No one chose to respond to my post on the economy. The amount of money spent on global advertising--660 billion dollars in 2014--is a clue to how adve...
I've said that. Life has no inherent meaning, no meaning ordained by God. The universe doesn't provide us meaning. If we didn't exist, meaninglessness...
Selling stuff has been going on for a long time. IF there is anything different about what is going on now, (and I'm not sure there is) it's that ther...
I don't follow you on the holographic bit. But as for transcendental memory... Squirrels, dogs, fish, bees, and people all seem to be born with larger...
A horse wrote a limerick so coarse, it offended the cops on the force. Philosophers insisted they hear— Smutty words make them smirk and leer. Too bad...
Unfortunately there isn't anything you can do about it. "Attractive" is a critical caveat. "Attractive" is very important in one's youth. It's importa...
Deodorants mask smell. Antiperspirants plug up pores from which sweat is excreted. Some people stink more than others -- not a fault, just a fact. Mas...
Interesting. Addiction and aspirations intersect in the case of advertising for cigarettes: The pleasure that cigarettes deliver is "hit relief". Smok...
At least sometimes advertising takes a lengthier, more complex approach. "Lengthy" requires a very interesting narrative. The people won't sit still f...
You might be indestructible if you had actually fallen to your would-be death, and didn't die; same for being actually shot and not dying. Had you bee...
The second (hottie named Kevin) is very good. As you know most faggots are thankful because we have sex by the tank full. We’d gather to tryst by brig...
The Revenant by Billy Collins I am the dog you put to sleep, as you like to call the needle of oblivion, come back to tell you this simple thing: I ne...
As I interact with dogs I know that I am in the presence of another being, and another mind of some sort. The better the dog and person know each othe...
It's not the ship, it's the motion of the ocean, and besides, everything is relative. \ I've only come across rather old and decrepit stinkhorns and t...
Sig Freud! You'd better come into the office and lie down on the couch right away. You're a very sick man. It is interesting that you wouldn't mind st...
Excellent example of the created need/want. More: Downy, Airwick, Glade, and other odiferous products. Running shoe$ (for people who would die if they...
You would find it profitable (possibly) to dip into the career of Edward Bernays, November 22, 1891 ? March 9, 1995). He was an Austrian-American pion...
Very glad you pulled out the information on diamonds--excellent example of manufactured want. "Diamonds are forever." Well, no more than H2O is foreve...
Behold, the Stinkhorn Fungus The fungus site was too prudish to mention it's obvious phalic shape, except to mention its name, Phallus impudicus. Look...
You understand, I would guess, that you are addressing a room full of people who are "always talking in terms of philosophies of life". You are probab...
What you say is generally true, but it isn't the whole story. Marriages fail, but people apparently want to be married and they remarry at very high r...
We are, clearly, not talking about the same thing. Relationships breaking up because of cheating is one thing, alienation is something else altogether...
Here is a fundamental difference between your thinking and mine: Sex isn't the means by which people are alienated from each other. What is alienating...
Rather than people being OBSESSED with sex, I think people LONG FOR warmth and sharing (intimacy). It is to this LONGING that advertising appeals are ...
One aspect of celibacy... In the west it grew out of medieval thinking and practice and about monks, nuns, and priests being "married to God'. This pe...
I shall recount a few stories from my nights on the Minnesota AIDS Line. a. After defecating, a woman reported that she washed her derriere off with w...
Sure. I've enjoyed some fantasies about the demise of some people. As (maybe the famous American lawyer Clarence Darrow) said, "I Have Never Killed An...
Certain offenders, like Dylann Roof, should be presumed insane until proven otherwise. — Bitter Crank You have identified a problem in my thinking. Ye...
There is no doubt in Roof's case that he is responsible for the murders. Eyewitnesses, forensic evidence, and his own statements all confirm his role....
I'm unenthusiastic about capital punishment for several reasons. Innocent people are sometimes executed, as you mentioned; the process of appeal is pa...
When people do things about which we say, "no sane person would do such a thing," why do we then treat them as sane and act accordingly? Suppose Roof ...
Above a Georgia attorney a drone armed with chili con carne took aim at a maiden’s target. A command was sent from HQ and the gut bomb landed so true....
This forum of dry philosophs pour their thoughts into a long trough Where concepts dement and grow moss. All sorts draw from these deep reserves: Hogs...
"Yes, Virginia; a bitch is a female canine. Like, "bitch, re, me, fa, so, la, te, bitch. "Bitch, a dog, a female dog, ra, a drop of golden sun; me, a ...
Which is why bars where 80% or 90% of the inhabitants are standing are much much better than bars where everyone has to be seated. People on foot mix ...
I see all sorts of people sitting in coffee shops with a screen in front of them, but they don't socialize. It strikes me as dysfunctional. It's a way...
I often wonder what it would have been like to have had access to the 2017 internet when I was 12 in 1958. There were many things I wondered about for...
Limericks are usually along the lines of A bather whose clothing was strewed By winds that left her quite nude Saw a man come along And unless we are ...
The promiscuous nature of English is its strength. It can absorb and naturalize words from all over the globe without losing it's soul. It can put cat...
Right. Well, I didn't talk to my parents about sex, either. Quite unimaginable. But... There has to be something better than overly frank sex talk bet...
For your convenience, here are some "t for ed" verbs 1. Bent 2. Blest 3. Built 4. Burnt 5. Clapt 6. Cleft 7. Slept 8. Crept as in He crept into the cr...
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