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I was thinking about my statement and I realized that I'd left something out. I do most of my reading on Kindle and the ability to look up words and r...

Some thoughts, not really answering your question, but I think they're relevant: The son of a neighbor, whom I've known for 35 years, got a philosophy...

The Wild Hunt and related folklore show up in a lot of fantasy stories. See Jim Butcher's Dresden books and Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid books, which are...

I've never seen it this way. "Les Miserables" in French was hard, but that was a special case. I don't, and never have, read with any kind of "dedicat...

This reminds me of a wonderful poem by Robert Frost - "Design." It even has a bit of the tone of your post. Even a little of the rhythm. A heal-all is...

In English, and all other languages I assume, there are always at least several different ways to say something. Actually, maybe not exactly the same ...

I wasn't saying that it was difficult, although it was. My point was that it was an unnatural way for me to read so my impression of Hugo's writing is...

Thank you.

"Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung" and "faust handschuh." You're really searching back through the rubbish bin, I mean archives.

Unfortunately, the only Hugo I've read is "Les Miserables," which I read in French in high school. The only Fitzgerald I've read is "The Great Gatsby,...

I think I know where you come from and you know the same for me. After a few tries, we've found that we're not going to convince each other of our pos...

Oh @"schopenhauer1", you're such a knucklehead. You can't fool us. We know this is just Antinatalism, Take 73.

No, you've misunderstood how things work on the forum. Here's the way it's supposed to work - You tell me I'm wrong, and then I make up lame excuses w...

Thanks for the link. I downloaded the article and I've read through it quickly. I'll go back now and spend more time with it. It addresses issues I've...

You two talked me into it. I think you're right.

I am a reader and was always meant to be one. I believe it was inevitable. I'm just a very verbal person. If no one had ever encouraged me or read to ...

I don't have any problem with what you're saying. My comment that you're responding to is this: This still seems right to me. If a man is going throug...

Yeah, I read your first post but didn't respond right away. This doesn't make any sense to me. Ok, but I don't get the rest of your inference. I don't...

I don't see why this is necessarily so. Again - I don't see why this is so. Maybe, but it's based on a couple of assumptions I don't necessarily think...

That seems consistent with how my daughter lives her life.

My daughter's intimate personal relationships are with women. I found this out about seven years ago when she was 31. I know she had relationships wit...

I don't think anything you're saying is in conflict with the things I wrote. It's not that I think transgender people are or are not really men or rea...

It's not my intention to reopen the dark matter discussion, but I was just reading an article on the web that I thought people might find interesting....

"Scientists definitely consider themselves to be finding out thigns about objective reality," is clearly not true if by "scientists" you mean "all sci...

I get the feeling that most scientists don't spend much time thinking about philosophy at all. To some extent, I think that's because they don't under...

My responses on this subject all come back to the same point - this is a metaphysical argument. It's not right or wrong, it's a question of which appr...

If something is completely unpredictable, does it still make sense to say it is caused. Isn't cause inextricably tied up with prediction? It may be po...

I think you can see from my posts that I am uncertain about my footing on this issue, so I'm not sure if I am headed in your direction or not. It feel...

I agree with you at least to this extent - I think the whole transgender thing can be really dangerous to vulnerable young people. I met a girl - she ...

That seems very unlikely to me. Intuitively I would think that a transgender woman would want very much to fit in with societal gender roles. That wou...

So, given that definition, I'll restate the comment I was referring to: People who reject current gender roles want to create new gender roles. Seems ...

Well, no matter what she declares, there are and likely always be gender roles. Men have penises that they put in women's vaginas. The man ejaculates ...

The causation you write about is similar to what I wrote about in my previous post: As I said, it seems to me things get a lot less clear when we talk...

When I talk about cause and the fact that I don't think it exists, I think I'm talking about efficient cause. It seems to me the other three modes of ...

As I indicated, It's over my head too. I just have an intuition that causation is not needed to explain how things happen. I'm not using that as evide...

Simple - if a man were to tell me he feels like a woman, considers himself one, and would like to be treated like one, I would respond "ok." What more...

When I say that stuff happens, I mostly mean human scale stuff. That's what humans experience in their lives. So - the cue ball is hit toward the 5 ba...

This is way outside my experience, but it seems to me that biological men who feel as if they're women and who want to live as women in their societie...

I think stuff just happens and "cause" is just an overlay we superimpose on the world. As I indicated, I haven't gotten it figured out yet.

I've been thinking a bit about what it means for something to be caused and whether it makes sense to think of things that way. Right now, I come down...

I agree. The fact that parallel lines never cross is part of the definition of parallel lines, not an assumption or restriction imposed on them. On th...

Don't agree. You don't have to be a feminist to believe in gender equality. For a man to call himself a feminist is to try to coopt for himself whatev...

No, I'm saying a person has to be a homosexual to be queer. Using that word differently based on your own political preferences or desire to be includ...

Sorry, you can't be queer if you're not a homosexual. And you can't be a feminist if you are a man. And you can't be a black power advocate if you're ...

Living here in the northeast US, referring to mixed groups of men and women is common. I've never seen a woman being offended by that, although I tend...

Some thoughts. A few years ago, I read a book by psychiatrist Stephen Mitchell. I'd heard that it was really a good book. In the preface, he indicated...

I bugged out of this discussion a few days ago. I thought I had said everything I had to say. I wish I hadn't. You and @"Pattern-chaser" have taken it...

I value the freedom for others to speak hatefully towards others.

In my contributions to this thread, I've tried to make it clear that my opinions apply only to the US. I have made no judgments about anywhere else.

I'm assuming you agree that the whole AR vs. OR distinction you are making is a metaphysical one and not a matter of fact. If so, then you and I agree...