T_Clark

I see you and me sitting on rocking chairs on the porch of the Old Philosopher's Home sometime in the future. Both of us slipping into a cloud of deme...

Three reasons for interacting with Agustino and friends: I'm a high-energy, aggressive, impetuous, competitive person. Learning to deal effectively an...

You seem to be a person of will. I have this image of you facing a problem by getting out the wrenches, putting the car up on the lift, and getting yo...

Speaking for myself, most of my posts have been about what is and what is not respectful to women. You are no more qualified to address that than I am...

I know you are, but what am I?

I think its partly hardwired, although I can't cite evidence for that belief. Humans are story tellers. We don't seem to be able to stop ourselves. I ...

You sound kind of outraged to me. Although it seems like a kind of empty, rhetorical outrage to distract from the fact that you don't have anything su...

I believe, and I think there is science to back me up, that a lot of human capacity and potential is built into us genetically. There is human nature ...

Maybe you already answered this question and I didn't see it. Do you wish you'd never been born?

As I said previously, if there is any forcing going on, children are being forced to be what they are. You are allowed to use whatever words you like,...

Actually, that's a good question. If I were living in Aleppo right now, it certainly would make sense to at least delay having children. And if I felt...

I'm sure some of your best friends are women. Please elucidate, specifically, how I have "disrespected every single woman in this thread." Checking my...

I have no problem with you not having children. It's none of my business what your reason is. But to justify it on the basis of the welfare of the unb...

Forcing people into obligations by procreating them is wrong Now, that is one odd premise. You are saying that having children is unfair to children t...

What you and schopenhauer1 are talking about is Communism, worker control of production. I'm not saying that as a way of dismissing your argument. Pro...

I was thinking if I know any writings that you might find interesting. The only things that came to mind immediately were wedding vows for different r...

Land of the free and home of the brave - that's a pretty pugnacious motto. I think we're living up to it quite well.

Sweden? Doesn't get involved in wars or police actions. Not in NATO. Spends money on it's people's welfare, not the military. I do think it is easier ...

Yes, I understood what you meant. But I took "giving it away for free" literally, as an expression of your attitude towards marriage as a transaction....

"the (apparently) honest statement of someone who doesn't want to offer sex to another in any context where there is no emotional commitment," is fine...

I didn't say I didn't care. I said that's not what Agustino and I were discussing.

I feel like I've dragged the discussion off-post. I'll let you guys have at it

Not sure I understand. Are you putting Newton up as a philosopher? Sure. But what he did would not be considered philosophy now. Today's philosophy is...

Specifications, drawings, work plans, project plans - everything that goes into a design - are all part of a vision. A model I can feel and see. I can...

I don't think you were, but I think Thinker thinks he was. Art is just another thing that people do/make. I like visual art and music, but I'm more at...

My response to you is the same as mine to Thinker - I think you are raising art up on a pedestal it doesn't need or deserve. Art is human action. Thin...

You have a pretty high falutin vision of the importance of philosophers and artists, especially philosophers. None of us are "the voice behind the cur...

It wasn't a big point. Explication of one's work is common practice. Artists are not somehow special in that regard. Some of us do it well, some don't...

Here is River's original quote: Did I misunderstand? If I did I apologize. I thought you were referring to selling physical and emotional intimacy rat...

You seem to object to my post. I don't understand why. I have been responsive and on-post throughout this discussion. How can 11 words cause a problem...

Yes, I know. It is not inappropriate to broaden the perspective a bit in a discussion. How non-artists behave is not irrelevant to how artists do. Als...

I'm an engineer. I always explain everything I do to everyone.

Artists don't lead civilization, they ride on it. Excess wealth generated by centralized economic systems allows expenditures on things that are not d...

For what it's worth, I was talking about humanity in sum, not just one individual. Here's the quote that got us started: Agustino and I went on to dis...

I'm not sure if this really constitutes a philosophical quote, but it's the phrase I find myself using most often and enjoying the most on this and si...

I'd like to think I would turn down the opportunity, but I probably wouldn't. I think my answer is the same for each of the three choices. I'd do noth...

I'm not sure anyone has ever agreed with me before. I don't know how to react.

I agree, except... Except that there are no paradoxes outside of the human mind. The non-human world doesn't have any. Paradoxes are caused by humans ...

On balance, overall, have things improved or gotten worse? I might think, although I'm not sure, that you would think the loss of spiritual strength i...

Ah, Agustino, always the abuse before getting down to business. I am ambivalent about humanity's achievements. I don't think that's even the question....

Everyone blathers on about their shit. Why would you deny artists the satisfaction?

Why would we expect that someone who is a skilled and talented visual artist to be able to express herself in words? For that matter, why would we exp...

I have struggled with this question. I go to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. I see things which involve little technique. I can see the i...

I don't agree with your characterization. As I see it, we are human animals. We like each other. We want to be around each other. To me, that is the s...

Do you have any evidence, other than your Great Leader argument, that supports the very broad and unsupported assertion you are making?

It also makes sense to me that a lot of the change comes from the movement of the center of gravity of our population from the north to the south. I t...

I disagree. I don't think you've thought through what "identity" really means on a practical basis. The space is what the boat was designed and constr...

Oh, Agustino, you are so mean to me. Oh, Agustino, you're such a silly person. Is my response an ad hominem argument?

One of my favorite songs. I remember in the town in southern Virginia where I lived then, the local radio station kept trying to beep out "whores" fro...

I hope this is responsive - The work speaks for itself. An artists explanation or biography may or may not be interesting and helpful, but to a certai...