Unfortunately, we are quite capable of doing what we know damn well is wrong, and we go ahead and do it anyway. Then we feel guilty, and guilt may hel...
I have not idea what conditions in the USSR were with respect to pay rates, though soviet women were far more commonly employed in professional and te...
Coldlight, as a university student you are in a milieu of maximum exposure to the various ideological debates going on in society. Once you leave univ...
Existence comes before essence. You have already existed a long time before you began to contemplate you essence. Much is given to you when you are co...
So, what is surprising about Donald Trump either having or attempting to have sex with Stormy Daniels? What is surprising is that the hush money ($130...
Soros is, of course, a member of a very tiny super-elite, that few dozen people who possess more wealth than better than half of the world's populatio...
Of course men can be beautiful. Men, women, young, old, thin, fat, healthy, sick, rich, poor, black, white, red, yellow -- all can be, but not everyon...
Calm down, charleton; the old media haven't been around since the dawn of time. No doubt the NYT would liked to have covered the Big Bang, but they mi...
Sure they are. People use Google to find information which was heretofore difficult, or very time consuming to locate. That's a change, and as far as ...
No to both sides. "All you need to do is smile" is, in a word, imbecilic. I readily agree that rationality is limited, in that it can devise plans, de...
Extrapolating from your skinny thighs that you probably take a size 31-32 waist. You definitely need an upgrade in shoe & boots taste. Did you get tho...
BTW, my dentist and I were discussing a picture of 200,000 year old homo sapiens teeth, the oldest modern human teeth found. He said they look like Ch...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, how independent was industrialization and capitalism in Europe and North America? Pretty much synonymous. Look, I'm a pretty thr...
Generally, I think this is true. Freud put it this way: "We are not masters of our own houses." As Un noted above (per Hume, rationality is the servan...
Narrow rationality leads to bad results, such as when someone is focused purely on his or her own narrow perspective, their own very specific wants, n...
For an interesting genetic experience, try this at home: try breeding ever darker petunias. At some point, your two very dark, dark parents will produ...
https://78.media.tumblr.com/3bd2a94e922c577d12e089bcb11d9371/tumblr_p359b9Rh8v1s4quuao1_540.png MTV in Canada had a good sober driving advert: 3 guys ...
It is likely the case that I agree with you. I too know that racism is bad, don't need to discuss it, and so on; EXCEPT that what one person means by ...
But urbanization is a long-term trend that hasn't reversed. By a large majority, maybe... 60% to 70%, most people in the world are living in cities, a...
I agree, and disagree. There is some outward movement into the "exurban" territory beyond the outer ring of suburbs. True. The internet facilitates te...
Books are mere makings, as Ursula LeGuin said. She died yesterday. Anyway, you could just rip out a hunk of the book and take that much with you, then...
Have you read much of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American Transcendentalist? In his essay, Self-Reliance he says, There is a tradition in American histo...
One of Garrison Keillor's (apparently numerous) sins that got him fired was writing a limerick on the white board of his book store next to Macalester...
Where is TimeLine, just when I have a limerick about her? A lady in Oz labeled TimeLine never could have a real fine time she sat and she glowered onc...
Agustino's an orthodox prude; An upright and moral young dude. His sex life was too oft prunéd. So him joy of life thus eluded. For happy men are regu...
Now the real timeline has stood up. Just joking. I can't tell whether your self-presentation is realistic or a false front. BTW, I know men who treat ...
It is presumptuous of me to question what you perceive going on in your own mind. But I do wonder whether you have contempt for an other because they ...
Yes, I think that's why people like Friedman favored it, in addition to it being simpler and cheaper to administer. I agree. We can't afford both syst...
It should be noted that media content -- social or a-social --was able to compel one of the senators who spoke in the hearing, Al Franken, to resign. ...
Actually, I don't know exactly what laws govern free speech in Canada. In the US, the first amendment concerns what the government can and can not do:...
The Peterson BBC interview was quite good, I enjoyed it. Apparently the issue is a bit larger than the case of a delicate snowflake vs. the hot stovet...
I often wonder what people 500, 2000, 5000 years ago did "know". Of course, a lot of what people know in any time is practical knowledge that works ju...
I'm more like "I've never killed anybody, but there are obituaries that I very much enjoyed reading," Mark Twain? Clarence Darrow? (CD said, "I’ve nev...
Scent and memory and often linked tightly together because of the way the nasal nerves connect into the brain--and ancient evolution plays a role in t...
Do you consider yourself a Good person? I consider my state a mixed bag: some good, a little bad. Most of the time the bad things were motivated by go...
Maybe both? The desire for orgasm seems to be prompted by bodily need; it is a need we want to satisfy. If we can't or don't (for whatever reason) of ...
Will you please explain how you think white, black, asian, and aboriginal people get born? If race isn't biological, then something VERY MYSTERIOUS is...
And we are in this screen play whether we jolly well like it or not, playing out our various defined roles, and just like characters on the screen, we...
The "consumer" is an economic stereotype made possible and created by industrial society. "Consumer" started to become popular around 1900. Prior to t...
We should at least try to name what it is that makes something beautiful. for instance: What would make the scent of a rose "beautiful"? A fresh scent...
I am usually dissatisfied with discussions of abstractions like beauty or beautiful. Of course the reality behind the abstractions exist. We have seen...
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