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There is much that is useful in Freud's theories, not least 'pervasive polymorphous perversity'--we being sexual beings from the getgo. Infantile sexu...

I don't know. He probably was familiar with it, being a well-educated urbane sophisticated crackpot. Were you planning on suing Freud's estate for cop...

The story of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem in a stable to a virgin is, of course, fictional. This isn't a denial of Jesus' birth and life, but the people ...

That's an untoppable comeback.

The Virgin Birth was an unusual case of primate parthenogenesis. That's named after that time Athena accidentally gave birth to the Parthenon. Talk ab...

I am not at all sure that it does ever get solved. There are, indeed, many people who cultivate feelings of being oppressed. They hope it gives them "...

Whatever is ailing StreetlightX seems to have gotten worse. A sedative, perhaps? More exercise and fresh fruits and vegetables? Gotta be something to ...

Oh, it's fiction! It started out as a simple account without hints of fabrication. This sentence, "By daylight these parts of town do not look very in...

IF we have a nuclear war, hundreds of cities nuked, enormous firestorms all round the planet, you can rest, quite assured that global warming will dro...

I find the Trinity to be a stumbling block and and an altogether unhelpful piece of theology. I guess that makes me a unitarian--one God, Jesus not Go...

I generally slept with only one guy at a time, unless more were available. An aside on cats and dogs: All cats are females; all dogs are males. Cats a...

Your Weltanschauung is perhaps not the same as mine. What is going to happen in the future? Nobody knows for sure, because very unexpected things can ...

To be charitable, maybe you are confused by the difference between "weather" and "climate". Weather is what happens, and what changes every day. Clima...

That is a good question, and one which was asked by the established population in the past. Those Irish! Those Italians! Those Jews! These unwashed ra...

Well, capitalist right wingers might be worried about profits, but most conservative or right wing people object to in-migration on cultural grounds. ...

Yes they should, certainly. I consider sex trafficking a different (and much worse) crime than crossing a border illegally. Human trafficking (ranging...

Yes. I don't remember what mechanism was proposed to bring about an ice age. Nuclear winter, however, was deemed more likely in the 1980s. It was a no...

I think billions of people (especially us older ones who grew up before global warming became a global concern) are questioning all sorts of axioms. W...

Sovereign nations have a duty to control their borders. Unchecked population flows across borders have consequences for both the illegal immigrants an...

In your particular case, "head up ass" is eminently scientific.

Yes, wage differences are found for specific equally qualified men and women, putting in equal numbers of hours, effort, achievement, etc. Granted, th...

But but but... half-baked ideas are all I have.

There once was a thinker named Dust Who thought philo-limericks a must. Sadly, we found when we dug deeply down his limericks were mostly a bust.

The optimal CO2 level was what it was for about 4 million years before 1875 (to pick a quarter century year--280 ppm. By 1875, fossil fuel consumption...

Necessity. Most people are paid less than the value they produce for their employer. They work for less than they are worth under sometimes very poor ...

Truth! From now on, philosophy shall be taught with clever cartoons. Away with long dull books, terminally boring lectures, and over-heated classrooms...

My understanding of crop insurance is that it protects against the financial risk of natural disaster (flood, hai, drought, insects...). There are oth...

This was personal experience? The reminds me of a joke I heard in college 57 years ago, Why does one remember these things? It was a "dumb pollock jok...

Not necessary, You've heard of baby bottles? Besides, your wife can pump it at work and save it for the baby, next day. Breast feeding is a very good ...

True, IF there was a crop failure (hail, grasshoppers, drought, flood, etc.) insurance would help a great deal. But prices will normally fall if farme...

Even your friendly small-town banker depends on the community's indebtedness to them. A prime source of problems down on the farm has been banks encou...

If it is so extraordinarily difficult to achieve an ideal, such that no one does, then these types do not actually exist. If they do not exist, we do ...

Trump was a crook before he was elected. Tax fraud was his specialty. He violated numerous laws before and during his presidency. He withdrew from the...

There were very strong environmental reasons to block the Keystone pipeline. The biggest reason is that Keystone would carry the "dirtiest possible" o...

Trump was too busy betraying the American people.

I'm an old man now, and the years of striving as a boy and young man are ancient history. Your ideals are yours to pursue, and as far as I can tell, t...

I am reluctant to endorse your goals for your son. It's all well and good to have the mind of a philosopher, the spirit of a warrior, the body of an a...

There's more to it than my favorite part about the stupidity pf lawns. C. Peter Domhoff Who Rules America and The Bohemian Grove and other retreats;: ...

There is no such thing as absolute morality. Take the Ten Commandments: they seem to demonstrate absolute morality, and some are more absolute than ot...

As Levendis, the daemon in THE MAN WHO ROWED Christopher Columbus ASHORE by Harlan Ellison said, "It is not surprising that there is bad art; what IS ...

We don't know whether people who disappeared were merely disinterested in continuing or who no longer continue because they were run over by a truck, ...

I have read books by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn; Fyodor Dostoyevsky Leo Tolstoy; Soren Kierkegaard; Franz Kafka; George Orwell; plays by William Shakespea...

It will have to be a civil case, then.

Would Click and Clack be a @"Hanover" thing? Seems too cornball for Hanover's highly elevated sense of humor and extremely sophisticated milieu compos...

Straight people and their tedious sex problems! All this bitching and carping about consent, satisfactory, and unsatisfactory sex. I'm surprised the b...

From dust bunnies wezall done come, back to dust bunnies wezall go.

I wish there was a clearer picture of what the sanctions are actually doing. Of course, gradually tightened sanctions are not going to have an over-ni...

Cats would just as soon we left during the day, Dogs, on the other hand, pretty much insist on us being available, preferably all the time. Cats are g...

Of course I know nothing about your brother. But... Perseverating negative thoughts (all the people in my life that I have hurt) is a feature o depres...

He did consider it science, and it isn't his fault that experimental psychology had not developed far enough to provide methods for testing whether ps...