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I wonder why Cardinal Robert Sarah spent the time to write the letter to the world bishops on this topic if it is a "non-story" http://www.bbc.com/new...
July 13, 2017 at 23:17
At the request of Pope Francis, gluten-free bread used to celebrate the Eucharist is forbidden Not fully bodied enough? My guess.
July 13, 2017 at 21:44
The second interpretation. has an If-then, inferential form. The fact is "...the keys are locked in the car..." the rest is deduced
July 13, 2017 at 11:44
Is a deduction not a fact.
July 13, 2017 at 03:05
" Con Te Partiro " sung by " Andrea Bocelli https://youtu.be/a9KZ3jgbbmI
July 13, 2017 at 02:48
b try John Searle's Social Ontology Lacan is best read through secondary sources unless you are taking a course. I like Bruce Fink's interpretation, F...
July 12, 2017 at 17:03
Just a train: A $5.00 bill is a real representation, I can hand it over to you in repayment for a debt. It has presence and functionality, and its val...
July 12, 2017 at 13:33
Inner voice, is more like the trains that enter and leave the station...thought-trains. I saw the Fisher King a long time ago. The scene at the statio...
July 12, 2017 at 11:24
I think she did just say it, and she said it more than once, she knew what she was doing...she did a Trump. They are both despicable from my viewpoint...
July 12, 2017 at 00:03
I think language constitutes thought, but I don't think it is thought, I think thought is the workings of that "grand central station".
July 11, 2017 at 22:46
Well you talk to yourself don't you. Something like 90% of our language use is our own internal dialogue with our self.
July 11, 2017 at 22:30
I think sensation is a two stage process. What we are aware of is filtered, we pick out what deem important but this occurs at a different level than ...
July 11, 2017 at 22:04
We do have a lot of repetitive functions that seem to involve very little thought. Such as coming to a stop at a red light while driving. There must b...
July 11, 2017 at 20:20
Whew! and I thought it was a selfe! :B
July 10, 2017 at 22:16
Have you thought about doing something creative? Poetry, painting, something aesthetic....or perhaps becoming a vegetarian, and by doing so adopt a st...
July 10, 2017 at 21:55
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
Both hypnosis and the placebo effect are based on the trust we place in those who treat our afflictions. They both are forms of communication between ...
July 10, 2017 at 11:34
In: Fate  — view comment
The gods offered Achilles a choice between a long, comfortable, mild life that he would live for many years or he could choose a life of fame, a short...
July 09, 2017 at 15:31
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
I just read an article about hypnosis, here. Psychologists at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) are trying to come up with a theory for hyp...
July 09, 2017 at 03:01
https://youtu.be/ME9x1mSNv-w
July 09, 2017 at 02:15
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
July 08, 2017 at 22:32
http://images.cryhavok.org/d/1621-3/Hit+It+With+Your+Bible.jpg
July 08, 2017 at 16:43
If honesty is Good then how can a consequentialist be Good ... if the Good lies in the intent behind our actions then what can be said of the effects ...
July 08, 2017 at 12:49
Well if it is a tactic it is scare tactics. But, if it it' s a tactic then it is a means to an end. And that end is forced social change or accommodat...
July 07, 2017 at 02:30
https://youtu.be/v-Dur3uXXCQ She could have shown more tit.
July 06, 2017 at 14:58
Progress is a teleological filter that can be used to understand how we got to where we are currently. The Enlightenment concept of Progress supplante...
July 06, 2017 at 12:48
I think animals display limited computational ability, but no animal I am aware of, display recursive abilities and perhaps it is this lack of recursi...
July 05, 2017 at 16:45
Suppose 'brute fact' had to do with how we value experience, about our ability to discriminate one thing from another. This discriminatory ability poi...
July 05, 2017 at 03:26
Over the eons before me nothing mattered, over the eons when I am gone nothing will matter. Means: I'll try to make the best of the time I've got.
July 04, 2017 at 13:19
I think there are two caves. One with people chained to the wall watching shadows, and the other with people chained to the wall who know their watchi...
July 04, 2017 at 04:02
Hi, So like Star Trek Next Generation== Data? Did you ever wonder why Buddha is chubby... the middle way must be OK.
July 04, 2017 at 03:26
July 03, 2017 at 13:58
Thinking about it this way, The context in which the work is made. The cultural narratives that are available to the artist become merged in the conte...
July 03, 2017 at 01:02
How about language as the glue, since thought seems to be constituted by it. Is this why Wittgenstein made language the limit of our world
July 02, 2017 at 23:57
I think the concept is to provide a fair wage to hourly workers, a wage that can keep hourly workers above the poverty level. The federal minimum wage...
July 02, 2017 at 23:26
Notp does not equal nothing. Negation is not the same as nothing, negation is a valuation.
July 02, 2017 at 16:03
It sounds like reverse fetishism to me, where Ideals forcefully compel a manner of living and knowing. You sure about "Cattiness"? :)
July 02, 2017 at 15:51
I agree to the extent that universals are required by us to know anything, but that does not make them any more than heuristic devices which enable ex...
July 02, 2017 at 13:50
Me John: They were rhetorical, but I think you answered the question about alienation as follows: John: I don't accept any "infinite knower". So based...
July 02, 2017 at 13:24
Hi, thanks for your comment, I am sure John will get around to saying what he means. Meanwhile, I think that the universe is finite, and that everythi...
July 01, 2017 at 23:40
https://youtu.be/kTFD4c7-iGg
July 01, 2017 at 21:26
So then you can care about your family, your friends, people you are emotionally invested in but not in the nameless, faceless suffering masses that a...
July 01, 2017 at 13:36
What is this "sense of the infinite" ... a desire for immanence, intimacy with what is in-it- itself, intimacy that thought necessarily lacks, leading...
July 01, 2017 at 12:15
https://youtu.be/oWnoVzSqwxA Very bitchy, designed to incite
July 01, 2017 at 02:05
Italians are into vegetable slurs, must be part of their agrarian heritage. I wonder if they have enough to make a Sampler...eggplants, cucumbers, fen...
June 30, 2017 at 18:56
https://youtu.be/4grGAYx9koA
June 30, 2017 at 16:07
That does not get you past the circularity, because it is only in thought that your distinction between thought and sense is be possible and there is ...
June 30, 2017 at 14:51
We detect and we measure, what ever is known is only known though thought. Does the structure of thought equal... is it the same as the structure of t...
June 30, 2017 at 13:25
I think that is pedantic and absurd. A person ought to be able to express themselves as they see fit, not according to any strictures or lack thereof....
June 30, 2017 at 12:57
Maybe you need to come to terms with what is meant when we say that something is Evil. I think you point at it a couple of times in what you wrote. I ...
June 30, 2017 at 12:41