T_Clark

Yes, but listening to others discuss ideas, especially professional philosophers, I feel like I'm missing something. I'm trying to get a handle on tha...

This didn't work 65 years ago when my mother told me in church and it won't work now. Sure, but there's more to it than that. I don't get much of the ...

Yes, the Father was one of my favorite religious philosophers.

I want to make it clear that I wasn't criticizing people who find their way in philosophy through the writings of the great philosophers. Actually, I'...

Yeah, but what about the turds?

Right, but I would already have had my turn.

I need a little emoji education. Smirk. Does that mean you think I'm clever or a boob? :fire: Does this mean burned or are you agreeing with me? And w...

I was thinking... What if I get together with 250,000 other people and by a cheap used Ferrari for a dollar each. Then each of us would get to use it ...

I don't think your suggested method would be a feasible method for tanning leather.

Oh, good. A question I can answer just by providing one of my favorite quotes. One I use on the forum often. This from Franz Kafka: It is not necessar...

Are you telling me you don't actually look like Otis? My icon photo is actually from my high school yearbook.

Ok, but tanning with chromium salts is still the primary method for industrial leather tanning.

I guess that's part of my point. What can God's love do that human love cannot? This makes me think of one of my favorite poems, "Aunt Celia, 1961," b...

No, I didn't know that. Thanks.

Say what you will, like it or not, sincere repentance and forgiveness are at the heart of Christianity. If there ain't forgiveness of sins, it ain't C...

I don't disagree with this, although my engineering work experience was a bit different. I worked for one company my whole career. It was fairly small...

Just north of Boston is a famous Superfund site where hides were tanned using chromium compounds. The chemicals leaked and contaminated groundwater fo...

Love is the love of Jesus, God. Takes away blame, easy peasy. It would just be more interesting, psychologically, philosophically if the love of each ...

I assume this is an explicitly Christian sentiment, but it would be more interesting if it weren't.

No, no. It's made from waterfowl, mostly flightless birds from Ireland and Scotland called "sheep."

The infield fly rule. What's up with that?

I'm glad you like it.

To get in the spirit, here's a pig limerick. Pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig Pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig Pig pig pig pig pig Pig pig pig pig pig P...

Is "Hebrewism" a word?

When I started this thread, I should have specified that posters should not include more than a limited number of personally written poems. Alas. Beca...

I'm an engineer. When we design a structure, we calculate all the loads on it - gravity, wind, seismic, snow. Then we estimate material properties - s...

I don't believe this is true.

This made me want to ask - do you like "Song of Hiawatha?" Maybe more romantic than sentimental. I don't know if it's a good poem, but I love it.

Or perhaps more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDqp4TrQUI

Realized I hadn't responded to this one. Yes, it seems familiar. It doesn't move me like some of his other poems. What is it you like about it? Is it ...

Ah, yes. The story of my life.

I'm not sure what you mean by "unknowable to science." Unknown, sure. We know about some senses that other organisms have that we do not. As I noted, ...

How so?

Some philosophers also believe that people may not experience common human sensory input the same way others humans do. In the case of bat vs. human p...

No, but I think that learning bat language and being able to detect bat sonar signals might allow us to understand what bats are saying and how they t...

I'm not sure what you mean by "talk sonar." If you mean without any device to allow us to detect and interpret the sounds, then no. If you mean can we...

Some philosophers would say that if she studied and observed enough to be able to use terms of color and seeing appropriately then she would know what...

Also - anything with "Heart of Darkness" references get's my vote.

Very interesting and well written story. I don't know what it means, but that's ok.

Alien scientists certainly know about electromagnetic radiation. I doubt there would be any controversy about animals being able to sense different fr...

Geez. I turn my back for a few hours and the Shoutbox gets taken over by pigs. Shawn is one thing, but when normally porcine-responsible members like ...

Oz was in color in 1939, although I didn't know it till we got a color TV sometime in the late 60s. A movie I really like - Pleasantville - when Toby ...

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I agree. It has always seemed to me the idea that a blind or color blind person could not have a concept of color is wrong.

I like the poem too. I'd never read it before. I should read some Stevens. It's very sensual, visual, olfactory. I sense some darkness in it though.

In the time of the beats, I was very cool, as are all babies. I grew out of it though. Never read much of the beats. For some reason they were not on ...

Two thoughts 1) Learning to manipulate the environment is what truth is all about. That's all it is. That's not news. 2) Never trust any insight you g...

If there is no way for us to know that we are in a simulation as opposed to what we call reality, then they are the same thing. If there is no differe...

That just comes from drinking too many cosmos. If you substitute Metamucil for the vodka, you should be fine. If you get orange flavor, you can leave ...

I try to be aware of how I behave toward other people. I try to treat them with kindness and respect, with some, imperfect, success. At the same time,...