The unexamined life might not be worth living, but the carefully examined life might be more troubled. One does not need to think, read, or do philoso...
Have you, by any chance, heard of or read The Anatomy of Melancholy by ROBERT BURTON (1577–1640)? Wikipedia has an article on the book, Goodreads has ...
Here's a link to the NEW SCIENTIST article on a 40 year old married man with a large tumor in the right orbifrontal cortex, an area having to do with ...
One. Peelings of laughter. One penguin to other penguin: "You look like you are wearing a tuxedo." Other penguin: "Who says I'm not?" More peelings of...
I think Danes should do it for Denmark, and Japanese should do it for Japan. Indians should stop doing it for India, and the Chinese have been working...
In other words, Genghis wasn't afflicted by a sickly inability to use force. Maybe Lenin and Stalin were his students. Lenin once said that there was ...
That's right. If your functional disorders need a thorough profiling, it will be a psychologist who does that. If there seems to be something wrong wi...
I am aware of the toxicity of these drugs -- where the therapeutic dose is close to the toxic dose -- like with lithium. A bit too much and one gets q...
Hmmm, we members of the National Association of English Majors can be a ruthless lot, true enough. But we prefer to not defenestrate -- we prefer to e...
is more specific; I would agree that it isn't very 'deep' -- except for #7. #7 has more depth. Someone who has fulfilled your initial minimum, or 1-6 ...
Yes, it is anxiety for nothing IF you never try to produce writing about the history of something or someone. What about the history of international ...
There is also a legal reason why psychologists and psychiatrists operate differently: their licenses are different. Physicians (psychiatrists, for ins...
Perpetual growth is, of course, unsustainable. Crop yields can keep going up only as long as one can sell the harvest at a high enough price to pay fo...
Corporations need to keep growing because their investor-owners want more dividends this year than last year. They would want to sell their stock for ...
I think most people are at least reasonably virtuous, though "virtue" might not be a word they would use to describe their own behavior. Parents teach...
https://78.media.tumblr.com/049aea9ef4423cc3243fae145b0ceb7a/tumblr_oy6yvu4T9k1s4quuao1_540.png Although there is some dialectal retention of the orig...
FEAST OF SIN!! Some portions of the cover were censored to avoid frightening the horses. So much fun for only 50¢. Ah, the good old days. I suppose Ha...
It's an interesting word. "Bailie" is Old French for 'bailiff'--an officer of a court who handles ordinary matters, like looking after prisoners, serv...
There is nothing wrong, weak, or deficient about having help when you fight your personal battles. #MeToo is presumably about more than one creep -- H...
First, I am not projecting -- I am working class. I know of what I speak. Second, some people have class consciousness and other people don't. Not tha...
Power differentials are ubiquitous, even if the differentials are not always as great as between the king and the serving wench. One can get fired for...
You seem to live in this lyric, "All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray". I'm pretty sure you will reject whatever interpretation is offered, l...
EMILY DICKINSON “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And s...
Since your referencing Marx, let's get the whole quote: The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Re...
Probably because A. most of the participants are male B. probably haven't been sexually exploited on the job C. probably haven't even been offered sex...
Minnesota has about 15% of its employees represented, Arizona has about 5%. "Right to work" are rules disadvantageous to workers who seek protection f...
Getting fired because someone lied about you, or because somebody just didn't like you and had made trouble for you, or because the boss just didn't l...
This is a very cogent point. People forget that the animating intelligences within computers, robots, etc. are... humans. The "effect" of "intelligenc...
All workers can expect to be harassed on the job, sooner or later, whatever form the harassment takes. The reason for this is that most jobs are explo...
Distant places look younger because their light just reached us, which of course it was anxious to do. The more distant the objects, the older they ar...
There is a lot of "organic" chemistry going on out there. In 2014 Iso-propyl cyanide was detected in a star-forming cloud 27,000 light-years from Eart...
I can testify to the notion that movies affect the way people think. For instance, I admired the lifestyles of adults in movies who had leisure and mo...
When I was a child (born 1946) we went to the local movie house once a week. The fare was quite often second rate westerns in which cowboys and indian...
You just said: We can not trust the fantasies of anyone who misspells Mozart. Take him away. Stephen Pinker The Better Angels of our Nature showed tha...
Another angle on whether a fantasy can be moral or immoral is whether we choose what we find arousing, or whether it is below the level of choice. I'm...
Oh. Rats. If one believes in an omniscient God from whom nothing can be hidden, the content of one's mind is as open for inspection as ones public act...
I don't know whether this is true or not, but for some people "human nature" is the hinge on which swings the question of whether we can be more peace...
It gets even worse than that. For a while some Scandinavian companies were air-freighting freshly caught fish to China to be gutted, de-scalled, fille...
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