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:chin: "There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two p...
October 23, 2020 at 18:55
https://youtu.be/1uuorcrtmNY "Ashes to Ashes" (4:23) Scary Monsters, 1980 David Bowie * https://youtu.be/TLV4_xaYynY "All Along The Watchtower" (4:01)...
October 22, 2020 at 18:36
I see. Well, impotent rage is just that: impotent (re: ressentiment). More epicurean than stoic, I nonetheless practice Epictetus & co's exercise of '...
October 22, 2020 at 06:02
"Blood on our hands" casting an anti-fascist vote for Biden? If you (Russian bot-like) say so; you've not told us anything we did not already know in ...
October 22, 2020 at 02:18
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October 21, 2020 at 23:56
Antitheism: theism (Type) is not true (i.e. empty). Atheism: therefore, theistic deities (Tokens of theism-Type) are fictions. Much more 'reasonable' ...
October 21, 2020 at 23:43
Last winter I read Pathfinders: The Golden Age Of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili which was quite good.
October 21, 2020 at 23:21
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October 21, 2020 at 21:03
Big whup. STFD. :sweat: Like Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, et al anti-fascist leftists (& progressives), I don't see how one can disagree with the elect...
October 21, 2020 at 20:37
Any (or all) of these readings will do: • Conjectures and Refutations, Karl Popper • Chance and Necessity, Jacques Monod • Against Method, Paul Feyera...
October 21, 2020 at 20:11
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October 21, 2020 at 08:45
:up: :100: :clap: :smirk:
October 21, 2020 at 05:37
Follow up: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/20/breonna-taylor-grand-juror-homicide-charges
October 21, 2020 at 05:30
:100: :up: In other words, idealists - ideologues - (like @"StreetlightX" et al) don't have the courage to live dangerously, for instance, according t...
October 20, 2020 at 18:21
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October 19, 2020 at 21:09
I didn't claim you said that. Try answering any or all of my four questions.
October 19, 2020 at 10:48
This canard again. So there's no substantive political difference between Biden and Trump? No operative ideological difference between 'Neoliberalism'...
October 19, 2020 at 10:06
Islamophobic trash. (Still have cousins et al in "Eurarabia", kafir, don't you?)
October 19, 2020 at 09:24
:up: :clap: :smirk: :roll:
October 19, 2020 at 08:48
c30-40% of (mostly low-information, woefully undereducated, working / lower middle class) Americans refuse to accept the overwhelming historical FACT ...
October 18, 2020 at 19:42
Nailed it! Absolutely :100:
October 17, 2020 at 19:29
Florida & Arizona have early voting for 3 weeks or more until Election Day. Both states are counting as ballots are received and tabulations of totals...
October 17, 2020 at 16:01
Really? :sweat:
October 17, 2020 at 00:46
:death: :flower:
October 17, 2020 at 00:19
Name another ideology that as insideously and efficiently exploits 'selfishness & weakness' as Neoliberalism has - and globally - during the last half...
October 16, 2020 at 23:58
No doubt we humans are a congenitally selfish (i.e. phobic) and weak (i.e. akratic) species.
October 16, 2020 at 23:21
Agreed.
October 16, 2020 at 05:00
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October 15, 2020 at 18:52
Excellent. :fire:
October 15, 2020 at 07:09
:100:
October 15, 2020 at 06:56
Happy Birthday, F.N. :fire:
October 15, 2020 at 04:45
https://youtu.be/HtVUESzHpHk "... That old sayin them that's got are them that gets Is somethin I can't see If ya gotta have somethin Before you can g...
October 14, 2020 at 21:12
I included the first ten. The rest, by definition (as per the 10th), are not "original". And the fact that they consider overturning Roe vs Wade means...
October 14, 2020 at 20:30
Take it - the Senate's power to block nominees without exigent cause - out of the Senate's hands by statutory legistlation e.g. 2/3rd vote of the pres...
October 14, 2020 at 20:07
yup.
October 14, 2020 at 19:58
"Originalism"? Read the "original" US Constitution (1787). Stop. Okay, add the "original" 10 Amendments (1791). Stop. Unless I'm profoundly mistaken, ...
October 14, 2020 at 19:39
Don't forget about the other 12 (out of 14) federal grand jury investigations and/or indictments still under seal which are referred to in the redacte...
October 14, 2020 at 18:54
:death: :flower: Perhaps because "these" esoteric "paths" make it easier to mystify & stupify than to clarify & edify; which, thereby, is probably why...
October 14, 2020 at 18:31
:sweat: :clap: Scion of the Establishment - proves my point. No "liberal accomplishments" (desegregating the military was a logistical manpower issue ...
October 14, 2020 at 17:40
So now 'Neoliberals' and 'Neofascists' are indistinguishable ... like private prisons and gulags / concentration camps? I'd like someone to name a US ...
October 14, 2020 at 15:21
"Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present." ~Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1945
October 14, 2020 at 14:41
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October 14, 2020 at 14:13
:up: Focus on this "Who are you?" (range of values) tends to block understanding the "What are we?" (variable function) that "who" presupposes. :up: (...
October 14, 2020 at 14:09
:broken: 'Virtue' rises/falls somewhere in between, doesn't it? :fire: I'm now 57 (in the midst of late middle age: 50s-60s) intuiting myself topping ...
October 14, 2020 at 13:35
:100: :up:
October 14, 2020 at 12:16
1,000X :up:
October 14, 2020 at 12:10
Maybe ... a transfinite, strange-looping, fractal holographic jigsaw puzzle 'assembled' by one of its pieces: philosophers. :smirk:
October 13, 2020 at 16:36
Quite unlikely, I think. His children and other sychophants are another matter all together. If "Individual-1" doesn't die first of COVID-19 or from b...
October 13, 2020 at 16:24
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/404841 (April 2020) T-minus 21 days. :victory: :mask:
October 13, 2020 at 12:17