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If the cosmos began without meaning, it would still have no meaning UNLESS something happened to create meaning. Genes and memes are not meaning creat...

Billy Preston resolves the question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HqyEHqEYho Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' You gotta have somethin' if you w...

"This joke expired 3.2 minutes ago. No further information is available."

Here's a joke that describes your reaction. An unimaginative business man decided to go shooting on the beach. He was walking along and came across a ...

The shelf life of the joke was about 3.5 seconds. it has died many times over since you read it. Over-thinking jokes is the death of humor. Never the ...

I would blush too much if I had to explain it to you.

I'm not surprised.

Here's some jokes for your sister. Wife: Let's go out and have some fun tonight. Husband: Okay, but if you get home before I do, leave the hall light ...

That was a reasonably good joke. Not great, but that's OK.

It is called the "Shoutbox" after all.

Fear mongering? I didn't feel any fear from reading Banno's post. Quite the contrary.

I thought 'realpolitik' meant "a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations." Why would pract...

I found the antidotezine article very informative and somewhat surprising. Thanks for linking it in here. It didn't increase my level of paranoia. It ...

As long as the results are sufficiently absurd, no. Caption for picture: Duchess Kate has long been a fan of wearing nude pantyhose to cover up her le...

I agree. Very wealthy and powerful people used to employ both governors and governesses to educate their children. "Nanny" isn't quite the same thing ...

Many people would agree that you have not perceived attractiveness and cultural appropriateness as relevant to yourself. "telos" of a particular job.....

I have found that my shorter, less nuanced posts are getting read more, and generate more response. You may think my style preferences are some dumb s...

So, are you really in favor of people thinking whatever makes the most sense to them or not? The comment was about the STYLE of filling male roles, no...

You must know, as "a very conflictual person... I enjoy conflicts" that conflicts can be extremely risky -- not that one will necessarily be shot (exc...

I don't find it attractive or culturally appropriate when (heterosexual) women take male roles (soldier, firefighter, steel construction. philosopher)...

Women avoid excessive risk taking, and women are less likely to put up with living in a laboratory, making morning toast on a bunsen burner. Getting t...

I was quoting you, about your allegedly accidentally flagging empty heady.

Heh, heh, heh. I accidentally flagged your comment.

The same thing, only less of it. Better? 145 words v. 307. Camille Puglia says women have had plenty of opportunity to be great painters. Apparently t...

Camille Puglia discussed why there are very few great women painters. She observed that this is the case despite women having plenty of access to arti...

Because of your abilities, your needs, or the clogs (sabots, actually)? I heard the devil was planning on drowning the Dutch.

The other day I picked up Air Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller (author of Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Sexus, etc.) which is based on h...

An eye-for-an-eye system is proportional justice. If somebody attacks you, and you lose your eye, you are not entitled to more than the justice of dep...

Well then, if it isn't, wtf kind of fact is it? If I said it is a true fact about my statements...

OK, it is a true fact that more precision is needed in my statements. Maybe.

I'm fine with truths like "3+5=8"; "the table of elements is accounts for all the matter that we have encountered"§; "the Declaration of Independence ...

2+2=4 is always and everywhere true. 1 gallon of H2O weighs 8 pounds always and everywhere is true here, but it wouldn't be true on Mars. So, a gallon...

The fact of Joe's belief doesn't contradict the fact of rain falling. What is contradictory is Joe seeing rain and continuing to believe that it is no...

Naturally, you are referencing my sensible post which was about to appear when you mistakenly addressed praise to Wayfarer. People are ignoring my pos...

Of course it is both a fact and true that Joe believes it is not raining. He hasn't been outside recently. That's one thing. Another thing: Is it rain...

Flannery O'Connor said, I read a couple of Rands novels a long time ago... they were OK -- not great, like a lot of things. Don't beat yourself over t...

I am not sure what "Christian justice" is. What are you referencing? The Sermon on the Mount, the Roman legal code? Canon Law? The Napoleonic code? En...

While 'free trade' would seem to be a good thing for everybody, it seems to be a good thing for some and a bad thing for others. Moving manufacturing ...

Four Disclaimers: a) I did not vote for Trump. b) Trump is certainly not stupid. c) Trump is certainly not learnéd. d) Trump is not a nice man. Wide a...

Observed in psychology... It's the history of mankind.

"It is the proper objective of government to... — TopHatProductions115 This does apply to your list. For instance, some governments enforce the law in...

All governments, at one time or another, have done all sorts of things. Can we narrow that down? Government interacts with the power of the citizenry....

It is the proper objective of government: to serve or rule its people - there is a big difference between "serve" and "rule". Separate these two. to d...

It seems like strained comparison. It's not that I don't see the parallel, it's just that I think there are better parallels -- like the one I provide...

The USSR? wtf? Back to Thorongil. Of course. Had the Confederacy won the war, things would have been different. But the south lost, and the Union inte...

Like people who can't stand prepositions at the end of sentences? As Winston Churchill said, in defense of the sentence ending preposition, "Prepositi...

I recommend laughter.

A good example of what I was talking about.

I don't know why Kazuma was so taken by the text which he quoted. No, I didn't read the paper to which there was a link. I don't like it when people p...

I'm not sure that any two Christians (or two Jews, two Moslems) are necessarily worshipping the same God. But when we move from Judaism to Christianit...