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He'd be a crazy vegetable if he survived at all, long before 50 years. Intelligence is derived from the physical brain, time (age); and experience. Th...

Of course not. But it takes years lived to get experience. I find Gretta annoying and Donald Trump revoltingly loathsome. However, he became President...

is not the use of (or threat of) coercion the primary means by which States prove their legitimacy? Let's say Alaska declares all of itself to be an i...

Not so, because adults have more experience in life than children, even if they have a relatively low IQ. Low IQ isn't a severe mental impairment. Gra...

It might be true, especially when you are comparing a group who may not need college level training, and another group who needs at least a BA, and ma...

I do not know how much the Protestant Work Ethic figures into people's lives, these days. For Luther, work which contributed to the common good was as...

IF workers owned the means of production, and IF production were for need and not profit, then a 40 hour work week would be an anachronism. Unfortunat...

No war but the class war. We have done a very good job of convincing ourselves that there is no such thing as class in America. There is, of course, b...

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The "existence of change" precedes the "essence of change". Societies change because the minimum necessary number of people change, so the theory goes...

I too have seen an extraordinary change in the prevailing image of gay people from that of diseased pariahs to a much, much more positive position. Go...

Happy Thanksgiving to you, for you, and everyone. Personal turbulence rips through holidays and ordinary days alike. The storm will pass, not soon eno...

Thanks for your input. I've been reading Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer. He takes the 4 main groups of English / Scottish: the Puritans, Caval...

Of course lynching could have something to do with honor, but let me clarify. "Honor" here does not mean "high respect; great esteem derived from nobl...

Tim, I read history; I think knowing our history is important. Statistics on lynching supply valuable insights. However... 1) Arbery was not "lynched"...

This fairy tale isn't over yet.

Once upon a time there was Philosophy Forum, owned by Paul. It lasted for about 10 years. It was a healthy forum (active, orderly). Paul decided to se...

Like, black holes no matter?

I suppose for an omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent being, black holes are nothing special. Just one more wrinkle in time.

If God is omnipresent, that means... yes, in a fox's hole, lady fox or gentleman fox -- and all other holes, as well.

Of course pedophiles could be courageous. Sexual object choice has nothing to do with courage. HOWEVER: Bringing up anything about pedophiles is a ris...

I would say the forum is a warm place to sit. But... since this is all virtual, it's no nicer than wherever you are. Perhaps you could provide a sampl...

A hotel capable of containing an infinite number of guests would consume the universe, never mind the local environment. Unless, of course, the hotel ...

In the Shout Box you can whine, shout, mutter, bitch, carp, and more! And welcome to The Philosophy Forum. If you are here long enough, you will find ...

As fate will have it, Sisyphus will end up rolling his rock through the halls of the Hilbert, cracking posts, crashing joists, and shattering walls. A...

Oxblood is a nice color; it looks very much like your blood, assuming you are not a blue blood. The red matter oozing out of a burger might be ox bloo...

Puce. The color was/is descriptive of fleas. Don't have fleas myself, so can't say whether that's true or not.

Quite true, but it isn't the distance, per se, that makes me think they are not related. Guns, not SUVs, are overwhelmingly the preferred weapon for k...

It would be easier to suppose that the driver in today's event was connected to the Rittenhouse verdict if it had happened in Kenosha and not Waukesha...

People appear to find riding on rollercoasters pleasurable, but that hasn't been my experience.

Your situation is MUCH better than I first thought. You find helping people worthwhile. That's solid rock! Were you so alienated, so mired in anomie, ...

If everything is pointless and there is nothing you want, then why on earth are you working? Is working not pointless? I don't know how you arrived 'w...

I never stare at women's bodies. What I find creepy is people who resolutely refuse to make wanted advances. #(@#*@#@# THEM! Some of us organize our l...

] 1. Standing too close - in Minnesota, "too close" is closer than 3 feet 4. Having bulging eyes - probably has thyroid disease 5. Having long fingers...

In just a nanosecond of CPU time I was able to generate a list of words with more descriptive power than "creepy", which is fine when you are describi...

Highly Instructive, Hanover. The verklempt Mother Superior shot the creepy penis right off the genitally gesticulating German. She had been known to j...

I really dislike the adjective "creepy". It is extremely vague, but implies both a pathology and a threat which, if real, can and should be identified...

All good points. When people go overboard about one bad thing happening, more bad things happen. 18 months after the riots in Minneapolis, there are s...

Do you have any idea how much angst your anticipation of my literary output is causing me--never mind Shawn and Wayfarer? Thanks for ruining the holid...

I hear Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges. So!

There's no way to win here. I hadn't read your sublime offering when I wrote my post. Had I been aware of your smart-assed response, I would have felt...

What we see on the news any given day may or may not be accurate or true. Whatever I say is, of course, true--like the word of god. The Jury is trying...

boar pig barrows gilts pork swine hog sow -- They are all 4 legged, snout faced, bristle haired, curly tailed mammals who are the source of excellent ...

Had we been breeding pigs for intelligence instead of bacon, by this time they'd be eating with us. But alas, no bacon in that case.

As a low grade Lutheran / disavowed Methodist / wanna-be Catholic / could pass for Jewish / atheist, I don't like 99% of the theistic posts either. Th...

Indeed. Somebody -- don't remember who -- said we must stop talking about 2030, 2050, or 2100. No more 5 year plans. The movers and shakers need to be...

Dilution is the perfect solution to pollution when we live next to an infinitely long river. Unfortunately for us, the finite river into which we dilu...

With such a display of bold, fearless, undaunted courage, surely salvation is at hand! Kindly forgive my sarcasm, if you will. The first big climate c...

They may lay down together, but the lion will sleep a lot better than the lamb. Your response gets an A+. TV isn't reality. On THIS OLD HOUSE work is ...

@"T Clark" The high point of American Literature (11th grade) was watching a short film, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, and reading the story. At ...