I suspect both. :sweat: Strange as it may sound, she surprised me and I approved despite the Old Man's stubborn misgivings. See my reply to Amity (abo...
Mythical. Somewhen. The author has more questions too! Good reason to extend the tale and flesh out the background. The Socratic question, no? As Socr...
Thanks, and you both are right. Another 'more show, less tell' draft will have to be much longer (maybe even as long as a novella with all the implici...
Thank you. Yeah, 'post war' specifically, an era of 'peace' marked by gradual rebuilding and return to more quiet, pastoral, rhythms of ordinary life ...
1. I agree. 2. Yes, thanks for reminding me. Today I'll begin following-up. Btw, I reposted my story so I can edit the working draft maybe in response...
"Good Stew" by Ben Ward (draft 1Aug21) Why, grandfather?" The old man walked beside the pack animal which she guided. A sudden breeze through the tree...
:up: I had him pegged as a disingenuous bloviator on p.2 after a few posts but sometimes whacking a piñata can be a useful object lesson. Boredom too ...
Which of course is merely a speculative mystification and not itself scientific at all. Oh yeah, and wrong, or besides the point, in every significant...
Graham Harman, from the abstract you've linked, sounds like he's not read a word of Metzinger or understands Metzinger's thesis / conjecture if he has...
I appreciate the recommendation. From your link and brief reviews of the book, Rodl seems to propose a solution in search of a problem. "Absolute idea...
It's just your latest non sequitur-fixation, Fool. Like so many so-called "paradoxes", under scrutiny at least one premise doesn't hold up. You're not...
"Maybe cynics are disappointed optimists (bitter) and absurdists disappointed pessimists (grateful) – the difference between schadenfreude & singing t...
Well, insofar as theism is untrue, they do amount to the same thing. The (origin of the) universe – finite, unbounded immanence – seems a brute fact. ...
This question seems a non sequitur. By "perfect" I only mean god-like; if it's good enough for "god", then by definition such a state of existence nec...
First, because it's a scientific conjecture / research program and not just a mere philosophical speculation (or woo). Second, because of the work of ...
"Good Stew" is not my style, just an escapist experiment. In hindsight it's clear now I'd played it safe (to my surprise) which I won't do again. Anyw...
Nonsense. We eat meat for the same reason we use petrolium in combustion engines – much higher energy density than plant-matter and wood/coal, respect...
Incredulity is merely an opinion, not a reasoned, or informed, objection. Read Smith. Read Marx. Read histories of slave societies (e.g. Orlando Patte...
"God" is not bound by human or mortal constraints since It "creates" the constraints on humans / mortals in the first place. Poor comparison, apples &...
"Let them eat ... 'soylent green' aka McDonald's!" :brow: Progress for whom? The socioeconomic immiseration of the vast majority of people on this pla...
Our 'sense of it' surely is. :100: Since 1963 too (my YoB), the precariat has only grown moreso in this ever-accelerating 'neoliberal' plutonomy. Glob...
Other. These are not "theories" (i.e. falsifiable good explanations), just methodological speculations (NB: I find non-reductive physicalism the least...
The only answer to Why that does not precipitate an infinite regress and, in effect, begs the question is There Is No Why. Rather: How did the BB come...
Explain so I can understand why you created anything at all (e.g.a universe less perfect than yourself inhabited by creatures less perfect than their ...
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