T_Clark

Haiku is just the Japanese name for limerick.

I've enjoyed having you around. Come back whenever you feel like it.

There is poetry being quoted in three threads now. I really love it. It takes some leverage to get me to read poetry, so this is opening my eyes. You,...

I moved this over here to keep from cluttering up the thread. No need to get moderators involved. I was just trying to edumacate @"Cidat". When you st...

I never liked Shelley that much, but I've always liked that poem.

@"Cidat" From Site Guidelines: Don't start a new discussion unless you are: a) Genuinely interested in the topic you've begun and are willing to engag...

And that reminds me of this: I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near th...

If all you feriners would just learn English like God intended, we'd have no more problems.

This is true, but when it's needed, languages evolve. New words. Modifications of old words. Words stolen from other languages. Whole new ways of look...

I think we can probably talk about anything we can be aware of. There are many things we aren't aware of and maybe many more we can't be. If you're go...

Unfortunately, I still think the Technological Civilizations Always Kill Themselves Off hypothesis is probably correct. I hope I'm wrong.

Did the admin admit that he deleted the post because he was Adam's friend? If not, how do we know this? You indicated that the accusation was an "hypo...

You think about art and the philosophy of art really differently that I do. I don't think that means either of us is wrong. My understanding of aesthe...

Regret is cheating. It's a way of not taking responsibility for your life and the things you've done and not done. That being said, I've sometimes tho...

You're right. We do disagree. I'm thinking now about whether the disagreement you and I are having is a metaphysical one. My understanding of metaphys...

Come on. You know the answer to your question already. Do you belong here? Come in and see. I don't know about your education, but you write well. I h...

As I’ve said in several recent posts, I think that poetry doesn’t mean anything beyond the experience of reading it or listening to it. As an illustra...

I'm sorry to be harsh. I think your position is morally repugnant. Hurting children is the worst thing anyone can do. To participate in any way is loa...

I'm embarrassed to even have to make this argument. Web pages usually get paid by advertisers based on how many people click on their web pages. If yo...

If no one had child pornography on their computers, child pornography would come to an end for practical purposes. Any transaction with a financial co...

Visual child pornography - videos or photographs - requires that children engage in sex acts. It is not likely that any child would do that unless coe...

I won't get into an argument about this with you. I'm already walking at the edge of my understanding. On the other hand, when I looked it up, the web...

I brought it up because @"180 Proof" and I discussed it earlier as the answer that always derailed the subject of whether or not there can ever be not...

As I noted before, the answer to all of those is "quantum vacuum." Whether or not that is a good answer is open for discussion.

My son's life and career were disrupted by the pandemic, so he is going back to school to study for a new career. His girlfriend, on the other hand, i...

You're just being you usual gadfly self, nipping and biting without adding much. Whether or not I agree with him, what @"Apollodorus" is saying is pre...

While I was reading this, I thought of this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Aiace-paint.jpg Which you posted in the "Beautiful Th...

The sonics and harmonics of a piano, the anatomy and physiology of the ear, and the neurology and cognitive processing of the nervous system can be ex...

In engineering, the utility of a particular action or actions to meet a particular goal is often determined in a feasibility study (FS). The steps in ...

I didn't say it was negligible, and saying we're better than the Taliban is damnation by very, very faint praise.

I agree.

According to the web, 87% of police officers are men. As of 2017, 66% of US Federal District Court judges were men...

Although I think the Peter Principle may be a plausible explanation for the behaviors and performance of some people in hierarchical institutions, I d...

As I said in my previous post, I can only go based on the attitudes of the women I worked with and my female wife, neighbors, and friends.

I'm not sure that the increase in women's role in politics has had the effect you're describing. I'm not even sure your description is accurate. I'm s...

I think a feminist might say, with some justification, that the police, courts, civil service, politicians, etc. are all institutions controlled by me...

Good, important, point.

A quibble - This is not true. The Peter Principle was developed by Dr. Laurence Peter based on his empirical research.

Did you mean this as a response to my post on weather in New England?

Ironically enough, I like it.

I'll just provide my usual commentary on your theories about consciousness and then leave you alone. CEMI is an unsupported, far-fetched theory of the...

I'll just speak about patriarchy. It's a word that has a particular political meaning in our society. From the web: Patriarchy - A system of society o...

As I promised, here is my more complete response to your post. As I noted before, I really enjoyed this post. It gave me a challenge to get off my but...

This matches the thoughts I had when I read the OP. Not to get into an infinite loop, but is the claim that metaphysics is not applicable to music and...

Good poem. I really love it when my old threads are kept alive.

For what it's worth, when the "My Favorite Verses from the Tao Te Ching" discussion was active, some people made the same sorts of comments as you are...

I'm embarrassed, and pleased, that my stupid post set off an interesting discussion.

Not too bad. We had some rain, but this has already been one of the rainiest summers ever. It's been a big problem for my son and his fiance, who mana...

I agree with @"Apollodorus", it is difficult to have a fruitful discussion if you don't give us definitions to work with. "Patriarchy" and "matriarchy...

I hope you recognize my comment was intended to be light-hearted.