Mikie

Interesting post. Couple of points: 1) What if there is no right or left in any meaningful sense? 2) I’m surprised you didn’t give much time to the fi...

What’s the wealth distribution like in Australia? It’s likely better than the US, but I would expect about 70-80% of people there living fairly precar...

That’s true to a degree, but look at how people really behave. Everyone’s forced into jobs, more or less. And today’s jobs are mostly total crap. Cogs...

From another thread long ago: Seven Samurai Shawshank Redemption 2001: A Space Odyssey The Usual Suspects No Country For Old Men Persona 8 1/2 Dances ...

Here’s an easy prediction: this will turn out to be a disaster. Quote me on it later.

:rofl: And Trump’s approval rating is at 99%.

It’s a thinking that privileges the present. It’s not that it doesn’t take anything else into account.

I’m not sure Heidegger even used the phrase too often. It was Derrida who popularized it. So whether be deconstructs it or not, I don’t know. In any c...

Blasphemy. Also, I’ll never fully understand why Blade Runner is so praised. I liked it to a degree, but not even in my top 100. I guess I had to have...

Wow, well that’s saying something. No Country for Old Men? I saw that one a couple times in theaters. Recently I’ve enjoyed The Killer, Left Handed Gi...

Second paragraph: I feel like I’ve elaborated further, as necessary. But to each their own. I fail to see the relevance. Plenty of behavior involves n...

I think our impressions give us the sense that everything is here and now, and the rest is unknown. At least that’s the emphasis of various types of p...

There’s plenty of differences. The propaganda under a democratic administration would be much nicer. But given Trump’s hold on his party and his histo...

You could be right, but I don’t care much about Derrida. I think he was mostly a windbag. I mention him in the OP because he popularized the phrase an...

So we’re recklessly and lawlessly invading a country and kidnapping its president, and why? For their resources, and so Trump can appear to have a win...

In my understanding, it’s a unity in the sense that these traditional terms are really an abstraction from human activity. It’s all happening, and so ...

So I would challenge this assumption. Why is the only thing we can be certain of in the “here and now”? But in any case, for everything that is here a...

Largely, yes. But not because the theory is necessarily “wrong.” You’re right to push back on such a big claim. But try to think of it less as reinven...

Those are excellent questions. (It may take me a little time to respond today, so I wanted to at least acknowledge the response.)

That’s true, although like in the case of time, the concept of space is also a little murky. The “here and now” is a well known phrase, and seemingly ...

Like Aristotle and Plato, yes. But if that presentation obscures something, we should think about it anew. As opposed to what is absent, hidden, conce...

That’s interesting. I’ve never heard of Vervaeke, but I’ll take a look. But the idea — as you describe it —I like. See also Michael Albert’s participa...

One Battle After Another Lot of hype— not a bad film, I enjoyed it. Not on par with There Will Be Blood, but still a strong showing. Honestly, I have ...

I laughed at this more than I should have. Really out of the blue lol

Pretty clear to anyone without an agenda. Trump really has no compassion or empathy, but that’s been known for decades. Whether that extends to his fo...

Trump saved the economy, which is the greatest economy in history now. It’s so obvious that he needed to rant about it for 20 minutes on national tele...

My reaction to this entire thread. Especially the comments about Marx. Good god.

Interesting watch. 16 minutes. Talks about science generally but climate science plays a big part. https://youtu.be/DbTHJWev0nQ?si=i9RYupowsKLlBjaL

I haven’t seen any on those yet. I’ll give them a watch if I can find them on one of these damn streaming services. You may be on to something.

Still a good movie. Used to like it a lot more as a kid, but still better than the crappy Saving Private Ryan, which was and is one of the most overra...

“The Game,” with Michael Douglas. An underrated David Fincher movie. They currently have it free on YouTube.

If not, I guess the letter A

Scandalous?

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Thanks! Once I read through the thread and saw your clues, that was a big help.

Clearheaded?

Oh wait nevermind. A?

Freewheeler?

Seemed more than straightforward to me. I can’t believe this is “controversial” enough to fill a couple pages.

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The title of the thread. I’d say false. Using “trans” preceding man and woman makes sense, but you cannot change your sex. But it has already been men...

Cool, then in that case I agree. If that’s truly what’s being argued for, then I have no objection.

Who’s confused? I didn’t see much “confusion” about sex until recently. Ditto for many issues which are motivated not by science or philosophy, but by...

We can define things any way we like. There is not one “true” definition of anything, except maybe in mathematics. But in everyday life, will my respo...

I think this is a topic where philosophy (if we can call it that) is employed for an agenda and begins to look absurd. Gender is one thing, sex is ano...

I tend to agree. He may be crazy enough to cut off all funding. But even then I can’t see Ukraine agreeing to this plan as it’s written.

Now I’m curious. I searched for his name and there’s several. Was his name just Marco? Seems like that guy is still a member.

Sounds good. It’s actually not a long read, and isn’t as difficult as Being and Time. The last section is especially clear (“the restriction of being”...

Putting aside hostility on this issue for a moment, I’m curious as to what everyone thinks of this plan, and what they put the odds of it being accept...

Oh no kidding? Cool.