Forum: The Human Condition

I want to be a better person. I strive for this each and every day of my life. But what does it take to be THAT? What does it mean to be a...

Here's a really good lecture by Robert Saplosky on the fallacies of the compartmentalized thinking, they way most of us learn how to think. In...

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Illeism: New research finds this ancient rhetorical trick leads to wiser reasoning David Robson BPS Research...

This is a thought that's been pestering my mind like a fly, and I can't quite swat it away. I've been giving it some thought, and I strongly...

Truth is often ugly, unpleasant and problematic. Instead of cowering in political correctness and resorting to personal attacks, such matters must...

Hey all, I had a tough weekend with a good friend arguing in public back and forth. It seems because I have always voted on a left of center side, an...

Marketing is finally running out of sales pitches for products. I picked up a bag of kitty litter today and the bag states that it has 24/7...

Do we have a moral obligation to do what's meaningful? Not what makes us happy, what is meaningful. Simply put, what might be meaningful is the...

Notice how easy it is to rub someone the wrong way online, but in real life 9/10 people are nice folks and you never have problems? So I'm not...

TV is an abrasive brain-washng mechanism. We don't need it. Computers are absolutely necessary, but to a limited degree' You decide. Be, as...

Dear brothers and sisters, I was inspired by our friend thepainterdoug and his thread about ever increasing insanity in our world to start this...

I think of this often. Are we meant to live our lives within this average lifespan, lets say to about 80 to 100 years, or so ? Or are we...

Too many of us are knowingly working on jobs that subjugate and or enslave humanity and we claim the age old excuse that “I am just doing my job”....

I have written about these observations before. Is it possible because I'm in the NY , Nj area of the world? yes , to some degree Im sure But I...

Watch and laugh, maybe quite a lot — because this is often so VERY true. :)

I recently lost two people in my life, not real close but within my circle . One, a fellow hockey player , cop, who took his life, and a bartender...

https://www.vox.com/world/2019/1/14/18151799/extremism-white-supremacy-jihadism-deeyah-khan I enjoyed this article/ interview and thought others...

Looks like 20% of British women may be brave, courageous, and liberated from the tyrannical patriarchy. ...

Fascinating 1966 footage of a steeplejack taking his son up a 100 foot chimney in the village of Clutton, Somerset. Traditional steeplejacking...