Definitely not a KKK type hat. The classic witch's hat (a la WW of the W) was crisply conical and pointed at the top. The pilgrim's hats were more a s...
Does more money bring more friends, sex, more stable relationships? It may, but the people I know who have lots of friends, sex, and good relationship...
According to The Debunker: They only wore black clothing on Sunday. The rest of the time they wore hideous prints in bright clashing colors, the bette...
I agree: pursuing money as an end is not good. Thrift is very helpful, as is limiting one's material aspirations (even if it's a necessity). Thrift an...
What emotion isn't transitory? One thing: people who are happy don't spend a lot of time discussing it. They get on with their lives. And getting on w...
Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Camus didn't invent despair or anxiety. History has had many episodes where people felt like a Christian Scientist...
According to Statista, "In April 2021, the average hourly earnings of all employees in the United States was at 11.31 U.S. dollars." If one figures 21...
It's late in life for me, and I find I have, or have had, most of what I ever wanted. Some of it is gone, owing to normal processes of aging, death, d...
I doubt Biden will run for a second term--just based on age. There is more than the presidential vote at stake, and the Republicans have done a much b...
I think it has to do with the alleged moral superiority of the oppressed. The same problem exists in the US: Black people killed by the police, accide...
How many minutes do the Salacious Sisters of Don Juan pray on my behalf, and what precisely do they pray for? They might spend hours a day calling on ...
People, be reasonable. There is no point whatsoever in mocking the INvulnerable. They either have servants who screen TPF entries before they approach...
I don't quite get what this thread is about. It seems to me that there are no major disjointed periods in history: No new age has dawned where very di...
Prejudice and stereotype cut both ways. Tall, slim men are subject to more favorable stereotyping than short fat men. A head of thick hair (of whateve...
The weirdest example of prejudice/stereotyping yet. At least it has a biblical referent: "As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly" ...
As the late Everett Dirksen (representative from Illinois, liberal Republican) allegedly said, "A billion here, a billion there. Before long you're ta...
it isn't merely "somewhat concentrated capital" that is the problem; it is extremely concentrated capital that is problematic, whether it is in privat...
I don't know either, but I do know that historically (going back a long way--even the Romans) inflation has been a problem. True, interest rates are l...
I call it 'revolutionary change' only because the installed Uber-wealthy class might not be dislodged by a gradual, evolutionary process. They have ev...
Certainly, robust economies require capital to function properly. The problem with 'concentrated capital' is that too few agents control it, and may a...
The Republican slime are busy writing and passing very restrictive state laws making it more difficult for various people to vote, and making it easie...
INTERESTING STUFF -- Politics and Current Affairs, Humanities and Social Sciences, & Science and Technology -- contains a lot of the threads I find mo...
Are you referencing 'Cointelpro? I think it is safe to say that the FBI (and who knows who else) infiltrates and spies upon radical movements. Such sp...
I know more about men (being a man) than I do about women. There seem to be plenty of women around whose EQ is about the same as men -- just flavored ...
Some people, like myself, have always been a day late and a dollar short when it comes to emotional intelligence / social intelligence. Still, it seem...
Moral systems are installed in childhood as part of the civilizing project of raising children. (At least, one hopes moral systems are installed). Rel...
Neither religion nor secular ethics were ever conceived in a social vacuum. There is always a social context--human desires, human needs. human weakne...
Speaking words of wisdom, LET IT BE McCarney -- and now that I looked it up, Lennon as well. The first voice I heard (in my head) sounded like Elton J...
Why was Cleanthes so amused by donkey's eating figs? Donkeys get tired of eating thistles and other rough plants. The deer in Minnesota have developed...
II millennia, ii score, & viii years ago, Julius Caesar text messaged The Senate: "Veni Vidi Vici" SOUNDBITE OF CHEERS AND APPLAUSE The visited, the s...
There are many titles out there that are just not very satisfactory. I've read several by Brandon Q. Morris, and those have been quite good. I'd excep...
The land people occupy has often been in someone else's possession, until possession changed hands. The United States occupied the land of various nat...
Interesting that neither Google nor the Urban Dictionary recognize POMO - short for Post Modern or postmodernists, postmodernism, postmodernitis... My...
OK. If there was anything worth emphasizing, it was the Sokol Hoax. Have you heard of it? If not, it's worth a google. It revealed the vacuity of at l...
It's been around awhile, even as a New Yorker cartoon--"it's not enough that dogs win--cats must fail" It probably goes back to Attila the Hun, at lea...
There is a dearth of conservatives among faculty in American universities, at least that's what I have read in various reports from mainline publicati...
Man, I empathize with you! I've fought quite a few battles over principles--and 49 times out of 50 lost. Not just lost, but was crushed, flattened, an...
Is The Philosophy Forum getting worse? I've never been a high-level participant, so from my POV it's doing fine. On the other hand, many things are al...
If you liked my brief episode, you will absolutely adore Tearoom Trade by Laud Humphreys. Humprheys was a PhD candidate at a university in St. Louis a...
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