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Actually... I've been reading Rick Atkinson's 3 volume history of the American Revolution. Lots of stuff not mentioned in 7th grade American history! ...
July 04, 2025 at 18:09
"Ordered" implies an agency at work giving the universe features. Is there an organizing agency at work? God? Matter and energy must behave they way t...
July 03, 2025 at 01:55
Well, that's a relief.
June 30, 2025 at 19:50
It is amazing how ordinary glass can shatter and spread across the floor and be difficult to clean up. A week later and bits of glass are still showin...
June 30, 2025 at 04:50
How does he do it? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ys8X6HaL8A4?feature=share
June 30, 2025 at 01:12
If the broken glass is so cool, why did you throw it into the rubbish? Everything is transient. Innis & Gunn Lager beer; the Innis & Gunn brewery, the...
June 29, 2025 at 23:15
Great; Christian attacks couples on Christmas Eve! From my perspective, you did the right thing. The man clearly has problems, and if he might have be...
June 29, 2025 at 21:56
Right now I'm at 0. Back between 2000 and 2009 I was at a -2 and -3. I could interact with people and manage 'big picture' thinking OK, but was unable...
June 29, 2025 at 17:56
No manic episodes? Not sure about hypomania? Maybe you are not. Don't know. Mania is unmistakable -- running from abnormally exuberant energy directed...
June 29, 2025 at 01:42
I will presume that your bipolar diagnosis was accurate. Had you ignored the diagnosis, you might have had some serious psychotic episodes or deeper, ...
June 28, 2025 at 20:18
Determined? Predetermined? Not sure there is a significant difference here. It doesn't seem like we can say that genes, environments, nutrients, and e...
June 27, 2025 at 21:49
It is difficult to identify a range of freedom vs. a range of determination and constraint. It might not matter, because whatever "the reality" is, we...
June 27, 2025 at 16:29
I didn't intend to be a nay-sayer against your admirable aims. I greatly admire Dorothy Day who with Peter Marin founded the Catholic Worker movement....
June 26, 2025 at 19:15
Your list covers pretty much everything that might need doing. That's the main part of your problem. You've heard of hubris? add "Diminish my hubris" ...
June 26, 2025 at 03:53
God's face shall not be seen, but his hind end is available. Odd.
June 26, 2025 at 03:28
Autobiography, which might contain objective material ("I was born in North Dakota during a snow storm" for example), will also contain subjective mat...
June 23, 2025 at 23:38
Of course we can elevate our verbose didactic grammatical examples: "I retreated indoors to the library and sat at a random table while I translated a...
June 23, 2025 at 16:48
Correct. Indoors and outdoors function as adverbs, because they describe where an activity took place, like "I urinated outdoors behind a random tree....
June 22, 2025 at 21:01
In these times, 1 drink a year is clearly not enough.
June 22, 2025 at 17:36
Thanks!!! Those clips are actually very funny. You probably saw the show on WGBH or somewhere like that. Brit Box? Was Brit Box around back then? Slig...
June 22, 2025 at 17:25
OK, I get it. See, in Minnesota, we do not have random toilets. WE DO NOT PUT NICE TOILETS ON THE STREET, ¡EVER! and chilly upper-midwestern hospitali...
June 22, 2025 at 05:11
I agree. A thing that is worth doing at all may not be worth doing well - like getting perfectly drunk. "Fairly drunk" is good enough. Remember, Mr. U...
June 22, 2025 at 04:50
The random problem again. The public bathroom you referenced as "random" was probably anything but "random", since the outcome of a young person getti...
June 21, 2025 at 22:02
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." —Marcus Aurelius
June 21, 2025 at 05:10
People are not crossing the border into the United States by taking a bus to Nuevo Laredo and strolling across the bridge to Texas. In many cases they...
June 21, 2025 at 03:00
This song, Apache, from The Shadows - 1960 - reminds me of the sort of music Sergio Leone used in his spaghetti (or was it macaroni?) westerns. https:...
June 20, 2025 at 06:11
Killing an extra 34,000 to balance the books? Seems reasonable. Like, we all have to die anyway. It doesn't take AI to think of 34,000 people whose ab...
June 20, 2025 at 05:14
Coloring each letter was so time consuming, once upon a time. One could spend hours fiddling with the text. BTW. España has been in the news lately --...
June 20, 2025 at 05:05
It's a good thing we can't edit fonts; imagine the mess the shout box would be!
June 20, 2025 at 00:35
This is the kind of problem that is caused by sans serif fonts. "Live simply: use Helvetica"?
June 19, 2025 at 04:23
Yes. What else but nurture and love would help? One problem is that such therapy can't be delayed for 20 or 30 years and still be effective. While the...
June 18, 2025 at 01:49
Right, suppose all humans were equally tall and equally stupid. Would this uniformity result in life being different? No. People are already quite stu...
June 16, 2025 at 05:12
In the 1970s Prof. Harry Harlow, University of Wisconsin, deprived one group of baby chimps of anything resembling a mother--nothing soft, nothing war...
June 16, 2025 at 01:45
It's numerous legs are probably why house centipedes are among the least popular arthropods, yielding first or second place to spiders (arachnids). Th...
June 15, 2025 at 20:02
This would be true IF we were entirely self-possessed, entirely in charge and managing our central nervous systems. We are not. The seat of reason, em...
June 14, 2025 at 20:20
"Self" is a dominant interest in human affairs. I was going to call "self" an "overriding interest", but that is too extreme. If, indeed, people only ...
June 13, 2025 at 22:07
I agree that cannabis is simply not a class I drug like cocaine, heroin, meth, et al. I rate it as more consequential than coffee. Cigarettes (pipe to...
June 13, 2025 at 02:35
WHAT IS DACA? DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is a U.S. immigration policy that provides temporary protection from deportation and wo...
June 12, 2025 at 23:52
One's place in the social hierarchy influences behavior, even among friends and siblings. People learn their place in a hierarchy through others' and ...
June 12, 2025 at 02:54
So, the masterminds of industry are puppeteers jerking the strings of radical left wing activists in order to alienate the public. By that theory, we ...
June 10, 2025 at 22:32
Naive, impressionable Bittercrank has often been lured by the relentless marketing machine. I was not just pushed -- I was rammed into the Apple Store...
June 10, 2025 at 04:33
Good observations, all. Thanks. Welcome to The Philosophy Forum; you are not the only Canadian amongst us. Glad you are here. We do not have a tariff ...
June 09, 2025 at 23:48
beggars can't be too choosy.
June 08, 2025 at 06:26
Karl dear, you are getting way too much attention in the shoutbox. I say something outrageous or incredibly clever and nobody responds! You do your ho...
June 08, 2025 at 05:28
Here is the highlight of a political debate that took place in 1988 between the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, Lloyd Bentsen and the Republi...
June 08, 2025 at 05:14
Aren't those sort of ejaculating wells less common now than in the past?
June 08, 2025 at 04:16
True enough, there are no new vices (at least, very few) under the sun. Vices don't affect everyone equally, but few vices have no effect on society. ...
June 08, 2025 at 00:12
Let's start by acknowledging that it's both, in varying degrees, at different times. But which is dominant is important. Several of my "vice behaviors...
June 06, 2025 at 00:41
I am, of course, quoting other people--like G. Peter Domhoff, author of "Who Rules America". Professor Domhoff teaches at University of California, Sa...
June 04, 2025 at 23:48
It cares a great deal if it is their ox that is getting gored. In an ideal capitalist economy, there would be independent capitalists and industrialis...
June 04, 2025 at 21:00