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Receiving a beloved, adult offspring’s compassion and care can be intellectually learned through need, but it's understood with the addition of the experience. No, I don't think that is quite right. I think it is as primordial as lust itself; if it were not, societies would have had nothing to hold...

No, no one is responsible for the state of their own psyche at any given moment. I do not wish to engage in speculation about the limitations of other people's imaginary friends. To enforce or embrace the concept of free will is really to give god-like credit to a frail population of naked apes. To...

The American and Zionist Israeli America has the most powerful, most thorough propaganda machine in the world. American citizens have been subject to it for so long that it is a wonder anyone escapes it. This belongs in political. It is also a misunderstanding WHY some interest groups appear to hav...

I'm sorry...this is just too dumb a debate to be had. It's really stupid. If people cannot choose, then people cannot change their minds, either. So argumentation is pointless: the only reason you could then give for why anybody held any view was "prior material factors made it happen." S...

The world would obviously be a better place if everyone were theist and not anti-theist. Why? Because God created all that is and to be against God is to be against all that is. It's the very definition of evil itself to be opposed to something. It's evil by definition not to praise the creator of ...

Truth is the experience and knowledge of a subject organism. The world in the absence of biological consciousness is meaningless. Biology is the measure and the meaning of all things. The source, the only source, of meaning. Meaning, truth, never belongs to the object; it is the sole property of the...

The world would obviously be a better place if everyone were theist and not anti-theist. Why? Because God created all that is and to be against God is to be against all that is. It's the very definition of evil itself to be opposed to something. It's evil by definition not to praise the creator of ...

As I have stated so many times before, there is no such thing as human action; there is only human reaction, and those reactions are causes to humanity's outer world. I'm sorry...this is just too dumb a debate to be had. It's really stupid. If people cannot choose, then people cannot change their m...

When I took an introductory sociology class in college in the late 1980s, it primarily focused on "conflict theory". Before the rise in popularity of conflict theory, I think sociology was primarily based on the "functionalist" approach. Not sure what they are teaching today in ...

We are not only shaped by our evolutionary history; we are also shaped by the various environmental contexts that we inhabit throughout our life's journey. The only rational reason to suppose free will is that humanity just cannot deal with the profound complexity of reality. The concept itself is u...

Walker, Interesting, I never really thought of them as learned, not sure you're right there, is compassion learned, care learned, not sure myself. Receiving a beloved, adult offspring’s compassion and care can be intellectually learned through need, but it's understood with the addition of the expe...

Regarding love: few things in life are as profound as powerful, beautiful, independent, happy, and accomplished descendants, children, and grandchildren, who compete for the love and attention of their parents by showering them with love and concern. Adult daughters especially, for they know the wa...

The rational standard of beauty is well-being, which applies to organisms or objects. The further one is away from beauty, the closer one is to death or non-existence. Which is why the relatively high rates among female models are a sign that we are not really being sold beauty. Well, models do ten...

The rational standard of beauty is well-being, which applies to organisms or objects. The further one is away from beauty, the closer one is to death or non-existence.

If truth and falsity are but distinctions and the relationship of said truth and falsity is but a distinction then knowledge results in a holographic process of distinctions occuring. In these respects truth and falsity are subject to distinction processes by which they are not the ultimate occuren...