There is a book, The Art of Clean Up, which organizes whole objects into their parts, like this bouquet of flowers: http://media.tumblr.com/c10b033093...
Upper class people (like the Clintons, worth only what, 100 to 300 million) and Trump (worth a few billion) do not live the same kind of lives that wh...
It won't be long before some species exist only in zoos. Take the orangutangs living in the Indonesian forest which is rapidly being cut down and brok...
Or you can opt for eternal non-existence — Bitter Crank Of course I know no such thing, but nowhere along the line did the idea of of infinite rebirth...
Sure, we are interested in at least making a strong case for our views; how often one person is actually so convinced of somebody else's view point th...
One could at the last assent to a god who unconditionally accepts us and understands our frailties, follies, and foolishnesses. This god forever cares...
Yes. I am at least as likely as you are (maybe more so) to write something that falls short of precision and clarity. It is the writer's job to elimin...
I don't know why you are telling me this 16 days after I posted my comment. I could have died and been buried a couple of weeks ago, and might have le...
Step 1. Acknowledge that your inner critic is very negative and won't shut up. Expect to hear from it regularly. One of the objectives of meditation p...
Note, I said your response seemed obtuse, blunt, and coarse, (and surprisingly so) not that you are personally obtuse, blunt, or coarse. As a concept,...
Your response just seems obtuse, blunt, and coarse. Self-esteem is a good feeling about the good of one's being. My guess is that you have it and have...
The cowboys inflict some pain and suffering on errant members of the herd. There are standards that we collectively believe in. Where depression comes...
There was a big bang and then the beginning. Later we showed up. Now we're spinning yarns about how we got here. Most of the evidence is hearsay, for ...
The all-powerful, all-knowing, ever-present, God is, of course, deterministic. You can't hardly avoid it. Such a god, however, gets in the way of anot...
Accepting and liking one's self. A sense of self-worth People who are low achievers can have healthy self-esteem, and high achievers can have an unhea...
Granted, this has nothing to do with the origin of life, but ... I'm reading an interesting book on horse power in the US during the 19th century. Hor...
No? But I bet your political and social philosophy is informed, none the less. Knowing how many billions of dollars are spent on extra pairs of shoes ...
I readily agree that we don't, for the most part, have a handle on what's what and what's not. I did the quiz yesterday and did quite well, though was...
Good. I like that. Simple and a nice turn of phrase. Did you make that up or did you steal it from somewhere. (Artists steal everything, somebody famo...
That would be annoying. Some PR firm is probably working with them on establishing a "more definite identity". I hate these kinds of things. The Minne...
Glad we got that cleared up. @emptyheady I used to know actual leftists, but most of us have died, gone into dormancy for the duration, or aren't dead...
The same thing that is going on everywhere... Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the cen...
You think you have a void at the heart of things? Just wait! Once the Void Elect takes office you'll see a black hole enlarging from it's starting poi...
I don't want to be guilt-tripped into doing "good" that I might greatly regret, or might be the last thing I ever do. Am I capable of anything about t...
But that IS how it really is in the reality check fictional work. Do you need a support group to process your feelings about this? Besides, what about...
Your use of "soda" rather than "pop" or "coke" probably places you either in the northeast US, St. Louis area, or southwest US. You could be in easter...
So, how old are you now and how old were you when you first read the trilogy? I'm 70, and first read the Tolkien trilogy (and The Hobbit) (plus the Si...
Must be time to dump some irresponsibly absurd video clip on this enlightening discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DA2MKuI6fs https://www.you...
I think it is a mistake to take one thing, death anxiety for instance, as the root of all our thoughts and behavior. Certainly, worrying about death i...
The Zombies (1965) are a bit more convincing. Their picked their name prior to the zombie apocalypse obsession. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKBRc8...
Oh mother tell your children Not to do what I have done Spend your lives in sin and misery In the House of the Rising Sun These children in 1960s jack...
I find myself sounding like I support moral relativism, which I don't like, and can't seem to avoid. "Respect for individuality" or "individuals have ...
I can't think of anything peculiarly "Catholic" in Lord of the Rings, but I'm not Catholic, so maybe I'm missing something obvious. Tolkien drew upon ...
Who is the Hero of LOTR? I haven't read Tolkien's letters, so I have only the text to go on. I would choose Frodo as the hero, for the reasons that Fr...
Hospitals and research universities employ ethicists and panels of experts to assess the ethics of various procedures. The various institutions of soc...
Jesus said if you hated your brother, you were already a murderer. He placed quite a bit of stock in our intentions. Eventually I came to doubt intent...
I don't think Donald Trump is mentally ill. The word "Unbalanced" had that connotation. One can have too much ambition without being mentally ill. Nob...
Just a cautionary note... Out and out psychopaths do not make great captains of industry. It's a suite of talents, one of which might be some psychopa...
We can get away with saying "the world is meaningless" but not "human life is meaningless". Our celestial ball spins about its radiant star according ...
I always had difficulty taking work seriously -- except for the first two or three years at three or four good professional jobs. So much of it either...
John Lennon - Working Class Hero As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you f...
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