T_Clark

I like the way it sounds, but I don't know what it means. I've never cared for Emerson's poetry much.

Your use of the word "metaphysics" is not consistent with how I use the word or how anyone else I've heard of uses the word. Adding a hyphen doesn't c...

Lao Tzu writes about wu wei, which means acting without acting. Acting that arises from your true self without intention. As to whether or not that is...

Ah, yes, I remember those moving lines from Keats: Beauty is a dolls face with teeth embedded, a dolls face with teeth embedded beauty That is all we ...

Good, even-handed solution. But the evil of the photo keeps calling me to push the reveal button. It's the Devil, I tells you.

Interesting post. I'm not particularly interested in end times, although I'll tune in to see what others say. Suggestion - your title has nothing to d...

Jamalrob Award for creepiest, most God-awful post of the year. Oh, God. Please take it down. Put up a nice picture of a goat. With no teeth embedded i...

I'm not sure you and I are using "theory" the same way. I don't see a scientific theory, e.g. general relativity, as a metaphysical entity. Theories h...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTRKCXC0JFg

This is from "Princess Bride," right?

Let me think.... Celine Dion I guess. No, wait - Brussels sprouts and cabbage.

Usually sitting.

That is written on my family coat of arms.

On the other hand, it is easy to look at the two different approaches as complimentary rather than in opposition. Two different ways of looking at the...

The graph is probably a reflection of the process I'm talking about. I don't think I'm unique. It's a common human experience.

As I've gotten older I find myself backing out of life. Becoming less attached to things. A lot of that has to do with retirement - the loss of my "pu...

I've always thought of that as something tacked on, not something that is intrinsic to the way of knowing. All religions and philosophies tend to draw...

Cabbage is one of my favorite vegetables. Good raw. Better steamed.

Great movie, though. Cher is so beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6cwQrVU4Vw

I gave it to my children as an example of a badly reasoned book.

This reminds me of a quote that I have not been able to find the original of. I think it's from Alan Watts. Something like this - What we call mysteri...

Great post. We can always count on you to walk the line between east and west with both sympathy and skepticism, whichever is most needed. I can see w...

I've been complaining to myself that there aren't any good threads around. This is a great one. Thanks.

Or as George Jones used to sing, "When your phone don't ring, it'll be me."

Just as true, or more so, of philosophers and wannabe philosophers.

I think that's Zeno's pie paradox. You'll never eat the whole pie.

Yes. It's hard to talk about philosophical humor, or humorous philosophy, without bringing this out.

Perhaps you have "seen nothing... to explain," but I did give an explanation. I guess you missed it.

Solution to confusion - just add another pair of parentheses. That's what I always do when I can't keep track of presedense.

Don't get all excited. @"Noble Dust" rounds off pi to 3.

Hey.... It was just that once.

I think banning people for low quality posts is just a way to allow removal of aggravating people. Driving while annoying. People have been banned for...

I would think our friend Marco would be at the top.

Many people disagree with many of my disagreements. No surprise. You and I see things differently. I've seen the trouble fear will get us into. Love t...

Nuff said.

I've been on plenty of sites "unfettered by rules." Not much reason going on.

Being banned does not lose anyone their job. They aren't killed. They're just told they are not welcome in our house. I don't consider that persecutio...

Here's what Stephen Pinker says about English spelling in "The Language Instinct." Of course English spelling could be better than it is. But it is al...

Strongly disagree. I think the world without a superpower is where we're headed, and that's a good thing.

As I wrote, I wasn't arguing. Just curious.

This is the lie we told ourselves when we got into Vietnam. As I said, I think the days of superpowers are over. We'll see. Well, not me, I'll be dead...

I'm asking this out of curiosity. Don't worry, I'm not going to go into one of my rants. Was he banned for a pattern of behavior or just this one post...

I think a case can be made that stand-up comedians in general are philosophers. My favorites; Bill Burr, Louis C.K, John Mulaney, Jerry Seinfeld....; ...

My wife.

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I think the days of superpowers are over, thank goodness. Countries that were traditionally poor and powerless are now gaining economic and political ...

Stephen Jay Gould wrote an essay, "Eight Little Piggies," from the book by the same name. It describes how we came to have five fingers and toes on ea...

Although I found the discussion helpful and interesting, it didn't resolve, for me at least, the answer to your question.

That's the way it seemed to me, but I wasn't sure.

Is this comment directed at @"I like sushi" or me.