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An Ukrainian drone fell down in Croatia. One theory is that it was intended for Yarun, Ukraine, but that the navigators might have been using Google M...

But you've been examining this scheme for years ... And to what effect? I think of this: You're conjecturing about topics that fall into the category ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

If by "discipline", you mean something like a 'systematic effort', then yes. A burden only the willing shoulder. It's kind of silly to sit next to the...

It's an idiom. https://www.yourdictionary.com/eat-drink-and-be-merry The afore-mentioned assumption is that people should do things that they enjoy, t...

That wasn't grand, that was underhanded.

Or maybe the widely held and tabooed assumption that life is for eating, drinking, and making merry, is not justified.

Or maybe the US is just waiting to make a grand entrance and be the one who gets declared the victor? Bad faith always wins. Always.

Democracy comes with a price. Only under a dictator would civilians be innocent. Under a democratically elected leader, they are all accountable.

Hardly a new attitude in the human scope. In the discourse of this recent crisis there is plenty of textbook cases of psychological defense mechanisms...

Which was the native language of neither of them? I imagine that Pilate, in his official capacity as a Roman governor, would speak Latin and that he w...

Then you need to check out the actual doctrines of those religions that teach eternal damnation. Such as study the Catechism of the RCC, Islamic doctr...

Regarding this Z business: Why would people who normally write in the Cyrillic script use the Latin one?

Most people who consider themselves Christians don't read the Bible, or at least not much.

Such is democracy. One must bend to the dictates of those who have been elected into positions of power. And they say the Talibans are imposing restri...

That's just it: you don't give respect to begin with. You have the attitude that others should make the first step, others should take responsibility ...

See, this is exactly why I don't want to get together with you: your bad faith in relation to other people, your readiness to quickly assume the worst...

The theme of this thread is solidarity, but above, you're talking about different settings, where some of them have a category of relating to other pe...

Rather, the love of comfort and convenience.

Yet we can see that every right, every privilege that was won through a revolution is eventually taken away from people, usually indirectly. For examp...

If this is how you think about it, then it's no wonder you don't feel motivated to get together with others, and also why others might not be particul...

No, it's the lack of a realistic goal, and people being less or more aware of this. Many "collaborations" have as their goal an utopia. And I'm not ma...

If anything, the "deconstruction of self" is a means to an end, namely, to nirvana, the complete cessation of suffering.

This is a bit tricky ... There is a lot of literature written about what @"Possibility" is talking about. But if one isn't familiar with it, it's very...

Earlier in the thread, a poster was especially displeased by our suggestion that he is at all times, basically, acting out of boredom. I wondered then...

I'm having the impression that Possibility is actually getting at the constructed nature of selfhood/identity, saying things like this: The idea in th...

Whatever management seminar you were at where they teach all that about "awareness, connection, and collaboration" ... Collaboration can only take pla...

Yes. Boredom has a bad reputation, and people generally don't think of it in terms of suffering. In fact, it seems perverse to think of boredom as kin...

“A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land: The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it th...

Seeing how the world works, the nature of the workings of the world, and that those cannot be changed.

Is it truly aporia, or is it a case of finding oneself in a socioeconomic situation where one "far behind others"? There is a difference between apori...

Of course, if they can become successful capitalists (to whatever extent that is possible for them, given their socioeconomic status), then they are i...

Or the other side does it. Or maybe they even already did it. I actually don't know whether to prepare for planting season or not.

Said pop culture misses the point. Psychology and psychiatry work in favor of capitalism. Capitalism wants people to focus on themselves, isolated fro...

No, but the system has to be taken on an individual level. It's what "consumers" -- every individual person can do. In order to bring down capitalism ...

But we're not all that distant from the battleground. If they throw the a-bomb, I am close enough to be affected. I can forget about growing fruits an...

The bigger picture of all this is that the world cannot go on living in the exploitative ways it has so far. The idea of infinite economic growth is n...

But the Ukrainians want a first-world lifestyle. This is not realistic, it's not environmentally sustainable, not even for the so-called first-world c...

To which they have never been truly accepted to begin with.

Or may make it function well, just not at the elite level at which Western countries aspire to be. In the long run, this may actually be better, and e...

I think this also has to do with what I call "modern city people". I live in a rural area that is rapidly undergoing suburbanization and gentrificatio...

It only takes one freeloader, one person who doesn't want this brotherhood of men, and the whole project collapses.

They're not against it as long as they are the ones doing the killing.

But this independence starts in one's mind. Meaning, cease giving so much of one's precious time to foreign sources for mental engagement. Such as, if...

And in the first world as well. The only difference between dying slowly from overwork exhaustion and poverty (as is the fate of more and more people ...

*sigh* That's what I'm talking about. So many people simply refuse to look at the matter from Russia's perspective. In fact, they refuse to acknowledg...

Democarcy comes with a cost. Everyone is responsible. Nobody is innocent.

And the NY Times etc. think that the Russian government hasn't taken this into consideration? Does nobody play chess? In chess, in order to win, one h...

*sigh* Why is the notion of "protecing your own country" so hard to understand when it is applied to Russia?

What else? Human existence is a mixed bag, and living on a planet where resources are scarce and relatively hard to obtain, this mixed bag is all it c...