If we had healed the world, then we would have overcome sin (a Christian might say). In a world without sin we would be whole, and happy. I agreed at ...
"Believing is seeing." Not always true, but sometimes it is true. If we believe that there are dangerous weird things in the dark woods, when we go wa...
Trust me, suffering isn't going to vanish. "alleviate suffering in the world" is a worthy purpose. There are additional worthy purposes. Creating joy....
The World is loaded with uncongenial conditions and repetitions of bad experiences that definitely lead us to being fed up at times. That's a given. I...
Not primarily. Though, getting out of a cold, raw wind is a real pleasure. No, more like love, warmth, good routines, giving, receiving, comfort, nurt...
Bare, mean existence isn't going to shell out an answer for you. Your "imagination and ingenuity" are ready, at your service. So... make an answer to ...
Does existence have a reason? No. I am not living for something. I didn't self-create. I live, I don't live for... Existence is a gift not requested. ...
Of course it's possible to be a gay politician, even a successful gay politician. The key is to be a gay politician from the get go. Revealing the cro...
Terrapin Station stole my Frank thunder, but there is more. Larry Craig, a presumptive heterosexual Senator from Idaho was arrested for suggesting to ...
Election Result Data Map from the New York Times Clinton's America https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2016/11/14/trump-clinton-islands/e9fd22ca84f7...
Election Result Data Map from the New York Times Clinton's America https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2016/11/14/trump-clinton-islands/e9fd22ca84f7...
The point I was making is that the creation of Israel (first by Zionist settlers early on, then by British and UN action later) was the beginning of P...
Pssst. No so loud, Thorongil. The thought police are going to be on your case for uttering such heresies as "Israeli culture is superior to Palestinia...
Is it not the case that Israel has has been existentially opposed by several Arab/Islamic states since its founding? Of course they are defensive. If ...
How fucked are we? Good question, of course. In response to the "just you wait" theme, let me quote a leftist folk singer--Malvina Reynolds. Do you th...
Is this guy gay? this is Stefan Molyneux, a blogger on the "Manosphere", something I just heard about a few minutes ago. The 'manosphere' devotes itse...
I am in my 70s. How old are you? Don't take it personally. The feeling that young people (say, under 30) aren't quite the proficient digitalists that ...
Exactly. And Trump is putting people in place who will do it for him. Nothing new in that -- presidents put people in place who will initiate and exec...
It may be that there are not more quotes readily available for Steven Bannon because he has been a business executive and not an on-air, on-line, or i...
I thought young people were supposed to be just instinctively savvy about how to find things on the web. Anyway, here are 3 quotes: “That’s one of the...
Also good song for this early stage of the Trump Triumph. It's always in order actually, like the re-usable bumper sticker, "Stop the Bombing" https:/...
I am going by the article in the New York Times referenced in about the 3rd post: The author was Ruchir Sharma, author of “The Rise and Fall of Nation...
Gold? Incense? Left over Jews? Don't know, but I do know that Egyptian women wove cotton and linen cloth that was of very high quality (high thread co...
You could argue that Brexit is actually a pro-global move. I don't know. Time will tell. But... One of the characteristics of the de-globalization was...
I hope you won't always view life negatively. Sure, sometimes life presents us with desperate situations and we can only hope for the best while fully...
“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the...
We are not born knowing the answers to the Kant's three questions, or Camus' challenge, and therefore we have to labor over these questions if we are ...
This is the important sentence. Elsewhere Kant argues that all philosophy ultimately aims at answering these three questions: “What can I know? What s...
Whether and to whom tariffs are a useful tool would depend on the level of a country's economic development. Tariffs may result in retaliation; the ba...
I agree. China faces grave environmental threats, some of its own making (dumping too many toxins in rivers) and some the consequence of Euro-American...
I am not in favor of de-globalization. Neither is Ruchir Sharma, author of “The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World." ...
"My poor dear deflowered little daisy! Pickled lambs like you are likely to be eaten alive if you hang around bars until the wolves are all drunk. So ...
"New" diseases are a problem. Whether AFM is totally new, or newly recognized, don't know. The CDC page I looked at listed well known viruses as the c...
According to Hank Williams, we do see light: Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight Praise the Lord I saw the light It is interesting to hear reports abo...
How would the brain do that if the only neuronal impulses it had EVER received were 2-D? This is like supposing that we have only ONE EAR and the brai...
How sensory input arrives at the outer doors of the brain, and is then passed inside is one issue. What the brain does with sensory input is something...
I suppose you're right on that too. But having cogitated, philosophized in the divine stillness of our lonely hearts, and reached conclusions about ou...
Towards the end of the campaign, small pox was not eliminated by vaccinating everybody in a country. If somebody got sick with small pox, all the peop...
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