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And who (re: class, ethnic/color, sex/gender & sectarian member(s)) will code this "unbiased" computer program? :up: :ok: ...
February 08, 2022 at 05:04
:lol:
February 08, 2022 at 05:03
https://youtu.be/uIew3iCAMoE "Teen Town" for Hiram Bullock d.2008 (7:16) Live, 2010 writer, Jaco Pastorius, 1977 performers Darryl Jones - bass Will L...
February 08, 2022 at 00:36
Yeah, we (akratic) higher primates are just (sleepwalking junkie) slaves to that damned – damning – mesolimbic dopamine pathway. :sweat: :cool:
February 07, 2022 at 10:38
Perhaps, not in idealist (folk psychologist) terms, "intuition" is just (the perceptual – noninferential – aptitude of) pattern-recognition (e.g. gest...
February 07, 2022 at 10:24
Perhaps ....agnotology?
February 07, 2022 at 09:13
Yeah, these litany of shallow definitions you lean so heavily upon in your posts are just lazy crutches crippling your intellectual credibility. :eyes...
February 07, 2022 at 00:22
The Oslo Accords, signed by both Arafat & Rabin, and that the Israelis (especially under Bibi) continue to violate, had decades ago supplanted the PLO...
February 07, 2022 at 00:09
Dialectics or (Pyrrhonian) skepticism targets 'illusions of knowledge' (i.e. believing we know what we don't know or cannot be known) – one's ignoranc...
February 06, 2022 at 23:26
That's your claim not mine; so, as they say, the burden's on you, Herr Goebbels.
February 06, 2022 at 23:12
"Evidence" of what? :sweat:
February 06, 2022 at 22:50
Respectfully, I feel my absurdist prognosis is more physically grounded ... :fire: :flower:
February 06, 2022 at 22:39
:rofl:
February 06, 2022 at 22:14
Assuming you're not disingenuous, your replies suggest you do not understand my post perhaps due to a lack of sufficient historical background on the ...
February 06, 2022 at 22:06
No shit. That's a false dichotomy.
February 06, 2022 at 21:42
YOLO :cool: :up:
February 06, 2022 at 11:27
Your special pleading is tiresome ... No point in talking past each other any further. FREE PALESTINE. Shalom. :mask:
February 06, 2022 at 07:13
Strawman. Red herring. Canard. Tired old apologetic bs. :shade:
February 06, 2022 at 05:54
"Ideas" associated with fact-free (i.e. faith-based) "beliefs" – like conspiracy theories – about purported matters of fact (re: "life after life") ar...
February 06, 2022 at 05:48
The arsonist blames the bonfire – a circumstance of Eurocentric-colonizing Israel's own making by dispossession of the several centuries-old occupants...
February 06, 2022 at 05:39
Two recent forays into the thorny morass of "free will": I too was indoctrinated with the "Free Will Theodicy" (Spinoza was probably excommunicated fo...
February 06, 2022 at 04:38
The reason for a Likud leader's agreement with the PLO that the need for the occupation / oppression to end is to maintain the long-term "legitimacy" ...
February 06, 2022 at 03:47
:mask: The parallel is too stark to merely be, as some would have it, a bad analogy / false equivalence: Gaza City (intifada) ~ Warsaw Ghetto (uprisin...
February 06, 2022 at 03:38
Don't forget, while you're taking my name in vain, to quote my corroborations as well such as (follow link @my handle) Ariel fuckin' Sharon's mea culp...
February 06, 2022 at 03:18
:roll: :up: e.g. Theology, no?
February 05, 2022 at 20:04
Since you favor "short books on aesthetics" and self-identify, IIRC, as a pragmatist, I recommend John Dewey's Art as Experience. An even shorter read...
February 05, 2022 at 20:00
Except that in America, no mention of "the person's gender or race" in these political rituals simply defaults to (the 95% quota of) a "White Man". Be...
February 05, 2022 at 19:27
You seem to assume that it only suffices "because she is a black woman" that she will be nominated. :chin:
February 05, 2022 at 06:45
https://philosophynow.org/issues/148/Iris_Murdoch_and_The_Mystery_of_Love
February 05, 2022 at 06:19
"The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never...
February 05, 2022 at 05:35
:up:
February 05, 2022 at 03:07
You're certainly entitled to that "opinon".
February 05, 2022 at 01:14
:up:
February 04, 2022 at 21:36
Hey, I'm not a Kantian, but I recommend a work by Arthur Schopenhauer which directly addresses your questions (and who IMO is, like Solomon Maimon or ...
February 04, 2022 at 09:12
Two word refutation: "Donald" "Trump" ... QED. :smirk: Sorry, I'm not an animist, so anthropomorphism – special pleading – won't get you anywhere with...
February 04, 2022 at 08:57
:up: :fire: :cool:
February 04, 2022 at 08:48
The extinction fossil records of some 98% of all species is testament to life's blindly wanton profusion of ("antilife") maladaptations. Evoltion does...
February 04, 2022 at 07:08
Ain't we all just human, all too human (aka "stupid is as stupid does") .
February 04, 2022 at 05:19
"Be fruitful and multiply" increases overall entropy. Deus vult – how can this be "evil"? :mask: :up:
February 04, 2022 at 03:16
:100:
February 04, 2022 at 01:50
:cool:
February 04, 2022 at 01:47
News flash: that's not how this process is designed to work (certainly it hasn't in two and a third centuries). The only thing "racist and sexist" is ...
February 04, 2022 at 00:30
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February 03, 2022 at 22:27
Numerology is more like it.
February 03, 2022 at 13:15
:cry: :rofl:
February 03, 2022 at 13:10
Explain why that "statistical anomaly" is relevant to Biden making an appointment to SCOTUS.
February 03, 2022 at 07:39
Well, who am I to argue the point with an old white fella? :wink: Of course, of course.
February 03, 2022 at 06:19
Ripped this quote or paraphrase from the pages of ... Mein Kampf, I guess. :shade:
February 03, 2022 at 06:15
Opposition to patriarchal white supremacy (re: 109 white men out of 115 (95%) justices appointed since 1789), especially in government, cannot be "rac...
February 03, 2022 at 06:00
:clap: :100: They are not "complementary" any more than "fruit" and "apple". :sweat: As for "non-vulgar" materialism, I won't repeat myself, Gnomon. Y...
February 03, 2022 at 00:26