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“The CIA actually has a taskforce designed to try to predict where and when political instability and conflict is likely to break out around the world...

The analysis by Barbara F Walter, a political science professor at the University of California at San Diego who sits on the Political Instability Tas...

Meditation has nothing to do with shutting out pain or in some way negating the physical body. It's a practice that will alter the shape of your brain...

Yes, a villified outgroup gives an ingroup a deep sense of life-meaning. It's "quicker, easier, more seductive." Wisdom is the struggle toward life-me...

So if I were to rape you in the face and ass and then with the same dick rape your family one by one while you watched, you would celebrate? (Like wit...

No one knows what death is for the dyer.

"According to Stone..." That's a ludicrous preamble. The man is an incarnate lie.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. William Blake

Where does wisdom fit into this picture?

I was just pointing out that your example doesn't jive with my statement. Not sure about the rest of your questions.

You're not asserting something true without evidence. You're asserting something false.

This seems muddled. Reread my statement. "without evidence"

Do you agree with the below? It's absurd to assert something true without evidence while holding a belief to the contrary.

What I meant was: you would not have said it.

I'm the context of the present philosophical argument, yes, you had a reason to say it: to win the argument. Remove that context and you would not hav...

Moving into armchair fog-to-pettifoggery here. You don't "need" a reason to say a thing. You "have" a reason to say a thing. You said "you had pancake...

A unconscionably misleading question. Moore must have known better. It's not that it's absurd to say something true about oneself. It's silly to sugge...

It would be absurd for you to make that assertion if you didn't believe I had pancakes for breakfast. There would be absolutely no reason to say it. H...

While it's true that MacIntosh is saying something true, he's asserting something unknown to him. That's why it's absurd. Moore's question is tendenti...

It looks like Moore maybe didn't compose the anecdote. It was absurd of whoever did to put those words in MacIntosh's mouth.

Certainly not everything he said over the weekend was sane.

Good. Then it's silly (and likely simply tendentious) of Moore to put the words "it's raining" in his mouth. It's important to note that MacIntosh is ...

Where does it say MacIntosh knows?

What is this thread doing skulking about on the second page? Is it because Trump said a sane thing over the weekend?

Nowhere in the anecdote does it say MacIntosh knows that it's raining. So, true or not, it would be absurd for MacIntosh to say he knows what he doesn...

Yes. Here and now.

An apostrophe.

A child could not have written this: If I were of their pride, If mine were one thought, If mine were their thought, O Lord, Who know the secret of th...

Fascinating and apparently beautiful. Thanks for posting this.

Know the Signs: How to Tell if Your Grandparent Has Become an Antifa Agent https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/10/know-signs-how-tell-if-y...

In a survey published Friday, 39% of 502 respondents reported engaging in “non-recommend, high-risk practices,” including using bleach on food, applyi...

How predictable. Caucasian males are suffering. Think of the tragic historical processes that have created their unconscionable plight.

An incarnate scintilla right here.

I was just teasing. Sarcasm, in a word. It's important to say: some deranged machismo factor is at the heart of the to-wear-or-not-to-wear-a-mask "deb...

Morality is for pussies.

Read: Fact-check the president's barrage of lies. Editorialize: that's good for a laugh. Happily, there are facts.

Haven't heard that one since preschool.

Do you have a reference?

Not dead till doublethink is alt-think. There's still a pinch of reality in doublethink.

Let me translate: "I think science-denying schmuck-faces should be set free to spread pestilence in our nation and our top health experts should be ig...

I wish it were true that there was no one like you. In fact you are a faceless thoughtless compassionless horde.

Case closed. :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol:

A lot of first-hand accounts of true schizophrenic solipsism by extremely intellectual and articulate schizophrenics.

I've toyed with solipsism and have found it psychologically unsustainable. The only real solipsists are schizophrenic. See Louis A. Sass's Madness and...

It's helpful to come to terms with the fact that you aren't actually a solipsist.

He does: How to lie through his teeth.

"...the Bosom of God, the Human Imagination. (Jerusalem, I, 5; p. 554)1." William Blake

Many, many minds can do more than most minds. :fire: :halo: :fire:

Your entrenchment is taking a toll on your reading comprehension. You're projecting contradictions. Experimenting, with a will to psychical expansion ...

No one said anything about expecting the mind to do more than it can do. That's a phrase you invented. It's a question of will: willing the mind to do...