I'd be inclined to say the idea of American exceptionalism has taken quite a beating lately. Be that as it may, if your point is that nations will act...
I think there is a problem that arises from the improper use of words, but that problem is that "forced" is being used in an unusual manner here. We m...
I found something defining it as a verb--to mumble or grumble. I think there are matters that can only be poorly expressed or communicated through lan...
Portions of the Old Testament, like those I quoted, are generally ignored by most religious figures today. I think the U.S. is exceptional as many her...
The Old Testament is full of references to the extermination of heathens, like: "Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel ...
"Ronner" is new to me. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I see it's also used to refer to a lover of Ronald McDonald, but assume that wasn't ...
It seems to me apparent that we're caught in chaos and suffering, and have been for a very long time. So, understanding that we are doesn't strike me ...
Flavius Josephus a Christian? I don't think so. Some Christian inserted a statement that Jesus was God in one of his works, rather awkwardly, but he r...
Thinking is something we do (well or poorly) as well as dreaming, breathing and pissing. We do those things because we're creatures which evolved in a...
Absolute truth, like absolute certainty, is a chimera. If they were geese, they may be said to have led philosophers on a wild goose chase for 2,500 y...
Do you believe that you're forced to breathe. Or forced to piss? That you wouldn't breathe or piss if you weren't being compelled to do so? Dreaming, ...
I think anyone who reads Hegel is remarkable, in the same sense that I think anyone who voluntarily wears hair shirts is remarkable. It's as if one is...
I think I have good reason to believe it makes no sense to speak of us as if we existed before we exist,. Because, I hope it doesn't surprise you to l...
In short, if A is possible, then it must make B possible, which opposes C, in the name of the being of C, and of the D from which (B, the being of C, ...
It's all so clear. That possible enunciative analysis--possible, bear in mind, not actual--simply must make it possible--not certain or probable--to r...
No. What you did say, however, was that you weren't asked if you wanted to exist, and were "forced" to do so, by IT. That was what I referred to, as s...
I want a colossal statue in my likeness to erected in Chicago on the Chicago River, say at the State Street bridge (I like Marina City), standing athw...
Everything comes back to cats. Even aliens, as this Nazca Lines image shows. Or maybe it shows cats are aliens. I forget which. https://phys.org/news/...
I confess I was just being silly. But chess, when played at high levels, is very much about theory. Some would say it's become too much a matter of th...
Depends on how young they are, I suppose, but teaching logic and rhetoric as tools in evaluating claims would be useful. As for teaching philosophy, h...
Well, there was no "you" to ask, before you existed, nor was there any "you" to be "forced" to exist before you existed. So, there was no IT forcing a...
Well, as long as the rest of the world is fucked as well, we'd probably be okay with that. Jesus will make sure we're raptured away before really bad ...
Well, you see, the Christian Roman Empire actively suppressed traditional pagan religion. Not necessarily Constantine, who seemed to prefer Apollo/Sol...
Clearly, I must read her work. I still think fondly of the way Austin eviscerated Ayer in Sense and Sensibilia, but she seems to have taken him on in ...
I think he knew Antony well, and that his sometimes rather ribald denunciations of Antony in the Senate assured he would die. It's a shame that the fu...
That was his day job. It didn't end well. He lost his crown, so to speak, as well as his hands it's said. But he certainly remained active until the e...
I'm with the Sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken, who said that every election is a kind of advance auction sale of stolen goods. That said, the quality o...
My daemon, Cicero, insists that old age is "the crown of life." I tend to think of it more as "the bottom of the barrel of life" in the sense that one...
I remain convinced that Supreme Court Justices should spend more time practicing law or on the bench than Judge Barrett, who experience is, shall we s...
Many barbarians served the Empire well, it's true. And I think the Empire generally did well by them, for the most part. The Principate was available ...
Yes, generally, but in the same sense so many of us, and others, have considered people different from us inferior in some manner. The Roman Empire wa...
Those hired in the morning agreed to work in return for a specified payment. Those hired later were told merely that they would be paid whatever the l...
You to have no qualms about speaking for all of them, it seems. When we speak of rights which "reflect objective moral law" we speak of rights which e...
"I doubt we of the West will ever get over the Roman Empire" doesn't mean "We of the West will never get over the Roman Empire." Nor does "I think you...
I just thought I'd note, because all I do should be of note, that I've begun reading The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical Wor...
I don't like the use of grand juries. I hope a complete record is produced (I don't know the details of the Judge's decision). If it doesn't make clea...
Leibniz recommends the new BMW Monad, especially the Ultimate Monad, its most luxurious, but fundamentally simple, trim. It has a navigation system by...
His political engagements were with other Jews, and of another kind entirely, of course. Though I suppose he could be said to have screwed them as wel...
Ah well. But you can't be accused of dissembling, that's for certain. I haven't read any of her opinions, but I doubt she's written more than a few fo...
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