So what might one say about the rightness or wrongness of promiscuous sex (abb. PS)? PS is inappropriate for the actor IF the behavior arises from a c...
I'm falling through a hole in the flag. from Hair The official national flag is one of several public symbols that can be appropriated by multiple pol...
Maybe they should find fellow addicts who are better at giving good vibrations along with the blow jobs. Well of course, to someone who has ceased eat...
Really? It doesn't strike me as neurotic at all. (We seem not to look at the world in the same way.) Nothing is mere. But, that said, of course life i...
We would need a highly reliable and valid poll to answer this question. Certainly, if one can't get laid, one could make a virtue out of current circu...
The divorce rate is not actually 50%. The 50% rate is a projected rate, using past divorce trends, and applying those trends to current marriages. It'...
After the revolution you will no doubt find yourself in an automated automation crimes trial. You'll have plenty of company, and you'll automatically ...
I'm neither an anti-natalist nor a non-natalist nor a-natalist, and I would never have been successful as a celibate or an ascetic. You do a good job ...
The article indicated that formal standards do not exist because, to a large extent, the problem has not been openly acknowledged among staff and admi...
Does the question of "being" depend on the being in question finding all, most, or at least some of the terms of existence satisfactory? Gay people, d...
Like Norwegians, lutefisk, and lefsa. I doubt very much if people in Norway would eat either of these foods -- they are both low-grade peasant surviva...
Darth, I thought you were going to give it a rest for your mental health. No? (For my sake, I'm relieved you haven't taken your mental health break ye...
Another factor in the US is an enormous amount of mobility -- not just currently, but practically from the beginning. My ancestors came from England a...
This is true, pretty much. Latin Americans fit. It is remarkable how well people from various places fit here. When a large number of Somalis were set...
More proof. If you were omniscient, you would have known that you would want to delete all this. You would just not have posted it in the first place....
I was thinking higher up the ladder than the speed with which DMV clerks are processing transactions. Yes, it is maddening to wait in line and watch c...
It seems to me that something is missing from the stats on CO2. I find it difficult to believe that CO2 from petroleum isn't higher. BUT... The amount...
True enough. Take the Koch funding of climate change deniers. What's their interest? Carbon industries in general are on the defensive with respect to...
Jane Mayer's approach, or bias, is clear. She is doing investigative reporting and she doesn't find her subjects attractive--but not because they were...
I heard once, probably a PBS history program, had not Benjamin Franklin suggested "happiness" the phrase in the DOI would have been "Life, Liberty, an...
Oh, certainly most people (everywhere) are taught, trained, and led into faith. A small number of people make a decision to move from atheism to some ...
I agree that faith does not depend on argument. By definition (at least in a Christian context) it is a grace, a gift. Or from a psychological point o...
Whether "this topic" has died -- don't know. Didn't see a coroner's report. Sorry, this got rather long. Mental operations are so inextricable tied in...
It really is the case that a few people do own a great deal of the wealth -- not just the wealth of the US, but the wealth of the planet. The richest ...
I was out in the streets early this morning searching for bagatelles. Sometimes one needs relief immediately. I discovered a luscious one lurking in t...
The US is one of several nations producing more. The world will run on oil until it runs out of oil. It isn't as if everyone is pumping it up from the...
You have a great many bullet points in your philosophy of life. If I asked you to speak for 20 minutes about what your philosophy of life is -- withou...
Somebody mentioned bullshit somewhere along the line. O Darth Barracuda! So many ideas bubbling away in your capacious brain pan. I commend you in all...
Is the supply of "fundamental questions about reality" unlimited? What if they have been answered to the best of philosophy's ability to do so. I defi...
Right -- there is no pop-culture war. The pop-culture railroad couldn't possibly bear the freight of a war over science and philosophy. I just don't s...
Experience should have revealed that the smell of philosophy and the smell of bullshit is not always so distinctly different. Consider processes again...
You might be biting off more that you, or we, can chew in short posts. I don't want to read a semester course worth of posts. Contrary to its being ne...
Do you think philosophy is closer to being a "thing" or a "process"? Baroque music is finished -- it's a thing. That is, the era is now long closed an...
Are you too old and respectable to throw a snowball at them? It seems like there aren't enough deconstructed, post-modern snowmen being made. Where ar...
Can Iran be trusted? The question is more complicated than it first appears. Every country pursues policies what it's executive officials believe are ...
Deterrence is a consequentialist notion which doesn't have much deterrence value. Capital punishment "deters most people from committing murders" who ...
I think crimes are real, that people really do get murdered, and that various weapons and methods are used to commit murder (or any other crime). Ther...
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