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You have some ambitious items on your list, of which blood sugar, self-awareness, and cheap shots are the least.
December 31, 2017 at 07:29
Very long sentences of paragraph length used to be as de regueur as French phrases.
December 31, 2017 at 07:25
It's close enough to your complaint that the difference doesn't matter. You asked, you say. Big fucking deal. You are 1 of 16,039,370 registered voter...
December 31, 2017 at 02:09
Many people strive to maintain their health, from young adulthood to old age. Then, fit as a fiddle and 90 years old, they develop the inevitable chro...
December 31, 2017 at 01:15
Sometimes you have to strike when the iron is hot; other times you have to strike until the iron is hot. Many of my pet topics (like socialism) are ei...
December 31, 2017 at 00:30
Yes. I've been out since 1971. Immediately after Stonewall, and in the years following for... maybe 20 years, at least in Fly Over Land where I live, ...
December 31, 2017 at 00:17
Who needs the right when anyone can bring about their own death? I'm not sure that someone who wants to kill themselves because they didn't ask to be ...
December 30, 2017 at 06:39
The way we play this game, you can't just make a claim and then say you are not going to back it up. Ok, so we evolved into hunter-gatherers. Hunter-g...
December 30, 2017 at 06:22
You make some valid observations here. I don't know how old you are, but age makes a difference. I'm over 70 and a lot of the people I interact with a...
December 30, 2017 at 05:49
A nice paradox.
December 30, 2017 at 04:08
If you stop feeding people, they stop shitting in their pants. Just joking. BTW, it has been found in states where assisted suicide is legal, that ter...
December 30, 2017 at 03:58
I don't think this is an entirely serious proposal, but for a provocative post it's reasonably well thought out. I have two objections right away: Fir...
December 30, 2017 at 03:47
Of course, it doesn't NEED to be expanded to more people. I thought we agreed on that. Is our main difference that I think more people get added the s...
December 30, 2017 at 02:35
This takes me back a ways. I remember this idea from college days back in the late 1960s. It is possible to put too much emphasis on the author, his o...
December 30, 2017 at 00:11
The Marshall McLuhan scene from Woody Allen's Annie Hall in which pontificating poops are punctured... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXJ8tKRlW3E
December 29, 2017 at 22:29
Wait a few hours, see how you feel. Then wait another day or two, see you feel. I would much prefer that you stay on with the rest of us. On the other...
December 29, 2017 at 22:16
No. I just cited the doctrine of original sin. Our alleged affliction with original sin removes the element of choice, which is convenient. All the ba...
December 29, 2017 at 17:23
That is the general idea behind Original Sin -- man is prone to sin. Borne out in the biography and letters of Dorothy Day. Helping homeless and desti...
December 29, 2017 at 07:28
Yes, they absolutely are passing property taxes on. Does the state where you live offer property tax relief to renters? When the chattering classes ar...
December 29, 2017 at 07:19
Au contraire, mon bon ami. Life was not fair in the past, is not fair now, and in all probability, won't be fair in the future. I don't like that, but...
December 29, 2017 at 07:04
Strange that we haven't heard of any philosophers chiming in on why there were so many fires in California, just recently, or why there are sun spots.
December 29, 2017 at 03:34
Popper has been upgraded from "useless" to "not useless".
December 29, 2017 at 02:51
Scientists get paid more and are, in general, more useful than most philosophers. There are more people calling themselves "philosopher" now than in a...
December 29, 2017 at 02:28
From the New York Times 12 28 17: Rats! All those great looking svelte guys on the beach in their minimal Speedos are now lard asses, and have switche...
December 29, 2017 at 00:15
Possibly your act of taking their stereo killed them. After all, how will they survive without the soundtrack of their life playing in the background?...
December 29, 2017 at 00:01
Unfortunately, the cake does not get bigger for everyone, and the share of the cake that the rich get increases faster than the expansion of the cake....
December 28, 2017 at 23:51
One of Marx's quotes from the Manifesto is that "The state is a committee to organize the affairs of the bourgeoisie." In other words, the state is th...
December 28, 2017 at 23:44
This sounds a bit like the line of questioning in the House Unamerican Activities Committee..."Are you now, or were you ever a member of the Communist...
December 28, 2017 at 23:05
First you say that the law is only as good as the people behind it, then you say a tyrannical law is worse than tyrannical dictator, and that law legi...
December 28, 2017 at 19:48
What, exactly, are you intending to be for and against here? Why would you counterpose the Holocaust against law? The nazis made a sham of the law, re...
December 28, 2017 at 18:36
It isn't necessary to face nihilism stark naked and "unadorned". (Did you mistype "unarmored" but auto-correction decided it liked "unadorned" better?...
December 28, 2017 at 18:17
Christian morality is intact (it's a system; it's based on certain documents and models; these sorts of things, whether it be Christian or Égalité übe...
December 28, 2017 at 18:00
That seems like an improbably positive interpretation to apply to the Africa, S. Asia, SE Asia, and south America all at once.
December 28, 2017 at 09:28
Even Milton Friedman though a universal basic income was a good idea. How expensive would it be? Maybe not as much as one would think. Those who recei...
December 28, 2017 at 09:26
Venezuela is a basket case because of grossly bad management. Bad management doesn't work well in any economic system. "Entrepreneurs don’t have a spe...
December 28, 2017 at 08:57
No, I do not know that that is true. There was a time within my memory (maybe yours too) when college tuition at major universities was quite affordab...
December 28, 2017 at 01:59
Well, actually it is the quintessential step to solving growing inequality. The biggest underlying problem is the regressive tax system which allows g...
December 28, 2017 at 01:47
In fact, it is the rich that are confiscating the work of someone else's lifetime -- their employees. Labor creates all wealth. Capitalists get rich b...
December 28, 2017 at 01:40
There was a depression around 1893, and a few years later the beginning of the Progressive Era which was about as welcome by the rich as an infestatio...
December 28, 2017 at 01:19
So yes, the rich get richer because the poor get poorer.
December 27, 2017 at 23:27
There is no question that material resources are limited, and that their distribution is severely uneven. The distribution is neither fair nor equal. ...
December 27, 2017 at 23:16
Yes, affirming life as good is a deliberate act of engagement, just as asserting the meaninglessness of life is a deliberate act of engagement. I didn...
December 27, 2017 at 21:52
"Just wondering if you had a response to last post here:" I do. I think you are probably right that other animals do not self-reflect--at least most o...
December 27, 2017 at 21:40
Isn't logic something provable?
December 27, 2017 at 06:37
Let's switch topics for a while. Well, unscrupulous individuals do lots of bad things in every field, from warehouse management to the priesthood. Why...
December 27, 2017 at 00:39
Of course, it wouldn't be weird to say that IF you grew up believing that one went to heaven or hell after one died. The truth is the truth if we can ...
December 26, 2017 at 21:08
If gay marriage is put to a vote, and more people support it than reject it -- for whatever reasons -- then that is sufficient. It is sufficient becau...
December 26, 2017 at 08:02
I don't usually quote Schopenhauer, but this quote is pertinent: Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. The limitation on our free...
December 26, 2017 at 07:50
I think humans are perfectly capable of intentionally doing evil. One can always find a way of packaging an evil act as "intending to do good" even th...
December 26, 2017 at 07:40
These are not all high quality results: Query: "Science damages the environment" I am assuming a negative effect of science would be the large quantit...
December 26, 2017 at 07:28