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Perhaps you could share just what those strategies are that can turn someone who hates your guts into somebody who realizes who you really are, and th...

"Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not...

"How bad and long lasting does pain have to be for death to be good?" Pain can be subjectively rated; to some extent it can be described. It's not pos...

I think the willingness to forgive is important. And I don't mean just forgiving unfaithfulness, or an attempt on one's life by one's partner. Sometim...

"it" (whatever makes a relationship good) isn't this, it isn't that, you say. WHAT, exactly, do you think it is that makes a relationship not only wor...

Right. I don't believe in the perfect person. If someone has a reasonably good assortment of virtues, and not too many vices, that's as good as we get...

Right. Keep it simple: Like Micah 6:8 says it, "What does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your Go...

Yeah, poetic, but let's not go there. The angle: many men look for a spouse that is like their mother, and many women look for a spouse who is like th...

There is a timer on reproduction -- more for women, but also for men. you have a few years before you have to worry about it. Welcome to The Philosoph...

Not that I give a rat's ass whether it is, was, or will be, but... Que sera, sera. Whatever will be will be.

It could have been that an alpha female looked you in the eye and said, "You. Follow me." And you followed.

What resemblance do you think your mother will have to your sought after "good woman"?

May you, , be forever watched over by machines of loving grace.

I don't. Elaborate, in excruciating detail.

Rather than looking for perfection... What is a reasonably good woman like? What is a reasonably good man like?

Well, why don't you get your ass over here and become an American Citizen. Then you could serve in this unilateral force and help bring the blessings ...

Shriek.

How long were the British in India? A 150 years, counting the East India Company and the Raj. The British were economically and militarily exhausted a...

Ok, now the ethical problem. Whether you should buy vinyl records or not is a "first world problem". Starving third world peasants have to make do wit...

What is it about loving music (which is itself a very worthy thing) that requires you to buy vinyl records? Is it the music or the vinyl that you like...

The respect for rights built into the Iraqi constitution and 50¢ won't get you a cup of turkish coffee. Workable representative government, respect fo...

This is at least a plan. I have some doubts. For one, how large an army would it take? How long would it take? How much would it cost? When we invaded...

If we hadn't gone there in the first place, we would probably not have upset the sunni / shi'ite applecart. When we invaded Iraq, I thought we would f...

It's "contracting" not "protracting". I'm not sure what diseases men catch from actually humping camels--or donkeys, either. If you have a choice, opt...

No, not trying for sarcasm. I was illustrating how difficult it is for outsiders to identify enemies who don't want to be identified. A Taliban fighte...

Americans don't actually like terrorist conservative Republicans. In fact, many people hate them about as much as they hate the occupying troops. Whil...

So, the likes of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS are in lots of different places in Asia and Africa. Have we successfully rooted them out anywhere? I ...

I don't know what Trump's military advisors told him; I don't know what his political advisors told him; I don't know what a little bird whispered in ...

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Thanks. I was reading an essay by a sociologist who said that sociologists urgently need to get reacquainted with biology. "Sociology’s Stagnation Par...

What were the animals doing that reinforced gender stereotypes? Was a female rhino doing the dishes while the male rhino worked on a car?

You could call them screeds, rants, diatribes, tirades, harangues, attacks, fulminations, or just plain shit. There are alternatives. Or something... ...

Studying philosophy just doesn't seem to fit into my schedule.

That bugs me a lot too. Sometimes I really wonder, "was I just imagining that I was talking?" when some jerk butted in and took over the conversation ...

Even very young children have sexual interests, whatever adult sexual course they will follow. I vaguely remember having sexual thoughts (feelings? do...

That's one of the things about the site -- it's an odd mixture of conventional and conspiratorial writing.

There is something fishy about the site. For instance, there is a screed about the Charlottesville business being linked to Clinton and Obama: There i...

I'll have somebody send it to you as soon as I am dead.

I thought that that was a result of a 'leak' of information that was supposed to have been kept confidential and wasn't. Yes, this is an interesting q...

They carry IDs with them to help the sky-god distinguish martyrdoms from routine riff-raff die-offs, I suppose. And with 7+ billion riff-raffs to keep...

An intriguing mystery. But then, why do terrorists rent cars/vans/trucks using their own credit cards? Why don't they steal somebody else's card first...

I think people are born with a bent toward pessimism or optimism, and I doubt they will have much luck deliberately converting themselves to the oppos...

Chomsky is a very insightful writer, very persuasive. Kind of relentless in a way. There's a good film, "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the M...

The info and amusements businesses probably don't want to destroy indigenous cultures -- they probably wouldn't gain much if anything from doing that....

A related aspect of global capitalism is the immense concentration of production within fewer and fewer but larger and large corporations. Disney has ...

All true, and that's capitalism for you. You were expecting... something else? The author of your linked article is a member of a group specializing i...

Compassion and love are eminently good things, real and true. There are aspects of some philosophers / philosophy that one is better off laying aside.

Of course I've felt confusion; apathy -- not so much. Meaning, for me anyway, hasn't been "ever changing"; it's more like "punctuated change". Several...

Some people are inner directed and some are other directed. Some people are very dependent on approval from others people, and some are much less so. ...

Maybe "meaning" and "passion or zest" are not necessarily linked. Passion and zest are attributes belonging to an object. Feeling passion and zest by ...