On the Nature of Things

The left has not left the left. The left/right dichotomy has differentiated into multiple individual propaganda silos, but the NPCs still identify as L/R and choose that teat when ingesting information.

In honor of Dolly’s passing, my wife has removed her bra so the girls can hang at half-mast.

Had a drummer tell us once that drumming was like making love and we all felt so sorry for his wife.

My friend is the stereotypical intellectual Jewish feminist New Yorker. I’m shocked she would be touting something like that!

I don’t follow movies much since everything turned superhero sequels, but a friend recommended Teenage Sex Camp & Miasma. Have you seen that?

Rumplestiltskin spinning straw into gold?

Reality is always a unproven postulate, because we don’t know what we can’t experience.

This is why experimental science is apophatic - a search for a more useful understanding than what we are currently using, but never reality.

Hans Bulvai wrote: ↑16 Aug 2026 23:55

“Swept Away” - Several Fellini references.

Trump & Kim convert to UltraUnorthodox Judaism.

The antisemites agree that Jewishness should never be disregarded in genetics or culture. I simply think that without a rational hypothesis the question is nonsense and without predictive or descriptive value. We could pretend to analyze Nobel awardees on skin color or race. We would get ...

It’s a stupid question since there was no definition of the dependent variable and the selection of Nobel prizes is a private, secret process.

This idea is bigotry masquerading as intelligence. I guess most scientists are not religious but even if religious cultures are diverse. It is my exact and honest summary of what I believe to be the case. You see things differently, reading different maps probably. That's all. What is the ...

This idea is bigotry masquerading as intelligence. I guess most scientists are not religious but even if religious cultures are diverse.

Typhoon wrote: ↑06 Aug 2026 06:22

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑02 Aug 2026 19:56 That is a truly bizarre correlation.

Nothing bizarre about it. Not all cultures are equal.

The idea that religion is related to Nobel Prizes is daft.

That is a truly bizarre correlation.

Parodite wrote: ↑24 Jul 2026 07:53 The people who know nothing know everything

At an insufferable anti-Israel dinner party, a masterclass in dealing with pro-Palestinian idiocy.

Very well written

This is like Rumi’s blind men describing the elephant, except instead of describing it they are trying to butcher it.

Tolle took his name from Meister Eckhart, famous Late Middle Ages Dominican. Contemporary with Dante.

“ Your deepest identity is not the stream of thoughts in your mind, but the silent ground of awareness in which those thoughts arise—and that ground is inseparable from the divine.“

Eckhart Tolle’s Nirvana Baby state:

Can you define what consciousness is not? Unconsciousness? Subconsciousness? Self consciousness? Pretty much standard: Unconscious, examples: deep sleep no dreams, coma, heavy object meets skull, death Subconscious, the assumption: that things happen in the brain while you are conscious, that you ...

Can you define what consciousness is not? Unconsciousness? Subconsciousness? Self consciousness?