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...
So is this thread really about advocating for belief in the monotheistic God of Roman Catholicism, or any comparable Christian faith? Maybe Christian ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Seems like Penrose has contributed, via studying these patterns, to further discovery (et al like Steinhardt and Levine) of the unique properties of q...
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...
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...
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...
The basic fact though is organisms use up scarce resources to sustain themselves and that this adaptive functionality is mediated by genes through nat...
The problem with a collection of self-interested persons or self-conserving structures is that they always seek to conserve their local environments a...
They were persecuted but then it appears with this Edict of Thessonalike, that the state began persecuting in the name of Christianity. This violence ...
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...
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...
The inveterate masturbations of a pseudo philosopher are still pleasurable even though they might impede growth and development conferred by pursuing ...
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...
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...
May God and other inherited stupidities cease to contaminate impressionable young minds. Amen. Now that "God" has been swept away as irrelevant, folks...
Lamarch and JF are impressive, eloquent, and dramatic characters. Egoists or polemicists for good or ill. Worthy of an epic adventure. The metaphysics...
?, ?, ?.... 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 ?. ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
It's hard to rationalize those choices in your scenario, especially if we multiplied actual life- scenarios . One might see the future unchangeable du...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I'd like to know what J. Peterson thinks about the works of Rene Girard, another thinker that intellectual conservatives/Christians love. Girard attri...
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