To God who is omnipresent in time and space, everyone who was ever born has died. But, as luck would have it, to an omnipresent god everyone who died ...
It's a screwy story. Was it the case that Pharaoh was actually quite reasonable, but had to be toughened up by the lord for theatrical purposes ? The ...
The Matrix film has been cited many times here in support of the "unreality of reality". It's a work of fiction; it's entertainment; it isn't philosop...
I was present at a number of very large demonstrations against the war in Vietnam in 1968 and 1970, mostly in Boston and Washington, DC. I witnessed v...
Solipsism isn't the issue here. What is at issue is a) a sweeping generalization (these get made about a million times a day around the world); b) why...
You open by claiming that believing objective knowledge is a delusion. If all knowledge is subjective, how can you assert that objectivity is delusion...
Credit is like printing money, where everyone with a card has a legal press. A lot more cash chases the goods people want or need, and prices, wages, ...
The provenance of the oil is no more specific than 'Spain'. However, I'll just assume it was from Andalucía; it sounds nice. I haven't opened it yet. ...
A friend of mine called the Choir in Salt Lake the Mormon Tabernacle Cheese Press. He didn't like their sound. Certainly the sandwich could be far mor...
the Mormon Tabernacle Sandwich Compressor about which you posted a video actually isn't destructive enough. What you need to do is achieve a complete ...
In the 1950s we were expected to memorize some things like the multiplication table. It remains a useful bit of rote learning, I before E except after...
@"javi2541997" I bought some olive oil at the store that was from Spain. Maybe you passed by the very tree from which the extra virginal organic non g...
I don't know whether the 'viral meme' behaves like a virus invading the body -- where the immune system has to register the agent of invasion before i...
Take the millions of Trump loyalists (MAGA). They are skeptical of the electoral system, the government, the science establishment, and so on. Their c...
Did you intend to omit a negative vote? Why do you think that the ordinary people who compose any government would be better than parents at designing...
If it's that simple, that hearing a phrase infects my brain with a meme or idea, then I can stop this discussion in its tracks by saying, "Don't think...
Mules (the 4 legged animal with big ears, not the shoe--see picture) are pretty big and strong, the better to trample people with. Gelded or intact, m...
Perhaps 'nihilism' is a contradiction in terms. To declare that life is meaningless is to take a position on the meaning of life. It's unavoidable. A ...
I know what depression feels like. How do nihilists feel? Are there happy, productive nihilists who bounce out of bed in the morning, glad to be alive...
Now you have stated an opinion I don't agree with, and we were getting along so well! :smile: There surely is a lot of disagreement over religion and ...
Absolutely. The rich -- the wealthiest people -- consume a very disproportionate share of goods. It isn't the they eat so much -- the rich are more li...
I like meat, but you are right -- I / we should switch to vegetarian / vegan diets. This makes sense. One of our appalling practices is growing corn f...
When Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb (1968) the world's population was about 3.7 billion. Today world population is a little over 8 billion...
Short answer: I don't know. That said... World-wide free trade was thought to be helpful for global peace. A global government (League of Nations firs...
As well you should. Speculation about nuclear war suggests that not being able to determine the facts (is that a missile, a bird, a plane, or superman...
At the time it seemed reasonable to wonder why Denmark needed upgraded F-16s. Given an aggressive Russia, it makes more sense. Some years ago it seeme...
There are some worrisome trends. One is from a 10 year trend--young people (in their 30s and 40s) dying from colorectal cancer. One of my nephews--oth...
Whether I (we) am (are) willing or not makes no difference, because we operate within a system which decidedly increases some people's opportunities a...
We could do a poll, but what's the point? It's like conducting a survey to find out whether forum participants breathe. As they sang in HAIR! the Amer...
Yes, on campus -- an athletics department building next to where I worked. I was a bit compulsive and heading towards major depression, but wasn't qui...
I used to jog 7 miles to work -- maybe 3 times a week. The best 3 miles (5k) took me about 36 minutes, maybe 32 on a good day. The last 4 miles was sl...
My belief in some level of consciousness among the various species is that brains evolved their capacities over geologic time scales, and our brains a...
Lacing up everything from heroin to my boots with fentanyl is evil. The Chinese ship a lot of fentanyl precursors to Mexico where it the drug is made ...
It is always darkest before the dawn because 3:30 a.m is only relatively darker than 4:30 a.m., given the increasing light of dawn. Things don't natur...
A child might well put somebody in mortal danger without understanding the mechanism of 'mortal danger'. A 4 year old might pick up a loaded gun (left...
Some People in the richer cooler areas of the earth will adapt to global warming. People in the hottest parts of India and the Middle East will be dea...
I believe that transsexuals (most are M to F) are living a fantasy, proped up with hormones and in many cases, surgery. At least some, maybe many, are...
Pretending that one can change one's gender is fantasy. Some of the fantasies we entertain in our heads should stay there. 2050 is only 26 years away;...
So, the funereal composting is out too, I suppose. It's above ground in a large container with wood chips and leafy material; kale, probably. Green bu...
Your corporeal integrity concerns in the afterlife remind me of an old (and not very funny) joke. The revival meeting preacher was quoting Matthew 13:...
The items in the paragraph are not an extra-wide paint-roller description of what is, or of what was; it's a perhaps broad brush description of a time...
Why people vote the way they do is worth a thread of its own. It is a very contentious topic. Explaining voter behavior is a very contentious topic in...
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