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Philosophy & Meaning

Nov 1, 2023Nov 2023

Posted by Paganpaddy

Joi de vie Joi de vie slips through my hands like grains of sand. Life gets tough when everything is bland. Modern society endurance contest. No prize at the end, just the privilege of having a run. We all have things that help us endure. Venial ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Nov 1, 2023Nov 2023

Posted by FvckY0u

Does time sometimes seem ubiquitous?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 31, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by snytiger6

LINKStephen Fry Passionately Argues the Catholic Church is NOT a Force for Good | Intelligence Squared - YouTube

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 31, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by snytiger6

Things are not always as they seem...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 31, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by snytiger6

Religions survive because...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 29, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by puff

Netanyahu called Palestinians "Amalekites", which I had to look up: "The Amalekites were a people of the Negev and adjoining desert that were a hereditary enemy of Israel from wilderness times to the early monarchy. Amalek, a son of Esau's son ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 29, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by puff

POLLDoes the UN need reforming? The UN needs reforming is the call from Africa and I totally agree. The power of veto has to go. This became very clear to me with the 51 missiles which were sent into Syria by the UK, France and the US after an alleged ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 28, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

>>>> Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 25, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by puff

Poor boy pmsl

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 25, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by snytiger6

Hate has caused a lot of problems...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 24, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

Here is a typical text written by a white supremacist: "Everything we have before us today in the way of human civilization, the products of art, science and technology, is almost exclusively the fruit of the creative activity of the Aryans. This ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 22, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by snytiger6

An evil man will...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 22, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

"Postcolonial studies" is the name of a discipline that has become enormously popular at American universities in recent years, not without irony because the era of colonialism ended in the 1960s and apartheid was abolished in South Africa in the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 20, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by puff

I hope people understand how serious this is. "Meme-maker Douglass Mackey was sentenced in New York criminal court on Wednesday after a March conviction for conspiracy against rights, ie election interference, over memes he created during the 2016 ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 20, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by puff

If you like sarcasm, this guy is oozing it. Piers Morgan is his usual buffoon self. Overall entertaining. I have also heard from other sources about a possible outcome (by design?) being to push Palestinians out of Gaza and into the Sinai into ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 19, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by Jolanta

Storms make oaks take deeper roots. George Herbert.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 17, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by puff

Over the weekend Australia held a referendum which failed to pass. The referendum proposed that a permanent body be formed, to be enshrined in our constitution, that would allow our indigenous population to have direct access to our parliament so ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 17, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by puff

Interesting interview with one who has lived the history of the creation of Israel. An interview recorded 2 years ago, quite relevant today. "It's not what you know, it's what you could know if you wanted to find out" Talking about Israel and Gaza....

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 15, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by FvckY0u

Your comparison between Jesus Christ and Nikola Tesla is intriguing and highlights the impact both figures had on their respective fields. Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ is the central figure of Christianity, believed by Christians to be the Son of God ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 15, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by 1patriot

MINI SERIES | FALL OF BABYLON

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 13, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by FvckY0u

Who told you that calculus or whatever subject is more important than spirituality? Who told you that a primary school education in the USA is the best there is? Who told you all the things you hold to be true? Who told you that? Who told them ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 11, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by Ryo1

I read this newsletter with interest. It is about Luxury Beliefs which is a relatively new word coined by R. Henderson. In the form of wealth or high status, the yearning for distinction is found among humans. When they find it isn't enough that ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 11, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

...not sure it is worth 2 cents?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 8, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

It's the meaning that counts...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 5, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by 1patriot

KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov's CHILLING Warning to America!!! interview in 1984 brain washing of the masses!

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 4, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by racocn8

Life is an emergent property of matter. Consciousness is an emergent property of life. Morality is an emergent property of consciousness.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 2, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

Identity politics is the oldest form of politics and at the same time the currently most successful . It is the oldest form of politics , because it binds the individual interest to a group identity and forms a robust weapon out of it . From the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 30, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by Ryo1

Jean-Paul Sartre admits he mostly invented existentialism to look cool in front of girls. 😆 Existential Comics See the enlarged image here:

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 29, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

...you just can't make this sh!t up?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 29, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by TheoryNumber3

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 26, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

The regressive tendency of a policy that makes the position of victimhood the motor of political action thus consists in the fact that it deals with an emotion (i.e. feeling offended) that is easy to arouse but very difficult to contain. The victim...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 25, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by FvckY0u

Like giving candy to a baby only the baby will eventually get sick and refuse it.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 25, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by 1patriot

This my reply to Flyingsaucesir with regards to Darwin theory is settled science I charge $130 per hour so your advise would be meaning less and it actually is meaning less. I am so happy i never took any of your tutoring class as i would failed ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 24, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

