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The economic success of north Italian city states was accompanied by great art, which continued or functioned alongside a wealthy Catholic Church. The equal success experienced in the United...
23 October 2020 9,784 10 View
There has been greater concentration on the Medieval Middle Eastern and Central Asian Science but so far insufficient exploration of its roots and what it owes or does not owe to Islam. Few, if...
19 September 2020 1,404 4 View
The world has been locked in fear a long time. Does this demonstrate we have forgotten how to die and that even letting go of our elderly is too hard a task? Should we accept nature's desire for...
11 August 2020 1,096 14 View
aug 2 2020 The Sunday Times Magazine Although many of our nightmares about nuclear war have subsided, but does it still pose as big or a bigger genuine threat than climate change and pandemics?...
08 August 2020 8,604 5 View
In the TLS Antonio Melechi in The Sound of Blood Rushing, Exploring the experimental source of isolation examines self-enforced isolation (not interestingly enforced isolation of prisoners of all...
14 July 2020 6,792 0 View
For creative writers only. I had a student who although published abroad could not get published in the UK. Although her detective novel was published, she was told by a male agent that only male...
06 July 2020 2,156 41 View
If a new route is taken by foot, the first time someone walks the route it seems to take forever, the second time it seems shorter in terms of time, the third shorter still. This may not work if...
30 June 2020 5,989 6 View
Eventually this may apply also to technical subjects, but in history for example what is often taught is eurocentred. Surely it is time to stop that? Psychology and psychiatry are culturally...
16 June 2020 3,328 9 View
In the late 1920s the US War Department devised a plan to destroy the British Empire. American troops would invade Canada and the Caribbean to draw out the British Navy, which they then intended...
04 June 2020 4,621 4 View
Does it matter if Picasso was driven by destructive maschismo in his relationships, Oscar Wilde employed rent boys, Einstein was promiscuous (maybe) when heralding their different achievements?...
08 April 2020 1,663 6 View
https://www.livescience.com/66071-human-animal-hybrid-embryos.html?utm_source=ls-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190804-ls Turning mice into human beings, human beings into mice. To...
05 August 2019 1,352 0 View
The boy's intelligence grew naturally, without impediment. Only his motor facilities seemed impaired. Problems in the womb had caused it not to develop. The general view is that the cerebellum...
21 December 2018 3,136 0 View
The Indo-European languages are, in the classical model, supposed to have spread into India, the Middle East and Europe from parts of Central Asia producing many of the modern languages in those...
20 July 2018 4,445 8 View
We are as much part of the planet's ecosystem as the animals we strive to protect or eliminate. Many are dependent on our existence. In our rotting cities which animals would survive and multiply,...
08 July 2018 10,055 73 View
Academic training is lengthy but often resolves into specific ways to present knowledge and information. This requires ability but does it require great ability. When I did my first degree I...
07 July 2018 8,561 13 View
Are the Abrahamic religions really religions, that is concerned with spirituality and worship of a sacred phenomenon, or concerned mainly with politics and social control?
04 July 2018 9,654 60 View
Fine language now has no place in political argument, rhetorical devices despised, with playground insults now the name of the game, and both Trump and his opponents using gutter language, with...
25 June 2018 2,501 2 View
Mental health, reconstructed as illness, is perhaps merely a metaphor for the social inequality and difficulties of advancement all face to one degree or another. By concentrating on individual...
23 June 2018 3,427 8 View
Does it actually say anything at all? But many theories and essays have been produced on its results. This famous experiment focused on power, simulating prison conditions where some students...
18 June 2018 310 13 View
Explored in The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men, how has an understanding of the much-vaunted American Dream changed, and in the age of Trump what is it now?
28 May 2018 3,653 1 View
Nietzsche wrote Beyond Good and Evil in 1886 calling for a review of concepts of good and evil. These he claims are moral based, looking back to Judaism, Christianity and even Socrates. I contend...
21 May 2018 2,713 10 View
Slavery had a crucial economic function in the ancient world. Although wealth creation functioned on several levels production depended on slavery. In medieval times, it is possible that...
16 May 2018 9,947 5 View
Although this may require an obvious answer, many of my clients complain that this doesn't happen. In some instances normal conditions of confidentially can be broken, but the most common...
12 May 2018 9,294 2 View
Does the apparently humanitarian impetus of democracies, expressed as liberalism, mean that they are more concerned and better at healthcare?
