T_Clark

I don't usually pay attention to who directs what. Can you recommend some others by Jarmusch.

As usual, your recommendations are appreciated.

That doesn't make any sense. No need to take this any further.

I don't understand you responses to my statements. Seems like you're just stretching your definition to fit my examples.

Just happened to me briefly. Error 502.

Some more philosophical statements that don't meet your standard. The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao - Lao Tzu God will not have his wo...

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As I just commented to @"Moliere", the only potentially workable solutions we've come up with are post-apocalyptic. Looking at the choices, the old hu...

I didn't take this any further because I've been wrestling with these issues and my thoughts are not together enough to make a coherent argument. That...

I don't doubt that the flagella evolved in accordance with an understandable process, I just look open-mouthed in amazement.

I'm a true blue believer in evolution by natural selection with other stuff added in since Darwin. But still, it makes me shake my head in wonder.

Thanks.

Earlier in this thread, @"apokrisis" wrote about sustainable agriculture and estimated it might work with a world population of about a billion. It st...

I'm currently reading "Behind the Mirror" by Konrad Lorenz, which is all about just this issue. I'm just a little way in, but I think you might find i...

This is not and never will be possible in even the simplest system. There is no place to hide from the noise and we will never not have to decide for ...

That was one of my main technical jobs as an environmental engineer - to take a large number of data points and boil it all down to a few parameters t...

How the heck could that ever evolve? It's almost enough to make me believe in intelligent design.

You made a clear and reasonable presentation of your position in 264 words.

I've looked around the web and I've never found any philosophy forum as good as this one. I think there are a number of reasons for that - good modera...

I'm glad you liked it. It has meant a lot to me.

A difference of opinion then, or at least perspective.

I don't know if you've seen it, but there is another discussion now on the forum that addresses some of these issues -

Could they scale economically and technologically without that resistance? Could they close those gaps in food production factors you identified previ...

I guess that's where politics and ethics comes in. We need everyone, or at least enough of us, to agree on what doing good means in this context. And ...

Beyond my interest in human nature, I have a strong interest in the works of Taoist philosophers Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu. They both are seen as philoso...

Careful. Don't make me bark. I don't disagree that much of what we are is the product of our interactions with the world outside. On the other hand, I...

I have a strong belief in the existence and importance of human nature. I tend to growl when I think someone might be questioning that belief. After r...

I've been shocked over the past 20 years or so how much progress has been made in doing what everyone said was impossible - increasing renewable energ...

As Murphy points out, now it's us in the Petrie dish. It's we. That requires lots of land to move around. I can only forage in my yard to a limited ex...

I'll take this as a serious comment, ignoring what comes after. When I was a kid, we went to the beach in Rehoboth Beach Delaware. After not going the...

The numbers I provided are not completely correct, by which I mean they are completely incorrect.

For those of you here in the US, that's 313.15°F/315.15°F.

Thanks for this thread. Reading in through, I thought of my work history, the companies I have worked for. During those 50 years, I worked for a numbe...

@"flannel jesus" gave a clear and obviously correct answer using simple arithmetic operations on real numbers. What does number theory have to do with...

I did not participate in the previous thread, so I don't know if this was discussed. 0.99999... is equal to the summation from n = 1 to infinity of 9/...

Born on a mountain top in Tennessee Greenest state in the land of the free Raised in the woods so he knew ev'ry tree Kilt him a b'ar when he was only ...

Your recommendations are always welcome.

I wouldn't call myself a fan in particular. I got a subscription to The Criterion Channel and there are a lot of them there. They really love Godzilla...

I downloaded it. I’ll promise to read the first 10 pages. After that, we’ll see.

Another thought. As I see it, what Sartre calls "bad faith" is a spiritual failure, not a moral one.

Agreed. I don't need any philosopher to tell me about this. I can just look at my own life and see it everywhere. I really hate the phrase "bad faith....

I hadn't heard of them. I took a quick look. Let me know how you liked it. I see it includes all 33 chapters, which is good. I actually liked the so-c...

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I don't really see a paradox. It seems to me that living in good faith is a standard we apply to ourselves, not others, although it might something we...

Sure. As I noted, if we don't take his words literally, his philosophy is a lot like many others, including ones I value like Lao Tzu and Emerson.

As a metaphor, this is just a fancy way of saying what many others have said. "To thine own self be true." "God will not have his work made manifest b...

I'll throw this into the mix. It's from Emerson's essay "Compensation." I'd like to believe it's true, but I'm not sure it is. Or rather, I'm sure it'...

I'm so proud.

As you should know, every word is the secret word when one is almost as old as you and there are always skits queued up on the Betamax.

Did somebody say "lupine?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRBtgrNo-58