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I agree. I'm not sure that we can transcend our selves, but we certainly can find connections. No. Inner directed people rely more on their own, devel...
January 08, 2018 at 05:42
You are more informed than I am about art, clearly. It just seems to me that the velocity of change in the last third of 19th century was so much high...
January 08, 2018 at 05:21
If you went to an art exhibit in 1817, 1917, and 2017, you would have seen huge changes in artistic production between 1817 and 1917; between 1917 and...
January 08, 2018 at 01:38
In: On Guilt  — view comment
Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving. I've felt guilty a lot -- sometimes for good reason, sometimes not. Guilt is a critical piece of child develop...
January 08, 2018 at 00:25
Pussy Galore? (character in Goldfinger) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/Pussy_Galore_by_Honor_Blackman.jpg/220px-Pussy_Galore_by_...
January 07, 2018 at 23:35
Plastic bag -- come on! I'm more technically sophisticated than that!
January 07, 2018 at 23:32
I'm having an out of body near death experience right now. Oops, got too close. Bye...
January 07, 2018 at 20:32
No doubt she will be saying, one of these days, that she is a "stable" genius.
January 07, 2018 at 19:01
I'll take your word for it and stand corrected. But how on earth did arsenic work as an aphrodisiac, recreational drug?
January 07, 2018 at 18:57
A doll house is not big enough for people to live in; is it a house? It is, yes. Even if it's a rather imaginary space, something a child has conjured...
January 07, 2018 at 16:18
I'll drink to that. Video killed the bar stool star, too, I guess. Good bars don't have TVs, or music so loud you can't hear anyone talk. That's not a...
January 07, 2018 at 15:58
Mick Jagger lives a noble life?
January 07, 2018 at 15:54
So, how the hell many apples were you eating per hour to produce liver collapse by fructose, ms. non-horse?
January 07, 2018 at 15:47
I'm just not sure we can talk intelligently about this, because we can't experience anything about our minds when the mind isn't working away full bla...
January 07, 2018 at 06:41
What is mind? Never matter. What is matter? Never mind.
January 07, 2018 at 06:26
She sort of looks like a character in a Soviet propaganda film. Are you sure Ding Dong School wasn't part of a communist plot?
January 07, 2018 at 06:22
I don't think so, but arsenic was used in the 19th century to make a very popular green dye that was used in paint and wallpaper. People liked it in b...
January 07, 2018 at 06:18
Alas, we didn't have a television till I was in the 8th grade. We only saw TV before then at the neighbors. I have a vague recollection of the Dowdy H...
January 06, 2018 at 19:57
A chair is a portable piece of furniture on which it is intended 1 person will sit with back support. A chair is designed so that it will not fall ove...
January 06, 2018 at 13:07
The difference between soup and stew is thickness, usually. Unless nothing worked out right, in which case soup and stew are indistinguishable. In the...
January 06, 2018 at 12:27
January 06, 2018 at 12:04
I haven't read any Bukowski for many years, and I don't think I read Woman. I enjoyed his short stories a lot. A year or two ago I made an effort to r...
January 06, 2018 at 11:57
A nice comprehensive response. What is your background?
January 06, 2018 at 11:31
If you haven't, you might try Alan Furst. His series of historical spy stories are generally set around the time of WWII, frequently in France, with t...
January 06, 2018 at 11:26
It was a pretty good book. Read it last fall during a Carré binge.
January 06, 2018 at 11:17
If you chew apple seeds, amygdalin could be released in the body and produce cyanide. Small amounts can be detoxified by enzymes in your body, but lar...
January 06, 2018 at 11:14
1/3 of the population dies of cancer, whether they ate cherries or not. 1/3 of the population dies of heart disease whether they exercised or not. 1/3...
January 06, 2018 at 06:48
Too bad about your pipes. Unheated basement/crawl space?
January 06, 2018 at 06:44
Timeline gets her nutrition information from the Readers Digest. Cherries do have melatonin, but not nearly enough to serve as a therapeutic dose, unl...
January 06, 2018 at 06:42
I believe the unit belonging to the handle, "ProgrammingGodJordan" may be having delusions of grandeur, just from the handle alone. Beliefism is for t...
January 06, 2018 at 06:27
Well, sure, true enough. Just because one's murderous rages are natural doesn't mean one should give free rein to them. Or just because the pie is so ...
January 06, 2018 at 05:54
One individual citizen usually can not sway public policy at all. There are exceptions: You might be presented with the opportunity to do something re...
January 06, 2018 at 03:08
So, you are a non-drinking non-smoking belief transcending New Yorker with overtones of post-modernist pragmatic tendencies. OK, then, your group is m...
January 06, 2018 at 01:16
Thank you for providing moral clarity here:
January 05, 2018 at 19:08
In: #MeToo  — view comment
Straight bars are hell holes of ambiguity. The horror, the horror.
January 05, 2018 at 09:41
To join Camus today, get a new potato peeler. You could be there in no time at all!
January 05, 2018 at 09:40
Just how dangerous can a potato peeler be? I spent 90 minutes at a clinic this afternoon getting repaired after an unfortunate encounter with a new po...
January 05, 2018 at 09:36
Not that it makes a bit of difference, but the first eyes did not have lids that opened and closed. They were light receptors wired into a nervous sys...
January 05, 2018 at 09:13
Welcome to The Philosophy Forum. Question: Where did the formulation of God as omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent come from? What is the textual ...
January 05, 2018 at 09:08
The old forum moulders in its grave as The Ungrateful Dead. Don't hang around there. You may find a thread you are in suddenly collapses into a subbas...
January 05, 2018 at 08:47
In: #MeToo  — view comment
et al This may or may not be of interest to anyone... But how do gay men behave toward each other in gay bars, and other working-class gay socializing...
January 05, 2018 at 08:31
You need a more self-confident ask. Your's is too wishy-washy. Just come out and demand everything! Of course we will visit you in debtors prison. You...
January 05, 2018 at 02:02
In: #MeToo  — view comment
I'm absolutely sure that you can tell the difference. You, however, are a rational, thinking individual while #MeToo is a hashtag which is, perhaps, b...
January 04, 2018 at 17:54
I'm usually all for subverting the dominant paradigm, but "status quo" sort of covers the whole universe. Could you narrow this down, just a hair?
January 04, 2018 at 08:27
"Like, before she wore her hair in a bun under a quaker bonnet with dark heavy mid-calf length dresses and brown work boots. Then all of a sudden she ...
January 04, 2018 at 08:20
Dear Mr. Rogers is lucky he died before someone accused him of sexual misconduct 30 years earlier by patting them on the back (between the shoulder bl...
January 04, 2018 at 08:08
Well... you don't like the alt-right, you don't like academic criticism of BS, and you don't like Trotskyist socialist rags, what the hell do you like...
January 04, 2018 at 08:03
"unconscious undercurrent" Creative activity seems to be mostly unconscious. Stuff flows out of one's head, without one having decided exactly what on...
January 04, 2018 at 05:46
I've looked at a lot of socialist web sites in my day -- http://wsws.org/ struck me as a good all around site.
January 04, 2018 at 05:40
Gee whiz, I didn't think they were alt-right sites. Is it not possible to criticize academic fads, feminism, and such without being tarred by the alt-...
January 04, 2018 at 05:27