The biggest problem I see in disability is that for some people (I am not thinking of you, Postface) is that disability benefits can, paradoxically, b...
Yes. But in whose interest? Marx observed that in capitalist economies the state (the government) is the servant of the wealthy business class. That's...
The existential situation of humanity is that we are sloshing around in a bath of water that is dirty and getting cold. We have to make a decision. We...
It isn't a question of remaining weak. It's a question of administrative interpretation. Undertaking college work is a good thing. An administrative j...
I am glad you received disability status. The benefit will help you either find yourself something more satisfactory, or if you don't, keep you from s...
Whether you live to see devastating effects of climate change depends on your age. I'm 70. I plan on being dead in a decade, so I'll be spared (I hope...
We can quibble about how much methane will rise from the thawed and warmed tundra and will erupt from methane hydrate deposits on the ocean floor, and...
And if we only have 750,000 years left, that's plenty. Of course, it could be a lot less. There are plenty of large chunks of material "out there" tha...
Is it the case that depressive personalities take a greater delight in irreverence, satire, travesties upon the dominant class, sarcastic jokes, and s...
There might be. First, most people are properly functional. They feel OK, at least. Maybe they feel really great. Their mental skills are operating at...
I thought that might be the case. I only know it by its title. You can judge a book by its cover if that's all you know about it. It's a great title, ...
I first heard this song on a Boston rock station, one summer day in 1969. River of Shit by The Fugs. So like life itself, rivers of shit. The Fugs dis...
There are people who have conducted research into the nature of success, what makes some people more successful than other people, and so on. People l...
IF you had been raised to believe in karma, or the compassionate Buddha, or Jesus -- or any other religious system or figure, THEN your belief might b...
I doubt if Hanover would appreciate this piece by the Fugs: How do you like it? When the Mode of the Music changes (reference to Plato) https://www.yo...
Assimilation worked well for the Borg of Star Trek fame; I doubt if it would work for you. You seem a bit too ruthlessly realistic to benefit from ado...
It probably is a different thread topic. Why don't you start it? We haven't discussed the aesthetics, ethics, or erotics of S & M or B & D recently. I...
It will probably help you to abandon the plank in your platform that "I don't believe in anything fully". It will help you if you at least believe in ...
I don't know anything about "self-hypnosis". Visualization--the repeated imagined performance of a specific skill--is thought to improve actual perfor...
I do not think it is outside of possibility. I believe it is not only possible, I think it happened. What I was trying to say clearly is that "I don't...
One can definitely watch too many TED Talks. What you are observing is not limited to philosophy. There are many particular fields of study that have ...
Of course, we're all here behind our courage-granting keyboards. But yes, PHILOSOPHY FORUM is akin to the Mall of America or Lenox Square in one respe...
There are two sides to schopenhauer1's coin of stasis: the side he likes to polish is the "doomed to the horror of boredom and generally unsatisfactor...
Is it possible that enslavement came first, and the stereotype followed? It seems like one would be required to think of one's slaves as inferior, esp...
I just finished reading John LeCarré's novel, The Constant Gardiner which is about GiantPharma and corruption. There a new drug that cures TB, crudely...
At least in Belgium, Wisconsin you will be perfectly safe. The worst thing that could happen to you is either eating too much cheese (Wisconsin State ...
I haven't read the articles you linked, but I am still not inclined to grant plants sentience. Plant to plant and plant to predator interaction is mos...
You won't get an argument from me about the evils of concentrated wealth. But on the subject of scientific research -- the amount of money flowing int...
Well, yeah -- Chicago is a dangerous town. BUT, it isn't dangerous if you stick to safe areas and safe activities. What are safe areas? Generally, the...
More or less. But not really very clearly. Yet. I wouldn't go anywhere close to vegetarian sentience, but some plants, at least, can signal that they ...
Minimalism isn't a new idea: voluntary poverty, simple living, Walden Pond, ascetic religious practices... It is highly likely that the only people wh...
Megabytes of comments have been made here about political correctness; racial insults, sexual insults, and so on. Asshole--there's a book by that titl...
I'm so glad we have another thread from the Pessimists United School (PUS) of Oozing, Mississippi. This is just arbitrary nonsense. Evidence, please. ...
This last weekend, 24 hours between Saturday morning and Sunday morning 4 people were killed and 22 were injured in separate incidents in Chicago. Oh ...
One of my favorite cities. You can take a subway from the O'Hare United Terminal into DT Chicago. Then you can switch trains DT and take another one t...
There was an experiment back in the 60s where some clearly crazy people were divided up into 3 groups. One group received what was at the time standar...
Good points. Are people confusing Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan, 1651) and Charles Darwin (Origin of the Species, 1859)? I wonder if people are thinking, "...
There are a lot of small inventions we use all the time; they may not be live saving or life changing, exactly. Safety pins; staplers; photocopiers; v...
The internet IS computers. The computer is a tremendous facilitator. Without content it has nothing to facilitate. Back in the 1970s, people working i...
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