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Nick_A wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:41 am

The chorus:

"A gun's like a woman, son, it's all how you hold her."

Sigmund! Git over here right now - Nick needs to hear from you.

yes, as an American ignoramous. i have noted via YT docs that your NI parlement has not conveined in like - how many years now? why not? i do not understand. NI parlement building is pretty! does it just stand there empty for the last decade? (i assume there are janitors to keep the building clean ...

Gaffo, I definitely think you should write your posting up as a full-length article and send it to The Guardian newspaper. They would almost certainly publish it and it shows greater insight and analysis than most of their Brexit coverage.

As Wikipedia has it, the human sex ratio in the Arabian Peninsula is within the normal/natural range at 1.05. The gender imbalance in the Arabian peninsula has absolutely nothing to do with infanticide. If you had taken seriously my previous advice to you of studying seriously, you would have known...

Hi guys Hope you like Issue 138. For those who haven't seen it yet, it has a theme of religion, secularism and society. It also has three articles relating if different ways to the pandemic. (One on Camus's famous novel "The Plague", one on Thoreau and social distancing, and Ray Tallis's column this...

It is probably a really good idea for all of us British to read more now about the US Constitutional Convention of 1787, and about the kinds of things that were asked and said within it. The British constitution - which has developed organically over centuries, sometimes changing gradually, sometime...

henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:25 pm This subforum is open!

Yep. Sorry folks, I got the settings wrong when I created this sub-forum, hence the "you have insufficient permissions" message some of you have been seeing when trying to post here. Many thanks to Henry for pointing this out so I could fix it.

This new (and hopefully temporary) forum area is for any and all discussions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. Any suggestions as to how philosophy might be able to help us understand or combat the pandemic, or at least survive it with our sanity intact, will be very welcome. Any recommendations of...

In hindsight wouldn't it have been cheaper and less economically damaging to have told all sixties and overs to totally isolate themselves right at the beginning until the virus had passed through the rest of the population. That's about 20% of the population who would have to register with the sta...

Rick - the forum prior to the big change once had a GMT clock - time. I really miss that, and I am sure many that are not in the UK also do, any chance we can get that back? So far as I know, that isn't something we can control from the forum settings. But my postings turn up with a time that is GM...

Do you mean Lou Salomé? Sounds like a fascinating woman, who had friendships with everyone who was anyone in intellectual circles at the time, including Freud and Rilke as well as Nietzsche. I think she was a psychoanalyst - maybe she was collecting material? :D I don't know if she was a feminist - ...

Hi Scott, sorry we got snarled up in traffic while we were detouring from London to Saskatoon to pick you up, so we had to give up.

Festival went well, though!

The 5th Philosophy Now Festival will be taking place in Conway Hall in central London on Saturday 18th January. Full details are on the Festival page of the Philosophy Now website: https://philosophynow.org/festival Do come, and bring the whole family - it'll be fun! Ideally, please book a ticket in...

Best of luck with it! Can i add it to our events calendar at https://philosophynow.org/events/United_Kingdom ?

Is my intro being screened? Yes, the first post by any now forum member won;'t appear until it has been checked by a moderator. Only the first - once you've leapt that fence, all your subsequent posts appear without delay. If you saw the queue of first post awaiting moderation, you'd appreciate why...