I looked it up, but this is a totally new word to me. I believe in avoiding rare terms where common terms will serve as well. Look, your thread title ...
Modern birds didn't descend from pterosaurs--flying lizards; birds' ancestors were small, feathered, terrestrial dinosaurs. Birds' ancestors were smal...
In places like TPF, there are hard determinists who claim we do not have agency--physics is the law. Their opposites claim we have free will and execu...
Harvard Business School or not, social science experiments like this have often been found 'non-reproducible'. A different group repeating the same ex...
No it's not like H & O. I'm thinking that consciousness, or sentience, isn't supported by clusters of nerves that are exclusively concerned with the o...
Bear in mind that a lot of our 100 billion neurons are tightly focused on running us meat machines, not in thinking or generating consciousness, whate...
That could be expanded into a book-length discussion. I have also experienced decomposing belief -- just more extended in time than your experience. T...
One of the things the Wagner Group shows is that sending mercenaries abroad is safe and effective when used as directed, but having them within a day'...
Too healthy? Were you using what are called "French lentils"? They are brighter green than the mud colored ones. Personally, I like the red lentils wh...
Were you to read everything in philosophy from Thales to the present, you would, I suspect, encounter famous philosophers repeating the same old shit ...
I certainly don't know what all happened in Russia behind the scenes and off the screen. Time will tell, maybe soon, maybe not. How do commentators he...
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/06/25/multimedia/25russia-ledeall04-fhmc/25russia-ledeall04-fhmc-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp Here's a pic...
We don't have any data on everyone's reading habits to know whether you are less well read than other posters here. My guess is that people tend to po...
Coriander is cilantro. Parsley and cilantro (aka Chinese parsley) are in the same family -- Apiaceae. So... if you don't like one, it's quite likely y...
a) we seem to be primed by evolution to avoid foods which have made us sick--nauseated--particularly when a particular food can be blamed. b) in my fa...
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity by John Tobias During that summer When unicorns were still possible;...
my father thought that watermelon was just an over-ripe cucumber. Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae fam...
As director John Waters showed, conclusively, in his epic film "Serial Mom", the immorality for wearing white high heels after September 1, or wearing...
Do those going to hell have to stop in heaven to find out their destination? Seems like unnecessary travel. Around 150,000 people die every day. One w...
The answer, of course, is NO, it is not true. Over the last 50 years, real wages have been cut and inflation has reduced purchasing power at significa...
A line from an old song by Count Basie: "Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking." Behavior is observable; thoughts are not. I don't kn...
@"Baden" A focus on masculine aggression and competitiveness ignores the extensive cooperative behaviors that are required to maintain a functioning c...
I don't either. By the time a child can benefit from reading about the masculine-feminine spectrum his or her location on any M-F spectrum is firmly i...
How people treat each other is a personal, family, social, moral and ethical question, certainly. But I don't see how it can NOT be a political questi...
This has been a conflicted issue for me, more earlier in life than later. I didn't fit. First, I was seriously visually impaired from birth, which has...
I have spent many hours mulling over lists like this, trying to realistically locate myself in jobs I could do and jobs I wanted to do -- or, in roles...
Most of us know particular men and women who are not typical of men and women - in general. Take 1 million women and 1 million men and there will be s...
He SAYS he is joking, but a joke is an excellent disguise for a truth that would be unpalatable as a raw statement like, "He is a fool." So, yes, I ha...
Simultaneously letting go of the past and grabbing on to a helium balloon will whisk you into the sky where, at an extremely inconvenient moment, the ...
What's not to like about iambic tetrameter poetry with an abcb rhyme scheme? Iambic tetrameter with an abab rhyme scheme, perhaps, or abba, or aabb. O...
A sensible choice. The task of coming up with millions of fresh fortunes to fill 3 billion cookies is extraordinarily difficult -- especially if the f...
Presumably Jesus, as part of the Trinity, has access to God's Omniscience Stream, as well as the New York Times, is aware of what all they are doing. ...
Places to get a quick tobacco refill and additional water pistols and shoe horns are vital in the sophisticated urban environment. Bread and milk are ...
Deficiencies in services for the elderly, the disables, the mentally ill, the chronically (physically) ill, the poor, the addicted, unemployed, etc. a...
Antagonism "between trans folk and those with disabilities" is, here, in the mind of the beholder. I don't believe any and all requests for accommodat...
The reason for mentioning disability is that I am aware of the substantial cost for building out additional bathrooms that weren't in the original flo...
Well, to be honest, I don't give a rat's ass for the Juneteenth celebration -- it just isn't part of my heritage. Ditto for the Emancipation Proclamat...
I was taught in 7th grade history that the Civil War was about slavery, which is why Lincoln "freed the slaves". With several more history classes, an...
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