I don't know why they pull one post and not another. I would be much more worried if they started killing off threads, wholesale. I have never seen a ...
Remember, the Mods are volunteer, unpaid, and have lives to lead apart from moderating. How much time do you suppose they have to pursue obscure agend...
Good question. Quick answer: Sort of, perhaps, maybe. We all make these assessments. Usually we have to get to know somebody well to judge whether our...
That would mean people like you stepping up to the plate. You too could be a moderator! I would agree that the moderatori are more left than right, mo...
This is pretty much meaningless, at least as far as I can tell. No one else could be Dawkins, nor me, nor you. We aren't missing any number of Newtons...
There are many websites catering to the lowest common denominator, in every category of website you can think of. The achievement here lies in rising ...
A chicken is slaughtered by the High Moderatum of the Forum who drags out the bird's innards onto the altar and searches for the gizzard. If the gizza...
Well! Just share a tiny bit of your historical knowledge to tell me which of these is a) inaccurate and b) morally problematic. Piss poor governments?...
Schopenhauer, sweet honey comes from bees that sting. Listen to Bernstein's Candide Quite succinct. Here's Leonard Bernstein's musical version (from C...
No, I don't think colonialism explains it. Most of the world was colonialised by Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, Russia, and to a lesser degre...
Sure. But terrorism and religious ideology was part of the IRA bombings in England -- Protestant / Catholic. That wasn't the only ideology at work the...
I used to bike, swim, and jog, do yoga and calisthenics. I was svelte and fit. Then injuries and age snowed white hair on me. When you start getting o...
How worthwhile is love which does not have an effect in action? Whether it's filio, eros, storge, or agape, It exists as an action we wish to carry ou...
Yes, I think antidepressants have relatively low efficacy for middling depression, compared to some other medications. Tranquilizers are quite effecti...
I disagree with a lot of what Agustino has to say, but I wouldn't accuse him of evangelizing politically or religiously -- certainly no more than a lo...
Are you deeply alienated, in a state of anomie, loneliness, and abandonment? Or, are you approximating what you think such a miserable state would be ...
Per above, the depressed are not in a good position to analyze their depression. Miscommunication continues ad absurdum because (to some extent) there...
The fact is, the people who might tell us the most about depression (the people who are depressed) are observing their condition with impaired skills....
Confession: The thing that ended my long stretch of depression (25 years worth) was a crisis in the lives of my partner and myself. I was fired when I...
Chorus 'Cause it's not just what you're born with It's what you choose to bear It's not how much your share is But it's how much you can share And it'...
I've had poor vision since I was born--congenital defect. The biggest vision improvement for me has been computer screens and the digital books; the s...
Housing opportunities for the poor in the US are like those in the UK, I think. There is lots of up-market housing, and not a lot of affordable, down-...
There's nothing about being a Communist that suggests one should be a spendthrift. I've often wished to drive, but don't because I can't see well enou...
Singer's view is pretty close to Jesus. The Last Judgement is based on the degree to which "I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye...
People struggling on $80,000 ($1500+ a week, $38+ an hour, assuming a 40 hour week) usually have difficulty making ends meet because they are upgradin...
“To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” (Hamlet) This is said by Ham...
If I were working with a person who wanted to be called XX, even if they were XY, I would comply with their wishes, just to make the working relations...
Artificial Intelligences and aliens can sit there and declare they are humans until hell freezes over. Their beliefs do not make it so. I might like t...
It has been said that "if you are not depressed it's because you're not paying attention." That's something of a political joke, but there is an eleme...
I don't know whether there is anything that can be done to "cure" your depression. You probably (and I would say, correctly) have limits for treatment...
If we accede to a wish that someone is to be called a woman or a man, because he or she has decided that's what he or she is -- even though they are e...
Ass is a pain in this life Exemplars of ass are rife. Ass is a thing oft pursued Ass often ass found it's rued. Our wants so ever elastic Give us illu...
Sciatic nerve injury caused by pie eating must be a medical first. Quick, call the Mayo Clinic. Do you have a theory about how pie-eating behavior wou...
The fact is, most people (no matter their performance in most degree programs) require, receive, and learn their trade in On-the-Job-Training (OJT). H...
The 1% to 5% of the population that controls, owns, takes in so much of the wealth isn't out on the sidewalk peddling vacuum cleaners, or flogging a n...
Well, religion and politics are catalyzers for most people, no matter what the religion and politics are, or what the issue is. Sometimes the result o...
It is important to obtain historical perspective. Yes, the islamic bombers are mean, vicious, crazy, hateful, ill-advised, and a few other things, but...
I agree with this approach -- to the extent that we can remember dreams, dreaming is the side-show of the brain processing the content of its experien...
I would like the 5% of the population who have sucked up a hideously disproportionate share of the wealth from the working classes to collaborate in p...
Your question is more complicated that it first appears. First, there is the question of how much one's education was worth as an education. Some peop...
All of the above. Keeping up with the Joneses leads to living beyond one's means. Trying to BE the Jones that other people keep up with is living beyo...
The two best jobs I had (14 years worth for the two) were: tutoring college students in how to study and trying to get them to think about what they w...
"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." Ecclesiastes What isn't stupid and meaningless from th...
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