So Olga died accidentally, in the Indiana Jones style, and was abandoned conveniently in the Paris catacombs by these two tossers she was unlucky enou...
How often in history was the motivation for war to acquire resources on one side and to defend those resources on the other. If we go back to the cod ...
As with the oedipal scat catharses, geriatric exit dreams, sentient solipsistic planets, psychopathic murder suicides and other nightmares, it ain't a...
Isn't an alternative perspective permissible also, that belief is sufficient to bring all kinds of social constructions/facts/actions into existence? ...
We will be withholding information about the upcoming coronavirus epidemic so that business can happen as usual. Oops! Cat is out of the bag. The pass...
Well maybe we could shift to the notion to international human rights. This is something you may not agree with but if all human beings ought to have ...
Point taken. It is naively idealistic for sure and the realistic political motivation is never just about improving the lives of anyone. I've heard th...
We could get weirder in America. I propose a permanent flash theater mob of folk dressed up as Trump doing Trump like things. We will bath in the ener...
Stable relationships between species over time may include warfare/conflict or large acts of predation . Eusocial species, like ants, may develop mean...
There are probably plenty of occasions in evolutionary history where the overgrowth of a species occurs due to some kind of environmental accident, or...
If we were to believe that the North Korean peoples ought to be liberated and nations endeavored to do so, information of all kinds about the outside ...
Is the truth still owed even if it erodes free will? That the "truth is owed" becomes a pressing consideration for whoever can tell or withhold it, as...
Consider any organized structure, whether machine or organism, and its functions. In order to conserve that complex function/structure you have to pro...
Eating people could also form a collectively sanctioned rite, permissible under strict adherence to the cultural form.The Fore tribe of Papua New Guin...
Meister Eckhart, German Catholic (1260-1328), might as well compare to the Yogi or a Buddhist given the strangeness of his poetic mysticism around 'bi...
This has been said maybe a dozen times in this thread already. The heart wants what the heart wants: justice without the tyrannies of justice, free ma...
There could be a mystic interpretation of this quote which shatters the otherwise dull Christian rote literalist dogma. Meister Eckhart might've refer...
Wonder if Amazon (corporation) workers in anywhere in the world could get away with this, or is the labor monitoring so fine-tuned that it makes the p...
If only labor collaboration could be so unified in good faith and by fellowship. These practices are like the softest/benign version of a strike, whic...
There is no doubt that a lot of time spent waffling at the TPF is just another example of these "Spanish practices". Until the boss is allowed corpora...
Consider whether or not you, or the average person, is capable of vengeance. Can a single violent crime (ex. the rape of a loved one) initiate a feedb...
Anarchists/libertarians want to eat their cake and have it too. They always want justice in the absence of a formal system of justice. If everything w...
A deep tissue massage by Sophia then a long soak in a hot Roman bath with your favorite pig should be enough. What the Animals Paid (by Robert Bly) Th...
Javra's distinction of "power over" versus "power with" in terms of competition and collaboration is appropriate. There is just as much room for the e...
Still seems like a reductive conclusion, in light of the cool responses in this thread. Are you just saying the God concept is just another meme, like...
It's not part of a grand scientific narrative but you should see the blue carousel bird's courtship ritual. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zxJPQlFFT...
Fantastically concrete, it doesn't leave us scratching our heads. I might put myself in the cats paws and consider this place the moon. Do you have a ...
Just don't know what to make of it, thus the confusion. "I've died And you're talkin' to a ghost So be on your way, good sir As a favour to us both!" ...
Cannot find the poem at the end of that book but Google's AI gave a quoted snippet. Maybe that is it? "Like ancient Troy, our trenches lie in dust, Wh...
Perhaps Miss Nihilson has no sons, or daughters As it is sometimes God's trick to speak the power of names. May a hopeful union bring a new Sun up ove...
Yes, was kind of shocked by Dahl's sex comedy about a guy who wants to steal superior semen to sell to the needy. Guess they won't be assigning that o...
Dahl wrote My Uncle Oswald, a perverse sex comedy about the "greatest fornicator of all time". Apparently "snozzberry" was used as a euphemism for pen...
For someone who likes Krishnamurti and the I Ching, count yourself closer to the boundary of the weird. Now caste your yarrow sticks and be afraid of ...
A possible metaphor at the root of this post is closed and open structures in the universe and what that means in relationship to growth, adaptation o...
It has full coherence in the context of my personal experience. It is just an exaggeration of my worries in the mundane realm. One reality, two realit...
Often and recently what occurs in my dreams are supernormal stimului which refer directly to the normal everyday world, and just emerge out of interio...
But this is not true with respect to consensus reality. Also the physical world, which everybody would agree "exists" because it is self-evident, has ...
No one is reading the what is in the Lounge, let alone the forum to make that a concern, unless you want to fall into a conspiracy trap. Maybe it coul...
There is politics in the conservation/construction of any way of being, wherever there are priests and parishioners (politicians and the public) who a...
In Church the service is sometimes spiritless, rote, depressing, restrictive. You skip out and go to the movies to watch Euripedes', The Bacchae, to w...
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