The behavioral sciences have taken some deserved hits to their reputations lately. Valid results should be duplicable, for instance. A survey found th...
Why don't you give your dog beef bones? a 6 inch marrow bone has nutritious marrow (which your dog will lick out of the bone in a day or two) and then...
America was founded by the English, who began the slaughter of Indians and enslavement of Africans. Stephen Pinker (The Better Angels of our Nature) n...
Everyone will die; 6,300 died in the last hour. Death is death. Big deal? The are expected deaths (heart attack, cancer, infection, stroke, etc.) and ...
You are talking about how information about anything becomes available to the mind, and you are right: memory. A very few people who have had traumati...
My memory could only go back 71 years -- which is pushing it. Let's say 65 years. If memory was the only means by which I could think there was a past...
Everyone has a different point of view of shared events. That is why there are disputes in sports about who did what. Before multiple TV cameras enter...
I don't know that anybody can understand the gun control debate -- Americans included -- without understanding the difference between the long history...
Darth, you should know from several episodes of Star Trek that the Time Line can not be altered. If you attempt to change the future while you are in ...
I don't know why you are clinging to luck with such tenacity. That isn't how you made it into the big time, is it? My understanding was that you were ...
For which statement do you want scientific proof? History tells us that the National Rifle Association has, since 1977, sought to normalize guns in pu...
Carpenters, plumbers, communication satellite designers, dishwashers, etc. all provide work in exchange for wages. Chances are, if 60% of a carpenter'...
IF 50% of your good intentions end up leading to bad results, you should consult a specialist to find out if you are in the wrong universe. A more lik...
That's right. Hunting for meat was de regueur in until the frontier closed in the 19th century. Lots of people still hunt. I'm fine with hunting. But ...
Thanks for your response. Actually, it isn't one of mine either. I don't own a gun (but I think target practice might be interesting). What interests ...
There was a good discussion on the NRA, the American terrorist group, on Fresh Air tonight. Terry Gross interviewed Mike Spies, who writes for The Tra...
Don't be silly modern feminists can't change anything. How many real men does it to change a lightbulb? None. Real men aren't afraid of the dark. "The...
The "left" has a more 'collectivist' approach, and generally thinks that the government should keep the peace. The "right" has no time for such nonsen...
I came from a religious, "idealist" milieu, and have in my later years adopted a much more secular, pragmatic, consequentialist approach. It is very d...
There is a complete 'disconnect' between guns and consequences. I'm not talking about squirrel, duck, and deer hunters. "Disturbed"? You think? "Myste...
I've been to the mountain top and found that it was pretty much like the flat land. Welcome to The Philosophy Forum. So, how young are you, and what d...
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are Social Justice Warriors par excellence. The American liberal, receiving many pleas for donations, has to de...
No, no -- requiring a hand would violate the Americans with Disabilities Act. Adaptive technology will save the day. A wheelchair mounted semi-automat...
Sure, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and all that. However, there is a significant regional difference in the attitude of people toward th...
Agustino -- what makes you think he lost his connection to reality? I don't know. I could not care less whether he was in touch with reality or not, w...
`I'd like to give you a precise reference, but I don't remember where I got it... but in the 19th century, someone of apparently sound mind blew up an...
You can't have it all ways -- that masculinity is a sickness, instinctual, and a social construct -- because the causation is quite different, like so...
Get some power tools if you can afford it--hand tools if not, some wood, nails, screws, and so on and have yourself an orgy. You'll be able to boost y...
Some things symbolize being 'masculine' -- definitely, and some things characterize masculinity. Wearing a tie, white shirt, and a suit with oxfords i...
Of course it does. Even if people are pretty much all alike, each of us (male/female) has to work out our way of being in the world, in our case as me...
Catalonia is part of Spain which is part of the European Union. If it secedes from Spain, it will still be culturally part of Spain and it will be par...
The revolution of 1776 isn't the relevant frame. It's the Constitution, which was adopted 13 years later. And for most of our history, the Second Amen...
"When will the US come to its senses and repeal the second amendment?" Michael asked. This is the part of the pro-gun/2nd amendment lobby argument tha...
My exposure to Playboy Magazine is minimal, so I can't actually judge it. (Gay guys generally weren't / aren't eager Playboy readers.) I didn't aspire...
Rubber bullets are not water balloons. The mobilization of police forces from around the country, along with the instructions they received, pretty mu...
It is a good animation, and a good presentation of emotion vs. reason non-debate. It's a non-debate because emotion and reason both serve. But one mus...
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