I was strongly pro-Israel up until ot started committing war crimes, primarily turning water off in Gaza. Remains a war crime to have it off in northern Gaza.
One of the extremely few bright spots of Biden's dismal track record as President is getting any Just War Criteria met by Israel in...
I saw the Toby Mcguire Spiderman trilogy last weekend and have come to a conclusion:
Mary Jane was the chief villain of the series. All of Spiderman's problems stemmed from her. She was moody, too opinionated, causing problems and just ignoring Spiderman or digging it into him deeper causing...
CBS News has learned that the US reached a “quiet understanding” with Qatar not to release any of the $6b in Iranian oil money that was transferred as part of a U.S.-Iranian prisoner swap. This news comes as the US and Israel scrutinize Iran’s role in funding and training Hamas.
Increasing Wars and Plagues, and for some reason Kardashians. It's not right. Something is fundamentally wrong with society. Can we as a society be redeemed?
I'm watching Episode 4 of Star Wars, and this time around it occurred to me, Obi Wan likely killed Luke's Aunt and Uncle.
He shows up suddenly with sand people attacking Luke, and starts lying about not knowing the droids. His strategy is centered around getting Luke trained up and off planet...
I can eat three Chinese Dishes. I used to not be able to eat any, because as a child, in San Francisco, my mom brought me to a Chinese restaurant, and the cook gave me a egg roll, and he opened it up and it had a Chinese newspaper baked into it. Then after I refused it, he gave me a purple sea...
They really should. Would end the myth that they aren't willing to be bipartisan and reach across the isle. Trump might like it and drop his run against Biden.
Good ideas all around. And nobody would see this one coming.
I've collected a number of historical paradoxes such as this, some of great historical import, but none as upsetting as discovering the oldest iconography of Kali first originated in Roman Egypt in the Christian era as a Christian Saint, and is responsible for slaying a Roman Emperor, more often...
I've never understood why in Hinduism cows can't be touched for leather or food needs, but a near identical creature, a Buffalo can be mass slaughtered and sacrificed (in Nepal), or fought in the ring as sport. I like to hand copy texts so used to import alot of paper, got one in bound in oramge...
I took these pictures back in May. Aspinwall, Pennsylvania. These public restrooms made national news some years back for being amongst the first to convert from Male and Female to Who Knows? I choose urinal, because I had to take a dump in one. What is a urinal used for? I have no idea anymore...
There is a infestation of pittsburgh by these Chinese bugs. They don't exist 40 miles west of Pittsburgh.
Efforts are being made to contain them, supposedly they kill trees and can cost $300,000,000 in damages a year.
I noted a bizarre behavior in one group, and one group only that might be...
How do you know when it is time to reject a text? I rejected one yesterday on the basis of it not following the golden rule (Jewish text, a mishna) when I've heard the Talmud summed up as follow the golden rule. So I knew something was wrong. But as a historical text it well.... was historical...
This had to of come up in ancient times. How do you fit a sabbath observed on a 7 day week when the Roman's used a 8 day week? One day was a market day, so you pretty much had to get out to shop on those days, cause markets in those times didn't work around your schedule, you worked to the...
I have a fear of circumcision. I like Jews. I used to go to the Jewish lay services while in basic training almost two decades ago.... they had good books on medieval Jewish philosophy. They let me eat cantaloupe. But I always had this creeping feeling they were out to cut my willy. This isn't a...
Everyone on this forum keeps talking about genders vs sex (gender is same as sex) and seen CIS Males and CIS Female thrown out alot.
About a year ago I realized as a straight male, I didn't qualify as a CIS Male, and like most of the world's population, lacked a gender. Why? I lost my original...
My username is a old Platonic Philosopher, started going off a list of them but all were taken as user names.
I'm catholic but not here primarily to debate my religion, rather saw the philosophy section. I do have a strong background in world religions, ancient and modern. Was a Stoic and a...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishq
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(religion)
I just got Dara Shukoh's Majma 'Ul-Bahrain for 8 dollars off Amazon.
Dara starts off briefly discussing how Ishq (Love) is the same as Maya (Illusion).
I don't understand what he is saying, seems as if he...