The Philosophy Discussion Forum

Impenitent wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2026 2:50 pm

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2026 2:13 pm ...
Defining the questions is more relevant than shotgunning answers.

not if your aim is good

-Imp

Then a shotgun is not needed …

MikeNovack wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2026 3:24 pm Is the lynx a cat?

Your dog should know.

Socialism vs. Capitalism comes down to flavor of ice cream … A categorically false statement right down the line. Though: 1) It is possible to institute social benefit programs and often aids in social health. 2) Capitalist systems, and corporate systems are not without defects and have sone destru...

Control of America by European descendants? The real question is what happens in a nation when its core identity is undermined, diluted, altered. Restrictions on Muslims and similar immigrants? That is most necessarily an issue worthy of consideration. Not now (in America) but soon. Government and ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RKEjfIDEys Now what? Does the US have any cards in our deck? Has Trump toppled the US empire by picking the wrong fight? If as Cooke says Iran is attempting to overturn an order of control (paradigm) over it which has been in operation for decades, and if it were to...

The best is yet to come.

The royal touch (also known as the king's touch) was a form of laying on of hands, whereby French and English monarchs touched their subjects, regardless of social classes, with the intent to cure them of various diseases and conditions.The thaumaturgic touch was most commonly applied to people suf...

phyllo wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2026 3:50 pm One cannot know what is on the path not taken

That may be true for you but — and in keeping with the theme of superstitions — I am a Seventh Son and have unusual talents, to say the least.

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2026 3:15 pm Silly conspiracy theories. We could easily have been in a time of relative peace right now if GW Bush and DJ Trump had lost their respective first elections.

Does that Divergent Universe exist, do you think? The one that split off when Hilary won? Reminds me of the first scene of Slacker.

Resource nationalism, and international conquest for the sale of plundering territory are really quite silly ideas in the modern era. I cannot say I do not have a dog in the race (speaking economically) and it may well be that things don’t turn out well. but you also failed to learn from the 20th C...

I suggest you should read Hobsbawm's Long 19th Century series and then you will better understand why it is all actually the fault of the French, and why you are too. I do not read Gay literature, Flash, and you know how I feel about the whole issue! Now dammit man, keep your kink in your own corne...

But think about it, Don Señor Flash, Trump really did broadcast a “healing touch” in his hundreds of campaign revivals. He operated like a non-religious but apostolic demagogue and his essential promises were national healing ❤️‍🩹 and New Life. You just gotta see things as simulacra of ‘the real thi...

This might be a stretch but in the discourse circulating in dissident circles it is noted that democracy as a political form leaves many things to be desired. (We do not live in democracy in any case, we live in ultra-practiced hybrids.) There are some who do believe that a monarchy has superior ele...

The royal touch (also known as the king's touch) was a form of laying on of hands, whereby French and English monarchs touched their subjects, regardless of social classes, with the intent to cure them of various diseases and conditions.The thaumaturgic touch was most commonly applied to people suf...

Are not Israeli policies very similar to what you espouse for Europeans/Americans? What is it that I ‘espouse’ for Americans? Curious usage: es·pouse (ĭ-spouz′) tr.v. es·poused, es·pous·ing, es·pous·es 1. To adhere to or advocate: espoused a contrarian viewpoint. 2. a. To take in marriage; marry. b...