T_Clark

Your judgement and mine are often at odds.

Just a reminder that you started this thread as a joke, a throwaway. It's turned into an interesting discussion. 65 posts and three pages. That's a re...

I don't think I buy this, but that brings us back to what is good and what isn't. There is a tendency for sophisticated people to see sentiment as ove...

I think it's important to keep the question of whether something is art separate from whether or not it is good, although Robert Pirsig wrote that art...

Rockwell's work is representative, while much of Picasso's isn't. It's hard to compare. I like some non-representative work. I might even get it somet...

Rockwell is as much an illustrator as a painter. Even his paintings are really illustrations. Illustration is a different art than fine art painting, ...

I think the act of mounting it on a block of wood is what would make it art. It would be an announcement that it should be seen as more than just an o...

I think sometimes a poem can be philosophy explicitly. We have a whole thread of philosophical poems that include some like that. I always turn to my ...

Certainly not, unless you think all knowledge and truth is only accessible through reason. Spoiler alert - I don't.

I believe @"boagie" is responding to the earlier discussion about pain that BitterCrank and others were having.

Agreed, but, since I put if forward for aesthetic judgement, it's art. The knowledge that it represents a representative color for the entire universe...

For no good reason, your question made me think of this: They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the ...

I've stated my case several times. I don't feel like doing it again.

Not interested. We can leave it at that.

Is that how it works? You don't have to show how you're contention might be true, I have to prove that it's wrong?

I understand the point you're making and I agree all the way up until I don't. Your standard of art is tougher than mine. I think you're making it mor...

Mutations are the random factor in evolution. These sometimes lead to changes in the organism which have a differential impact on it's survivability i...

See. You were wrong. It's a very successful thread. I've had the opportunity to insult you not once, but twice.

I don't even know what that means. The quote below is the type I am finding fault with.

Yes, you're right. I'm glad we could finally enlighten you. Commie Philistine.

You fucking Marxists are all the same. "Oppression of the proletariat" blah blah blah. "Workers revolution" blah blah blah.

I used those words because I think it is intellectually lazy at least to accept science when it reinforces your fantasies and reject it when it doesn'...

I already responded to your thread.

Seems like it aught to be worth more after the additions. It gives it additional authenticity. Well, it is art by the @"praxis" criteria - It is prese...

If you, @"Wayfarer", @"javra", and Teilhard want to turn evolution into a hugs and kisses spiritual love fest where rocks are conscious and everyone w...

I've been around for 70 years. I figure I've got another 10 years give or take. So - let's say 10 years.

We're talking about good, i.e. high quality, vs. low quality. Not good vs. evil.

Yes.

I do appreciate you starting this.

There's a saying - The excellent is the enemy of the good. My way of saying that is - Good is good enough. Sometimes, when I'm frustrated or lazy, I m...

If that's really true, and not just a rhetorical feint, there's not much else I can say.

Humility is a big deal in Taoism. Many verses talk about the danger of exalting yourself. Trying to achieve acclaim. One metaphor that gets used a lot...

Definitions from the web. Mediocre: Of ordinary or undistinguished quality. synonym: average. Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of ...

Oh good. Another chance to use Taoist quotations. This from the Chuang-tsu, Thomas Merton's translation: Hui Tzu said to Chuang: I have a big tree, Th...

Acting in moderation is not mediocrity. That's at the heart of many philosophical systems. The Middle Way is fundamental to Buddhism. Plato and Aristo...

Come on, come on. We've got a bunch of crummy played out discussions on the forum. Somebody start something interesting and different. I've got some i...

No. Please. We do not.

Sorry. I don't get it.

Are you asking where the mutations come from? As I noted, they are random. I think some are spontaneous and some are caused by radiation and other fac...

Random mutations lead to a change the genetic makeup of some organisms. Most of these changes lead either to no significant change in the organism its...

This, as so many others, is The Thread That Doesn't End. This is the thread that doesn't end. It just goes on and on my friend. Some people started wr...

Not if it's an escalator. Step on and move in a straight diagonal line to the top.

Yes, you caught me with an ambiguous reference. I like the YMCA a lot. I love the suit dryer. I certainly hope not.

Ha! Float straight up a stair. That guy must be really stup...Hey... wait a minute. What if it's an escalator. Is there still a paradox? Is that all i...

Yes, I'm aware that's how they do things down at the cement pond in Georgia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3c9upXVQ0M

The swim suit drier at the YMCA, which I love, has been broken for three weeks. Today there was progress toward resolution. They put up an "out of ord...

This is the stupidest discussion I have ever seen on the forum... Well, that's not true. Pretty stupid though. Here's my favorite: In my opinion, the ...

I wasn't implying that there is anything wrong with the way you and @"Tom Storm" read. I love books too and I love seeing a wall of books to run my fi...

So apparently you didn't buy my explanation of evolution by natural selection. If you want to buy into some sort of story about the struggling virus f...

I did so much of my work on computers when I was working that it comes naturally to me. I feel at home there.