...good luck with that?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 23, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by puff

Analysis oF the Ukraine war

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 23, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by puff

There is always talk about how a Free media is important For vibrant democracies as it holds government power to account. Media is no longer Free when a Few own all, but luckily today we have many podcasts etc reporting and analysing what the Few ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 23, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by puff

Nothing really new about LGBTQ+++, just how society reacts. Are people more accepting now? Not so sure, seems to me people were more happy to live and let live back then, rather than demanding acceptance and equal status in society.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 20, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by FvckY0u

I don't think highly of skeptics. Being skeptical is different than being a skeptic. Being skeptical is necessary in many ways. Being a skeptic means that is their lot in life. To be skeptical but also in not being wrong. You ever met a good ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 19, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by DragonDust

What is a god/s

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 18, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by MitchAlla

TShirt and Coffee Mug available on Etsy!

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 17, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by 1patriot

What would you do? Kicked out of the university lecture Subject: Legal studies. First lecture. The professor enters the lecture hall.He looks around. "You there in the 8th row. Can you tell me your name?" he asks a student. "My name is Sandra" ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 17, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by puff

This is tied up with indoctrination into a doctrine. Doctrine is for groups and individuals need to conform in order to join.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 16, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by puff

Here's an interview with the Shaman from the Jan 6th events at the Capital in Washington. It's a long interview but I found it interesting. This guy is articulate and I like the way he thinks; out of the box whilst also suggesting solutions. He is ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 16, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by puff

A reminder of the Nuremburg Code. Consent consent consent Consent which means informed, freely given without coercion. Applies for ALL medical treatment eg vaccinations and abortions. Accept this principal and respect others wishes, even if you ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 14, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by Unity

Success

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 14, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

...how did I get here?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 12, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by Kurty

NumerologyBREAKDOWN

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 11, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by 1patriot

This one picture explains flat earth better than any words can. But for those who don’t get it, I’ll explain in tedious verbal detail below. I used to ski every winter and one of my favorite mountains is Whistler / Blackcomb. At Whistler the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 9, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by FvckY0u

How do you handle it when information comes to you? You are just sitting quietly about or going about your daily activities and something just comes to you. Maybe it's in a dream. What do you do? How do you process that? How do you integrate ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 9, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by Archeus_Lore

Another interesting chat session with Aldous Huxley, ChatGPT, and me. Analyse this: The larger an hierarchical organization is, the more intense is the competition to occupy positions of benefit within that organization, which are power positions. ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 7, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

The ancient Athenian was committed to the assembly of the polis, the medieval Christian to his church, and the twentieth-century factory worker to his trade union and working man’s club. All of them found their purpose and well-being by being ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 3, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

“The trouble with the rat race is, even if you win you’re still a rat!” - Lily Tomlin!!

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 28, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by barjoe

LINKNeil deGrasse Tyson's Dream

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 27, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by Jolanta

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. Robert. A. Heinlein.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 23, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by Funtobewith200

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 21, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by Funtobewith200

One must state it plainly. Religious comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody had the smallest idea what was going on.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 19, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by SpikeTalon

An interesting albeit somewhat lengthy read on transhumanism. Like it or not, transhumanism has arrived, and technology is advancing to a point where that stuff is no longer mere science fiction, it's the reality we all are living in. The case for ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 18, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by skado

What are Mythos and Logos? .

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 16, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by AnneWimsey

Fun in my Aldi's Parking Lot today! Open my car door and am accosted by a so-scrubbed-he-gleams almost shorn-headed Mormon teenager with official hard plastic nametag/ID, waving a pamphlet. I hadn't even stood up yet! As i got on my feet, i ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 15, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

What does it all mean..?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 15, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by skado

I’m starting to suspect that people who insist there’s no free will might just be people who haven’t yet noticed that they have it.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 11, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by SpikeTalon

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change. Do you agree with the above statement, and why or why not? Through the ages humankind has struggled with making certain ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 10, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by vocaloldfart

Ensign Roddenberry speaks

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 4, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by Word

Panpsychism noun the doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness. I would not use the word consciousness. The word "knows" is rather synonymous with consciousness. For something to have...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jun 1, 2023Jun 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

At the end of the path of liberation lies enslavement. Such liberation from all obstacles is finally illusory, for two simple reasons: human appetite is insatiable and the world is limited. For both of these reasons, we cannot be truly free in the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 31, 2023May 2023

Posted by Word

Devil is an older word for what we now call terrorist. Devils exist because they are terrorist by a different name.

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 29, 2023May 2023

Posted by Castlepaloma

This is what a true peace officer sounds like. I also worked as law enforcement part time, no guns and harmed no one. Yet did put my life on the line a few times for citizens, not the other way round.

