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Wine and blood (redness), part of the Dionysian inventory, convey the violence of necessary facts of life, consuming what releases you momentarily fro...
October 08, 2017 at 18:51
It's not odd at all. It's as odd as metaphor or analogy which becomes standardized (all too familiar). What is hot (trending) right now? Damn, you fol...
October 08, 2017 at 17:57
Werner Heisenberg was speeding in Death Valley when a car pulls up to match his velocity and rolls down a window. The driver yells "Excuse me sir, I s...
October 08, 2017 at 17:41
The most intimate nouns are gendered. Man has a penis. Woman has a vagina. These things become analogical/metaphorical scheme by which we try to appre...
October 08, 2017 at 16:47
Objectness is a set of syntactical accidents that precede essence. Essence (re)adapts syntactical precedence toward a simulated objectness. Functional...
October 07, 2017 at 22:25
Someone asks Wittgenstein about the aim of his philosophy. He laughs and says : 'To show the fly the way out of its fly bottle.' Someone asks Spider a...
October 07, 2017 at 18:43
"Philosophy is dead. " A joke by Stephen Hawking. Obviously, "what is dead may never die." 'Consciousness is an illusion.' A joke (with props) by Dani...
October 06, 2017 at 18:32
We're here to negligibly increase the rate of entropy. This is not a joke.
October 05, 2017 at 18:58
Juvenile in the sense of a tyrant who holds to the power to destroy folks in genocidal acts of war or commit political blunders with grave consequence...
October 04, 2017 at 18:57
Boys tend to be more naturally game oriented and build a hierarchy from coordinating in a larger group than girls. Ribbing (endless teasing, after pub...
October 03, 2017 at 18:26
I'm spent and resigned but my body still breathes for me. I'm inspired by the anxious promise and fears (the apprehension) of degradation, poverty, il...
October 01, 2017 at 18:17
One could discuss the probability of self-replicators in Conway's Game of Life with more certainty (or not...). How many random starting configuration...
September 30, 2017 at 17:46
I'm not sure what the problem is exactly. Maybe someone could state it in a single sentence for us cognitive plebeians. Intelligent design just gives ...
September 29, 2017 at 18:42
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-physics-theory-of-life/ Apokrisis has been going around saying our impulse to order here is to dissip...
September 28, 2017 at 18:27
Don't scatter pearls before swine. Adorn your pigs with pearls and lipstick and take them to the fair. Trade your pigs for pearls. Throw a Luau. Bugge...
September 23, 2017 at 18:07
Pull the trigger bro. Punch a Draconic Metaphor much? It ain't like punching Nazis. Bruce Lee has nothing on me.
September 22, 2017 at 18:16
I'm the great metaphorical Dragon that has eaten your father and is hoarding the Golden Girls. If you would die for Sophia, come and defeat me. I also...
September 22, 2017 at 17:53
Given that will is about the deliberation (thinking) in concert with desire, those desires figure in to purposeful (and automatic) striving and partia...
September 19, 2017 at 18:08
Philosophers dispel and disenchant one second and then they conjure and reenchant the next. Just read a few threads to glean the absurdity that magic ...
September 18, 2017 at 19:08
The last quoted sentence does make sense in a way because the physical underpinning of whatever is willed at any moment changes. Desires change based ...
September 18, 2017 at 00:05
This is a suspicious claim, unless your saying it is necessary or good to believe it. What is the implication of having absolute power over intention ...
September 17, 2017 at 17:56
Now synthesize from Huygens wave theory and Maslow's hiearchy of needs the newly preferred abstract metaprosthetic. Huygen and Maslow's wave theory of...
September 17, 2017 at 17:10
Don't tell Hanover. He'll unbuckle his belt and start swinging disappointment like the conservative father you never had. How does one go from being o...
September 17, 2017 at 07:51
It's about the resentment that folks have for an unfair distribution of traits. The ridiculously good looking are the same as the ridiculously ugly in...
September 16, 2017 at 18:20
Suppose we believe that being alive is good in most circumstances. As it goes with natural selection, there are very few ways of being alive than ther...
September 13, 2017 at 17:10
Maybe sometimes what is "good" is achieved by a collective lie. The good is relative to subjective and communal perspectives. It is good that the USD ...
September 12, 2017 at 17:17
https://i.imgur.com/xcEprFV.jpg Emile Bin's Hamadryad *** Hans Rudi Giger's art amplifies disgust and terror of technology as a projected onto the nat...
September 11, 2017 at 18:56
Praxis' testosterone went down when he lost the status conferred by having the accepted answer. Now he is seeking to displace his aggression to recoup...
September 08, 2017 at 18:54
Just read a passage from Robert Sapolsky's new book, Behave, about honor cultures of today evolving out of the savagery of pastoralism (possibly the e...
September 05, 2017 at 17:34
The effectiveness of re-tooling or exploiting belief to make money is just a fact of human behavior (innovation satisfying basic needs, doing what wor...
September 03, 2017 at 17:36
Haber process (nitrogen fixation) behind the combustion engine. Article: https://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/86/8633cover3box2.html Legumes (see crop ...
September 03, 2017 at 17:06
Just inflate the operating metaphor of propagation without poetic shame. Every act is an act of bearing children (replication of acts). To be is to pr...
September 02, 2017 at 18:48
An efficient use and a more equal distribution of very basic local resources. Two old farts next door not farming their farmland, mowing because peopl...
September 02, 2017 at 18:06
Trump believes in faux gilded stuff, Russian autocrats and Alex Jones narratives. I don't know enough about domestic and international problems, histo...
September 01, 2017 at 17:22
The most distant end of the future is supposed to be timeless with regard to a high state entropy. There is a flavor of non-linear time in the experie...
August 30, 2017 at 18:00
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August 29, 2017 at 17:37
Flee from this place. These decadent armchair windbags will be your downfall (or consummate marriage).
August 28, 2017 at 18:29
"There is no inktellectual exercise that is not ultimately useless." This is a variant of a Borges quote shelved somewhere in his universal library. I...
August 27, 2017 at 17:18
Mircea Eliade's work might be worth exploring. He tries to articulate the difference between our modern linear conception of time and mythic (cyclic) ...
August 26, 2017 at 18:37
I want one of them to walk away from the fight and disappoint those who would be disappointed by it. I'm rooting for whoever is a disappointment or a ...
August 25, 2017 at 22:44
Displacement aggression is such a relief. I have to displace the pissing off by pissing off something else.
August 25, 2017 at 19:04
This is the premise of a short story by J.L Borges, The Secret Miracle. Hladik spends a paralyzed year of time (a suspended moment of subjective time)...
August 25, 2017 at 17:57
"It is what it is" is but a shadow, a poor truism That appears and is judged upon this forum And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by a mind, f...
August 24, 2017 at 18:37
If your other hobbie (career) is sourced in some kind of exploitation (ex. selling over priced diamonds or commemorative coins on QVC, sex trafficking...
August 23, 2017 at 18:07
Yeah, well, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Duh.
August 23, 2017 at 03:55
Your reply is insufficient but it is what it is. It could've been other than what it was.
August 22, 2017 at 19:16
Everything happens for a reason. Say what you will about it, but it is what it is.
August 22, 2017 at 19:03
Don't forget about divisions of Eros as conveyed in personified deities. Pothos (Sehnsucht), desire for the dead or missing, a lack, the unobtainable,...
August 21, 2017 at 18:54
I guess the following is just about affective realism... Perhaps the Pieta was associated with warmth in Cavacava's memory because it was inside a war...
August 21, 2017 at 18:41