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According to Pew Research, about 3% identified themselves as atheist in 2014, so I imagine that antitheists (opposed to religion) must be less than 1%...

The first palindromic haiku: I deified Hannah Spat nuts on a tit, aha Hannah deified I

I don’t see what you’re saying. Can you give examples that illustrate this difference? The US is not anti-theist or anti-atheist, though it contains c...

The fight scene is a perfect metaphor for this topic, folks fighting with NOS to put the ideology critique glasses on his face. https://www.youtube.co...

Pretty much the same story for me and I actually really like Watts. His ideas were ‘off-the-rack’ but he had charisma and was an excellent preacher ma...

Shame that he couldn’t loosen his grip on the bottle.

You seemed to be claiming that the US struggles to recognize the difference between ‘freedom of’ and ‘freedom from’ religion. The separation of church...

No, simply because ideology is required to hold a state together.

How is it hard? Can you give an example? The separation of church and state is a good thing if you believe that citizens should have religious freedom...

It may be the only alternative for some people. It is certainly not the only alternative for everyone.

Then you’re against religious freedom?

How does the US struggle to recognize the distinction? The US is not an anti-religious state. Neither the Bible nor books by Richard Dawkins are banne...

Strangers asking for directions in the street and co-workers passing pens to each other across the room are examples of incorporating markets into wid...

And in contemporary societies?

I was wondering if you or anyone else would give examples of incorporating markets into wider circuits of social life.

I’m curious about this community. Some island, I assume, but where??? Btw, states have always had a tendency to take over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiMLJAZajxg

By George I think you’ve got it!

It’s like when a beautiful person enters a room, people can’t help but look. We are, to phrase it in the refined speech of an American, the shit.

The heavy-duty fire resistant pants are made to fit over regular clothing, and therefore tend to be loose at the waist to allow them to slip into them...

Another from Reader's Digest:

Finished The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende today. The two Daughter of Fortune sequels before that.

My mom always had copies of the Reader’s Digest in the downstairs bathroom when I was growing up. Probably read it there while doing my business and i...

It works out because we belong to the same institution. The game of chess has its own tiny reality, with driving goals, rules, a playing field, etc. T...

You know what they call a British woman who uses an ancient Egyptian condom? Mum’y.

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Praxis is a classy sans-serif. https://cdn.myfonts.net/cdn-cgi/image/width=1440,height=720,fit=contain,format=auto/images/pim/10000/198926_ddb9f76b39c...

I think the trouble I’m having is that I don’t think that words lock onto the world around us (objective idealism?) but lock onto our mental represent...

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It’s not magic but simply lack of experience or honesty. Mere words can flatten the earth. Maybe true brute facts are our own experiences.

I should have time to watch it this weekend so I’ll be the judge. :chin:

Nope, but I did read a Russian sci-fi last year called Roadside Picnic. Baden mentioned reading it somewhere and I thought that if he were reading it ...

I assume you mean because it has been previously identified and we can re-cognize it.

Good question. I'll do the math. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/69/1a/13/691a1323df0f5e4ed496fc67f1ce47d0--physics-formulas-quantum-mechanics.jpg :chin: Th...

I don't think we can identify something without distinguishing it from what it's not, and even then the same thing could be identified differently dep...

Doesn’t but does exist… maybe you mean that something exists, like quantum particles for instance, but how are those particles distinguished from othe...

The concept of paper exists without people?

But we still need to agree on brute facts. I may doubt my own experiences but in the absence of others there’s no one to agree or disagree with. Indee...

The more you think about it the more it seems that, besides our own experiences, all fact are social or institutional (patterns of organization) facts...

I want to group premodern with postmodern. That would be wild! :starstruck:

Doesn’t everything have a status? This piece counts as a bishop in chess. This cord counts as a leash in walking. A circle counts as a o in English. A...

There are of course modern concepts of perception and they continue to develop as we learn more about the world and ourselves. It's unclear what you m...

Starting from impressionism the progression was basically > post-impressionism > cubism. If you're saying there's a "new theory" behind each of these ...

I was thinking how language is unnecessary for we-intentionality. For example, my dog and I both have mental representations of ‘going for a walk’, th...

I don’t think it matters at all if you were conscious. We lose consciousness all the time and still manage to retain our identity. A more interesting ...

And Putin gave the order, “Nuke the fuckers.”

I’m skeptical if even the Neitch himself could do that to everyone’s satisfaction. I also suspect that may be by design. Of course art is related to a...

I still don’t know what his theory of art is. Can you explain it? Regarding aesthetics, people have been having sublime aesthetic experiences and tran...

??? I never said he was unoriginal.

I sincerely hope not.