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OK, Skip. You don't want to communicate. Fair enough. I get it. But I am duty-bound to respond to you, given your situation and that which you've shared. Since you might ignore further PMs, I'll do this publicly. I hope that you come back to read this. First, I just want to say how much I enjoyed it...

Skip. That's a trip. I checked in here after weeks (months?) away, only to find your post from a day ago. Have thought of you over the years since you disappeared offline and became untraceable. Good to have you back, assuming that it is you - you're writing from a new account so how's a guy to be s...

[OK, that post was a little too farcical]

Santiago Odo wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:33 am Yes but you have to make some sort of a case.

You want a case? A case?!

Alright, here's your precious case!

Notice anything?

That's right!

The case is shut. It is closed.

Case Closed.

QED.

Santiago Odo wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:19 am Even Tasmania . . .

Sure, Tasmania loves you. Just don't try to kiss it.

Then again, what would be the correct and realistic definition of left and right wing politics? A very good question, to which Pye has a very good answer . You seemed to think that it portrays the extremes, but how better to delineate a fundamental binary? The extremes don't deny the possibility of...

Donna, I think you'd like this video: Questioning Forgiveness -- A Former Therapist Explores.

I think my views are fairly obvious by now, no? With you nothing is obvious! Aw, thanks for the compliment, but I don't think I deserve it. In any case, did you not understand that by "obvious" I meant "well-known or predictable [to you]"? I guess I'll provisionally assume that ...

Suggestion : speak about your view of or relationship to the issues brought up here. For example, since I am making recommendations about education, or offering opinions in pro of a Eurocentrism, or about ‘identity’, why not spesk about your view of these things? That is, instead of an interrogatio...

What I am attempting to do here, whether well or badly, is just to ‘report back’ to a place in which I had invested time and energy and which had a certain effect — a productive and helpful effect. Most of my posts have been directed to this. That's fine - I'll avoid further comments/questions in t...

You (seem to) desire *answers* that, even if given, will not and of course cannot satisfy you. I suggest that just there, precisely there, is the essence of the *problem*. The inability to provide satisfactory answers is an essential problem... which of course is, as you seem to recognise, the poin...

Interesting analysis inspired by the arrest of Tommy Robinson . Here's a different perspective, suggesting more functional than corrupt judicial processes: Why ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson was jailed - and why no-one could report it until now . Richard Weaver wrote about the use of rhetoric and, if...

Therefor I cannot say I understand what you are up to (and doubt that you know!) Is it really such a mystery? I mean, I'm doing what I've always done - not exclusively of course - from my very first post to this forum: examining ideas claimed to be "absolute truth" or otherwise important ...

The last parts of my last reply were ill-considered, so I have deleted them (that which I put to you you had already addressed in this thread). That said, it remains the case that your two answers to "Why Christianity?" are contradictory, and that you ought to resolve this tension - for yo...

Hello there. Nice to see you here. Happy to converse publicly! I'll start by following up on your responses to my (admittedly rather critical) opening post, but after that I'll try to bring in a few other elements from other of your posts. First off, the issue of meaning versus truth, which you avo...

But why selecting Christianity? Santiago, you rightly recognise this as " a good question, a necessary question ". I would go further: it is not only a good and necessary question; it is the question. The first reason why is obvious: there is a range of possible metaphysics, and you are a...

Forget it, then, John. It's obviously pointless trying to talk with you. By the way, I think Bernardo's ideas are flawed, so I would have hoped you could come up with something better. I guess not (I know, I know - you could show us if you wanted to, you just don't).

OK, here's what you get: feedback on your ideas, the possibility of improving them due to the input of others, and the possibility of inspiring or teaching others, which most people like to do. But if none of that interests you, and if you're not interested in giving without receiving either, then y...

Now, for what reason should I do any of what you suggest? (Not inclusive of the reasoning you provided, which assumes a great deal of egotism, or that I'm trying to 'get people on board'.) The reasoning I provided simply assumes you're here to participate in good faith. Discussion isn't about "...

I think I'll instead just go kill an ant I can see on my bench. *Seconds later* Damn. That's one tiny dead fucker. So you've turned into a troll? How sad. I remember your idealism when you first arrived on the forum. Here's the thing: in the time I was active, I didn't see you manage to convince ev...

Thanks for the reply, Russell. I hope you're well. I won't respond in turn because my post was something of a drive-by, I wasn't planning on getting into an extended exchange. Will now retreat back into the woodwork... One more thing before I do though. @John (Seeker), I wonder whether you'd be inte...

The whole definition of 'non-attachment' is a ridiculous, foreign intrusion (IMV). One can speak of sacrifice-of-self but it has to be to something or toward a greater value, and the only (real) values that can be defined are threefold: 1) our biological self and inheritance, 2) our cultural inheri...

Absolutely. I bought her album "Til the Casket Drops" last night, it's fantastic. You've introduced me to a few new artists, Cahoot, I tend to look forward to your postings in this thread.

Oh my God. ZZ Ward. Now *she* is proof of evolution.

Deebs, I have lost patience for this exchange, not to mention that I have other commitments that prevent me continuing. Too, it is frustrating that you do not accept facts. I will simply sum them up in this post, and leave it at that. In Buddhism, animals, including insects, are considered to be: * ...