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 28, 2023May 2023

Posted by puff

For me, this is encouraging as it shows the fear of being cancelled is diminishing. All strength to him in standing up for children and against grooming aka indoctrinating.

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 23, 2023May 2023

Posted by FvckY0u

Be the person who breaks the cycle. If you were judged, choose understanding. If you were rejected, choose acceptance. If you were shamed, choose compassion. Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 22, 2023May 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 21, 2023May 2023

Posted by FvckY0u

A different perspective

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 20, 2023May 2023

Posted by puff

I remember this from 10 years ago, adding new dialogue to this clip. They did it with my work, funny as but management went apeshit and had a little secret squirrel (that everyone knew about) investigation to find out who put it together. Good to ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 20, 2023May 2023

Posted by puff

Requiem for US homogony

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 19, 2023May 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

Mankind is so addicted to progress that our greatest challenge in the future will be to survive progress. But the odds are against us, because like most drugs, progress produces a lot of pleasure and happiness for some time - before it kills.

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 19, 2023May 2023

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKStoicism's Major Flaw - YouTube

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 17, 2023May 2023

Posted by puff

Klaus Schwab and his vision is a worry.

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 17, 2023May 2023

Posted by puff

That old proposition of who would you invite to a dinner party? I would be inviting Whitney Webb for guaranteed interesting conversation.

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 17, 2023May 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

This is the toxic core of liberalism and the root cause of many of our current problems: the quasi religious belief that the pursuit of individual happiness without regard to the common good should be an "inalienable right." The result is that we ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 16, 2023May 2023

Posted by Sgt_Spanky

I've been watching technology change and advance since the 60s. We've gone from cathode ray tube television, with three channels to cable, to streaming on smart TVs. that interact with you. There were rotary phones, then flip phones, then smart ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 15, 2023May 2023

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKIs Everything Fascist? - YouTube

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 15, 2023May 2023

Posted by Polemicist

Agnosticism appears to be rarely discussed, even on a website devoted to it. Is agnosticism something that everyone could reasonably affirm? Are there examples from other fields that are deserving of agnosticism? Is uncertainty a default position ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 14, 2023May 2023

Posted by SpikeTalon

Some powerful stuff here, and truth be told. Civil Rights leader leaves Dr. Phil & his audience speechless after rejecting the idea of “systemic racism” & reparations.- I disagree with him on the "spiritual" stuff of course, but ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 12, 2023May 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

LINKYou can't be born in the wrong body

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 8, 2023May 2023

Posted by Ryo1

Existential Comics created by Corey Mohler Reverse Turing Test I had ChatGPT give me an actuall "Reverse Turing Test" and you'll be happy to note I easily passed as a computer, here is the transcript: Me: Are you familiar with the Turning Test? ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 7, 2023May 2023

Posted by puff

John Cleese - Church of JC Capitalist

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 7, 2023May 2023

Posted by harrison2366

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 6, 2023May 2023

Posted by puff

The best explanation that I've seen on financial issues facing the $USD, which will affect us all. "This is because the US Constitution stipulates that "All bond holders shall be repaid". The US cannot renege on it's obligation to repay it's debts....

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 6, 2023May 2023

Posted by FrostyJim

I have been spending much of my time there lately...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 5, 2023May 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

The idea according to which social facts do not come first, but are explainable from individuals alone, is characteristic of liberal atomism. Liberalism is a thought of rootlessness, which makes the transformation of the subject into a monad the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 5, 2023May 2023

Posted by rainmanjr

LINKWhat The Most Carefree Philosopher Can Teach Us | ZHUANGZI - YouTube

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 5, 2023May 2023

Posted by puff

How my mind works. Was reading about how a Drag Queen is being used to promote recruitment for the US Navy. Drag Queens in the military. Reminded me of "It ain't half hot Mum", an old British show about an entertainment unit for the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 4, 2023May 2023

Posted by puff

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 4, 2023May 2023

Posted by SpikeTalon

Would you agree with Bukowski's sentiment?

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 4, 2023May 2023

Posted by Thibaud70

Joseph Henrich has shown in his book "The WEIRDest people in the world" that our Western individualism, also in questions of ethics, is ultimately an unintended consequence of the marriage and family policy of the Catholic Church from the 5th century...

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 4, 2023May 2023

Posted by puff

I wonder whether all North Atlantic members are happy to expand to the Pacific. Rather than strengthen NATO, it would not surprise me if some think it may be time to get out.

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Philosophy & Meaning

May 2, 2023May 2023

Posted by puff

The golden rule is there is always an exception to the golden rule. I am still 100% against censorship, but can get behind this as it excites violence against children. Well done Elon Musk.

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