Yes, it seems to be. The purpose of both an increased minimum wage and a living wage is to redistribute income downward to those who provide many of t...
A good example of the matter of beliefs and behavior is voting. It isn't entirely clear what, exactly, the relationship is between the two. Some peopl...
Perhaps because The behaviorists (like B. F. Skinner) took the view that the mind is a black box. We can not observe what goes on inside. We can obser...
No, never saw the Stuart Smalley bit. Of course it's more complicated than that -- James was referencing just one connection between thought, emotion,...
Yes. William James observed that behavior affects emotion. Acting (he didn't mean on stage) as if something was fearsome would tend to enhance ones fe...
Perhaps. As Reformed Nihilist pointed out, it's a tautology. but... Can you choose to care--can your rational machinery direct your emotional machiner...
It would appear that your tchotchkes are about to fall of the shelf. Better move them before Hanover's cat gets to them. Oh oh -- an empty bed. https:...
Were we to devise new insults and use fruits and vegetables for slurs, which ones would we use? So and so is such a __________________ for females, __...
Who the hell thought there was anything derogatory about being a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant? We are the apex of creation, the paragon of animals, th...
N for nigger, you mean? I'm a W.A.S.P. I would use 'nigger' more, but it upsets white people so much. We've gotten to the point where one can't even s...
OK. I just consulted the Urban Dictionary (which is decidedly NOT authoritative): They said... Cuck is a man who's a little bitch. Contrary to the bel...
You are not alone in this. Many people have found evil quite attractive at times. Can you appreciate the goodness of a beautiful flower WITHOUT having...
Chernobyl may well have caused 40,000 cancer deaths. Is that not a big deal? Well, of course it is -- but 40,000 cancer deaths in a large population i...
A competently designed, properly sited, and carefully operated nuclear power plant is an appropriate source of energy, at least for the time being. Ho...
It would be shocking that only 4% of the energy in a fuel rod were used, IF it were simple to use say 80%. It isn't. For another, one might not want t...
Yes. Our largest and least expensive new energy source is CONSERVATION. There are several reasons why "use less energy" makes good sense. 1. We waste ...
Sure, we're spiritual beings if that means we are rational creatures possessed of both will and intellect. Sure, we are PERSONS. however... Evolution ...
Well yes, I do understand that celibacy is more complicated than a neurotic repression of sexuality (or anything else). It isn't celibacy that makes o...
No, sexuality isn't the sin quo non of human development. Sexuality, along with physical development, cognitive development, personality development a...
Keep digging. Thinking something is wrong may be only the result of educated morality. If you think tax fraud is immoral, then that is probably the re...
Baloney. If there is one thing that infants don't have, it's a sense of decency. It takes education (and screwed up experiences) to develop warped val...
It's quite possible (even probable) that your emotional response to exposed torsos led you to view it as indecent and (if carried to far) immoral--rat...
When God is the topic, specify what you think God is or is not. If your God is unknowable, say no more. If your God has attributes which you can not e...
Oral history existed prior to written history which began about 5,000 years ago. Oral history captured sequences of events that were important to a pe...
Based on observations over several years, it is apparent that some (many? all?) of our philosophers here have body issues, and that some have mixed th...
Shirley, there are black women who are ugly, just as there are white women who are ugly. The beauty or ugliness of a woman will probably have at least...
"Snakes" was a cultural quote that missed the target. In the libretto of Candide, music by Leonard Bernstein, Pangloss is explaining why this is the b...
No body knows for sure what exactly is in probiotic pills -- they are not regulated. There are beneficial bacteria in yoghurt. Yes, they are good for ...
True. When I was a kid we played in the dirt a lot, and swam in a creek shared by cattle. Children with allergies and asthma were kind of unusual. One...
Clearly, a personality disorder can affect social interactions. This is always true because personality (good bad or indifferent) is that with which w...
You had commented on belief in god(s) being like belief in extraterrestrials. "the claim that one has experienced the presence of God in their life is...
The sort of "dirt" that one needs to worry about exists abundantly within the category of "relatively clean" or even "very clean". The 5 second rule d...
It wouldn't be at all bizarre to claim one had experienced the presence of extraterrestrials, ghosts, spirits, devils, angels, or any other spooky phe...
I was taught/trained to believe in God. First parents and siblings, then the influence of Sunday school and church, and peers. By the age of 18 I had ...
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