Maybe it works like karma. For every troll action there is a troll reaction, like waves on the surface of a pond slowly diffusing. If the reactionary ...
You know why. If you have more money than god you can diversify your asset basket in all kinds of fun luxuriant ways. Maybe you can own a few fraction...
Germany's Bizzare Obession with Polar Bear Photos It's inane stuff but this is the Lounge. Teddybär A 200 page limited edition book of photographs of ...
:razz: Well, you've presented an ideal mathematical scenario (neat nuance) which may have helped form Malthus' original argument. But is it the case t...
https://i.imgur.com/D7foreh.jpg Photograph Caption: This is an old black and white photograph of a group of what looks to be whitish Europeans, 20 or ...
It can't. Food is a limiting reagent of population. There is probably more nuance to Malthus argument. The difference between humans today and animals...
The big picture is way too complicated. It's about competitive advantage of businesses (or just individuals) on a global/local field and the matching ...
Maybe global sustainability is the word (and hope) rather than growth. The American economy seems to be rife with shady business practices. Just the o...
https://i.imgur.com/AfVD4g4.jpg Photography... the artistic cheat, more consumptive, more about taking than making. An in-game picture of Gorilla Game...
The universe as a library of all possible books. The number of books about god must be atheist's sexual exploits with Pamela Anderson could not fit in...
What about the authority of the original post? Does a great sense of humility and openness underlay this inquiry into freedom with respect to the ofte...
There is possibly a very long list of the situations/factors/conditions which give rise to depression. Society is quite depressing from my point of vi...
If a Bodhi meets you in the wilds of Alaska become taller by picking up a log. Talk the Bodhi away with a loud confident voice. You could say: "shoo B...
Great articles, excerpts and quotes. I especially like Hume quotes and one would wonder if any comparable expression of relief by social activity or f...
Good question, if posed innocently?! Who can discern your sincerity! You must sit quietly and observe your breath, the bellows rhythm of your respirat...
http://http://i.imgur.com/QYuW9LY.jpg An innocent mind must be properly conditioned to listen in order to perform for the benefit of other innocent mi...
This is the kind of fact one must profess as a matter of convention, less you risk getting in trouble like Socrates did. How does one square this in t...
How can one understand what is being said without comparing it to the known, then to estimate it's potential value for acceptance or rejection on the ...
The internal voice (the Daimonion) that told Socrates no whenever he was about to do something wrong sounds far weirder than his method, which was pro...
Calling someone insane/crazy is sometimes a casual but still ambiguous compliment when the implied context is shared between two parties. Example: Ale...
There is the popular notion that other animals can detect an oncoming natural disaster before it is apparent to us, whether due to air pressure change...
Nature gives the basic lessons. Trump would give you lessons but you'll probably have to pay the entry fee to Mara Lago and then some. The advertising...
It's the new expansive view of the cosmos that had displaced us as the center of the universe that might explain some of this anxiety. The distances a...
And at the collective level, a step scale upwards... we might have the intelligence of slime mold or a dinosaur. It might take a small comment from a ...
But your response is not driven by an emotional reaction? Not like an innocent bear. You're keep going on and on about how everyone has a corrupted mi...
Apparently not, since we now know that a bear isn't corrupted by conditioned knowledge. But are you included or excluded as one who has a corrupted mi...
Well, I can vouch for what it looks like in the corrupt cloud of unknowing. It would be better if we (the corrupt) didn't fear the unknown so much, di...
The OP could jettison "corrupt" and "innocent" for different qualifying terms, like virtuous versus virtueless, skillful versus unskillful, logical ve...
Lord Huron has dropped a new album https://youtu.be/6fk_i1oPR2U I swore that I'd become a better man for you and I tried Tried to change my ways and w...
Yes, you're much clearer but your value judgement using the strange words "corrupt" or "innocent" don't really mean anything because according to your...
At the risk of mixing metaphors, the glass of life is half full if we recognize it as a gift. Supposedly there are psychological benefits to exercisin...
Sorry, you strike me as overly critical and what you are attempting to describe is unclear and seemingly in part contradictory. Implicit knowledge can...
The living space of some depressed and anxious minds are less than modest. Whether hung upside down naked on a steeple, or cleaving, white-knuckled, r...
The reflection (dialogic analysis) of the self sounds like a metaphysical nightmare only a coterie of intrepid philosophers would care to plumb the de...
There are all manner of disturbing sci-fi premises compatible with a peaceful world but I suppose peaceful entails a world of flourishing and healthy ...
Maybe another downer bit lacking the contextualizing net of Borges work. This quote stood out to me palpably. The narrator is describing a city immort...
Hearing is less important from a standpoint of being able to function independently in the world. I'll keep my sight. Without hearing I'd be able to s...
You guys didn't fight Zeromus on the moon? It was epic. FF II (JPN 4) FF III (JPN 6) FF VII These were memorable but probably has more to do with when...
Hay is for horses and legumes (beans/pulses) are for homo sapiens. We can predigest them in our exogenous mechano guts. As growing plants they've adde...
Reincarnation is no more consoling than whatever the alternatives are. When whatever pops again to call itself "I am what I am what I am" it might be ...
Some cultural/racial stereotypes might be primed and diffused purely by jokes with lost origins. To what extent this actually causes unwarranted preju...
1. Look before you leap but if you decide to leap after you've looked, don't hesitate. 2. Many hands make light work depending upon what in hell is go...
We just ceased. Here we are again. I don't think mass blinking out of existence would make much of a difference if being is inevitable. There is no ti...
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