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No, you just contradicted yourself, and you still havent' shown why one has to make distinctions between the universe and its objects, and the earth a...

If that's true, then you were wrong when you said we shouldn't make distinctions between the oceans and their waves. Good to know.

Even if it was just a matter of practicality, and it isn't, you haven't shown why the separations I mentioned are any more practical to make than sepa...

If one can't make distinctions between the ocean and the waves within it, there's no reason to make a distinction between the Earth and the oceans and...

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Definitely. CNN, MSNBC and pretty much all MSM have become the dealers of stories where there "appears" to be something, or it "seems" to be the case....

No context is needed here. "Rational" is a human concept also applied to human behavior and is constantly changing in its definition. So, it can only ...

Here it is again, Banno. If you want to address it fine, If not, that's fine, too, but it certainly expands and expounds on what you wrote. Banno "An ...

A direct response to your post doesn't have to explain its relevance. If you can't see it's relevance, I can't help you.

Direct response to your post.

In our language games and in our language. And as Lacan points out, the value of our words within our language vary, so our varied placements and move...

But neither you nor anyone else can conceive what you are and what "you are" means without language.

And Banno reveals he's been a Post-structuralist all along.

Strange that you don't know the word "rational" encompasses and/or denotes more than mathematical physics and other such disciplines.

That's what it said. But if that's wrong, just explain how Kripke can say that any properties, including those that are called essential, can be remov...

I'll give it a shot, but for what Wikipedia's worth, it makes clear Kripke says the opposite of what you said, as--like Aquinas--he sees essences and ...

That kind of goes against the whole concept of "essence" and "essential," and definitely against Aquinas' view of the matter. How does he explain that...

There's not much of a significant difference here. The universe isn't rational; rational is a human concept. The universe is only guided by rules dict...

You seem to forget that Cornell, Cobain, and Bennington were far beyond a place where they could worry about what influence their actions have. None o...

I haven't seen it.

And practopia comes from utopia. So, I have the right word. And the phrase was actually "practical utopia.". Get the phrase right at least.

You actually said I'm hung up on the definition on the word "utopia" when we're discussing possible utopias. That's as ridiculous as saying one is hun...

Nobody told me that, it's a fact you have yet to counter. But feel free to show how something can be a utopia with some people happier than others.

A glaring prohibitive truth is not even close to a technicality.

And now you're quoting fortune cookies. You're adorable.

Yeah, that's stating the obvious. And that's completely irrelevant to what I said in my post.

So, you can't show how it applies to or supports your earlier use of quotes. Good to know. Have a good day. You and I are done here; I won't read anym...

Well, if it does, then show how. I'm not going to make your point for you. If you can't do so, we can just move on.

If you cannot establish that relevance, and you haven't, there's not much more I can do to help you.

Why do you ask?

Sing it, Adorno....:)

That's why a utopia is impossible, a functioning society cannot make everyone equally happy, and if everyone isn't equally happy, it's not a utopia.

Describing something agreeable to your words isnt' being "spot on;" its being replicative. And he didn't even do that. Why would you mistakenly conclu...

That's interesting, but I didn't address the reason why he isn't scared, but what he's scared of. Again, this doesn't really address what I said. I ap...

Goodbye, Rich. I'll let your rant on while I head to another thread.

Yeah, I bet you do.

So, you're going against the neurologists. Good luck with that one...:)

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What real field? I'm sorry, but Daoists dont' take precedence over neurologists in matters of memory.. And there are things in the brain, like the fro...

How is memory stored in quantum potential if the potential hasn't been realized yet? Memory has very specific locations where it exists primarily as e...

Sorry, a Russia expert's theory isn't evidence; it's a theory.

Sorry, that's like saying when you hear 5 children died in an orphanage that 25 lived. It may be a good thing, but 5 still died. Unlike you, I include...

I got you, but the problem with the article is we're not even sure how Putin has profited yet. There has been little revelation or exposure of any sub...

You're right. That's why you're absolutely wrong when you say the realities of our physical world supports the existence of reincarnation. They don't....

I wasn't trying to be corrective, just informative...:) The hard split in ideology and politics between Centrists and progressives is a new phenomenon...

Vanity Fair isnt' a leftist rag. It's a centrist rag that was firmly behind Hillary during the election and punched left by attacking Sanders.

Yes this life is fantastic, but it is fantastic within the rules of physics and recorded phenomena. Neither accounts for reincarnation. So believe in ...

No, the funny thing is he wasn't spot on at all, as I never said the name for a thing is necessarily the same as the thing. Your and Cuthbert's proble...

The big question is what is he scared of. Few doubt that he has had sketchy dealings with Russia and probably many other countries. But if that's all ...

Of course it reads that way, and your failure to show how it doesn't after I showed it does helps prove it. The fact you continue to fail to actually ...