Perhaps racism is endemic to democracy, being chromatic it is easier to see. If the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness reflect the t...
I didn't see your post, kinda scanned through posts until I watched the incredible rant that the lady on the video put up against BLM. The DOJ, report...
All right let's go on to the next 'study' Ms McDonald cites. The paper by Harvard Economist Roland G. Fryer, Jr. His paper is a 'working paper', it is...
I only went as far as the Lois James study. The study itself states: "..the current study only measured the alpha waves of participants drawn from the...
The US has moved its nuclear arms out of Turkey (to Romania I think). Erdogan's wants to have Fethullah Gülen extradited from the US, he blames him fo...
Frank Ocean's Blond a shit load lot of music. https://youtu.be/-Bm1hcnXSEg Ooh, oooh, oooh, ooh I'm sure we're taller in another dimension You say we'...
Thinking a little more about this. AlphaGo condenses enormous quantities of data and then filters its findings, arriving at new combinations that fit ...
Not quite sure, sometimes the pigment kinda takes over, Here is Rudy's, a small local pub, Mary is one of the owners...Rudy's is one of the few pubs w...
I think the only moral fact is freedom, our ability to choose what we feel we ought to do; and what we feel we ought to do is to follow the correct me...
Perhaps the question 'is all art normative' needs to be answered. I think that progression in art is a dialectical progression, mostly normative but n...
Hi M-Theory & Zookeeper I liked Schwartz's talk, his semi-conclusion of a computer as a mirror. The computer can mirror that normativity, I am not con...
One interesting difference between Malcolm X and MLK were how they lived their religions. MLK preached, and he utilized biblical foundations in his po...
Perhaps, but I think you can only understand that as if 'left' & 'right' express historical moments and not fundamental positions. So yes, the liberal...
Well I imagine that he posts these photos for a reason, but that reason is probably not the reason he gives, i.e., that he wants to know why he should...
I like Levinas' thought. As far as Plato goes...his Philebus is all about pleasure and pain. He thought of pleasure/pain as limitations in a continuum...
I think the left is used entertaining contradictory views, and I doubt conservatives ability to seriously consider other viewpoints. Is there an argum...
How metal is Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights"? Here's a fantasy metal version of the 500 Year Old Butt Song from Hell, based on the...
Human and other animals are attracted by pleasure and repulsed by pain. I think these are instinctual responses to things we experience. We don't have...
Perhaps the idea of the Superhero is based on the concept of family, as in the human family. The fight to protect humanity from the evils that arise, ...
Pluto, that rock with a location way out there, has not changed 'Pluto' the sound design has not changed The only change is how we categorize it, its ...
If you go to Las Vegas to try your luck, are you a gambling addict? No, I don't think so, but a small percentage of those that do go there do have a p...
The red or the blue pill? The internet is radically democratic, and it has taken on the status of almost a birth right. A journalist with the internet...
I looked at the Green Web site...ambitious goals. I wonder how it will go. The Guardian 10/29/2015 Economic growth will be necessary, at least under t...
I think anything that is alive is a being, one that is different in kind from all inert objects. All life reacts in some manner that is not entirely p...
There is a lot of historical data, and many different ways of analyzing that data. Economists question how each others' account of historical changes,...
I agree with MOS, we are living a life. While we are not responsible for our own existence that does not entail, that we cannot make value assertions....
The song, I like the lyrics. Isn't the 'Idol' for sheep a goat. http://cdn.americanbanker.com/media/newspics/JudasGoat_365.jpg A Judas goat was used t...
Animals similar to humans seem to be driven by the pleasure principle. We-animals like pleasure and try to escape pain. I think all the physical prope...
Researchers at Oxford University found that prior to Great Britain's EU referendum a third of all tweets during that time were created by social bots....
I am interested in the self-awareness aspect of consciousness as it appears in animals as disperse as elephants, apes, corvids & dogs. It is somewhat ...
Proceeding with my casual tour of local pubs... Little Munich in Lake Worth Florida. casual German Bar & Restaurant. It has a long bar with many shelv...
I like the idea of understanding the story as a wake up call. The student crassly helping the master, to realize the error of his attachment to the bo...
I think guilt is a complex notion in ancient thought. Guilt as a cause, as shame, as a defiance of fate, as complicity with fate (determinism). Free w...
Like many issues in a representational democracy, the problem of gun control is tied in with the need of legislators to be reelected, which takes a to...
"the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again " I disagree...repetition is the condition of knowledge, of sanity. Camus's s...
Along similar lines to what some others have expressed. If the nihilist only values pleasure and pain, then how does he value them (which goes to John...
"No more war" vs "USA." 'No more war' is a cry for moral justice 'USA' is nationalistic declaration There are a variety of forces exerted against the ...
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