will really hate this one: Eero Saarinen and his Detroit-based firm were commissioned in 1955 to d...
Yogi's can master the practice of meditation so that they can voluntarily lower their various biological markers of wakefulness (heart rate, respirati...
Well, I didn't do formal study of psychology until I got to college, and as a child I had definitely learned to repress emotions. Hey, I grew up among...
It was a guess - pure and simple. You seem to be doing fine now, despite all that. It is a matter of resilience and adaptability; it's also a matter o...
People will tell you how long their dick is or how capacious their vagina, what shocking thing they really want someone to do to them sexually, why th...
IF you design military equipment strictly according to orders, and are loathe to measure the moral implications of your work, then you may end up bein...
I reckon that you are fairly young, religious, heterosexual guy; you have received a baccalaureate degree, are entrepreneurial (database design, progr...
This question is in chartreuse with pink polka dot ink representing the category of completely irrelevant to the current discussion. These cards go in...
It's amazing technology, totally game changing. How did anybody get along without these invaluable devices? Since you are taking notes for posterity, ...
It seems to me most people in the world are not subject to the relentless demands of human potential. 95%, give or take a dozen, are born, might survi...
Yes, good points. Yours is a far more charitable, and likely the more accurate view of the typical capitalist believer. No, I don't think marxists are...
Re: The morality of capitalism The bourgeoisie, the owners of capital, may profess the morality of Christianity, or another religion, but in general f...
How do you account for the fact that religious liberal arts colleges do an excellent job of teaching critical thinking? Some schools -- secular and re...
I've taken classes in yoga and meditation and have practiced it at times, purely as a secular practice and mostly to improve calmness. As a technique ...
Traits for one thing, and how we get them for a second are not all that well understood yet. For instance, if some one is inflexible and easily agitat...
"My disability freed me from a lot of ordinary activities and allowed me to spend long periods of time thinking deeply about physics", he said. If he ...
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