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I'm sure my telepathy skills are worse than sucky. Like non-existent. Same for you. It doesn't exist. "Wooooo moooooan" the vaporish ghost of patriarc...

I'm trying to work out whether "consulting anthropologist" is a positive or a negative.

And a warm "thank you" for attending to my attention needs.

Yeah, well, so did I. b. 1946. Other than siblings, friends, and co-workers, I haven't had that much to do with women, whimper or whopper. Mostly just...

Or maybe people have had it up the ying yang saying "up the ying yang".

Where is the ying yang located, exactly -- like when people say "up the ying yang"?

Why should the question be limited to women? Men range between whimpering submissive to bared teeth, big-hard-dick dominant. From experience I know th...

I seems really unreasonable of me to say this, but I doubt very much that you have no belief in progress. Why so? a) One has to do a tremendous amount...

It's people like you who turn otherwise thoughtful, kind, generous, thoughtful -- all round NICE people -- into cantankerous argumentative assholes. I...

Some significant part of human behavior is encoded in the operations of DNA and another significant part of human behavior is learned. We don't know p...

This may all be totally unhelpful to you. I don't know. Human culture certainly has a history. We (humans) started accumulating culture because very l...

Deep, deep, down, down, in the bottom of my heart I feel gender and sex are more or less the same thing. BUT it is, nevertheless, the case that some r...

Sorry, I didn't see that clarification. Pardon.

Your use of "birth" is not idiomatic. "Birth" describes the moment when a fetus leaves the womb. Conception doesn't mean "birth". There are other word...

There are, indeed, ways in incentives healthy lifestyles. The difficulty is devising sufficiently attractive and affordable incentives which actually ...

The insurance companies are the parasitic middlemen in this industry. Their administrative role has become bloated, counter-productive, and self-servi...

The reason for this is and you can add in the added mortality of methamphetamines and shared needle use for any recreational drug. Add in higher suici...

The conflicter may be a bad person and have false perceptions, but also occupy a position from which the conflicted can not reach them. For instance, ...

Human nature, according to modern Marxist thinkers is constructed. The older view is that it is essential. Of course, it's both -- some parts are lear...

All discourse about how the world COULD BE organized to achieve a better quality of life is SPECULATIVE, of course. The problems lying in the way of e...

Who becomes a manager should be based on election by workers. "Management and oversight" is a useful service which helps people perform well, when the...

Well, which is the best model depends on what values you want to optimize. In the Standard Model that we have, profit is optimized. Optimizing profit ...

Do you mean, "least warlike" peaceful, or "inner peace" peaceful? Or "most contented" peaceful? Namibia and Mongolia have the highest rate of nations ...

I think poetry would be one of your best sources. I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman Love III by George Herbert (16th century poet) The Passiona...

There was a popular pre-WWII eastern European group of female performers whose nightclub act featured their appearing totally nude, except for paper m...

If Herr Heister Eggcart can't know that all human life isn't worth the suffering, then by extension I would assume that Monsieur Agustino can't know t...

If you don't care for one actual wretched woman in Moline, how can you care about the abstraction of "the human race as a whole"?

Three points: One. About half the people in the world are electing to procreate at a sub-replacement rate. The sub-replacement rate is less than 2 chi...

Get lost.

All true. Why? For one, employers have gained too many legal protections against worker organization, and are themselves alert and and organized. Thei...

Violence against a comrade may well stiffen the backbone.

Does gay bashing make gay men submissive? No, I don't think so. It might make us more cautious. You know, most gay men do not get beat up by straights...

OK. It's been my experience that gay men are a lot like straight men (and gay women are a lot like straight women). Rage is rage. Brutal is brutal, it...

Just off hand, I can't think of any specifically gay songs about gay relationships. Not a lot of songs (of the sort I might listen to) have been writt...

Here's a Country Western Dialogue on who is responsible for the state of man/woman relationships. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Ikl-y_rZA

Workers of the world unite? You have nothing to lose but your chains and a world to gain? Tie the boss up and tell him he stays in the broom closet un...

And the guy two ledges down had no hands or feet; on the third ledge down was someone who had jumped, didn't know the third ledge was there, and ended...

Is he the one who invented the pyrrhic victory?

Real depression is a disorder of the brain. Maybe it is endogenous. If so, external changes might not make that much difference. If it's exogenous, th...

The Humphrey Institute at the U of MN used to have a graduate department called "Reflective Leadership". I worked two years there as a clerk. I never ...

Yes, you might get heat stroke at 24ºC! I don't care how dry the air might be, 122º F is too damn hot.

It's 68ºF and clear at 11:00 a.m. in Minneapolis.

Oh, oh... no more Mr. Nice Guy. Guess I'd better mind my Ps and Qs from now on!

Hey, Wosret, what is happening with you lately? Some turmoil or another, seems like. Wish you the best, of course.

Welcome to The Philosophy Forum. You, me, and a billion other people. Welcome to this club too. Yes. The universe does not supply a ready made meaning...

Yes, sorry, it does. The reason why people heed the results of science is that the results of science (and scientific thinking) are more reliable than...

We could / should have a lexicon of odor. Perfumers do (woody, spicy, floral, fecal, etc.). Professional tasters are able to distinguish all sorts of ...

I too would be thrilled to discover that birds and dolphins, dogs and apes had language in the way we use the term. I don't think they do. Parrots hav...

Because 50 state governments would have one hell of a problem coordinating their collective defense against foreign enemies. Imagine the 48 states try...

Why are humans so concerned about whether their many, highly elaborated languages, or even simple languages, are the sole property of themselves? "Onl...