When you think about yourself....what do "you" and "yourself" refer to? Is this a act of thought or? a linguistic manipulation. Do you make yourself t...
Hillary hasn't been accused of raping anyone in the non-metaphorical sense of the word. She's running, not Bill. Beyond that, it is her word against h...
Trump seems to go against Political Correctness every chance he gets. Political Correctness's targets are segments of the population, The prevailing p...
It seems as though Trump's locker room banter might stick him. Here is Nigel Farage's take: “Look, this is alpha male boasting. It’s the kind of thing...
From what I read it would not work that way. The heads of the Republican Party would have to choose another candidate. It could be anyone such as Paul...
Objective and Subjective appear to be the result of judgement, no judgement no division. Holderlin suggested being simpliciter is the ground of judgem...
You appear to be saying that society is valuing nomos/custom over nature. Much of what is natural in us is forced to sublimate itself in society to cu...
Accordion styled aluminum shutters for most part, took me half hour to open set them up about 10 minutes to to put back into position. Most of my neig...
Lucked out, Matthew passed about 150 miles of my location, others in Florida not so lucky, around 600,000 without power and storm is still packing 120...
No I'm about 3 miles off the coast. House withstood three direct hits back in 2005, now all shuttered up, feels like a cave. I am in a pretty tight ne...
I don't think of limbic system when I think of the spleen. Shakespeare's Brutus comes to mind or Baudelaire 's flower 'Spleen the Ideal'. We are full ...
Cognitive behavior therapy works (CBT) it is (I think) a temporary but quick fix. In it you'll accept the premises offered by the therapist and the th...
This rule, excludes the possibility that two or more bulbs can be simultaneously lit at any point in time. We don't establish the initial conditions e...
I like PBRs and I am always trying to think about something else to paint. So when I saw the Pabst contest, I thought sure, it might be fun to do some...
You might want to consider dialectical monism. I remember reading a piece by Jacob Klein that suggests otherwise, based on the early part of the Pheli...
Hi Jimi and welcome. It sounds more like neurosis than psychosis. Neurotics can get comfortable with their tendencies, compulsions, etc. They tend to ...
The guy in the background of the Youtube video ( with all the teeth) is Baba Booey. He works for Howard Stern who nicknamed him and has made his nickn...
I like your Mycellium, but mycellium are static and your work seems to me more fluid, dynamic. Like a river flowing over rocks, white waters splashing...
Did this in pencil a couple of weeks ago, into color over last weekend. https://67.media.tumblr.com/cd4911dd1e5767ff40e5447de608e64d/tumblr_oe65dspv1p...
Yes, the Drudge Report and umpteen others, maybe cheery picking, I don't know. The Daily Mail appears to me to be a morass of news but it appears to h...
The establishment only sees what it wants to see. Snap polls taken immediately after the debate suggest the Trump won by a landslide: http://www.daily...
Thinking more about this. I can imagine waking in a Matrix, I can imagine my self floating down the Mississippi in a raft with Huckleberry Finn, and I...
Yea, good counterargument, but I still wonder if this problem does not arise out of how meanings are associate with words My hangup is that knowledge ...
Ryle's counterfeit argument works. I would enjoy hearing a criticism of it. Semantically, 'conscious'/'dreaming' rely of each other for meaning, a lot...
John I have always drawn, painting only last 3/4 yrs. Painting is adding a new dimension for me. Its funny I hate games that require stop watches, lik...
Yes, I like your question. Translation may be an issue: Aramaic Bible in Plain English "For The Messiah is the consummation of The Written Law for rig...
I have only read a few Lacan essays, and Bruce Fink's "Against Understanding". Fink is excellent, a translator of Lacan. The following is based on tha...
I saw the difference, however the article I cited goes on to state: Jefferson's 28 May 1816 letter to John Taylor: And I sincerely believe, with you, ...
It is a posthumous attribution, he did not say it. He may not have liked Banks, but he did like credit. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/jefferson/banks.a...
Socrates last words: According to Nietzsche this was not hope, it was resentment. Life is an illness and death its cure. From The Gay Science, The Dyi...
Epicurus argument bears few assumptions. We were not Then we are Then we are not There is no presumption of continuation, it is symmetry. It is Meonto...
Epicurus Symmetry argument: "...anyone who fears death should consider the time before he was born. The past infinity of pre-natal non-existence is li...
I would not conflate physical truth with theological truth. These are two different lenses, one that has to do with science's view of the world and th...
What I am trying to elicit is what it means to be authentic. We as humans seem to be both bad and good at our core. Perhaps being good means acting in...
"Why not let your behavior come naturally? Be authentic." — Mongrel Perhaps one's authentic natural self is violent, cruel, demanding, and if so then ...
Reminds me of St. Paul Galatians 2:20 Paul did not become God, he made room for God, accepted the call of God, and became possessed by God, God's "cho...
Doesn't it seem that certain norms are shared regardless of the society. I am specifically thinking of Justice. It seems that regardless of where one ...
Thinking more about this. If reason/rationality is a necessary part of "the bones" of what it takes to make a good, charitable, say objective interpre...
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