Allow me to expatiate a bit more on the tragedy. "The people" -- everyone pretty much everywhere -- is a captive of the larger economic system in whic...
"Big oil" didn't come into existence because people wanted a petroleum-based economy. It was driven into existence by capitalists (like Rockefeller) w...
Perhaps the "cold" areas like Minnesota are the result of the thick granite Laurentian Shield, part of the North American Craton. The Tower-Sudan unde...
The projects I have seen here use shallow installations to dissipate heat in summer and and acquire heat in the winter. For instance, a Lutheran churc...
@"Karl Stone" It is the case in parts of the US that any large expansion of electric production (thinking here of wind and solar) requires substantial...
Belgian waffles seem to be surrounded by lies, falsified history, and an overall lack of truthiness. The last Pannekoeken Huis in Minnesota closed las...
Here's an example of how AI (as delivered in a Google query) is never wrong: Actually, Wikipedia rates Minnesota and Utah as 12 and 13. Michigan and M...
The Eternal Return all over again, from about 3 years ago. I thought this horse had been beaten to death. As for solving the climate and ecological cr...
Probably because you dared him to eat rabbit vindaloo at a dodgy Indian food stall near the Belgian State Waffle Hall at the fair from which he got pt...
Actually... Many sources indicate that French fries are actually a Belgian creation, originating from the practice of frying potatoes in the winter wh...
There are, you know, markets that can mostly meet the diverse wants of the people. Grocery stores in the US do not have many parsnips for sale, while ...
Anarchism is a great subject! I don't know what, how much, by whom, or when you read about anarchism and communism or socialism. Keep reading! I want ...
I sort of remember being in my 30s -- a long time ago. Personal computers hadn't become a consumer product yet. By my 40s they had arrived. I started ...
Are there no categories of flavors? sour? sweet? bitter? Perfect pear like? Cinnamon / clove like? Cardamom like? (That's another flavor I don't quite...
I still don't know what poppy seeds taste like. The summer meadow is probably loaded with wood ticks carrying Lymes disease and Rocky Mountain spotted...
There are several foods with poppy-seeds I like but I can not say what poppy seeds actually taste like. It seems like it's the other stuff (like lemon...
It is a good idea to remember our evolutionary history. The capacity to experience, commit to memory, and recall was developed way before our arrival ...
Right. Memory isn't a record we can replay to double check attendance. It's not quite reliable enough. Way-finding is largely memory based. Some anima...
I am somewhat concerned more about forgetting than recognizing a memory as a memory. If I go by memory alone, there were long stretches of time when I...
You might rummage through popular music of the 20th century to look for the antecedents of Rock and Roll. It didn't just burst on the scene without pr...
Someone told an early 20th century composer, Arnold Schoenberg, maybe, that they didn't like all of the dissonance and noise of contemporary music. He...
Never mind my "lust and trust" quip. The person who said it was describing the transition from eros to a more complex love, casual to more serious. I ...
Was that an off-handed quip or a well-thought-out summation? Either way, might be truer than we'd like to admit. Certainly that was true for the Unite...
Keates and his overwrought urns and lines of verse! I've always been reluctant to embrace this statement. Truth defining beauty defining truth: one la...
In my youth, sex had an intense urgency; love was more intense than, too. Our "first love" is remembered until we die, and that intense feeling is, pe...
Love is more than lust. It can also entail comfort, security, warmth, and acceptance. The 'feeling' of loving or being loved isn't exclusively a sexua...
Welcome to The Philosophy Forum. Love is a combination of lust and trust. Desire for love -- either to be loved or love someone -- has an essential ph...
When I was growing up (back in the '50s and '60s) we always had tea with the evening meal. Supper was usually leftovers or something fairly quick to c...
Were it up to me to disclose anything to anybody, I'd advise the aliens that they get the hell away from this solar system at warp speed before a) som...
Welcome! I think of myself as a "big picture" thinker; however "big picture" thinking had better anchor itself in relevant details if is going to be o...
Goldilocks starts off by violating the privacy of the 3 bears -- entering their house uninvited. She then contaminates? defiles? violates? the 3 bears...
I wasn't thinking of Hansel and Gretel, but that's a fairly dark story too-- the step mother attempting to lose the children in the forest, permanentl...
The "Ring around the Rosie" rhyme originated in the Black Death -- the great pneumonic / bubonic plague (which, btw, hasn't disappeared) that killed a...
If you are looking for a cheap book to read in the toilet, Amazon is selling "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" by John Maynard K...
All important observations! I have a high efficiency toilet which empties the bowl with 5 quarts of water, much less than inefficient toilets. The bow...
Ask yourself: are you reluctant to use a trough urinal in a busy public toilet? Do you feel inhibited in that setting? What sort of risk do you percei...
There is a very good reason WHY people have to be paid to work. I spent quite a few years trying to find a way to get payed at jobs I didn't like much...
Your writing brings to mind Erich Fromm, a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic soc...
It has been a big story. I don't think it became 'big news' just because media elected to make it big. According to BBC reporters on the scene, there ...
Awkward it is, but there is a lot of awkward juxtapositions within Christian (or any other religion's) institutions. For example, the matter of the ch...
The "figure" may transcend nationality, but the pope is also a real-life politically, geographically, socially, theologically, and intellectually root...
Congratulations! Your appear to be the first person on The Philosophy Forum to object to the term, 'scurrilous'. Odd that you find it objectionable, b...
That's probably why people are always asking me for directions to get the hell out of Egypt. I tell them they're a long ways from the nearest pyramid,...
@"Frank" Country Joe McDonald tried to get the Woodstock crowd to sing the "Fixing To Die Rag". After one verse he said, "Listen people, I don't know ...
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