Depends on whether or not you can pay loan off on the tractor you couldn't afford in full, I guess. Technically many folks might be legally appropriat...
Interbreeding populations would drift slowly away form each other on the basis of some kind of environmental separation prior to genetic separation. A...
There was zero toilet paper in the Philosophy Salon's water closet. When essays were written on the toilet paper they became toilet papers, such that ...
Can't wait for the disappointing answer to this hot mess of a riddle. But will it be kept from us forever because the answer would ruin the point behi...
Doesn't seem that this question is coherent. Why is it like to be this, assuming being like this (whatever this is) is a universal experience for bein...
Just saying there is probably a lot of contingent factors and evolutionary happenstance that gave our species the edge which took great spans of time ...
I don't think it is likely, beyond a chimpanzee using these objects indiscriminately (ie. swinging on a rope, throwing knife like it would throw a roc...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHtBkxEeUtU This guy says the institutional side actually drives a large proportion of the trend upwards on the basis ...
So is it impossible to account for whatever fraction of wealth is unaccounted for in the 99% by moving to the right of the decimal point? How far do w...
Zeno of Elea's modern day descendants could never enter the 1% wealth tier because of this problem. How do you round up to a pence if you only ever ow...
Yes, I am reminded of picking all those so called "free" wild blue berries on the slopes of Denali national park. They weren't free because they were ...
As a totally depressed ignoramus I don't really post in the main forum. I've resigned myself to the Lounge. No questions are worth asking, except thos...
Once heard the experience of a man who was changing his hormonal make up toward a female/feminine profile and what was emphasized was a tremendous shi...
Empty Lives (Lyrics) JJ's got a piece (&) he's learning How to use it If he can't find release then someday soon he's gonna lose it But nobody sees hi...
Where do the italicized quotations come from and why does anyone take them for granted as common belief? If a mindless insentient group (collection of...
Just a Magic the Gathering (card game) reference, fun and extremely expensive game many kids in U.S. are exposed to in junior high or earlier, since 1...
We can make it all fit by a selfish abuse of language and anthropomorphism (in a selfish poetic coup d'état). Things are like selfish selves insofar a...
If a rat smells cat urine and perhaps there is time-sensitivity gradations to this smell, such that a rat smells recently discharged urine, then the r...
I'm not committed to this claim. Just being wary of transferring aspects of human experience (reasoning in abstract) to animals. I see reason as self-...
Well you're example of associative learning is a kind fundamental to life it seems. The other day I was witness to a cattle egret that walked up to me...
Same as ullage? Long ago I saw a documentary film were a guy on the deck of a ship was cracking open a Roman(?) era amphora of wine and tasting it. Th...
Can't we flat out reject this? The behavior of cats stalking rats and rats running from cats is a consequence of natural selection, which is not a pro...
No, haven't been, but what is the significance of Iquitos or Summats with regard to millennial shamanism? Is everyone gulping down ayahuasca in those ...
God is a He because he wears the pants in His household. Or, his wife "fell down a set of stairs" after her kids were born and this has been kept a se...
Schadenfreude may emerge from a frustrating envy or a frustrating desire for retribution. There is an possible psychological connection between the tw...
The shaman is like the hunter-gatherer counterpart to the priest/medicine man of a more complex hierarchical society. Both might interpret dreams in p...
Topping the thread. One agent's undesired output is another agent's desired input. Symbionts, commensals and parasites are all relative qualifications...
Here's hoping that the separation of church state remains in religious folks' interest, insofar as they don't want to be subsumed/subordinate to the a...
The Quick End The child (non)hero, afflicted by a curse causa sui (?), comes to the threshold of the labyrinth of illusion, the temple of the 10,000 a...
I always like to hear such things from those who profess to believe. From the standpoint of Plumb's faith and or personal beliefs, are the Mormons hea...
Guessing you're not a pantheist, in which any agents of any pantheon could be representative/symbolic aspects of a divine unity. I got this quote from...
Ha! This inversion is interesting. The superheros as loved by the public are deeply corrupt figures who have a public persona (celebrity) geared towar...
Maybe your bugaboo is to be made by a parallel of social justice aspect of superheros and this somehow translates to a "dangerous" or misguided activi...
I've gone down the Captain Planet rabbit hole because of this thread. Damn 90s cartoons. They got me! I might now be further corrupted if I read/liste...
Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory (wikipedia) Even if the Frankfurt school could be blamed for whatever historical change one dislikes, there are man...
Is it wrong to ask you whether or not you believe in an afterlife given the statements you made in this thread and further that you'd characterize you...
Bimble dreamnt again, of the shadow that was the anathema of his waking life, and driving him toward a mythic dissolution. It took the form of a raven...
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