Wine and blood (redness), part of the Dionysian inventory, convey the violence of necessary facts of life, consuming what releases you momentarily fro...
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...
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...
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...
Objectness is a set of syntactical accidents that precede essence. Essence (re)adapts syntactical precedence toward a simulated objectness. Functional...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
One could discuss the probability of self-replicators in Conway's Game of Life with more certainty (or not...). How many random starting configuration...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Given that will is about the deliberation (thinking) in concert with desire, those desires figure in to purposeful (and automatic) striving and partia...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Now synthesize from Huygens wave theory and Maslow's hiearchy of needs the newly preferred abstract metaprosthetic. Huygen and Maslow's wave theory of...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Haber process (nitrogen fixation) behind the combustion engine. Article: https://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/86/8633cover3box2.html Legumes (see crop ...
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...
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...
Trump believes in faux gilded stuff, Russian autocrats and Alex Jones narratives. I don't know enough about domestic and international problems, histo...
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...
"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...
Mircea Eliade's work might be worth exploring. He tries to articulate the difference between our modern linear conception of time and mythic (cyclic) ...
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 ...
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)...
"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...
If your other hobbie (career) is sourced in some kind of exploitation (ex. selling over priced diamonds or commemorative coins on QVC, sex trafficking...
Don't forget about divisions of Eros as conveyed in personified deities. Pothos (Sehnsucht), desire for the dead or missing, a lack, the unobtainable,...
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...
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