Because it fucks up the etymology of the word; because it becomes awkward to use different forms of the word; because a word like that could never...
I'd like to hear your response to my post OP, if you have one.
When I hear this, I hear someone who's afraid to use any word with any connotations at all, because connotations might offend. For instance, some...
How does lack of belief in God/gods justify itself as being important, as being superior to the belief in these gods? It would be pretty...
The more reasonable assumption is that the Greeks produced this. It represents perhaps their greatest technological achievement, having been built...
Yes, but you just went to a lot of effort to make a shallow point, and now you're calling people stupid for pointing out subtleties.
Exactly. Shall we indict Homer for the cyclops? Come on, OP. :rolleyes:
I think thedope was pointing out the creative aspect in this assimilation and transformation of experience: we rearrange our experiences into...
I think I can weigh in on this question to some degree. I will tell you what I think are the benefits of "materialism," and what I consider to be...
This.
Because art is a human concept. If you want to redefine art as "whatever existed before time and space, if anything," then sure. But that in...
A vibrates at 440 cycles per second, not 110. As for your broader point, I have no idea why you'd look at it that way. It might be "trippy, man"...
Why?
It is a movement. What you just wrote sums up its ideology. Not everyone believes that it is an inevitable, natural progression. Those that do...
Transhumanism is an ideology which most people are not even aware of, and is usually understood by those who are only in a very limited sense. All...
Bump a six-year-old thread with an unreadable wall of text... cool.
Well, such things are usually presented in a ridiculous light. "FEMA death camps" could also be called "contingent detention centres," or could be...
Charles Dickens.
Good points. My issue was mainly with this being stated as an example of women involved in child pornography, when the porn seemed not to be the...
OP- very nice post. I can understand your point, and though I would usually advance a bit of criticism, I don't think this is the place.
Separate names with a comma.