10 May 2018 7,949 14 View
Stanley Milgram set up several now famous experiments in the early 1960s to discover why so many people had obeyed orders in the 2nd World War to kill, torture and mutilate others. He especially...
06 May 2018 7,919 8 View
Jung thought so; that energy is emitted from certain personality traits that were often split themselves. The Mother, the Father, the Child for example expressing elements of each, who we are and...
25 April 2018 2,517 15 View
I am lucky as a native of the UK to have Shakespeare as our predominant poet, but which poets enrich your cultures? How do they do so?
20 April 2018 148 11 View
This questions concerns the nature of perception, human perception of consciousness, how we see and gauge it, where we look for it, and why we don't look harder.
20 April 2018 496 58 View
The weather of 1812, extremely and unusually cold, and of 1815, extremely humid, caused Napoleon's failure. Discuss.
11 April 2018 7,598 16 View
Serotonin is a hormone. The chemical name is 5-hydroxytryptamine and it is a monooamine neurotransmitter Biochemically, serotonin is derived from tryptophan a primary amino acid, and is a...
05 April 2018 9,285 15 View
Science is a term for research or application that argues in a relationship to factors appropriate only to the the research and application, whereas bad science has alternative paradigms within...
04 April 2018 8,740 14 View
I am not a believer just an observer, but I have long relations with the Islamic world and I have noticed changes on the periphery of Islam, one being a greater willingness to discuss matters with...
04 April 2018 4,119 20 View
I'm sure this is a general experience, but people answer a question as if you had expressed the opposite of your intentions, or in fact make a response to one of your answers expressing a rebuttal...
30 March 2018 2,613 2 View
By this I mean its belief in an Anglo-Saxon heritage when so many other important groups contributed. Isn't the USA as much a product of black culture as European for example, as there was parity...
29 March 2018 618 16 View
Many teachers merely teach the curriculum possessing no outside knowledge of the subject. As they rarely research they don't need to perhaps, but does that mean that they are therefore...
24 March 2018 5,596 72 View
There are many virtues in spiritual thinking, which nevertheless serves a psychological purpose, but religious ideas and thinking occupy another area of cognitive processes that seems distinctive...
22 March 2018 2,084 20 View
Is it better to engage in Real Politik (seen amongst other characteristics) as dealing with heads of states who torture and murder or keep to ideals? Isn't Real Politik itself an ideal...
19 March 2018 8,603 4 View
This of course is not a straightforward issue, and certainly less so as there has been some confusion with other more provable learning difficulties. The notion of ADHD was introduced around the...
18 March 2018 4,015 3 View
Was Khaldun a modernist ahead of his time or a man of his time? Did he influence European historians with his understanding or belief in the rise and fall of civilisations? Is the Muqaddimah a...
13 March 2018 6,330 3 View
Jared Diamond-Guns, Germs, and Steel-holds that Sumeria constructed modern civilisation into farming-war-state. Much of our present world comes from this Mesopotamian template. Do you agree?
07 March 2018 10,026 5 View
Finding any evidence for the above is exhausting and difficult. Can it really be, like much in the Bible, it was made up? Challenge this! What if there was no Samuel, a seer anyway (which meant...
07 March 2018 235 11 View
Mary, the mother of Jesus, hardly figures in the Gospels but takes a greater presence in the Qur'an. They do not resemble one another, nor play similar roles (Maryam occupies a symbolic role not...
26 February 2018 507 12 View
In explanation, it has been suggested that conspiracist beliefs require a rejection of official mechanisms of information generation and expert opinion, as well as a high degree of suspiciousness...
24 February 2018 9,426 6 View
Given the shocking violence within Christian societies can we genuinely call the Christian religion pacifist. Has it, does it, betray its origins? What do the Christian texts actually say?
19 February 2018 2,450 10 View
OK-this is a huge question with many possible replies. Is it simply directional as physical phenomena suggests? No. I doubt if anyone believes that as we can visualise past experience through...
19 February 2018 5,334 9 View
According to many scientists dark energy makes up two thirds of the universe and creates or rather continues the universe's expansion. While there is evidence for Dark Matter is there another way...
15 February 2018 4,204 12 View
Gandhi chose civil-disobedience within a non-violent context to achieve political ends, but did what success he have come as the result of his methods functioning in law abiding societies?
