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Not a problem. New England and the Maritimes will probably still have scallops for as long as I'll be living, although I'm sure the price, already hig...

I'm surprised. You're such a popular culture curmudgeon. I have no problems with suspension of belief, but the story just didn't hold together for me....

I don't agree. Although, as I noted, it has sentimental value for me, I think it's a pretty good movie too. I don't love the science fiction and movie...

I thought about this. I can see why people think it's good, but I didn't like it that much. Never heard of it. Sounds interesting.

Caddyshack - Cinderella story Woody Allen: Manhattan Midnight in Paris Take the Money and Run Everybody Says I Love You Annie Hall - my favorite scene...

Oh, no. Say it ain't so: No. No. No, no, no.

Westerns The Magnificent Seven Tombstone Little Big Man Cat Ballou Appolusa Hidalgo Destry Rides Again - James Stewart. Some scenes here were parodied...

Actually, I liked the too, too much. I remember laughing. I kept thinking it was over. Then something else bad happened. After all, it was made by a m...

/uploads/resized/files/z1/bmipzdukh0pi93vr.png I guess it was given a different name, Never Give and Inch, but I remember seeing it as Sometimes a Gre...

Yes. Made me realize I'd left out Michael Caine: The Man Who Would be King Educating Rita Billion Dollar Brain Hannah and Her Sisters Noises Off Shoul...

Good to hear from you Tim.

Aaaargh! I keep being reminded of ones I should have put on my list. Here's some books that were the basis of movies that are good: Little Big Man - B...

Are you thinking of "Sense and Sensibility?" The 1990s version has Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Hugh Laurie, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman... Should have b...

Didn't see Michael Clayton or Bullets Over Broadway I liked the rest except 2001. I should have put Fargo on my list.

Not in order: Wizard of Oz Casablanca The Graduate Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - the 1980s version with Alec Guinness. Ok, it's a TV series. So sue m...

I looked there and there isn't much relevant information. One thing that makes me suspicious is that they don't even have a Wikipedia page. I've alway...

Interesting article and interesting website. Do you know anything about who and what Broadstreet is and does?

I found an interesting article that relates to a subject that pops up here on the forum from time to time - the prehistoric development of agriculture...

Nuff said.

This is just a reminder of how good Streetlight was and how much he contributed to the forum.

A wonderful video and strong evidence for the collective unconscious, at least in cats. We need input from a Jungian veterinarian.

Doesn't seem like you and I disagree much. Things don't have to follow a scientific law, it just so happens they do.

It seems that the great majority of mass deaths of innocent civilians have been caused by the desire for power, land, and profit. Kings want to be emp...

From what I could see, including in the Wikipedia article you linked, there are differences in opinion about how many died resulting from the inquisit...

I call it idealism because it claims that there is some sort of abstract entity in the universe independent of actual phenomena. Something that we can...

Looking on the web, it seems as though the number of people executed by the inquisition in a period of 300 years was in the low thousands.

I think this undervalues the importance of everyday reality. All the other ontologies only have meaning in the context of this way of seeing things. T...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMY1kYpqFEk

I wonder if this is true. As @"BC" notes, wars that have killed millions of people, mostly civilians, have been taking place for centuries, millennia....

For your edification: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Flickr_bitboy_204619671--Cucumber_sandwiches_with_tea.jpg

I don't see ontology as an explanation of existence, it's a description of the nature of existence, reality. It's a metaphysical concept. I've given m...

Javi only eats Japanese squashes.

And welcome to the forum.

It's important to me that I respond in a way consistent with your intent for this discussion, but I have a hard time "assuming this empirical finding ...

Mirliton squash https://modernfarmer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/mirliton.jpg Apparently very popular in New Orleans.

I don't disagree with the points you've made, I just want to make sure a distinction is made between justifiable and unjustifiable uses of what I gues...

Of course yams and sweet potatoes are not potatoes. They're not even really food, except for sweet potato pie, which is only food if you put lots of w...

I'd start a new thread - "Sardines vs. pilchards - what's up with that," but you'd move it to The Lounge. So forget about it.

I'm ok with this, but I can't really think of examples where it applies. Take your example of Monday morning quarterbacking. Trying to blame someone f...

Banning is such a primitive concept. I like to think he is arguing about philosophy in another dimension.

They did.

When something goes wrong, you get new information that might have affected the decisions you made if you'd known it before. Say an engineer designs a...

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I put it on my reading list. Materialism is a metaphysical worldview. Science is a method or series of methods to gather knowledge. Materialism or som...

I'll say it again - the existence of objective reality is only one way of looking at the world. It's metaphysics. If you can't see that, or at least u...

This is just a bad translation of the Tao Te Ching without the poetry or soul. It shares with the Tao Te Ching the fact that it is metaphysics. If you...

Saying physical laws exist somehow out in the universe somewhere without people is just old fashioned idealism. That doesn't mean it's wrong, it means...

This is a reasonable and useful metaphysical explanation of the nature of reality. But it's not the only one. I've made the case many times that objec...

I was interested in this so I looked on the web. The explanation I found indicated that the proteins necessary for life can be very flexible. Many ami...

I don't think it's particularly bizarre. It's useless philosophy flopping around like a fish in the bottom of the boat. That's not even all that unusu...