Trinidad. I have always thought Jahaad is Islams answer to overpopulation. The rigorous desert environment allows very little margin for extra people to...
I have intentionally tried to relate WW2 to this present experience. As before Burns racks the memory with the emotions of forgotten shocks. As I was...
"Move on" is digging in. The blacks shut down a southern town with non violent demonstration. We are not used to reading left leaning news. We certainly are...
I want every member here to feel free to participate, without fear of being belittled, whilst vigorous and good-natured argument may go forward, to some...
I remember the stark contrast between the student body of my sort and the eccentricks in what was loosely deemed humanities. We wore ties and shoes while they...
Bill, I like your two posts about writing. I agree that writing is cathartic, and that the discipline of writing our thoughts down and publishing them in a...
Bill, I went to bed, and rose again, headache preventing sleep. Signs are good, I agree. Preparing to fight the good fight, however the words get tired, am...
As cold as Trinidads assertion of the futility of writing I must concede that as a mortal being in a terminal cosmos , he is correct. Our writings will not...
I need help with some quick questions 1. How is Jaspers different and same from Sartre and Heidegger? 2. What is Jaspers's term Existenz different from the...
I think people still believe that it makes a difference what a man writes. It actually does not. The empty page is just a place to arrange a pre-arranged...
Csw, Most of us were. I caught it from the celts conqured by the legions. I do not know if my progenitors lived under Roman rule but I bet they didn`t like...
I liked Barnouski and he led me out of the mysticism of Teihard. Neither of whom are as smart as Patreus. I am glad he is our point man. The hearings were...
I believe that Bertrend Russel is a philosopher who should be read for guidance,partucularly his history of Western Philosophy. For social relationships and...
I dont know all about all things but I think they are against tattoing / dying and other things that change your color. Black Beards beard was colored by...
Wil, Please excuse my bar room style, I wish to relate that terrorist skum to prior pirate scum. It seems Osama flared a grecian formula,barbarosa. Black...
Im think it natural to study the philosopher who demonstrates the better aspects of the life you lead. It is possible to be a Zen Buddist in the west but it...
Yeah, by the way, the recent post that failed to make it through the murky aether, was all about language, how our words deceive us readily, the whole French...
I have been thinking about philosophers in general - for instance Karl Marx many try to say that the later Marx is the true Marx rather than the early Marx in...
I suppose I really will continue to speed read Azia. She just provides little information, just doing what she is told. Just following orders.You buttinskys...
Aija, I just heard Osama has announced a new tape for the American people. We are to be threatened in the usual ways. Would you protect him like the turk...
I think near extinction events are learned responses for humans. The human species, probably one of the more dangerous life forms in the cosmos, seems to have...
Jim, You and I have apparently lived through very different indoctrinations. The military exposed me to what I considered torture techniques. I refused to...
Trinidad (#42086): The arguments are not about superior morals or ethics, just more robust and vibrant humans. Trinidad (#42104): Perhaps the only vanity...
My wife is a sociologist by education. I recognise liberal social theory. Jim is selling that worn old crap as his contribution to existentialism. I do not...