15 February 2018 5,918 28 View
Britain has in the past 80 years produced a number of myths that confirm its identity, what it likes and projects/projected about itself. Many come from the 2nd World War: resilience against...
13 February 2018 3,080 22 View
During the early Iron age there were two significant gods, Ba'al and El, in Canaan. The latter was for centuries the chief Canaanite (West Semitic) god. Towards the end of the Bronze Age El began...
13 February 2018 836 16 View
We do not know how old some parts of the Sumerian poem of Gilgamesh, an ancient king of Uruk, are although it may belong to the 3rd millennium BCE. It was certainly rewrote or added to until...
09 February 2018 1,383 8 View
Supposing in the future nations learn to co-operate more and political systems compromise, what will be the result: democracies, dictatorships, oligarchies (the most common form of government...
08 February 2018 8,006 10 View
What will cryptocurrencies do for economies as they are not attached to governments or banks but will largely be subject to internet demand and flow? Will they create greater wealth-if only for...
06 February 2018 2,477 3 View
This question involves looking at the effects of banking, invented by the Sumerians, on ancient economies in general as it involves not only the distribution of wealth but also increased...
06 February 2018 3,333 9 View
The Abrahamic religions were originally formed upon a martial, violent god with a perceptively nasty streak and a tendency towards promoting genocide. There have been developments since and finer...
06 February 2018 2,219 31 View
For this, I have chosen Saint Augustine (354-430), or often known as Augustine of Hippo, in present day Algeria. He was an early Christian father and philosopher, who added a few additions to the...
31 January 2018 9,509 31 View
At the beginnings of agricultural societies a Great Goddess took centre stage (visible at Catalhoyuk), continued in evidence in the Sumerian goddess Inanna (who may have predated the Sumerian god...
30 January 2018 1,465 6 View
Few leaders act ethically, but act according to political necessity. Is that necessarily wrong except when leaders are actively corrupt or pursue violent ends? Isn't it important for leaders to...
27 January 2018 9,232 43 View
For Ancient Greeks myth meant stories handed down from previous generations, father to son, story teller to story teller-at first orally then from the 8th century in writing. As to its actuality,...
26 January 2018 3,699 35 View
The wars between Persia and Greece are usually portrayed as a struggle between occident and orient, with Greek's defeat of Persia beginning the idea of Europe as separate from Asia, with its own...
19 January 2018 4,057 5 View
Previously UK's Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, in A History of the World in 100 Objects. Neil macGregor. The British Museum 2012. Sacks was discussing the discovery in 1872 of the story of...
12 January 2018 609 16 View
This question strangely still evokes anxiety. It remains one invested with variable beliefs in cultural superiority (ie the primarcy of the Greeks), the central importance of Europeans, Asians,...
08 January 2018 3,051 25 View
In many ways, writing a novel, creating art, and scientific discovery seem to require different faculties, although clearly some attributes must be the same. In terms of intelligence (most IQ...
05 January 2018 2,023 7 View
Old theories of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain have largely been dismissed by historians, that is the original British were wiped out and the land settled by invaders from Germany and...
04 January 2018 8,299 96 View
This is a continuously contested issue, which at present seems unlikely to be fully resolved. Were the Sea-People Greek or made up of peoples from further afield (Sardinia, for example), part of...
03 January 2018 9,099 16 View
It's always interested me that Freud's map of the mind reflects the Greek polis' ideas on civilised, rational thinking, self control and virtue being exclusive to cities (Superego/ego), and...
03 January 2018 8,789 9 View
In an article in London Review of Books (14 Dec 2017) Nick Richardson writes: There are so many signs that we're on the cusp of a new dark age. Religion is on the rise, as are the number of...
29 December 2017 575 68 View
Alexander's father Philip II created the Macedonian army and defeated the Greeks, dying as he prepared a force to invade Persia. Of course, he need not have succeeded but nevertheless Alexander...
16 November 2017 3,912 5 View
In my volunteer capacity helping those suffering medical abuse, I have come across apalling stories related to the prescription of psychotropic drugs. What are your experiences, as either...
15 November 2017 9,472 17 View
I recently read that a group of school children had achieved higher IQ measurements than Einstein, Stephen Hawkings and many other crucial figures in science and the humanities. Surely such...
28 October 2017 282 18 View
As an occasional teacher of classical, early modern and modern literature I am curious about the merits of literary canon. I often read work on internet sites, for example, that bears comparison...
