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“How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn’t it a matter of choice? And if I a…[Read more]

… SOME “professional” philosophers say.
“Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted in urgent problems outside philosophy, and they die if these roots decay,” from Karl Popper in Conjectures and Refutations
“That the settlement of opinion is the sole end of inquiry is a very important proposition. It sweeps away, at once, various…[Read more]

… Dr. Farrell … don’t you mean that the “fly” was a UFO threat (not treat)?
Lou says that he investigated “houseflies” discovered by Navy aircraft at one of his shipping company warehouses. They were found to be UFO threats and that while we call them “houseflies” we really don’t know what they are. I also heard rumors that Bigelow…[Read more]

… Yes, maybe Whitman should be tweaked just a tad … and maybe we should be reading Whitman a little more. Those who, for some reason, find humanity abhorrent have certainly picked up on the idea that the body has the ability to generate experience and continue to exploit this against the vast majority who are unaware of this fact.

I…[Read more]

… “Tiki Torch Racism” … couldn’t that also be considered cultural appropriation? … and what about “Tiki Bar Racism”? and what about the Brady Bunch episode “Hawaii Bound”? … Sooo much Tiki so little time.

… let’s not forget to include our friends at the Status Civitatis Vaticanae in this discussion.

… just one of MANY reasons.

Gotcha! 🙂

In relation to possible connections here see Mirror Neurons. … and of course we have to remember that to a mouse FOMO might simply mean “food pellet”. 🙂

… reminds me to keep strapping. 🙂

… ALL Cosmic regularities (this includes ALL social constructions as well as any derivations of Natural Law Theory) should be held responsible and should be immediately “cancelled”.
This would do away with the pesky problem of abstracting similarities from the observation of a series of events (this might prove to make difficult the making…[Read more]

… test? … in relation to Donkey’s comment above see of course both Bladerunner films and a StarTrek: The Next Generation episode titled “The Measure of a Man”. This episode brings up many, very interesting questions in regards to sentience / consciousness (that of which one is aware and one’s understanding of those objects of awareness)…[Read more]

… how does one do so?

Quoted from Robert’s post above – “Also concerning; because the “shedding” is no accident – it’s by design [weaponized].” I agree Robert. We might wish to think of such terms as indicating “properties”. “Properties are those entities that can be predicated of things or, in other words, attributed to them. Thus, properties are often called…[Read more]

“The legal system is just as reliable and just as corrupt as the rest of society, and can be utilised strategically.” I quite agree Dana. The question is: What to do?

… you’ll enjoy reading Quigley. For what it’s worth Billy Clinton was a student of Quigley’s at Georgetown. You might enjoy his Weapons Systems and Political Stability: A History (PDF). Washington, DC: University Press of America. 1983. pp. 1064 pages. ISBN 978-0-8191-2947-5. The PDF is gratis.