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"All fires have to burn alive to live."

One of my favorite albums. Are you familiar with Spencer Krug's work in Frog Eyes?

The Chinese Communist Party is so perfectly aligned with Marx's vision it's uncanny.

That one started in the early 1800s. No explanation I can conjure for it.

Roommate is apparently 160 years older than flatmate. Possibly there were more shared rooms at that time. :smile: roommate (n.) also room-mate, 1789, ...

I connect the notion of no-self to the philosophy of determinism. If freedom is an illusion, the self-as-conative is also an illusion. The flow of sam...

A staunchly positional query relished by gaslighters the world over.

I think I saw a box of tissues in the lounge.

Haha, I was just teasing. :grin:

The first step to achieving ubermenschhood is to master subject-verb agreement. Begin with a profound contempt for those who have not mastered it.

I recommend the ignore option.

Right. Trump doesn't have "a gaggle of social media consultants, PR specialists and speech writers to tell stories." Again: Trump is the king of PR an...

A histrionic cynicism in regard to thousands upon thousands of lies. A telling attitude toward the truth.

That the above is a bootlicking thing to say is nearer to a fact than what we find in the bulk of your posts.

What a bootlicking thing to say.

There's absolutely no reason to respond to him except to point out a lie or mis- or dis-informative post.

Thanks.

Set some time aside to read the comments on the Trump Facebook page. They believe anything they want to believe. Anything. https://www.facebook.com/Do...

Re the ignorance epidemic in the US: 5WPR Survey Reveals 38% of Beer-Drinking Americans Wouldn't Buy Corona Now https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releas...

Funny, I felt like my response was "fair and balanced." You do know that Trump's books were written by ghostwriters, I hope. https://www.newyorker.com...

Then we have to live with a variety of (at times contradictory) definitions, or come up with a new word. All our talk about "socialism," without some ...

Trump said "this" is their new hoax, using a demonstrative pronoun the referent for which was (demonstratively) unclear, coming, as it did, sixty seco...

That's a pointed underestimation of the ignorance-plague currently impestilating the US. I follow two Trump pages on Facebook. This ignorance is epide...

Usage (eventually, if usage sticks) determines how a word should be defined.

There is no one "common" definition. "Definition of socialism 1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ...

One of my favorite lines from one of my favorite writers.

The National Geographic–Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey polled more than 3,000 18- to 24-year-olds in Canada, France, Germany, Great Brit...

Sin was born with the egg. Only we didn't have bodies to make it or hearts to know it. Sin is a single cell.

"...led Maslow to a conclusion that...the need to know is a burning drive that is not necessarily a manifestation of more important drives - the need ...

I'd be interested in a clarification of this idea.

If you don't have access to the book I can drop off some quotes: "We cannot talk about contingency until we are in full possession of the facts about ...

"The New Existentialism" is worth a read. It's short and to the point.

Just wanted to let you know not to trust what the Washington Examiner puts out.

Cute. You attack sources constantly (mainstream media) so be sure to remember every time you do it that you're committing the genetic fallacy as you u...

Your source isn't reliable. The Washington Examiner. "Overall, we rate the Washington Examiner Right Biased based on editorial positions that almost e...

Different book.

Existentialism evolved - at least in the mind of one man: Colin Wilson (made famous and fashionable by his first book, The Outsider, in the 1950s, whe...

Cute. Out in the cold.

A mother on her knee with her child might say to a grown-up about her child, "He knows there is a Santa." But language isn't ordinarily used that way....

Ayn Rand likes to focus on the word "force" too, without taking into account the power of PR and propaganda to dupe and derange the unwitting. (Most p...

For the third time: Where did you find the quotes? For the second time: Why did you ignore this question the first time and the second time? The longe...

Those aren't credentials. Those are titles. Exactly. To truly comprehend a subject as sprawling as the climate change debate, hours and hours of resea...

First: You ignored my question: "Where did you find the quotes?" Why did you ignore it? Second: No one said anything about attacking anyone. That's so...

Sure. I was just pointing out that in the source you provided Mike Hulme says he was a lead author.

All of the quotes need to be set in the context of each speaker's personal history and reputation and each speaker's overarching view of climate chang...

Of course: Let's keep it in mind. But good-faith research, clarifying the minutia of the bureaucracy in question, is crucial to avoid a broadbrush cyn...

This is a weak (and not uncynical) argument for bias at the IPCC. The argument seems to go this way: 1. The methodology of every bureaucracy is domina...

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"I have published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles on climate change topics, served as a Lead Author on the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate...

Eh. Like I said, it's about the best we can do. Laypersons have no way to access the facts directly. Reading from a vast array of biased and unbiased ...