24 October 2017 5,783 20 View
This example attached below was made between 11000 and 12000 BCE in present day Colombia and is a greater achievement than European efforts found so far. It is 8 miles long. So can this qualify...
01 January 1970 4,935 2 View
https://www.livescience.com/simulating-early-universe-inflation.html?utm_source=notification If Time is immense and how we now experience Time is no more than a flicker of light in a massive...
01 January 1970 5,921 33 View
Hitler had ordinary relationships with a number of people contrary to myth, as did Stalin. The historian, Ellie Cawthorne, points out he was politically psychopathic but there is no evidence he...
01 January 1970 2,083 6 View
Today, I have marked psychology papers, negotiated future freelance work, posted a poem, and written the first three pages of an essay. And you?
01 January 1970 8,816 13 View
Everything I publish here is published elsewhere and of course the impact is variable. What about your work?
01 January 1970 3,201 1 View
At the beginning of the Republic Socrates pontificates on knowledge using Thrasymachus as a foil. I thought Thrasymachus' ideas were better. I thought Socrates' use of doctors and ship captains as...
01 January 1970 9,716 13 View
Why in a relationship does one partner abuse another, physically or mentally? Or each abuse the other? Finding someone in a world of violence and negativity (not always) should create...
01 January 1970 3,766 10 View
Although the modern view connects suicide with depression it is only one, probably minor reason. What other reasons could there be: social, political, relationship based in one form or another?
01 January 1970 1,815 21 View
We claim ideas as if they were our own, but is it possible they belong to another class, another generation? Can you impose critical thinking on your own ideas?
01 January 1970 5,621 37 View
Brexit in the UK was the result of a poorly judged referendum being called that was accepted as part of the democratic process. Since then the legislature has made every attempt, sometimes...
01 January 1970 1,254 34 View
The bigger the lie the more it is believed. I suggest, those who embrace propaganda need to believe it as it fits an underlying reality, which, although false, underpins their lives. National...
01 January 1970 8,348 98 View
The term good/bad writer can easily be dismissed as many indifferent writers have interesting things to say. But the anonymity of writers later heralded is a given (or perhaps a literary myth?)....
01 January 1970 9,538 6 View
Decades ago under Margaret Thatcher the UK government took money off the very poor, those on benefits, in order to release the wealthy or well to do from excessive taxation. This gave the...
01 January 1970 8,246 15 View
Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, has asserted that: 'The West has lost its monopoly over the globalisation process.' Have the liberal values of Western civilisation lost their power and...
01 January 1970 7,479 9 View
What are the causes of crime, and how can criminal behaviour be satisfactorily defined? Association theory: learned through the environment Atavistic theory Biology
01 January 1970 1,225 15 View
This has come to my notice recently, but it is something I was aware might be happening. Here you will find a message to me from --------- regarding Sergey Klyvov reporting that he 'likes to...
01 January 1970 4,971 3 View
One of these leaders is from South Africa, which recently sent weapons to Russia. Are their intentions clear?
01 January 1970 2,508 5 View
On the surface this looks like an unelected body of EU administrators interfering with an elected government. Will the EU turn into a large autocratic superpower? Should we be concerned?
01 January 1970 6,296 4 View
Below is a trawl through the ethnic identity through the ages of the UK. Some scientists hold it is probably even more varied as to type and skin...
01 January 1970 10,015 0 View
The USA, Russia and China all interfere or have interfered with smaller states: USA in the Americas and Far East: Russia in Europe and Middle East: China on an economic and technical fashion and...
01 January 1970 4,060 10 View
This is meant to elicit some reflections on Putin's practices, directed mainly towards a domestic audience. My claim is that it not only directs his actual programme, the protection of Putin and...
01 January 1970 4,196 2 View
Vasily Grossman, the brilliant Russian writer of the Second World War, in Life and Fate and Stalingrad (Third draft) poses three clear approaches to life and fate, leaving the reader to decide...
01 January 1970 2,289 4 View
This concerns the nature of power: He also said: Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or certainty...
01 January 1970 6,581 5 View
A British academic of African descent, Afua Hirsch, writes in World Histories about the row that ensued when she challenged the celebration of Horatio Nelson, the victor of Trafalgar in 1805,...
01 January 1970 1,873 23 View
Gossiping seems to be a fixed trait within all human communities. Is it just about passing information in narrative form about those known to us and others. Is it simply akin to violence, striking...
