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"Nature" is neither immoral nor moral, neither bad nor good. "Nature" is perceived by us to exist as a process (which we might personify as "mother na...

You eat at Subway because you are know that KFC has put batter-fried rats in their buckets of chicken. Well, let's not get huffy over that! Rat protei...

Drink more beer and dance the schottische.

Drinking beer and dancing schottisches and polkas is decidedly more holy and pleasing to God than sucking lemons and calculating whether one is predes...

"Protestant work ethic" is as lazy as the "derogatory black stereotype". From Luther, "all work is holy" and all work is dignified, whether it is the ...

In the disreputable field of psychology (according to Un) Buridan's ass illustrates the 3 basic choice situations: Attraction / attraction Attraction ...

I'm always happy to assign blame to the IDIOCY of both conservative politicians AND their running-dog-lackey-sort-of-liberal-lick-spittle cooperating ...

There are several parables that speak of labor and reward. It's best to interpret these as comments on the Kingdom of God, rather than as practical po...

Great musicians have such gifts. Below is Allegri's Miserere. We can thank Mozart for having the piece. Allegri had written it for one of the Popes in...

At least in the US, and I think in England (probably some other places in Europe too) the rate at which children either remain residents in their pare...

Thermodynamics?

I didn't see any reason for banning you, or for even closing the thread. Perhaps the physicists who run the site detected strange particles being emit...

Is the pot calling the kettle beige?

In fairness to those who some think gave you "hard advice" or were judgmental, you might have been more forthcoming in your initial request for feedba...

Question himself laid out his situation and asked for feedback. Good idea? Maybe not. There are risks in laying out one's situation and then asking pe...

Question "literally asked for it" and we only have what he offered about himself to go on.

Bingo.

It's not flat (Olympus Mons is 29.9 km high) and bus service to get there is really poor.

Arizona isn't flat. Nice place, but lots of bridges there.

Oh gawd, Kansas. Oklahoma. Western Nebraska. North Dakota. The American Outback.

You are on that bridge right now.

I wasn't expecting Margaret Thatcher's "There is no such thing as society" to raise it's hideous head.

Good on you for all that. The thing is, living hand to mouth does not seem to be your goal. It's a strategy to maintain the life you have, like and en...

I don't understand why you think Hanover was being a dick. His advice, "...you should get a real job so that you can support yourself and not live wit...

Leader of the Nick Xenophon Team, Australian Senator Nick Xenophon arrives at the Senate entrance holding a novelty doormat depicting US President Don...

This just in... A U.C. Berkeley evolutionary biologist declared his intention to run for the Senate. His slogan: “Liberty, Equality, Reality.” accordi...

I don't know about the past, but it seems like life as we know it just isn't good for one's self-esteem.

Unless your mother would like to get on with her own life without adult children living at home. Maybe she would like to have a torrid romance with th...

a few points of information would be helpful: Your age? What metropolitan area do you live in or near to? How much is your debt? Age makes a differenc...

Whether you are in a crossroads, a crosswalk, or crosshairs is hard to say, but you definitely need to get moving. PhD? You don't have a BA in underwa...

There are not many genetic markers for specific human behaviors, or disorders. Which is to say, we haven't found them. Of course, some behavior is gen...

I haven't read basic psychology recently and I can't remember. But I suspect your interpretation. Ending a state of flight-or-fight-fear-indued hyper-...

It might possibly be the case that ADHD or ADD are not "real" disorders in the way that some other conditions indisputably are. Certainly, some childr...

The "laws of nature" seem to be derived from observing many instances of observation from astrophysicists observing the cosmos to nuclear physicists s...

I checked out The Partially Examined Life and listened to a bit of their podcast on Richard Rorty. It started out with these 4 would-be philosophers-w...

So how about Mr. Chopped Liver himself -- Woody Allen. Not a chance, I'm sure, but he'd be a good guest.

So what am I, chopped liver?

It doesn't always work.

Posting images from your desktop does not seem to be possible at this time. If you have an image on a web site, though, capture the image address and ...

Pay attention to Banno. Abstract things are immaterial. "Beauty" as an ideal is immaterial. So is "ideal" immaterial. "Immaterial" is immaterial. Imma...

Here is a list of things that exist. Mew (the actual person who is represented by "Mew" and her avatar). The tree outside your window The number 3 (or...

That's OK. Nobody else does either.

The Smothers Brothers were very good. So was "Laugh In". For the time, of course. Neither are quite 'raw' enough for today's jaded, fornicating, drugg...

Right. There is "no course of history" to alter. The "course" of history wanders all over the place all the time.

I don't think anybody had suggested that you should either buy or sell stock on the basis of this thread, but like you and your comic-book-buddies, it...

If you're going to get adventurous, try romaine long before you try kale.

In the world that has existed since... what, the 1600s? 1700s? there have been enough reasonably large national powers that having a dominant power ha...

Maybe your doomsday scenario (of the US going flat out broke) will be rehearsed in what's left of the United Kingdom after Scotland, Northern Island, ...

It's difficult to imagine conditions that would flat-out bankrupt the United States and not torpedo the rest of the world economy at the same time. Bu...

The United States didn't amount to much when the French Revolution happened and Napoleon got going. In our two-bit war of 1812 (while Napoleon at the ...