T_Clark

Compulsive Neologistic Syndrome - Compulsive coining of new words by a person affected with schizophrenia which are meaningless except to the coiner, ...

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Did you become an attorney because of or in spite of your misologism?

I love words and English words in particular - spelling, pronunciation, etymology, meaning. Rhymes, homonyms, synonyms, idioms, colloquialisms, figure...

Peak, peek, pique There, they're, their Ewe, you, yew I, eye, aye Do, doe, dough, D'oh Right, rite, write, wright Knew, new, gnu Nee, nay, neigh Fore,...

Sorry to be harsh, but this is outrageous. You can find someone who benefits in some way from any set of conditions. I have a friend who was raped whe...

As I said in my previous post, I'm ambivalent. I don't reject the idea outright, but I don't think concerns about right-wing propaganda are unfounded....

I don’t deny truth, but I deny its value in most situations, which I’m not particularly interested in discussing in the shout box.

Do you see this as a positive development? I guess I am ambivalent. Anything that can improve the quality of schools should be good, but putting contr...

No need to do that. Just start the new discussion and leave one more message here in the Shoutbox directing people to get to it there. To be clear, I ...

You should start a separate thread rather than cluttering up the shout box.

This should be in a separate thread, not in the Shoutbox.

There are plenty of "thinking people" who believe that violence is an appropriate response to desecrating the Quran. Not me, but millions of others.

Milk Cream Butter Cheese Yoghurt Ice Cream Say no more. Say no more.

Hello Javi. I put Suzhou River on my Criterion Channel watchlist.

Yes, of course I've sung that, although I think this is more popular here in the US. Javi is a friend of mine. He resembles Frankenstein. When he does...

This is right. I remember getting unhomogenized milk in glass bottles delivered. The cream rose to the top of the bottle.

A nice poem. It doesn't seem to me you are really providing clues to the nature of consciousness, rather a list of some of the questions we have to an...

Alas.

Hans Christian Anderson

I wouldn't take the threats of flagging here seriously. The moderators certainly won't.

Sorry, no.

I considered "Seinfeld," "The Simpsons," and "How I Met Your Mother," but then decided on "Friends."

In my understanding of soap operas, at least here in America, they need to involve intrigue, betrayal, and sex. So far it seems like all you’ve got is...

Don’t you and I both believe that everything is inseparable from lived experience?

Maybe not “misuse,” but certainly sloppy use, lazy use, imprecise use, shallow use.

Perhaps uncle and nephew.

Not in Boston in the 1970s in the Boston Phoenix. One year for Christmas, I wrapped all my gifts for my family in pages from the personal ads of the P...

My favorite book. I've read it three times and listened to it once.

I noticed there are no women in your soap opera. When I first moved to Boston in the mid-1970s, the underground newspapers used to advertise movies wi...

I don't see why my only choices are determinism, randomness, or supernatural agency. I think a better way to think of it is that the real world is run...

Yes, I agree with you on this. If we're right, it seems to me the whole question of free will vs. determinism becomes trivial, pointless.

Is the question as expressed here any different from the standard questions about free will and determinism?

If Kant is right and time and space are not something we learn through experience but rather know from our natures, doesn't that mean they are not ill...

This is a good way of putting it.

As I noted, this is one of the presuppositions of your argument, but you haven’t made it explicit. I think you should because 1) It’s not self evident...

I think the common theme of my comment and your quote from Moevs' is that it doesn't make sense to think that God, at least this kind of God, is limit...

Some ideas: All of us meet in Times Square in New York City. We can borrow that ball they use at New Years. Depose the moderators and watch the forum ...

I think your fundamental unexpressed presupposition in this formulation is that God exists in time, which I don't see as self-evident or even likely g...

I don't know a lot about Kant and much of what I do know I don't like, but I do like his discussion of space and time. Here's some of what he says abo...

Science is only one of the ways we understand the world. I can't speak for you, but it is not true that scientists in general have tried not create th...

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This is such baloney. You just like to rouse the rabble. Bad philosophy. Nuff said.

"Standing" is a legal term that I've shanghaied for use here - "Standing, or locus standi , is the capacity of a party to bring a lawsuit in court. To...

As a non-Christian, you have no standing to address this issue. The fact that you have is a sign of the religious bigotry endemic here on the forum. L...

Papaya you say?

By George, he’s got it!

No further questions. I rest my case.

Welcome to the forum. This is an interesting, thoughtful, and well-written post. Perhaps also a bit over-ambitious. I have some thoughts. Someday I'll...

Better than a @"Hanover" story, or at least less disgusting.