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April 1st, 2013, 1:18 pm
(quote not shown) Having been virulently anti-psychiatry for decades. I'll pass on commenting on the evils of psychiatry. However, you may not know that this psychopathy checklist & especially its antecedent were used in a rather glaring manner in Am. pop culture. Hare's philosophical forebearer...
February 21st, 2013, 7:37 am
What absolutely amazes me is that no one has thought to try to reconcile one very popular notion thru these forum threads---the (metaphorically) "hard-wired" brain---with the other very popular notion of free will. How many people devoted to the former gladly ponder the latter? Not that we...
January 18th, 2013, 10:30 pm
(quote not shown) There is essay by Mencken in which he recounts a dinner he had w/ silent screen icon Rudolph Valentino a week before the latter died. Valentino was agitated by something he'd read about himself in the papers & sought counsel from Mencken. Mencken wrote that after about an hour,...
January 11th, 2013, 10:00 pm
(quote not shown) The point to my life is to be a good husband to my wife. Maybe there were other points & maybe there'll be others later, but this is my point to life @present & for the past several years. This is, to use William Blake's phrase, my Minute Particular. I pondered "the br...
January 11th, 2013, 6:42 pm
(quote not shown) The "well-armed militia" is not the "well-regulated militia." The latter was not meant for bearing automatic assault weapons 200+ yr after the fact. The well-regulated militia was a fact of colonial life: males from 16 to 60 in colonial towns & villages were...
January 11th, 2013, 6:11 pm
Blazing Donkey wrote: ...Could you please clarify your argument or statement in one-two paragraphs? ...
IOW, a 10+-paragraph explanation was not simple. I think it was the Italian psychiatrist Franco Rotelli who said we're always looking for simple explanations for human conduct.
January 3rd, 2013, 9:22 am
(quote not shown) Wow! Electrical impulses: that's some depersonalizing job! 1) I don't think Descartes's cogito can be applied to the other. 2) Implicit in the cogito is our personal recognition of our experience. 3) We do not see others' experience; only their "behavior" by which we infe...
January 2nd, 2013, 8:43 am
(quote not shown) A far more fascinating topic would be our insatiable demand for determinism: "inherent," "unavoidably," "bound by the desire." Determinism is basically what makes the Internet go 'round: who knows, maybe the Internet was invented solely as a medium of ...
December 6th, 2012, 1:46 pm
(quote not shown) This is not most broadly; in fact, it's very restrictive. There is a wonderful but lengthy (72 p.) essay on these problems of science, called On the Epistemology of the Inexact Sciences, written by Helmer & Rescher & published in 1958 under the auspeices of the RAND Corp. S...
December 5th, 2012, 10:24 pm
(quote not shown) There is in your post the implication that we all know what "science" is, & the cite of logic implies that you are alluding to what're commonly called the "exact sciences"; those that use mathematical notation & lend themselves to exact measurement. The ...
November 22nd, 2012, 1:10 pm
(quote not shown) Well, I go by what God & Jesus DO in the Bible account of Them. God battles endlessly w/ His chosen ones, which, according to the Bible account, weren't all that crazy about being chosen (hence, the ceaseless backsliding). Somewhere (I believe in Amos) He threatens to desert th...
November 21st, 2012, 12:26 pm
(quote not shown) I don't s'pose you coulda named some of your "true Americans." As an old fox myself, I'm now very mistrustful of the sweeping generalization. Your post reads like something from the whiney, wimpy blog crew. But I overhear the oldsters (& even the youngsters) in the lo...
November 6th, 2012, 9:26 am
(quote not shown) I absolutely cringe when I read something that begins, "It has often been said that ..." Something about which I get "intolerant, inflexible ..." Still, I suppose that "more politically and philosophically conservative" implies intolerant, inflexible. ...
October 18th, 2012, 12:23 pm
(quote not shown) (quote not shown) Despite his being a "hero" of the Am. Revolution & eminently quotable, what he said was not shouted from the rooftops; in fact, the "armed missionaries" are the full content of Am. forn. policy & have been since, oh, maybe, Bay of Pigs?...
October 17th, 2012, 10:10 am
(quote not shown) As long as you're using an example from the Holy Bible, so will I: according to which, God as non-locality is not a matter of belief but a matter of fact. In the O.T., there're endless dialogues w/ God; this is gone from the N.T., & in His place His only begotten Son (altho God...
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