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Of course I have your best interests at heart, so I improve the quality of my prose to strew as few stumbling blocks in your path as possible.

You just have to grab the bull by the tail and face the situation.

A sense of humor will help you pass the time during those 1000 years.

Bullshit he says. It's no more unsensible than other schemes of what happens after one dies. You, for instance, will be among the last to be bored, si...

Nonsense. It's a prudent investment in content. Maybe you misunderstood. Read "shove" as "shovel"; shovel in as much as you can. The separate etymolog...

Nothing happened to it. What's pessimistic about "eat, drink, be merry, and learn as much as you can while you have the opportunity, lest your life af...

Of course. If I wasn't agéd I would have skipped over old Lowell in a heartbeat. Things have changed a lot since 1949. There are now good air, rail an...

Your video was livelier than mine. Funnier too. Perhaps, possibly, just slightly less factful.

Lowell Thomas used to do a 15 minute weeknight radio program on CBS Radio, back in the 1940s and 50s. I remember listening to him talk about Tibet in ...

The People's Republic of China engaged in a long suppression of the Tibetan people; in 1959 the Dalai Lama fled Tibet and has since lived in the Tibet...

We've been going here for about 2 years+. The old forum that many of had belonged to had run for at least 10 years. You might want to look over the li...

I recollect that the Germans had a dream a few years back. Their dream didn't turn out well either. Maybe nations should just avoid dreaming.

I was responding only to the idea of "resources borrowed (or taken) from ecosystems". That's the basis of life. Of course, taking way too much, return...

I don't know what is troubling you, but your experiences would indicate that you should see a psychiatrist to get checked out. You might have a panic ...

I will grant that it is possible for a working class person with a very bright idea and drive to become a billionaire, and out of 7.3 billion people, ...

I'm not surprised. The "If you're so rich, how come you're so stupid?" phenomenon. Political and class connections has been shown to be a part of gain...

Are you sure those aren't space aliens? There appear to be antennas growing out of their heads, they have beards but also one breast -- all very suspi...

Presumably the American Dream is about more than the amount of lucre one has accumulated. Isn't it also about the freedom to think, speak, and act pol...

No, not false. Maybe it is true in the post-socialist wonderland where you live, that every schoolboy becomes rich by a frenzy of hard labor and inspi...

there are 540 plunderers and extortionists worth more than s billion dollars--$2.399 trillion in all--in the United States. Whether they were self mad...

Good point. There are a lot of weeds that grow in the middle of the road. The best description of things is usually not dead center.

T Capitalism hasn't failed, actually. It has succeeded admirably. Whether it will continue to succeed forever is a foolish question, of course. Who th...

I won't give you another chart, but note that some material has been added to the post where the chart was. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History o...

"The American Dream" isn't very old. Here is a Google Ngram chart that shows the history of the expression in print: https://78.media.tumblr.com/d6aca...

One should never underestimate the capacity of the determined to find futility where others find purpose. The radiant beams of a super nova might not ...

Yes, my mistake. I store all the New England Transcendentalists in the same memory cell. I suppose I could afford to give Thoreau and Emerson each the...

IF the study of philosophy leads you to a more realistic view of yourself, the world, and your relationship to the world, it can help. People (whether...

And lots of people who aren't all that educated still have effective bullshit detectors, and some educated people can't tell shit from shinola.

This is all true, but it is also true that certain velcro-coated ideas are floating around just waiting to glom onto a receptive surface. That "people...

You are no doubt aware that your idea of people being a herd and allow others to do their thinking for them is an idea (maybe a 'meme') YOU picked up ...

There are several kinds of philosopher: The main thing in my definition is that it doesn't belong to only professionals. There are people who... A rea...

I always thought that conditions were diagnosable.

Aging in the absence of degenerative diseases has a lot to do with the mitochondria, true enough, but the degenerative diseases like • Alzheimer's dis...

True enough, but where does leaky gut syndrome come in?

According to WebMD, "Leaky gut syndrome" isn't a diagnosis taught in medical school. Instead, "leaky gut really means you’ve got a diagnosis that stil...

Actually, Jon, it's 100%. It's called life. It always ends in death. Bar none (If you want to make that your brand, it's –0). Once an organism has ach...

You are spot on, but are there no black or yellow people who also pull off this sort of bovine manure spreading? We're all one species, after all, and...

Why are you walking into all these people?

Why are you obsessed with finding a flaw in rationality? Was it something that happened in early childhood? Were you bullied in a high school philosop...

Walking is a good exercise, absolutely. it is important to develop habits, and in the case of young people, to give them the opportunity to develop se...

Of course women's sport teams are not going to perform the way men's teams perform. Men's athletics, standards of performance, levels of fan enthusias...

I would take an "inability to cope with life" as a perhaps serious, but vaguely described chronic, rather than acute, problem. People usually have the...

What if you and your twin sibling were joined at the hip. Then you wouldn't be born alone. Unfortunately, having someone attached to one's hip is extr...

Rationality serves whoever wields it, and far more people are good than evil. We know this because the world, by and large, is a fairly pleasant place...

True, but rationality isn't an authority and it isn't infallible. If it was, then we would only need one rational person around at any given time. We ...

I resemble that comment.

Winning the lottery is an achievement which is 99.9999999% luck (or chance). The .000000001% part that isn't luck is deciding to buy a lottery ticket....

Interesting article. One always has to be cautious about the glib generalizations of journalists who, more often than not, do not accurately represent...

"Primum non nocere, first do no harm" is a maxim in bioethics and a good one. But in medicine and and in many other settings, not doing harm is more d...

I doubt if there was ever a wish for due process by the #me2 phenomena. Due process is slow and might be quite public. The court doesn't reliably find...