A sentence taken out of context is meaningless, especially to those unfamiliar with or who have not studied the context from which it's taken. I've re...
Don't be bitchy. You seem to think this contest is about "winning" and my point is that it is not. Take the monkey off your back and go through the co...
Interesting. Schopenhauer has had some influence on my thinking, but Kierkegaard not so much (certainly not positively). Despite them both, however, I...
And those who somehow come back again and again realize that traumatic or sublime, weird or psychadelic memories are the voices of the muse which is (...
Well, I've won my share of story contests and winning is the least of I've gotten out of the experience from first draft to constructive feedback. I'v...
Ray Carver used to say he regretted giving in to the romantic cliché of the alcoholic writer. That was back in the early 80s when I was a university u...
:up: If an author wants to remain anonymous, s/he shouldn't enter into a short story contest in a small, self-selected, community like our TPF. There'...
Apparently, you missed the following post: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/573153 (from p. 5 of this thread) Other formulations: htt...
Historical aside (elaborating on the OP): Albert Einstein earned his Nobel Prize in 1921 for discovering "the law of the photoelectric effect" (citati...
I tend to comment without a review because I don't want to unduly bias other readers or their vote. A few stories I really enjoy and wish I had writte...
Reminds me of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=upqpS9TTc2c :smirk: Anyway. This one is more folklorish than naturalistic, and needed to be longer so the ...
This is like saying the police apply crime to fight crime whenever they intervene to stop / investigate murders and robberies. No "paradox", just gasl...
Heisenberg disingenously poses a contrast between a philosopher for whom almost all of his writings are lost and a later philosopher who left an encyc...
How can that be when "materialism" was there, almost from the beginning as this "sacred thread" unspooled, from Thales to Leucippus & Democritus to th...
By knowledge I understand 'a discursive practice that is conditional and fallibilistic, therefore provisional, and manifest via know-how (e.g. perform...
Wait. Are you claiming categorically that there is not a significant (though maybe small) number of hetero females who find other "attractive" females...
That is some uncharitable bullshit. Wtf. :shade: (I don't give a rat's funky ass about the Olympics, I never have, so my interests begin and end with ...
Only sophists claim to be wise, or to possess "wisdom". Sophistry, as you know, comes from sophos meaning "wise man" (sophia "wise woman"). Socrates i...
Yes, and that's why I emphasized the pre-Socratics because with Plato the waters start getting muddy again, that is, mythos gets reintroduced or reemp...
Exactly. Many men need that ritual as a sublimated (soft-simulated?) "release", many don't or not very often. I tend to find those situations get old ...
Hmmm maybe you haven't been around many jocks on or off the playing field or nightclub bar staff or construction workers on the job or stripclub patro...
What about the pre-Socratics? They were decidedly anti-mythos in seeking to replace mythos with logos and thereby marginalizing (or even in some cases...
Like anything else, the only way to improve at an endeavor is to simultaneously learn from those who are more accomplished at it and to practice pract...
Just 1 vote? Seems a shame the voting isn't weighted (where each entry has three slots with the left = 3, middle = 2 & right = 1 with members allowed ...
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