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Sorry. I don't think I said, and I didn't mean to say that innocence means being open to rich and interesting experiences. I don't like the terms inno...

You know little children and the "Terrible Twos"? Two year olds can be such a pain. Why is that? Because the cute little innocent child has discovered...

"Innocence" is another word I don't like very much. It is a feature that belongs to children, presumably, but how long are they supposed to be "innoce...

At your convenience, of course. But what are you trying to say by mentioning a jump off the bridge?

"Experience" arises from existence. Once I existed (not my fault -- somebody else did it) experience began and started shaping my existence. The exist...

No. "Wisdom" isn't a word I use very often. I don't like it. It's a Hallmark greeting card kind of word. As we age, infancy to senescence, we discover...

You missed my retraction/mea culpa: It looks like I mistook his intentions; I didn't. I was trying to be funny. Another humor misfiring.

Good question! I don't know whether "some desires" are "meant" to remain unfulfilled, but we are all better off if "some desires" remain unsatisfied. ...

nice song.

I'm reading Au Bonheur des Dames by Zola -- A Ladies Paradise -- in English. It's pretty good. It's about a department store in Paris (around 1865). D...

Reminiscent of Hush Puppies. Very beige. @"Sir2u": I may have been vaguely inappropriate to suggest that communists wanted to sleep in your bed with y...

Apparently there are too many hares around here, rather than too many rabbits. The animals nest above ground and do not appear in groups. Our dog woul...

Sir2u, u didn't quite grasp the import of Javi's statement. "Sleeping in your bed" is a euphemism for sleeping with you. You want Javi to be happy, do...

John Hutto wrote a book about his experience becoming a turkey. He imprinted a batch of hatching chicks on himself and lived with the birds for a year...

Some businesses are unethical by their very nature: loan sharking; phone / internet fraud; manufacturing products with known serious deficiencies (toy...

Whether the work environment is ethical or not is a worthwhile question, but it would be helpful if you set up the discussion with a little more conte...

One difference between animal intelligence and computers is that young animals -- puppies and people -- initiate inquiry into the world around them. A...

I can't top that.

There is something 'Hopperish' in his selection of topics. A difference though is that the colors in Hoppers paintings tend to use fairly saturated co...

OK, should there be a shadow to the right of the station? But the suitcase and cowboy shadow seem consistent with the bench shadow, the lamp shadow ha...

Insightful. Thanks. But I hope they at least put the bodies in the parking lot. People hate tripping over corpses in the cereal aisle.

Speaking of strikes, I just heard 8000 members of the Service Employees International Union are going on strike in Minneapolis on Monday -- mostly jan...

Most of the meds I take have a $7 co-pay. That's not what the pharmaceutical companies charge, of course. Several of my meds--all generic, been around...

When I saw this image on Tumblr, my first thought was 'very realistic painting". The fineness of the detail quickly persuaded me otherwise. Still, it ...

We have some government hospitals--those operated by counties and state universities. Most hospitals are 'private', in the sense they are owned by eit...

Actually, Javi, a great deal of US medical service is provided for the elderly. Sometimes old people do not receive a given procedure because there is...

@"Hanover" seems too young to need a hip replacement. I need a hip replacement, but I'm 77.

Preaching is hard work. You have to keep coming up with startling new interpretations of texts that has been chewed over for 2000 to 3000 years. The p...

We should probably have a Truth and Reconciliation category for people to confess that they have been talking rubbish! Welcome to The Philosophy Forum...

Something to do with a den of thieves.

There's something wrong with Hanover, all right, it's just not his hip.

Yes. It's extremely similar to what people felt for the previous century when they got the long-awaited (or not-awaited) envelope in the mailbox -- fr...

There is much to recommend parish churches. I belong to a Lutheran church. I wasn't raised Lutheran, but its liturgy is meaningful and they are locate...

Or it might have been run through a parish church compressor - a handy machine for reducing small, disorderly charming churches to standard sized grav...

Yes, T Clark lives! He did send me an email. Clarky is going back to the shop for replacement parts, God is in his heaven, all's right with the world.

True enough, but Holy Mother Church didn't become a holy big business until the medieval period -- say, around 800 to 1000 a.d. In the last centuries ...

Fine by me if you don't see any evidence. I'm religious; I'm not spiritual. I respect religion more than I believe it. Religions are among humanity's ...

I do not know with any certainty how long "the present" is. A second? A nanosecond? A minute? A vanishing moment between the untouchable past and the ...

I was joking. I do not believe time travel is possible -- though it is a fertile topic of science fiction. On a more theoretical level, the past can n...

The important question here is cost and the likelihood of prompt and complete refunds if time travel doesn't deliver on the promised delights of the R...

Exactly! "Under capitalism, everything is reduced to the cash nexus." Karl Marx It's still true; maybe even more so now.

There's only so much you can do for people.

I am glad to hear that T Clark is alive and well. How are we to know whether someone who stops posting is totally pissed off, possibly comatose, or si...

Yes. Book sellers are, after all, engaged in business. They are not unique 'culture agents'. None the less, one may be very fond of the shops. Busines...

Welcome to the The Philosophy Forum. There are many paths leading to our digital door and many and varied interests here.

There is the idea that 'family' is a naturally happy arrangement. I suppose in many cases it is, though 'happiness' in human affairs tends to be fleet...

Apparently Robert Putnam found enough decline in social capital over 1950 and 1995 to justify the seminal essay. Those are years some are likely to no...

Or, do unto others before they do it to you. Yes.

78. If an asteroid the size of 2 ducks creates a small fireball in the atmosphere near Berlin, how many ducks in size was Chicxulub? show your work. A...

Two instances come to mind. The Gulf of Tonkin "incident" in 1964 may have been faked, but it justified the expansion of military action in Vietnam. A...