erhaps you're right, what is there to debate about? After all, philosophy is not religion in the sense that with my beliefs I have to live according to an...
f course people can and do live "evil" lives out of rational motives...one only need look at that particularly American phenomenon, the serial killer, to see ...
f anyone is interested in participating, I've posted a date/time for a group chat. Remember the time stated is Greenwich Mean Time (6 hours later than Central...
posted it on the calendar, but now that I did I'm not certain that it can be viewed by all (maybe you can check your calendar and see if anything shows up). In...
've changed the times on the club calendar to reflect Central Standard Time, so please be aware of that. The scheduled chat for next week remains the same (2P...
F YOU ARE ABLE TO DO SO...I'm not sure if the silence is still due to a Yahoo glitch or if people have lost their tongues (or fingers, as the case may...
erhaps we're all waiting for the chat on Thursday, and that's why we're not saying much. I hope I can make it, but I might be out at work. I haven't been...
t all comes round to Nietzsche again. What Nietzsche says in the section On Peoples and Fatherlands in BGE is excessively crude, but sometimes quite ...
t's bit filthy, but you can alsways delete it if you think it's unsuitable. Here goes:-<br>Father Murphy was ill, so young Father O'Leary had to take over for...
ey there fellow philosophers, intellectuals, visionaries, idealists & dreamers... What's happening? Am I late? Did i miss the trolley? Oh well.... let it...
n perrito, I saw your name pop up in the chat room when I was in there, but for some reason (probably one of those ever-frequent Yahoo glitches) we weren't...
've just come home, at 21.00, and had a look hoping to have a chat. Thanks for the message, anyway, it stops me wasting my time and phone bill. I''l just have...
hen I had to get a Prescription filled at the drugstore, and they took forever and when I got home, it was too late.<br><br>Pobre perrito triste, dejame...
'm fascinated on what Nietzsche says on power and its direct relationship with social equality.<br>Quanta of power seems to depend on personal assets, cash,...
exual attractiveness is another factor, that egalitarians often fail to consider. Hard to see how political action could change this, except by puritanical...
he very worst discrimination in any society is against the ugly, the too fat, the too short, or too scrawny, the stupid and the insane. And it will always be ...
egislating against discrimination is like legislating against fear. It can be attempted, but it is not really viable and the result is always nonsense, as ...
ay your dues, earn your keep, or stay out because I don't fancy your smell or like your looks.<br><br>This is a bad thing, most likely.<br><br>Second: I have ...
ell now, of course I am glad you can tell Cabernet Sauvignon from dog smells and also that you are aware of the many meanings of the word. I agree with all...
s Americans, we are imbued from youth with the notion of equality for all, "all men are created equal" etc, ad nauseum, and as such the American mind in ...
he relief of obvious distress ought to be separable from the abysmally depressing dogma that everyone ought to get the same out of life as everyone else. ...
he all men are created equal bit really means that all men have the same rights before the law as a precondition. This is opposed to the concept that some...
ead De Tocqueville to see how your American concept of equality has far reaching implications far beyond that simple republican legal point. Republicanism hs a...
ecause in the US, all churches are open to the public, so far as I know, with very few exceptions (i.e. the Mormon Tabernacle, Hassidic Synagogues). <br><br>I...
