If you look at the many species, evolution is very slow--most of the time; major evolutionary innovations come along rarely. A million years will prob...
I wanted to confirm that I read and am thinking about your post. Parsing out love and virtue as you do... will require some reflection. In what order ...
Yes. Good point. Storge isn't thought about, talked, written about enough. And Eros is over-emphasized. For eros, i'd say it's the cause of a lot of s...
The problem I have with the argument about objectifying the men or women performing in a pornography product is that I am not interacting with the act...
I agree with you here, joy is a pleasure. Likewise, pleasure and pain are often intertwined. I largely agree with this up to the last statement that "...
"other directed" people rely heavily on other people for cues about their own worth, their proper role, what's important, what's not. Nobody is entire...
As Wayfarer pointed out, there are several kinds of 'love'. Clearly here we are talking about agáp?. Eros, philia, and storge might motivate one to su...
I think there is an obvious answer to your interesting question, and the answer is probably "No". We won't be able to understand the people of 1 milli...
It could mean major mental illness or it could mean excessive other-directedness which has suddenly let them down. However, when we see high rates of ...
oh, THERE YOU ARE! So glad you reappeared. Have you been unwell, in prison, recovering from a car crash, or just too busy to be a piston of debate her...
I once spent 30 years with a mate who was afflicted with a severe bi-polar disorder. I'll readily grant that there are several factors in play: social...
No, no. It is neither possible nor appropriate for 'psychiatry' to deal with the unhappiness of 20% of the population -- that's 60 million people in t...
Yes, of course we can. I can understand a million bacteria on my tongue without any difficulty; I can deal with 250,000 miles to the moon just fine. I...
The task of the science fiction writer is to invent a universe that is immediately convincing. We don't need to understand it, it just needs to be 'be...
The Democrats were predicting from November 9 onward that Trump would be impeached for something. Firing the FBI director was probably petty and maybe...
Do you mean an operational, or business link--like pimps produce porn? Or, a link in that whatever leads one to try porn might lead them to try prosti...
The pornography business is a sleazy topic which mainline media rarely cover, and about which few serious books are written, besides books and article...
While there are few physical markers that exist for schizophrenia, bi-polar, psychosis, or catatonic depression--the several types of mental illness w...
I wasn't trying to be cynical, nor was I trying (here) to suggest that medical practitioners are either gods or unusually screwed up. If you go back a...
One of the problems (I think it is a problem, anyway) with psychiatric diagnosis is that way too many definitions of abnormalities have been sub-divid...
Depression does have a specific definition (it's a collection of moods and behavior changes), but the term is also used very generally. There is a dif...
From what I've read, the pornography business doesn't operate the same way that prostitution operates. Pornography producers are media businesses with...
Very good points. One of the things that happened in the US, from which other countries were spared, was prohibition. But prohibition has some highly ...
Could you expand on this a bit more. Are you dating the sexual revolution from 1870 to 1970? Norms of sexual behavior wasn't static during this period...
Yes, I think this is at least generally true, and here is the theory behind it: At various times we occupy different compartments of life activities. ...
Yes. This is a critical fact: Porn is fiction, not reality. As fiction goes, porn is not the most problematic genre. You are exaggerating. Granted, th...
https://68.media.tumblr.com/1627b9a8f84685bc277281f525cfcaf4/tumblr_oprssilFS41s4quuao1_400.png Labels. Ideological prison? Or the only thing keeping ...
I have known a handful of people who were very intelligent, had not gone to college--or had stalled out on their PhD program, were very well read, wer...
Among pentecostals, evangelicals, and fundamentalists, "a personal relationship with Jesus" means "accepting Jesus as your personal savior". "acceptin...
The new job would certainly have sucked--if not in the first 15 minutes, then fairly soon. There is a very obvious reason why people are paid to work....
Unfortunately, the ridiculous world exists within cloistered walls. Teaching monks, especially, are pretty much in the world. Now if you became a cloi...
I would agree that most humanities degrees are practically useless in terms of employment. When it comes to facing an interviewer and they look at you...
I have very little good to say about teacher education and teacher certification. I did go that route and it was mostly a waste of time. But then my d...
I have found some contentment doing volunteer janitor work at church. There are several good things about it. It's a pleasure as long as it's voluntar...
Of course not. Gentlemen never suggest such a thing! They haven't; can't; don't; won't; aren't planning on it. You labor ceaselessly and heroically to...
When my last job came to an end, I simply could not at the moment stand another round of job applications, interviews, and the whole angst of not hear...
I have nothing else to offer than this book cover. My own experience is that being overlooked, underestimated, misjudged, discriminated against in eve...
Yes, let's rehabilitate the criminals!!!! (This is a bigger task than it might seem, because it requires some changes in society as a whole, not just ...
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