Jim, Whilst attempting to gather together a few threads for the sake of making replies to your recent posts, I went in search of a poem by Rudyard Kipling,...
If we go extinct it will be the loss of sin. Perhaps the bible pounders see their extinction as the end of sin that is if they do not allow more sin in...
From the previously referenced website: • Does it matter if a species dies out? Why? • Would it matter if human beings died out? Why? Would it matter less...
Having left the list on several occasions, owing to my inability to convince readers here of the intellectually dishonest foundations of the quasi-sciences...
Mary, Your idea that contamination arises from communication was sufficiently intriguing to send me looking for clues in neighbouring posts. Two of Bill's...
What does the existential include? If self-definition is intrinsic to the journey, then a subjective belief in terrifying combustion as a response to...
Sunshine wonders how long this group has been here. Please read the introduction. We have defended this unpopular turf for many years. Arguments have been...
Limit. Aside from the 'love' usurpation of better words, an existential discussion concerning the limits of these supplanted words might include ethical use of...
Why is the adjective 'christian' prefaced to mind control? If you would like an existential text delineating the way love differs from affection, commitment,...
Louise, I certainly agree wholeheartedly with that statement of yours. Wherever I find true brotherly love, I shall gladly embrace it. Louise Tom Jefferson...
Louise, You write Just looking at the main body of your argument here, I would need first to acknowledge that I took a very broad-brush approach, in order to...
An explanation is in fact an easy thing once one has the confidence to offer it. Whether one will be believed or trusted is another matter. When in post 48918...
Gee, I know I can't swim, but still love the thought of plunging into the great ocean and reaching the shores of America. Is it really that bad, these...
All, The recent discussions on this forum suggest to me that American Existentialists view things very differently from British Existentialists. Mary and Bill...
On the theme of dishonesty, I note that in the flurry of posts on Friday I wrote: "My lack of belief in addiction, in mental affliction, leave me with no...
It is just time that intrefers. All you christians should know that the population bomb contradicts you. Their lust will outproduce your faith. Has Jim ever...
You wrote: "I realize that part of what you are saying here is a criticism of me for writing about love." In order for my post to be a criticism, I needed to...
Mario Puzo knew his Macheavelli. It is show down time on insurance reform. The hand in action may or may not be the one to counter. Obama was the lone...
There is hatred in the land because our characteristics leave us subservient, a particularly monstrous fate for an Imperial, freedom-loving people. Of course,...
So, it is true. I am an existentialist. And I had so been assuming that such was beyond my power. Firstly, my capacity to live up to my vision of right was...
That is because you understand what that riff was all about. You should apply for a doctorate but of course refuse to jump through any hoops. I have already...
I've been so busy posting replies today, I haven't had time to get down to what I really wanted to say. Does this description of love fall in the acceptable...
How true, how true. Smaller mountains (or bigger hills) seem to find us as we get older. Nobody said we can't move to another mountain or choose another stone...
Game playing is one thing, some seem to enjoy it. I just chased a cocoa puf outa my keyboard and that is about as playful as I get. When you can`t shut the...
Louise, Scotland has some nasty mountains but at our age they are not recommended. Knot might understand Camus and the inanity of life. Is useless, drugerous...
The uses to which video filming are put by the publicists and entrepreneurs of the burgeoning internet invite a resolutely non-moral response. Even objections...
To be a woman, and also a philosopher: on this point Nietzsche is silent. I acknowledge his mastery, his uniqueness. In all matters of practical guidance, I...
Remember Trinidad? He taught me nothing about racial politics and everything I didn't want to know about social supremacism. At least he was proudly...
