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This sounds conspiratorial as if it was a project of planned intent rather than a historical accident of the spread of ideas. The complexity of factor...
October 23, 2020 at 16:29
So is this thread really about advocating for belief in the monotheistic God of Roman Catholicism, or any comparable Christian faith? Maybe Christian ...
October 22, 2020 at 16:57
There are way too many documentaries to watch. :meh: Just as there are way too many KitKats to eat. Ignorance is still bliss. The Rotten series on Net...
October 22, 2020 at 02:01
What about the eyes in the peacocks tail? You don't think they use the tail to scare away predators. And do male peacocks sit on eggs? How much "provi...
October 17, 2020 at 18:49
Another word from Herbert's Dune, suborn, means to induce or bribe someone to commit an unlawful act . A more legal definition: suborn means to bribe ...
October 15, 2020 at 19:06
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZgbol-QXo8&list=PLqqt6eDhR17a2_aj2xPYLQTdwlz7D6pzj&index=12 Live as you like Everybody dies Pray if you must But try ...
October 15, 2020 at 18:05
Seems like Penrose has contributed, via studying these patterns, to further discovery (et al like Steinhardt and Levine) of the unique properties of q...
October 13, 2020 at 19:15
Yes, please, Longjing or Russian Caravan tea in either the conservatory or in the dinning room. How does the water get routed/directed from the side o...
October 10, 2020 at 18:22
Humans suffer from a negativity bias which helps organisms to survive in nature by paying attention to threats. This is a considerable source of rumin...
October 07, 2020 at 17:18
Has Noble Dust finally left the thread(?)... I regret posting here to the diminishment of anyone's pleasure. :cry: It's therapeutic if also self-indul...
October 06, 2020 at 19:29
The basic fact though is organisms use up scarce resources to sustain themselves and that this adaptive functionality is mediated by genes through nat...
October 04, 2020 at 14:53
Posting under the influence of alcohol or some other mood altering substance.
October 04, 2020 at 14:27
But you still are trashing threads no doubt due to your anger. Are you PUI?
October 03, 2020 at 22:47
Genes are selfish like dogs are selfish. To call a dog selfish is an analogy because a dog has no self to conserve. :sad:
October 03, 2020 at 19:22
The problem with a collection of self-interested persons or self-conserving structures is that they always seek to conserve their local environments a...
October 03, 2020 at 16:51
They were persecuted but then it appears with this Edict of Thessonalike, that the state began persecuting in the name of Christianity. This violence ...
October 02, 2020 at 04:11
What are you worried about and why are you voicing your disgust? What word ought one to post? Teach your readers a new word. Noblisse oblige. No argum...
October 01, 2020 at 17:41
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Jerzey Flight wasn't a drama lama. He was a drama unicorn fighting on behalf of us invertebrates and lesser mammals. He luckily escaped God's chosen m...
September 30, 2020 at 04:31
The inveterate masturbations of a pseudo philosopher are still pleasurable even though they might impede growth and development conferred by pursuing ...
September 29, 2020 at 18:55
An obituary for the archetype of philosophical Cynicism, Diogenes of Sinope, might be quite fun. But that would take a bit of research. I'd like to li...
September 25, 2020 at 19:49
Is a perennial meaning that which is intelligible (or valuable or good) by virtue of participation in perennial forms? Mircea Eliade had this notion o...
September 25, 2020 at 17:47
May God and other inherited stupidities cease to contaminate impressionable young minds. Amen. Now that "God" has been swept away as irrelevant, folks...
September 24, 2020 at 23:50
Lamarch and JF are impressive, eloquent, and dramatic characters. Egoists or polemicists for good or ill. Worthy of an epic adventure. The metaphysics...
September 24, 2020 at 19:12
?, ?, ?.... TPF coins. The wretched of the wretched are still captivated with the joy of finding pennies on the title page. Someone must've seen a ?. ...
September 23, 2020 at 19:24
At this point there is no longer any need of discussion (a deficiency). Sounds like a version of union with the universal soul in stillness, as in lin...
September 22, 2020 at 17:39
The consort of the precursor of Yahweh in the Caananite pantheon was Asherah. Guess he couldn't deal with her cramping his style. Not that this answer...
September 21, 2020 at 07:31
I think JerzeyFlight ought to be a character in this world but only if he could do the meaningless, inane, work of writing himself into it. He ought t...
September 18, 2020 at 17:37
What is your central paragraph saying? As far as my reading of it, if you omitted it, nothing would be lost. One can guess why Anton Levay decided to ...
September 15, 2020 at 18:23
Don't discount the mythical (and or ritualistic) component of the story of a dying and resurrecting god. The gospels are stories and not primary sourc...
September 15, 2020 at 02:10
The basic problem was that there was a water tapping noise within one of the gutters. So there maybe some debris inside the vertical gutter I can't ac...
September 14, 2020 at 05:32
Suppose you had to go to a "Christian" church, to be a part of any fold (community) per se. Which denomination would you choose? Suppose you had to be...
September 14, 2020 at 02:52
September 13, 2020 at 20:17
Smithsonian Magazine: True Colors, by Matthew Gurewitsch Teeth are important these days for the sake of making an impression. Show up to class with a ...
September 12, 2020 at 23:14
It's hard to rationalize those choices in your scenario, especially if we multiplied actual life- scenarios . One might see the future unchangeable du...
September 09, 2020 at 18:39
How to you explain greater legacy as a consequence of dying sooner? How would the length of one's life have anything to do with "legacy?" Does it rela...
September 09, 2020 at 18:11
:strong: :cool: We'll see what I can whip up.
September 08, 2020 at 22:25
It's All Connected:What links creativity, conspiracy theories, and delusions? A phenomenon called apophenia. Good read.
September 08, 2020 at 18:45
Too bad for the robots then. Those dummies, whoever they are.
September 07, 2020 at 18:43
Ironic coming from an entity with the name RogueAI.
September 07, 2020 at 18:10
That's dark and elegant Noble Dust. A shot in the dark. Who is that standing in the Dust, that guy from the Tarkovsky film Stalker, or the Writer, and...
September 07, 2020 at 17:39
Keep going. :party:
September 07, 2020 at 17:15
Curious axiom. Why not, "As Westward, so Eastward." The polarity of up and down was pretty straightforward because when you look down you see your fee...
September 06, 2020 at 15:51
ugh
September 06, 2020 at 02:26
Donning hose or doffing hose?
September 05, 2020 at 14:52
As to Hanover's "brand of" that he found, what difference does it make to be punished for one's own sin versus the sin of one's parents? Who is decidi...
September 05, 2020 at 12:55
Crazy but the world is insane now, so I wouldn't knock him for it. Too much Augustinian splooge to clean up to worry much I guess.
September 05, 2020 at 06:40
NVM
September 05, 2020 at 06:28
It refers to the sin you inherit from your father and mother, which is the condition of being someone distinct rather than no one distinct.
September 05, 2020 at 01:59
I'd like to know what J. Peterson thinks about the works of Rene Girard, another thinker that intellectual conservatives/Christians love. Girard attri...
September 04, 2020 at 15:44
:death:
September 03, 2020 at 15:51