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[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 ...
August 16, 2017 at 02:23
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. ...
August 15, 2017 at 20:54
OK, then, forget the argument that it is immoral....that these mementos still offend a significant section of our population... that they blatantly bl...
August 15, 2017 at 20:17
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...
August 15, 2017 at 18:14
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/04/11/when-the-blind-suddenly-see-do-they-know-what-theyre-looking-at/#.WZMlr1GGPlJ Apparently the brai...
August 15, 2017 at 16:49
Trump finally denounced the KKK and their White Supremacist cohorts for their actions in Charlottesville yesterday, but he tweeted nothing about it an...
August 15, 2017 at 14:12
Hi Prothero. Take a look at this article.
August 15, 2017 at 10:22
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...
August 14, 2017 at 18:21
The Atlantic Magazine was established in 1857, it is a well regarded moderate publication. The letter and information I referenced were taken from it....
August 14, 2017 at 18:04
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, ...
August 14, 2017 at 11:44
Sorry, not teaching tonight.
August 14, 2017 at 01:49
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 ...
August 14, 2017 at 01:38
Statues are symbols, read in the context to which I replied.
August 14, 2017 at 01:28
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...
August 14, 2017 at 01:18
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...
August 14, 2017 at 01:14
Ok, 155 years ago.
August 14, 2017 at 01:06
I agree, he was a traitor, who fought against our country. He should have been hanged.
August 14, 2017 at 00:59
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...
August 14, 2017 at 00:53
Tell that to the family of the lady who was killed or the other injured.
August 14, 2017 at 00:40
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...
August 14, 2017 at 00:33
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...
August 13, 2017 at 23:58
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 ...
August 13, 2017 at 23:47
Why? Because I am trying to present a coherent view...one which you will not reply to....you're the troll baby.
August 13, 2017 at 23:30
The truth is the truth regardless of how hard you try to doge it.
August 13, 2017 at 23:22
No, it is just, That's why we have laws like Affirmative Action, to attempt to offset past injustices. Never said anything about money.
August 13, 2017 at 23:14
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...
August 13, 2017 at 23:09
By the Nation, specifically to the black people who suffered under white oppression for 350 years...maybe you missed that. Black people, Hispanics, wo...
August 13, 2017 at 22:43
So, are you in favor of removal of Robert E Lee's statue or are you suggesting that it be archived in some manner?
August 13, 2017 at 21:39
Do we have emotive beliefs? Or are beliefs a product of the understanding, firm judgments we accept, where emotions form the motivation for exercising...
August 13, 2017 at 21:35
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. ...
August 13, 2017 at 20:59
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 ...
August 12, 2017 at 02:38
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...
August 12, 2017 at 02:27
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...
August 12, 2017 at 00:12
I admire my parents, they lived through WWII. raised me helped put me through school, loved me, helped make me what I am. RIP
August 11, 2017 at 23:30
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...
August 11, 2017 at 18:56
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...
August 11, 2017 at 14:19
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...
August 10, 2017 at 14:40
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...
August 10, 2017 at 13:50
If I remember correctly, none of these characters had living mothers. Freud's & Lacan's psychological systems revolve around the desire for the mother...
August 10, 2017 at 12:00
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...
August 10, 2017 at 03:03
?Cavacava No the anti-thesis is that causes are necessarily contingent, only probabilities, contingent events that could have always been otherwise, t...
August 09, 2017 at 22:43
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...
August 09, 2017 at 21:35
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...
August 09, 2017 at 21:07
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...
August 09, 2017 at 20:45
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...
August 09, 2017 at 19:57
That's interesting, what kind of treatment? Psychotherapy? My understanding is that Cognitive Behavior Therapy is kinda standard today.
August 09, 2017 at 19:30
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...
August 09, 2017 at 18:53
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 ...
August 09, 2017 at 11:37
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...
August 09, 2017 at 05:03
https://youtu.be/iA6CzW-S8VE Former CNN announcer provides the "real news", as if.
August 08, 2017 at 03:17