[reply="Bitter Crank;9717 Italians have better food. I'll take baccala (at least its not treated with lye, my stomach just rolled), you can keep your ...
That's crap, and you have said nothing, the funny thing is that I think you realize this. The United States is a representational form of government. ...
OK, then, forget the argument that it is immoral....that these mementos still offend a significant section of our population... that they blatantly bl...
Well then how could you have said "By all accounts..." ? But don't you see that approximately 15% of our population is black, many descendants of slav...
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/04/11/when-the-blind-suddenly-see-do-they-know-what-theyre-looking-at/#.WZMlr1GGPlJ Apparently the brai...
Trump finally denounced the KKK and their White Supremacist cohorts for their actions in Charlottesville yesterday, but he tweeted nothing about it an...
I think that during language acquisition we learn to normatively associate emotional import to certain words. There are a lot of words, but I think th...
The Atlantic Magazine was established in 1857, it is a well regarded moderate publication. The letter and information I referenced were taken from it....
The Civil War was the bloodiest war in US history. Robert E Lee who is often thought of as a brilliant tactician made one significant tactical error, ...
Germany does not allow statues of Hitler. They think it will not help them heal. They will not forget the what happened. The town decided to have the ...
It's not up to me, the town planned to remove the statue....these thugs came in and created holy hell. I don't see any statues of Hitler up in Germany...
I don't dispute that he made his choice, but it was the wrong choice. It was a choice based on an immoral economic system. To now treat him as a symbo...
The upcoming removal of the statue was the reason why the White Supremacists, KKK and others went to Charlottesville, The lady went to stand up for th...
TA-NEHISI COATES You don't have to look that far to see that gerrymandering in some states is skewed to the determent of poorer, blacker neighborhoods...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 enacted July 2, 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based o...
The Revolutionary War might have been 150 years ago, but we have seen and we we continue to see racism systematic in the US, I believe the real civil ...
I never said it would end all bigotry, but I believe it is a step in the right direction. Symbols are important, and the symbol of Robert E Lee, as th...
By the Nation, specifically to the black people who suffered under white oppression for 350 years...maybe you missed that. Black people, Hispanics, wo...
Do we have emotive beliefs? Or are beliefs a product of the understanding, firm judgments we accept, where emotions form the motivation for exercising...
No, I don't agree. I think that a debt is owed, It needs to be repaid, Laws such as affirmative action, which ought to be redundant are still needed. ...
As I define "soul" it makes sense, it is what causes life, the vital principal....but I can't force feed that notion to you, either it makes sense to ...
I argue that animated means ensouled. The ancient Greeks used the word alive to mean ensouled, and inanimate is dead...so while you say I see life, an...
We can pretty much tell animate from inanimate, but we don't know how matter became and continues to become animate, we can't even mimic it (Craig Ven...
The ancients thought that soul is what differentiates animate from inanimate. So then a tree, a dog, an insect all have souls. My understanding is tha...
I've read that the NK plan to fire 4 missiles towards Guam. They study the US well enough to know that the US will react, but not by starting a war, b...
Lacan's concept of the real, is how a child experiences the world immediately within a context , this immediacy is lost (for the most part) with the a...
He has some very intricate symbolic expression and complexes, but yes he talks about maternal caretakers (but that gets away from the fairy tale) I th...
If I remember correctly, none of these characters had living mothers. Freud's & Lacan's psychological systems revolve around the desire for the mother...
I expect North Korea will continue to raise its theoretic, try to play Trump. Historically NK has always come out ahead in these exchanges. Such as th...
?Cavacava No the anti-thesis is that causes are necessarily contingent, only probabilities, contingent events that could have always been otherwise, t...
Not into the big 5. The following from Bruce Fink's book on Lacan: For Lacan it is a question of desire versus drive (which is thoughtless), where the...
Fine, but when it can lead to death or an inability to go outside or other hurtful behavior, I think we as society need to ask wtf. The question is wh...
The point has to do with intensities. A shy person, is very different from someone who is agoraphobic, who can't leave the house because they are deep...
The reason people seek help is because they are not happy with themselves, the way they are acting. Anorexia and bulimia are dangerous, someone can en...
Because our will is not a discrete whole, it is fragmented by times, contexts, desires, moods, objects, others.... but we imagine our self one. The an...
The US Constitution includes the right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.", this is the basis for the legitimacy of lobbying in ...
The post-truth world has many facets, the only thing common and that we may be able to agree upon is what something cost. Money the medium of exchange...
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