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This is true: without oil (and all the technology that depends on cheap oil) there will be less reason -- and ability -- to go to war on a big scale, ...
February 26, 2017 at 15:02
Sorry, natural gas passed it's peak of production too.
February 26, 2017 at 15:00
Do you see any signs of miracle births? Also, I wouldn't count on a lack of oil bringing an end to war. People did just fine fighting wars before the ...
February 26, 2017 at 06:01
Freight trains, for instance, can run on electricity. You know those long trains pulled by 6 engines...? The 6 are needed only to get the mile long tr...
February 26, 2017 at 05:59
It is incomprehensible to me, it really is, why your (or my) government, and our industrial leaders can not grasp ANYTHING about climate warming, alte...
February 26, 2017 at 05:52
This is true. The "proliferation of alternate energy" is a good thing but I don't think this accounts for cheap oil right now. All the oil that is off...
February 26, 2017 at 05:43
The Tupi (now Lula) field has 8 billion barrels -- about 3 months worth of global demand. The US passed it's peak production years ago; that means the...
February 26, 2017 at 05:27
What is the cost-benefit of thermal depolymerization? How much energy input (heat and pressure) does it take to get so much energy output? If oil disa...
February 26, 2017 at 02:58
I accidentally flagged your post. Sorry. Can't de-flag it. Oil companies are already interested in renewable energy and non-petroleum industries. The ...
February 26, 2017 at 02:52
What about chemical feedstock? An awful lot of very important and convenient stuff is made out of oil. It isn't that there are NO substitutes ever, it...
February 26, 2017 at 02:46
"The way we think" and some thoughts (like Santa Claus) do seem to be shaped by childhood experiences, but it isn't rigidly determinist. Just because ...
February 26, 2017 at 02:22
Isn't there something you want to say besides dismissing my response? I disagree with your title suggestion that nature can be considered moral or imm...
February 26, 2017 at 02:17
No, definitely not.
February 26, 2017 at 02:09
Will god need a parachute, and what color is it?
February 25, 2017 at 21:09
The way we exist in the world is formed in our infancy, and develops rapidly. Childhood experiences do not give us a metaphysics, but they shape the s...
February 25, 2017 at 18:36
Well, the possibility of being banned is part of the deal when joining a forum like this. So, if some people want to play the role of a demon with a t...
February 25, 2017 at 18:23
It is really possible, but it requires practice. A large part of ignoring ire-provoking people, places, things, and actions is avoidance. Avoid by thi...
February 25, 2017 at 17:09
First comment out and you're reinventing Milton's plot. If god is coming into existence next week, we may presume that our previous guesses might have...
February 25, 2017 at 02:15
Big IF. Sexuality has more than one axis. It isn't just gay or straight. There's also object choice (boys, girls, men, women, horses, corpses, etc.). ...
February 24, 2017 at 22:33
I'm not sure that a huge amount of research has been done on paraphilias or fetishes. After all, it's mostly "not very important". If preferring red h...
February 24, 2017 at 18:56
A couple of thoughts on lesbians... You are right that lesbians get omitted or get scant attention from homosexual-topic discussions, most of the time...
February 24, 2017 at 17:13
Oh, well... gays have been lamenting for decades that "the gay community" is more a figure of speech than anything else. A few parts of the gay popula...
February 24, 2017 at 07:02
This gay man, having lived in a large city where there was sort of a community, learned fairly early on to not speak on behalf of lesbians. Ever. In t...
February 24, 2017 at 06:16
It could, obviously, unless one were doing it alone. As Irving Berlin says, if you've got something that must be done And it can only be done by one T...
February 24, 2017 at 04:31
No, it would be a fetish--a paraphilia.
February 24, 2017 at 04:13
The capacity to think that way strikes me as far more deviant than the most perverse sexual activity I have ever heard of. One of the reasons for the ...
February 24, 2017 at 04:09
I take it that's a request for clarification. Sexual orientation determines whether one is sexually attracted to men or to women, homosexually or hete...
February 24, 2017 at 03:26
OK, I get your point. Of course I agree that pedophilia (paedophilia) is harmful. It's just that attraction to pre-pubescent children isn't a sexual o...
February 24, 2017 at 00:56
Kinsey's research is still relevant, to some people's pleasure, other people's disgust. Who was it that discredited him? (The Kinsey Institute is stil...
February 24, 2017 at 00:45
You should have a problem, because homosexuality isn't the same kind of thing as pedophilia, and psychopath shares nothing with either homosexuality o...
February 23, 2017 at 23:47
Sexual orientation is not binary, or all one thing or all another. Kinsey's scale (which does not at all represent percentages of straights, gays, or ...
February 23, 2017 at 23:18
Marko would say something like that, of course, and no matter how you slice it, the way through the world is tortuous. Whether lust and desire are the...
February 23, 2017 at 20:47
My take on us people is that we are much more alike than we are different, and that we tend to be unhappy a lot because we think we have failed to liv...
February 23, 2017 at 17:47
Sorry. Psychic virginity does not compute. Please list the extant matriarchies where men are considered property the way women are considered property...
February 23, 2017 at 16:53
This should be obvious. 1) Men do not have a hymen which can be breached, thus providing evidence of virginity or not. 2) Women were sexual property o...
February 23, 2017 at 16:18
Since it is the case that we haven't agreed on what might and might not constitute sex, and since it is the case that we haven't agreed on what exactl...
February 23, 2017 at 15:39
Yes, I think you're right, most heterosexual people probably think that sex is first vaginal, then anal, then maybe oral, but maybe oral is counted as...
February 23, 2017 at 01:34
Why do you think god being lonely suggests that god is vain?
February 23, 2017 at 01:11
Right, people usually reference sex in the context of at least two people. As for flirting, I was thinking of fairly aggressive flirting, not the sort...
February 23, 2017 at 00:01
Of course, and I would agree; I'd also suggest sex with a partner is usually better than without. Sure -- people in love don't need to add the interna...
February 22, 2017 at 23:49
We have nothing to go on but the past (morning after morning we woke up and continued to exist that day). You might hope that you will continue to exi...
February 22, 2017 at 21:43
Exactly. Have you seen the rest of Dark Star? It's quite good; nice satire. There is a monster on board, and the cryogenically preserved (but oddly co...
February 22, 2017 at 21:38
I agree with Kant, too. I don't know that prayer and fasting are effective for anything at all, but some people think they are and the do these things...
February 22, 2017 at 21:19
I classify genital/genital, oral/genital, oral/anal, oral/oral, and manual/genital contact as sex. While the last doesn't involve an actual partner, a...
February 22, 2017 at 03:08
That method is probably the most common of all methods of having sex.
February 21, 2017 at 23:10
I wasn't clear enough. While we can get along without reductionism (getting down to very small parts which together become the whole), there are limit...
February 21, 2017 at 16:00
Beware of all enterprises which require a change of costume and a trip to the basement.
February 21, 2017 at 06:11
I think whether Question could just lay there and "enjoy" having a dominatrix whip him into shape (so to speak) depends on the scene he ends up in. It...
February 21, 2017 at 06:07
It's one thing to be a reductionist (the idea that the laws of physics can, theoretically, account for reality). It's something else to be an intellig...
February 21, 2017 at 05:42
I'm sorry you had such a wretched experience in graduate school. I think there is a difference between "real-world" and "campus based" marxists. Real-...
February 21, 2017 at 01:55