01 January 1970 2,825 1 View
As I believe religion is extremely dangerous as for example monotheisms have created an implausible set of values and modes of behaviour but I am more convinced by recent developments. For me, if...
01 January 1970 9,926 89 View
There are several ways of discussing this, through liberal concepts based on Western culture or through for example its seeming dichotomy of nationalism and ideology, religion and ethnicity. The...
01 January 1970 5,527 24 View
A version of homo sapiens, us, has been discovered in Morocco but although recognisable has a slightly different braincase. This has been dated to 300,000 BCE. Nevertheless, recent genetics has...
01 January 1970 8,210 3 View
In some of my recent papers, I have demonstrated a return to medieval tropes evident in Russia, the Middle East and indeed the USA, which has been expressed as a return to authoritarianism. I will...
01 January 1970 3,093 69 View
Is the world created upon 'balance of power' fading? Did these political system cause its own demise through state bossiness and the control and imposed limitations on weaker states. Although we...
01 January 1970 4,474 0 View
Psychology, according to Wundt, drew on definitions of human nature as distinct from prior religious interpretation, that human beings are neither bad nor good. Although thereby not conditioned or...
01 January 1970 1,279 99 View
Since the Ukrainian/Russo war began the tendency has been for some observers to say, albeit rhetorically, change will happen in Russia when its people know of the war crimes. But what if they...
01 January 1970 4,414 17 View
I will avoid describing the reasons too much to avoid an avalanche of trolls.
01 January 1970 1,389 3 View
The tactics and strategies of the present war appear to be an assemblage of previous ones, some ancient. Apart from the use of reality altering propaganda on one side there is a variation from...
01 January 1970 594 29 View
I particularly mean monotheisms, which are part of imperialist debate that rarely, if ever, get referenced. While Judaism occupies a territorial range subject to its own imperialist myths,...
01 January 1970 3,907 23 View
What if Bush and the USA had assumed the moral high ground? OK, Bush could not (not would not) have understood that as a choice, as I feel his identification with the US and its gungho reactions...
01 January 1970 4,431 14 View
Research has demonstrated that few talented people are sufficiently well known and revered-many songs have been composed, operas written (far more than people imagine) but the number of celebrated...
01 January 1970 8,964 28 View
The bringing of North Koreans into a conflict the Russian army has been unable to win breaks all civilised conventions and ensure genocide in Ukraine. NATO would still be reluctant to get involved...
01 January 1970 6,823 5 View
There is no evidence that Mecca existed, nor Muhammad, although the latter is debated. The Birmingham codices have been judged to have been written before the time of Muhammad, which is likely as...
01 January 1970 2,611 10 View
Putin looks to the past and has embraced medievalism (satanism), and he has given a prosperous company to one of his daughters who is now a billionaire. Nepotism has long been established, as well...
01 January 1970 2,111 0 View
Franz Fanon died in 1961 aged 36. A philosopher and psychiatrist he was one of the first, and still most important, black thinkers in the western world. He helped establish militancy as a means of...
01 January 1970 3,051 6 View
Intelligence emerged in homo sapiens by progression but the means it developed remains unclear let alone why. Some humility is required. Homo groups were preyed upon by a host of predators, many...
01 January 1970 1,239 3 View
Should doctors decide when we live and die? A case in the UK if a young woman, aged 19, who had a degenerating disease and expressed the desire to live as long as it was possible. The doctor's...
01 January 1970 3,943 0 View
This question proved difficult to word without getting the wrong response. I am here thinking of Merleau-Ponty and pushing back against the separation of mind-body, suggesting that we...
01 January 1970 1,388 29 View
I looked into my paper this morning and saw references to mental illness which even 50 years ago would not have been there. Nor would these unproven reflections on human behaviour appeared in...
01 January 1970 8,374 6 View
The two countries above long expressed a duality of power and cultural antithesis from the end of WW2, and although that was perhaps not a genuine description of global power then or now,...
01 January 1970 2,103 94 View
Did we kill all other species? Did we kill and eat all other humans? Around about 200,000 years ago there were perhaps 6 different human types around. Even by 40,000 years ago, a wink in time,...
01 January 1970 2,826 8 View
I am looking at two methods only and considering the benefits to the person and the problem. Revenge: this can be and usually is cathartic. Negative feelings about yourself and the world recede...
