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During the war in Vietnam there was opposition early on -- initially quite small. By 1969 the opposition was very large. 500,000 people turned out for...

IF you don't have time to reply to your responders then don't bother to start a thread. You don't have to respond immediately -- hours later is fine, ...

Donald Trump, may he rot in hell, might not pay his bills but that doesn't make the bills disappear.

I have heard that there are good, honest politicians.

Just the crimes. All debts remain collectable. Absolutely. Politicians have a forest full of weasel words -- words and phrases aimed at creating an im...

That makes cents.

If time travel were impossible, they wouldn't be selling tickets, would they. If time travel were impossible, I wouldn't have bought a ticket, would I...

Maybe the "unmanageable loved ones" should have the lobe job.

Thank you for these useful, perceptive and thoughtful responses. The tickets are non-refundable, so I'm still going. Maybe I'll be back (per @"Vera Mo...

Oh I see, you're going to be as much trouble in the past as you are in the present. What to do, what to do?

As a time-traveler, you should not be visible even in 1 second past time. The present moment is very short, and if you are not in it, you do not exist...

Well, Mr. Gadfly, what is the wisdom to which we should switch over? The dictionary says... "Wisdom: the soundness of an action or decision with regar...

The Buddha misquote site is quite a rich vein. For instance, “Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.” I thought it was ...

Oh, that was when box-office warfare was being tried as an alternative to nuking each other. Neither side found it emotionally satisfying, so they wen...

I liked the book, The Twelve Chairs, and I thought Mel Brooks' film was hilarious. "Ilf and Petrov gained a high profile for their two satirical novel...

Oh yes, this is quite good. So far, anyway. An aside: I've not thought much about this before... many photographs are being taken in the film using a ...

Read Master and Margarita years ago. Don't remember much about it. Bulgakov's The Heart of a Dog was more memorable. Quite funny. Through a glandular ...

Thank you. Deeply moving.

My Oral B electric toothbrush attacked me in my sleep last night. I fought it off and put it outside and locked the doors. I now fear the Waterpik. Sp...

There is nothing persuasive about your argument. I agree that English has nothing to do with Latin. It's a Germanic, not a Roman language. The French ...

You have made this objection before. I don't understand why you think a word that entered English from Old French doesn't itself have roots in Latin. ...

This accords with my experience of tilting at windmills. It never turned out well. And, I've never read your pithy sentence before, as far as I can re...

A watched pot never boils. Not true. I have personally watched a pot of cold water put over a fire come to a boil. What is true is that watching a pot...

Like, "The check is in the mail"? No, that doesn't work because sometimes the check actually is in the mail. How about "the United States is a democra...

We weren't around, so what you and I say about them is a guess. My guess is that they didn't EXCHANGE horizontal organization for a vertical one. Vert...

Welcome to The Philosophy Forum! Putting our present in the widest possible context... All life will be extinguished on this planet when the sun becom...

It means you are to be highly commended for trying limburger cheese.

Really? Seems like personal animosity.

Good point. check out this fabulous thread in the Lounge

I started a thread in the lounge for famously great ideas that deserve to get debunked.

My own view is that pain and suffering are inevitable, period. Deep hearts and large intelligences are not required. Back in the 1970s I was chatting ...

Perhaps 'the authorities' have no choice but to restrict access to places that used to be open to the public. Or perhaps they did have options, and ch...

In the original trolley car problem context, it was fetus vs mother. By some definitions (not mine) a fetus is a 'person', so abortion for some people...

What-if the subject to be shoved off the bridge wasn't the disposable fat man, for whom nobody has all that much sympathy anyway, but a gorgeous woman...

Seems like a plausible explanation.

@"Javi2541997": "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sa...

Yes, I understand that. But why is La Mancha "a stain" -- it's literal meaning in Spanish? Cervantes could have located the plot elsewhere, but he did...

That is nonsense, of course. Hunter gatherers were especially fond of heavy ornate furniture. They kept it in camp. Wood rots, of course, and by the t...

So, one wonders, why was Don Quixote "the man of the stain"?.

Are we sure this is a real story?

As William Wordsworth said in his poem, The World Is Too Much With Us, "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers..." in so many ways.

45" to an hour each way on transit from house to office is par for the course, and for carless people with young children, it gets much more complicat...

I just had a Swiss cheese sandwich for supper (among other things). There were no holes in the cheese. Is this Swiss cheese real? Why were there no ho...

Internal Combustion Engine. I didn't get it either.

In like vein, "NINE INCH WILL PLEASE A LADY" probably by Burns, or he collected it. Reflecting on some of your previous posts, you probably know how w...

@"universeness" here's a joke you might appreciate. At the end of his visit, he is shown into a ward with a number of patients who show no obvious sig...

Lots of transit riders have stood or sat for several lifetimes waiting for a bus to arrive. The traffic whizzes by, 1 person per car mostly, maybe 2. ...

This is immensely true. But "when we go down the Gesellschaft and up the Gemeinschaft*** to measure the ingravescent inimicalities of the oscillating ...

Florida has removed sociology from its requirements for a bachelor's degree. Too woke. It's been replaced by an American history course which covers u...

So there was free hand climbing involved. I am truly and deeply impressed that people can do such things, but absolutely count me out from any climb h...