T_Clark

The moderators here are a bit trigger happy about getting rid of those who send out what are known as "low quality posts". I think yours meet their st...

You wrote: No, you did not. You're new here, and you're kind of being an asshole. We already have at least one member who thinks philosophy is mostly ...

My wife has a bad temper. Sometimes, with very little provocation, she will say things to me and others that are very hurtful. There is not doubt that...

This is a very useful thread. It demonstrates how philosophers can take a relatively simple phenomenon and turn it into complete bullshit. The truly i...

My brother and I visited France and Germany in 2014. I especially remember the drive along the Mosel/Moselle. Vineyards on the hillsides on impossibly...

Any philosophers? You can tell because the stuck object is their heads.

I haven't been keeping up to date with this thread because I was gone for the weekend. Reading through the posts now, I see you've been doing a good j...

Sorry if I'm unkind, but here a reminder of what real poetry is like, not this crap personal doggerel. The Telephone - Robert Frost “When I was just a...

Hey, Marco, get lost.

I wanted to respond to this since praxis' post was in response to mine. I remember in an earlier thread about art, I waxed rhapsodic about the passion...

A week or so ago, you and I discussed the Whorf hypothesis. I commented that it was controversial, but that there seemed to some substance. I've been ...

This makes me think of what Robert Pirsig said about art in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." He said "Art is high quality endeavor." I use...

To me, the amusing thing about the "H" is that it implies there might be more than one Jesus Christ. That if I'm not specific enough, you might be con...

In an earlier discussion of art a couple of years ago, we were thrashing around with what it meant. None of the responses really worked for me till Pr...

This is not an accurate characterization of my views.

Long, long ago I heard Rosalie Sorrels and U Utah Phillips playing at Passim in Cambridge MA.

I just got the Covid 19 test. They told me it was negative. I told them I wanted a second opinion. They told me I was ugly too.

You are behaving dishonorably on the forum.

You are also free to treat people honorably.

Stop, Marco

Yeah. Too bad she didn't win. Her election would have been a real milestone - First woman, first transgender, first Kardashian.

Be kind to them. Keep in mind, they're only Dutch, they can't help it.

Time to find another forum to play with.

Seems like the fact that clouds might not be solid could be clear to anyone who lived in the mountains or who was familiar with fog. As for the curvat...

Hey, Marco. Time to stop.

For me the search is for greater awareness. Of the physical world. Of myself. Of others. Reason and truth are just one path, one that can easily be mi...

I was thinking about this some more. It seems to me that consequentialism and deontological ethics are more about figuring out who to blame than how t...

In my experience, philosophical questions considered "deep" are usually those where people fail to recognize that the issues are metaphysical rather t...

There are more than two schools of thought. How about "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Easy to understand. Easy to apply. You don'...

"Heart of Darkness" is my favorite novel.

I don't think "Release the hounds" came from the Simpsons. It was a familiar phrase to me when I first heard it. The video clip makes me happy I never...

I was thinking about that after I wrote it. Even if there were codes for genetic engineering, I'd still be worrying. The uncertainties and consequence...

More pig abuse. I'm going to contact the ASPCP.

As an engineer, I think it's accurate to call animal husbandry a form of engineering. That doesn't mean I don't understand the distinction you're maki...

One difference is that animal and plant husbandry create "novel" organisms that will fit into a particular existing environmental niche currently fill...

Forgive me for a quibble which may not be particularly relevant to the issue at hand. Mammoths and Mastodons both have been extinct for about 10,000 y...

I think there are a couple of characteristics of the approaches you're discussing that relate to the question you've asked. First, the philosophies an...

Experience and intuition are not "blundering through." I was an engineer for 30 years. When I took a look at a new project, I could often tell how it ...

Have you thought about the kinds of things we talk about here? What are your ideas on the nature of reality, the basis of morality, the source of poli...

We're talking about different things. My post was a cutesy and a bit too obscure statement that truth, knowledge, facts, and beliefs are not something...

I understand what you're saying. Although my comment was intended to be amusing, it was not intended to be critical.

There you go, being all reasonable and stuff.

Seems like you're just classifying anything you don't like as stupidity. Jamming reality into your stupid shaped boxes.

I think we should ban everyone from the Netherlands.

Willingness to treat other people as objects.

Your manifesto would be more meaningful to me if I thought what you consider stupid and what I do are the same.

I always wondered how many email addresses you can get. Answer - a lot.

This is so ignorant, disrespectful. You shouldn’t be banned, but you should be embarrassed. Ashamed.

It is my understanding he put his career on the line to stand up for what he believed in.

Patriots vs. Redskins if I remember correctly.