Mrs. Bernatz was my 11th and 12th grade English teacher. She was a good grammar teacher. She drilled us in sentence diagramming, among other things. L...
THAT is the word I was looking for when I used "facsimile". Thanks. Now I can relax. BTW, I watched some prairie dogs close up at Devil's Tower in Mon...
I've labored within the social service industry and have observed various kinds of problems. What I have not seen first hand is anything like the kind...
For parents, it's being reasonably successful in life and socializing with other successful people. (And, of course, showing their children how its do...
Well, there are all sorts of body problems that fly in the face of intelligent design. On the other hand... Hunter gatherers had pretty good teeth, pr...
Socialization is achieved informally but thoroughly. Decent, civilized people tend to socialize their children to be decent and civilized. Intellectua...
Moderation in all things. "... The essential thought is found in the work of the Greek poet Hesiod (c.700 bc), ‘observe due measure; moderation is bes...
Back to my first response on this topic: people learn how to interact with other people before they study knees or beetles or Schopenhauer or Shakespe...
Stop with the liberal arts chauvinism, already. I'm all for the liberal arts, (member of the National Council of English Majors) but the science peopl...
For at least 500,000 years this knee plan worked really well. Maybe longer. And other animals have problems with their knees too. Part of the problem ...
Two reasons for this: a) social apes learn how to interact with other social apes (for better or for worse) long before they learn about philosophy b)...
"Ordoliberalism is the German variant of economic liberalism that emphasizes the need for the state to ensure that the free market produces results cl...
& @"T Clark". This William Ernest Henley poet person (author of Invictus, aka invincible) was one sentimental Debbie downer. We'll go no more a-roving...
I saved up all my dopamine last winter and in the spring I sprayed it on a 5 x 5 foot patch of grass on the other side of the fence. Throughout the su...
"Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you." Jesus remarked to some irritated I...
What hasn't changed over the last several hundred (many thousand) years is basic humanness. Part of that is a variable ability to cope with stresses. ...
Just guessing, but shaving the top off a rented truck probably marked the low point of an already bad day. (Helping disorganized friends move is usual...
Limiting global warming requires accuracy, precision, and honesty in reporting greenhouse gas emissions and reductions. There is a lot of inaccuracy, ...
Does what Lord Kelvin (aka William Thomson) had to say about physics apply to philosophy and your example of asking what good is utilitarianism? There...
We haven't done much with dance here; maybe we should have a contest where members send in videos of themselves doing the new "ravish the apple" dance...
I used to read stuff where sentences like that appeared. These days I avoid authors who talk about "perceived transcendence". Can you have an transcen...
"We will do by 2030" is a dodge. What matters is the politicians commence to a) stop de-forestation IMMEDIATELY b) begin re-forestation IMMEDIATELY c)...
You have quite the hard-on for the United States. Since you are very well versed in our heinous history, perhaps you happen to know... When did "colon...
From the viewpoint of people on the receiving end of the world's dominant powers, "imperialism" is at best not a good deal. For the people on the deli...
Good advice. If a patient needs psychiatric help, the psychologist will refer him or her on to a psychiatrist. I've seen a number of psychiatrists ove...
That's quite plausible, provided that what @"Yohan" is hearing are intrusive hallucinations and not just annoying mental chatter (which a lot of us he...
Feelings of alienation are not signs of insanity. A lot of us live in circumstances which are very alienating. Alienation is unhealthy, but a psychiat...
Happy All Hallows Eve to you--the liturgical non-event before the bigger All Saints Day on November 1. Many churches remember members, family, and fri...
I like Bernie; I voted for him. Neither Senator Sanders nor any other single person can effect systemic change by themselves. That's is just the fact ...
I saw a news program quite a few years ago in which Miami's ground water upwelling was just beginning to be a visible problem--little pools of water r...
William Lane Craig will not avail. Nor prevail. He'll derail in the loathsome vale. He'll suffer much travail which no one will curtail. He'll vomit i...
"And time itself The magic length of God ." 1966 Leonard Cohen God is alive, Magic is Afoot Recited by Leonard Cohen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3...
I like Bernie, but it's not a "one man problem" -- it is a big complex systemic problem. Shankar Vedantam, the host of the public radio program, Hidde...
What you say about "our" political leaders is true enough, but you don't think the political system is actually left unattended, so that We The People...
Hold on Olivier5. The stupid crass people and their kids never had a say in the future at any critical stage. The boards of directors of banks, mining...
In the case of major technological change, Parkinson's law isn't the problem (but it's an otherwise sound principle). 1) Once a technology is created,...
The larger public has never had much say in how major new technologies will be deployed. "The People" were not crying out for crude oil. It was people...
Here's an interesting fact: There are about 1.4 BILLION cars on the world's roads. Producing and fueling these billion+ autos was / is a major contrib...
I am quite pessimistic regarding the chances of success in controlling (let alone reducing) climate warming. The major CO2 / methane / other GH gas pr...
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