T_Clark

Again, we're pretty open and informal here, but it's hard to take you seriously if you write that way. As easygoing as we may be, we take our ideas an...

Welcome to the forum. To start, this is a philosophy forum - a fairly informal one, but generally we take it seriously. It's not Reddit. So - spelling...

It reminds me of some of Robert Frost‘s later poems.

A well-written and interesting post. Welcome to the forum. As to your idea...hmmm. Let me think. My father died in 2001 and I think about him often. I...

I tried to get out of this discussion once. Or was it twice? So here we go again. I’m all done.

Everybody's been angry for the past 10 years. Look how well that's turned out.

They took all the tiles Put 'em in a tile museum And they charged the people A euro and a half just to see 'em

Science works now and then, more or less. It works best when the conditions tested match the metaphysical underpinning best, e.g. materialism and redu...

You ask, “Why are we obligated to do good?” then you give an example where you conclude we are not obligated to do good. So, you’ve answered your ques...

As if the war and the Holocaust weren't bad enough, now it's copyright infringement!

Let's see - Drop out of NATO. Quit the UN. Pull out all our overseas military. Drop Israel like a hot potato. No more money for Ukraine. Tell Taiwan t...

I'm an engineer and I'm reasonably familiar with physics. When I was younger I was a strong materialist and believed in determinism, but I've grown ou...

I know you are, but what am I.

I’m not sure this is true. There are still a lot of people out there who want to maintain our current status. I also don’t think there are many people...

You’re right, I didn’t.

There are a lot of people here who think that's true, but it's not. The US is relatively isolated from the rest of the world. We have a huge economy a...

Nonetheless, I still doubt the veracity of your claim.

Given that the diameter of the Earth is only about 3,000 leagues, I doubt the veracity of your claim.

Except I don’t think deterministic and random are the only two choices. I don’t think there’s any empirical way to determine whether or not the univer...

I’m OK with your way of looking at it. To tell the truth, I don’t even really know what it means.

You have claimed that Item 1 is true without justification. Perhaps you think it is self evident, but I disagree. Item C is wrong. The correct conclus...

Yes, that is better for this forum. Some questions 1) Would the relationship be exploitive? 2) Would the relationship appear to be exploitive? 3) What...

I think this the wrong place to discuss this. I think you want reddit.com/r/getting with teacher.

There's a difference between "take offence from" and "be provoked by." From a point of view strictly focused on American national security, what 'the ...

I agree with everything you write but with a note. We got where we are today because of the Republicans. They have worked for more than 50 years to dr...

It is rude to start a discussion and then not actively participate.

Thanks. I didn't know what they contained.

Good point. I hadn't thought of that. And packed your rivers with garbage.

You’re still not really paying attention to my argument. Expansion of NATO started in the 1990s. You’re talking about today’s situation which is, if m...

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I don’t see that your understanding contradicts mine.

As I indicated, it wasn't that I was being ignored, it was that my argument was. My argument - Russia is paranoid, we knew it, and we should have work...

That made me think of this. It's from Woody Allen's 1966 "What's up Tiger Lily" and is badly edited. https://clip.cafe/whats-up-tiger-lily-1966/this-s...

Welcome. This is something that get's discussed fairly often here on the forum, generally without consensus, because everyone has a different idea of ...

Yo mamma is so fat, her picture weighs 10 pounds.

One of the big jobs I worked on as an engineer involved excavating contaminated soil from a site in Cambridge MA near the Charles River. If you look a...

We’re just going around in circles. I am all done.

Worse for you, perhaps and other small nations under the USSR's thumb. The US is now juking around in Europe with the military of a country that has 1...

Speaking for myself, it's not that they don't matter, it's that they don't matter enough to undermine our own national security. Your countries' motiv...

Wooden barrels are made to resist pressure from the inside. They're made for storing liquids. The weight of the liquid pushes the wooden staves, which...

You guys keep ignoring my argument. I’m done with this discussion.

As I said, previously:

And not just Germany and France. Also the Mongol horde and Ottoman empire. All these were existential threats to the integrity of European Russia.

That displays my ignorance. I thought Finland was considered one of the Baltic states. Pardon if that is considered an insult. It wasn't intended to b...

I didn't claim Russia was an innocent victim, only that they had a well justified fear of invasion. It wasn't a secret. US and NATO policy makers knew...

Even better - let's find non-political philosophical questions to discuss.

I am confident you can figure out a way.

Given their history, it's hard to find fault with Russia for not believing that. We didn't when Russia moved it's military into Cuba. Heck, I don't ev...

This seems unfair to @"Hanover"

Do you live in the Baltics? Living where you do, you may know more about this than I do. I remember back in the early 1990s when Bill Clinton and the ...