01 January 1970 8,110 1 View
Reading Bruce Chatwin's Songlines where he describes how the songlines work amongst the aborigines of Australia, creating a spiritual network of Australia based on individual totems and their...
01 January 1970 8,454 6 View
Canada according to Norimitsu Onsishi and Vjosa Isai ( New York Times, October 5) is becoming a battleground for Indians opposed to Modi and the government of Modi. In their view Modi represents...
01 January 1970 2,828 10 View
When human beings (homo sapiens) reached Australia all the huge marsupials there quickly (in relative terms) died off. When human beings reached the Americas, all the huge animals (giant sloth,...
01 January 1970 3,364 9 View
Don Quixote has alethic and aesthetic poles but does it not have more than that? Do great novels, plays, paintings, sculptures need other qualities to impress?
01 January 1970 5,871 6 View
Unless someone can come up with a good argument for the first of these, I will dispense with the issue of money paid. Although this is much more than what they would get in their civilian lives,...
01 January 1970 7,912 1 View
Should we stop listening to financial forecasts?
01 January 1970 4,523 18 View
The greater emergence of authoritarianism in politics and society? Authoritarian religions will gain greater political power? The influence of the US will substantially decline? America is...
01 January 1970 5,105 100 View
Is Putin turning Russia into an Eastern, Asian country? While the huge number whom he claims voted for him, impossible in a Western state, has no reality it can be seen in small Asian polities....
01 January 1970 4,269 13 View
A large number of species have died out, their disappearance we know has been down to human beings. The moa, dodo, so many others. But would the very landscape be different? What effects have...
01 January 1970 4,458 13 View
In co-operation with Russia, although most of their recent missile attacks failed on or just after take-over, will Iran use nuclear weapons against Israel. Iran has moved away from using its...
01 January 1970 3,997 8 View
If we consider tyrannies today, our greater knowledge of the use of power, was Shakespeare not just wrong but sentimental? Were we misled and are we paying for it now?
01 January 1970 479 5 View
If the new weaponry coming into Ukraine proves a tipping point, in line with the degradation of Russian society, how and when will Russia break up? Is the Eastern region the most vulnerable or...
01 January 1970 8,298 10 View
I owe my continued good health to my avoidance of doctors and hospitals. I suspect, but only suspect, that some connection to early deaths and medical treatment might be there, certainly as I am...
01 January 1970 9,505 18 View
A strange case, but are there others? Yozan Mosig, a psychology professor, in 2012 wrote and published a paper that declared that the famous battle of Zama that ended Hannibal's successful career...
01 January 1970 9,348 20 View
The sentence above are largely rhetorical and perhaps it would be fairer to ask how these attacks are reacted to. The British Library recently suffered a cyber attack by a criminal gang (I have...
01 January 1970 6,510 6 View
An article by Francis Fukuyama (FT Weekend) asserts that the above organisation claims a decline in quantity and quality over the past 18 years. He points the worst example as United States....
01 January 1970 2,179 49 View
I find that selective portions of Christianity are evident in the Qur'an, myths but not its ethics!
01 January 1970 5,288 4 View
People are entitled surely to express their sexuality as they choose and why thereby should it concern others? Yes, many religions express anger at such behaviour but in each case the religion is...
01 January 1970 6,757 72 View
Adultery can but not always cause deep distress to participants and those around them, but what role, if any, does it play? Marriages fray and having an alternate lover may, some say, allow a...
01 January 1970 1,344 19 View
Early civilisations, including Ethiopia, have been found in sub-Saharan Africa but dating back to early Christian times. I suspect little money and effort has been expended to find more within...
01 January 1970 7,365 2 View
Rimbaud ceased to write poetry when he was 21. Up to that point, some consider the poetry he wrote started off modern poetry. He wrote of subjects that few poets had touched on before-initiating...
01 January 1970 2,671 15 View
The recent American election has brought Trump to the fore again, a man under investigation for his last term in office, and throughout the world autocracies have climbed to the forefront, some...
01 January 1970 9,631 16 View
Let's say that writing and literature are not the same. They rarely look the same with different forms, paragraphs, settings and subject matter-introspective rather than appealing to surface...
01 January 1970 8,850 10 View
In offering this question I place myself within a position of prejudice. Although he has strategic sense I tend to believe that violent people, contrary to modern myths such as Hannibal Lector,...
