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I've seen several Youtube presentations by this guy. Interesting. Another approach is Basic English. Basic English was devised by Cambridge philosophe...

Google translates que es el auto and qué es el auto the same way, with or without the accent. On the other hand, it appears to have more responses Eng...

In fairness to artificial intelligence, Google did a decent job. What I wrote was nonsense. On the other hand, lots of Google Translate efforts fail m...

That was part of an early plan -- the SW Corridor was going to plow through working class neighborhoods and a huge interchange was planned for Roxbury...

Google Translate says you are talking about juicing Baden's hamster. Neither Baden nor the hamster are going to like that!

Watched a great program on the political and heavy equipment aspects of Boston's Big Dig project. The author lists 6 phases of a really big civil engi...

An Irish friend (ironically named Scott) complained that St. Patrick's Day was just another excuse for the Irish to get drunk.

How does existentialism liberate anyone from 'craven fear? Petty anxiety? Apathy? Tedium? There are various meditation practices that can 'intensify' ...

Yes. Peak activism developed after 80 years of Jim Crow oppression of black people. There was an upwelling of activism which was well led by a core of...

According to Google Ngram, "gender assigned at birth" didn't show up in print very often until the mid 1980s. "Sex assigned at birth" didn't appear in...

Must we resort to Professor Milgram's shocking experiment to illustrate obedience? It isn't that Milgram has been invalidated. His experiment has been...

No, you didn't but the psychosocial aspects of rebellion or obedience are very important. Many who chafe under authority are unable to take off their ...

@"AmadeusD" There is a great deal to be said in favor of appreciating irony.

You just never know where disaster is going to strike next. Like, you're competently walking along, paying attention. but you start making up a grocer...

Congratulations! You are the first person to use 'antidestablishmentarianism' on TPF. Other than in the context of vocabulary practice, you are one of...

$9000 in stolen goods? She's obviously an amateur when it comes to theft. Your ruling class, even in NZ is it?, regularly steals a lot more than that ...

Some movements are slippery and pinning them down is difficult. One author said that the behavior of fascists (how they operate) is more important tha...

Maybe it's odd that the United States hasn't had more populist movements? On the one hand, 'the people' have been ruled by a small elite since the beg...

The good old days -- they were terrible! That said, why can't you fish from a raft or a canoe? You can still light your houses with candles. You could...

Great renovation.

There are brutalist buildings I like; raw concrete has its attractions. I have seen pictures of apartment buildings in Eastern Europe that must have l...

According to presumably informed sources reporting on their visit to the statue, "Today, Reagan’s belief in democracy, free markets, a strong defense,...

If not 'gorgeous', it is certainly far more interesting and attractive than the same volume of space and exterior material delivered as the usual offi...

Less people, less dirt.

No. No one is isolated from the or their outer world under generally normal circumstances. We aren't just conditioned rats. We are our impulses, desir...

I have not heard about this. Tell us more. But the 1901 efforts toward secession apparently had salutary effects, since Missouri managed to hold the 1...

It depends on the nature of the desire and the cost of achieving it. Most of us have desires which we do well to leave unsatisfied. .

This seems to me like a distinction that isn't a difference. Can you explain this further? During earlier times women and children were thought to be ...

I would not. Did Miss Brontë greatly desire bestial sexual escapades on the mountain top?

A picture is worth a thousand words, and there were 15,000 words worth of picture there -- so, no time to read what you said.

I don't have a personal definition. The dictionary says "the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural ...

No. Becoming a person in one's own right diminishes innocence.

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One of the ways the magic of the eucharist affects reality is that it unites communicants in the magic. The bread and wine have become the body and bl...

Stella Artois for me. And I like it cold, even though it is a superior European product.

Is that last building by Saha Hadid?

A good example is the rituals of Christian worship. A lot of the ritual (like saying "The Lord be with you / and also with you") has no "magical value...

I don't know enough about It. From what I have read, people who have a 'psychosomatic condition' really do feel that something is wrong with them--fee...

Human cultures were (I am presuming) far more superstitious in previous millennia, and there is a residue that has been preserved into the present tim...

I have not heard about this. Tell us more. But the 1901 efforts toward secession apparently had salutary effects, since Missouri managed to hold the 1...

It's a very intriguing figure.

Some people seem to be just naturally saturated with sex appeal, while others can take what they've got and make what they want, or what they think ot...

Body building has a history, of course. 19th century circus acts (strong men lifting very heavy objects) popularized having musculature that was outsi...

What about people who live in rich countries but who are, themselves, poor? Would racketeers be chanchulloistos? What about 'raquetas'? Down with the ...

The kleptomanic kleptocracy are OCD when it comes to thieving.

No, the kleptocracy lives off our blood, sweat, and tears. The difference between crypto and klepto is slight. They are both rackets, but the kleptocr...

Just wait till 1.4 billion Han Chinese get hold of you.

Let's move on. I just don't like the word "wisdom". I have no problem with the content of "experience, knowledge, and good judgment". You like the wor...

So counting curiosity out... "The world" is not self-explanatory. Life is difficult. Bad things happen to good people. Inexplicable events happen, wit...

"Philosophia" meant "love of wisdom" to the Greeks. for us it means I have never seen an episode of Family Matters. A lot of words get abused and take...