This is true, and oddly enough, the male nipple has only been mentioned only 3 times so far on The Philosophy Forum (this makes the fourth). I chalk t...
Fortunately, life goes on because you don't need to make choices at all these junctures of various bodily functions. You are a body, and your body won...
Like crawl into caves and make paintings on the wall, or carve statuettes, or invent plaid textiles, or teach old dogs new tricks, sneak away to have ...
So, who wills what, then, if not the man? We will what we want, even when it is what we don't want. It just isn't a rational process. It's a paradox. ...
A copper nugget (a natural lump of unalloyed metal) can be hammered into any number of shapes. Is the particular the nugget, the nail, or the knife th...
Does a desire have some sort of independent existence in my brain in such a way that a desire can manipulate me? It seems like desires are the wishes ...
I certainly agree that people who rely on social media's algorithm sifted "news" or "feeds" are trapped in an echo chamber. AT least if one reads news...
We are embodied (born) with some essential features, which will unfold if we are lucky. If we are unlucky we'll die in the cradle and that will be tha...
Are you sure about that? I don't know a lot about the history of journalism, but it seems to me that "the news" started out as the editor's naturally ...
What you are proposing is a frontal attack on life as we know it! Why, if politicians and newspapers could be sued for stating merely incorrect facts ...
Relying on Facebook or some other company to serve up targeted news stories is ill-advised. Google or Facebook's intent may not be nefarious--I'm assu...
Interesting link, thanks, but... So? He was an academic theologian, not a candidate for sainthood. And as a non-candidate for sainthood, sexual advent...
A word on behalf of psychiatry... Psychiatrists are, first of all, doctors who get paid through the bossy bureaucracies of insurance companies (at lea...
Allow me to associate myself with your observations. Anyone who has lived with and loved someone who is manic depressive with deep depression and mani...
I agree with a theme in your OP. Mental illness is mostly not a physical disease (except that experience is mediated by the physical structure of the ...
I'm not normal either, and abnormal children are all weird in different ways. My central problem as a homosexual child is that my sexual interest exis...
The Anna Karenina theory might apply here: All happy people are alike; each unhappy person is unhappy in his own way. It's similar to the Isaiah princ...
First of all, It's not the case that "fake news" is a new thing. (Why should you believe me?) A study of almost any historical period will reveal inst...
Our man working in the factory is subject to alienated labor. Whatever he makes as a worker in the factory, be it computers or condoms, belongs to the...
Of course I can argue against fact. With the election of Donald Trump, we have moved into the post factual era and truthiness is now old hat. A has be...
Jethro Tull – Hymn 43 Our father high in heaven-smile down upon your son. Who's busy with his money games - his woman and his gun. Oh Jesus save me! A...
Stay out of the humanities, for sure. They are currently a swamp infested by malevolent spirits of female nonsensicalness. (Not that every English maj...
I've never understood how a phaser blast (to the chest, in this case) can propagate throughout the body, causing disintegration. You would think the t...
Since we are an evolved species like all other species and not one created by divine fiat, I suppose one can imagine an evolutionary basis for just ab...
As Professor Loretta Lynn notes, It wasn't god who made honky tonk angels As you wrote in the words of you're song Too many times married men think th...
I don't think this is really very complicated. Men (or women, for that matter) who are comfortable in their own skin can be naked in semi-public situa...
I don't want to get too personal, but maybe this reflects more about you than the alleged excessively social people you have encountered. We who are s...
Exactly. There are many categories of talk: philosophical talk, car talk, sports talk, religious talk, farmer talk, kitchen talk, pillow talk, constru...
"Cover" is a normal social thing. It's not the same as "undercover". There is nothing Machiavellian in what I said about cover. Another example: A bun...
Shove it, Eleanor. Small talk serves several functions, as indicated. Society depends on it, because it enables us (sans telephone or keyboard) to sta...
Individuals selecting traits for their planned infant from a menu of genetic possibilities is certainly related to eugenics, but because it is directe...
Just to keep people on track here... Eugenics isn't about what "you" want, it's about what the authorities have decreed. Eugenics is a plan for improv...
That reminds me of the joke... Plastic surgeon to patient: "I can't make you look any younger, but I can make you look like you've had a lot of expens...
I join with Agustino in disagreeing with this. Whatever it is that makes a breeding pair attractive to each other probably has nothing to do with non-...
Human values and properties are too complex and multivariate to construct a eugenic plan for either the species or one's children. Our rate of offspri...
Actually, we are practicing eugenics now, and it is a good thing in one particular way: Individuals with known inheritable diseases are (or should be)...
One wouldn't expect transgender patients to have uniformly excellent results from transgender therapy, including surgery. Often, transgenders have exp...
Unless a clinic is operating a surgery mill (which is possible, of course, even if unlikely) the transgender patient has four hurdles to leap before t...
Here's a book that might be of interest: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/12/10/books/review/10faludi/10faludi-tmagSF.jpg I've got a backlog of re...
No, sorry, my little cabbage pork roll :D. The Enterprise of Truth requires that your icky, gaseous, tubular meat-body in particular be dragged onto t...
Yes, it is part and parcel of who you are. It has to be. (And some people long for a larger nose so stop bitching about it.) Robert Reich, an economis...
I sold all my stock in souls and spirits. Christians should remember that what they profess to believe is "resurrection of the body". Knowing what hap...
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