T_Clark

I think this is the heart of the matter. We can argue about why I like Chinese food or why I vote Democratic, but there are a set of foundational valu...

Thanks for your response. I must admit I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about it, but I don't think I believe in normative ethics, at least not ...

You're right, given it was you, I shouldn't have played the anti-religion card.

I don't think it's reasonable to delete this thread. It's true it was a bit unclear, but I thought it was interesting. There have been many atheist th...

First off, it's a fucking noun, not an adjective. It comes from the French word for fart and should be pronounced "butt reek." E.g. that's the worst b...

I didn't say that.

Is this a response to me? It's hard to tell. Here's a link to a page that will show you how to tag your responses to posts and specific quotes. https:...

Welcome to the forum. I enjoyed your post. The forum is a fraught place to take up the existence of God. Most people here, or at least the loudest, ar...

A little advice - if you don't want people to think you are a pretentious, effete gore-met, never us the word "boutique" in a restaurant description. ...

Are there consequences depending on which approach you pick? I mean moral consequences, differences in what behavior you consider moral and, more impo...

No, I don't think so. For me, any definition or description that doesn't take into account how people use knowledge on a day to day basis is misleadin...

Not as impressive as this: My brother was working in France in the late 80s and we went to visit him in 1989. While there, we bought mayonnaise in a s...

I remember when my neighbor, who was something of a geek, got a computer sometime in the early or mid 80s. We all gathered around while he showed us h...

Old Bay was invented in Baltimore and I've only ever seen it used on crabs. You sprinkle it on them after you put them in the pot to steam to add to t...

Whether or not people can afford to have children is not the question on the table as described in the OP. It is talking about the effect of fewer chi...

Here's a link to Bill Gates letter about what's up with AI: https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun?WT.mc_id=20230321100000_Artificial-Inte...

Eat some apples, ride a horse. That's where they came from. In a world, or at least a country, full of geographical ignorance, I think Central Asia is...

Sorry, can't help. But the subject seems interesting, so I'll pay attention.

As I noted previously, you and I seem to agree on most of the substantive issues, so I'm going to forgive your misconceptions about the language.

You're just an excitable boy.

A well thought out post. Looks like you've paid a lot of attention to this issue. Thanks.

Sort of like Ford and Mercury I guess. Mmmmm - orange sludge...

You and I never seem to have productive discussions. Our posts don't seem to be very responsive to each other. I think we just think about things too ...

I have three children, all adults. I can tell you that the concerns you express had no part in our decision to have them, and they shouldn't, and they...

There's a pretty good chance that 40 year old Chedobit, or Velveeta, would not have exceeded it's sell-by date. There's not really anything organic in...

It looks like you've missed the point. Slapdash ways are appropriate when the consequences of being wrong are minor. Engineers often work in situation...

Note that all those are empty boxes. I don't think Chedobit has been made since the 70s or 80s. Velveeta works just fine.

But I'm not really telling the shameful truth. My mother didn't use Velveeta, she used Chedobit - A&Ps cheap Velveeta knockoff.

I grew up in the 1950s. What did you expect?

Thanks for asking. Slice them in half, pour on the barbecue sauce, put them in the broiler till they start to curl. Then cut them up and mix them in w...

The only food sacred to me is macaroni and cheese, made with Velveeta, and barbecued hotdogs (no buns). My mother used to make that for me on my birth...

I have no complaint about all the wonderful southern food restaurants - called meat and threes because that's what you get - meat plus three other foo...

Yes, my use of the word "contingent" was based on everyday usage. Here are some definitions from the web: Possible but not certain to occur; possible....

Certain? Sure, I guess. I generally worked on sites that had been investigated before, so there was existing data. But when I'm looking through the da...

Look, @"Banno" is right that there are lots of things out there we take for granted, and with good reason. But that doesn't mean they are absolutely c...

I spent some time in the South for work and I went to some restaurants down there. I think they call them "meat and 12." Isn't that right. That's Thai...

You and I seem to agree on most everything except this one linguistic issue. I don't think our differences are substantive except in one sense - My wa...

Your three examples are trivial. Of course I can doubt if my post is in English. Of course I can doubt that three in a row wins in tic tac toe. Of cou...

You've written about how much some music means to you. I don't have that. I do like music, but not to the same degree.

Is the process I described all that different from how you decide things in your life and work? In engineering we tend to be more formal, with require...

Much of what I write here on the forum comes from personal experience, introspection, rather than reading philosophers. The philosophers I like are th...

My position on determinism is that, if we can't, in any feasible way, use current knowledge about the world to predict future human behavior, then a c...

I agree with all this, although I wouldn't put quotation marks around knowledge. The first time I heard about JTB I thought it was wrongheaded. It doe...

It's funny. I strongly disagree with this: And strongly agree with this:

I don't think we ever really try to achieve certainty in our knowledge. I don't even think it's a valuable goal. Most uses for knowledge don't require...

Thanks for the reference. I hadn't heard of it. Went on Amazon. Bought it in Kindle.

How about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBUGfs9rwms

This is one of Jimmy Kimmel's bits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cHX6cbAk30

That's what @"Hanover" said.

I'm reading a new translation of the Tao Te Ching by Lin Yutang. Written in 1948, but new to me. I'm going to recommend this version to anyone who ask...