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William James was the first 'professor of psychology' at Harvard, 1875. The first PhD in psychology went to G. Stanley Hall in 1878. So... from Socrat...

We think it is well within your operational capability to devise a suitable moniker for your esteemed self.

Probably a sweeping generalization, but "The class war is the only war."

True enough, the Dutch were quite imperialistic with colonies in the Americas, Asia and Africa. Royal Dutch Shell didn't get rich harvesting clams, af...

Exactly. It is hideously ironic that Russia, which claims to be "de-nazifying" Ukraine is emulating the actual Nazis.

True, I probably don't travel enough. Why don't you take me on a whirlwind tour of Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, and SE Asia? You can introduce...

It was much more difficult to organize large groups of people prior to, oh, say 1990, than it has been since the wide availability of personal compute...

The actual effectiveness of any popular movement against poverty, war, injustice, and so on is ALWAYS difficult to determine, and many popular movemen...

I am not counting on it. For one thing, I do not accuse governments --ours, the Russian, the Indian, Chinese, or North Macedonian to be consistently t...

Like other sensible peace-loving people, I am totally opposed to Russia's attacks on Ukraine, aka "war". However, I am surprised by the official and p...

are going to have the last laugh,

Another Clark , this one a super 100. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaDQG35SSDc

That's true, but I wasn't explaining it. I was merely rating your joke telling ability, which is eminently satisfactory.

And if wishes were horses the peasants would ride. I don't believe "human nature" is infinitely malleable. We are not all that nice, a good share of t...

Your "1-9 list" seems more like an origin story for drama than for humor. However, a good joke is also a 'little drama'. BTW, saber tooth tigers were ...

Referencing the UDHR / VII.4 Nicknames was fairly humorous. It was moderately amusing on two levels: 1) that unauthorized use of your alleged nickname...

You've seen the Monte Python skit about the (literal) killer joke -- people died laughing.

It isn't just sensitivity. Various people are trapped in literalism and are rule bound. Some unfortunates can't tell a joke from a statement. Some see...

It's not a tough balance: if "sensitive" people are present, it's a no go. It's not just the "sensitive people"; it's also the knights in plastic armo...

Oh. I'm disappointed. I thought I had seen all the Seinfeld episodes there were at least twice. Don't remember the George T bone bit. Were the Seinfel...

"Out of an abundance of caution" (very popular during these plague years) I checked the Urban Dictionary for the meaning of 'T bone'. So, whether I wo...

Your wife has a head; I had heard rumors... A zoom call would be fine by me, assuming the topic was interesting -- or the call could be purely social....

Oddly, you are interpreting "rely" as a vertical relationship where anyone you rely on has (up down) authority over you. True enough vertical reliance...

Free and open relationships are a fine thing if all the relevant parties agree that it is a fine thing; If they do not, then trouble will be the resul...

Are you suggesting that, 5 years later, we know all about it? All this vagus talk is vaguely unsettling.

An exceptionally good one. :100:

Once you get there, you may filter what you see through the lens of preconceptions and misinformation. No! I just won't do it. Ever. I REFUSE to eat c...

The Western European pronunciation of Kiev changed to Kyiv when a batch of media people showed up there and felt the ever-present media need to be coo...

Breathing is by diaphragm or... pftttz. .

Congratulations! You are the first person to use "rutilant" on The Philosophy Forum. New to me, it means "glowing or glittering with red or golden lig...

Not Pussy Galore? Especially applicable to you, MR. Honey Ovaria: "If men could get pregnant, abortion on demand would be a sacrament." So said Gloria...

Hey, he denied Christ 3 times, so I wouldn't put a misrepresentation of the housing problem beyond him. Besides, the surgeon and engineer were predest...

What would your prefer - dormitories? Tents? Park benches? Middle class angels need a nice place with a lawn and a garage.

If heaven has a housing deficiency, one has to assume that it is a matter of policy, rather than supply, what with God Almighty being the last word in...

Joke from an article on moral relativism in Quillette A surgeon, an engineer, and an economist all die around the same time and are met at the Pearly ...

Handy for when you had disappointed Caligula. Better than crucifixion. The advice I read was that you sort of lean over the very sharp pointed sword, ...

Nonsense! Sufficient height and momentum would be important if the sword you borrowed for this project was dull. A well-sharpened pointed sword will p...

To quote a line from a parodied folksong by the Womenfolk (1960s-70s)... "Let's all take our silver dagger and plunge it in our lily-white breasts". I...

It isn't a vile Americanism because Americans do not eat crumpets. Dry, flavorless, crumbs all over everything, requires tea which is inconvenient, an...

A fucking filthy firkin of pig shite. Normally the final 'e' would make the preceding vowel long, Do you say 'shite to rhyme with flight or flit'? Thi...

Maybe the National Organization of Women? Catholic orders for women (nuns)? Women's colleges (a few of those are still in business)? It doesn't matter...

My view is that people are more alike than they are different, so men and women are more alike than different too. We could argue that there should be...

I don't have sufficient knowledge to say, but academics who presumably do (men and women both) have asserted that matriarchies were few and far betwee...

They do. Sometimes they shorten it to "that's a crock". Who else uses the phrase "crock of shit"? I assume it isn't the French, because they's say "po...

The figure you site may very well be true. But surely there are significant losses on the Ukrainian side, soldiers and civilians alike. A lot o materi...

Propaganda: zealous speech to persuade. "Their propaganda is all lies, our propaganda is full of truth."

A crock. Crock: 1) A noun; earthenware vessel often used to store spoiled cabbage; storage for salted pork sealed with rancid grease; 2) Nonsensical t...

Something that many critics of the United States forget (especially American critics) is that "states do not friends, egos, honor, and so on. What the...

Our good philosopher SSU needs to be protected from Russian aggression,

"Dismantled itself" or collapsed? I wasn't aware that there was a deliberate disestablishment effort. A high-speed unraveling isn't the same as "disma...