01 January 1970 709 6 View
Just curious really, and also interested in the production of ideas. Einstein it is generally accepted stopped producing new ideas by middle-age, and Newton's achievements ended at the same point....
01 January 1970 2,259 86 View
As this is a long interview and I have a weak stomach, I have seen this in bits and bobs. Interestingly, Russian friends have told me he always talks like this, a rambling ahistorical flim-flam...
01 January 1970 6,394 3 View
Thomas L. Friedman identifies four politicians who are ideologically fixed on themselves and feel they are indispensable for the futures of their countries-Putin, Xi, Trump and Netanyahu. Each...
01 January 1970 505 7 View
The apparent length of time between the emergence of human beings (c 250,000 years ago) and human creativity, which today defines us, raises immense questions about human development and...
01 January 1970 652 22 View
We live in a changing world I suggest, in which the media, the means of providing messages/information, is the most important aspect of that change and has led to attacks on truth, or at least...
01 January 1970 983 0 View
The application of the above is essential in understanding monotheisms, that is their justification and effect on thinking. While believers consider these religions as proven and part of the...
01 January 1970 9,233 4 View
I have provided questions on I hope a great range of topics, but not any so far on one of my great loves-Literature. I know many of you share my love. This poem is considered the best of Rupert...
01 January 1970 1,632 10 View
What can those periods when our more intense perceptions are in abeyance, and we are merely flat screens, indicate about mind and our relationship with the external world? 'nature, who engages in...
01 January 1970 4,122 1 View
I am leaning towards a different construction of personality than that in psychology and psychiatry, believing both are top down and dependent on artificial notions. I have recently read East of...
01 January 1970 7,146 18 View
The Ukrainian War provides a disputation not only of reality but what is right, creating right as a reflection of war. In Russia, killing Ukrainians is preached as a moral duty. The Gaza/Israel...
01 January 1970 6,741 2 View
Wars and their consequences?
01 January 1970 3,450 3 View
Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by Herodotus of Halicarnassus. The purpose is to present the traces of human events from being erased by time, and to preserve the fame of...
01 January 1970 2,007 3 View
The minimisation of childhood trauma in favour of drug treatments is an appalling error. Bessel van der Kolk the leading expert on PTSD drags it back into medical focus. Can you still remember the...
01 January 1970 4,744 5 View
I have used non-belief rather than 'religion' as belief is really the problem. Belief makes people, it appears to me, comfortable, avoiding the nature of life and indeed death, unwilling to...
01 January 1970 7,152 12 View
Realpolitics was Kissinger's area of expertise although it is easy to find fault with his approach, certainly as both delusion and simplification, but Kissinger developed American policies of the...
01 January 1970 4,795 5 View
The Central Court (sic) has paved Trump's path to the Presidency and the USA no doubt will, or ok, might, retread the path to lunacy, Orban will be temporarily head of Europe, Macron is under...
01 January 1970 6,048 4 View
Europe as an autonomous region of the world has no cultural reality but involves much rewriting of history. Greece, the imagined birthplace of Europe, was an outpost of the Near East and Egypt,...
01 January 1970 2,220 7 View
While everything under monotheistic religions does not indicate hatred towards others, still much of it does. The problem here for me is that other and often older literature does not contain...
01 January 1970 5,245 42 View
The territorial concept of Communism seen in the USSR and other failed economies was not the original concept of this economic and political system, one established oddly for the benefit of a...
01 January 1970 6,941 20 View
Each moment we exist determines the previous moment we existed. Our degradation expresses evidence of its existence but perhaps not why it seems necessary, if indeed it is.
01 January 1970 4,327 2 View
Puton has long stated he is in a war against the West, originally expressed in Cyber Warfare, which China conditionally supports: Modi of India, an apprentice tyrant, has long expressed prejudice...
01 January 1970 2,227 4 View
The idea of Knower and Knowing has been developed by me elsewhere, but can be found examined by others. Usually they reflect public ideas such as psychology but these twin perceptions can be...
01 January 1970 957 6 View
I have been researching this for many years and studied psychotherapy in both London University and Middlesex. I have many papers on here and elsewhere, which examine the subject, I believe,...
01 January 1970 7,393 12 View
The life of Plato emerged from Laertius, writing in the 3rd century CE, 500 years after Plato's death. Laertius describes Plato as fighting in the Athenian army as a hoplite at Corinth and Tangara...
01 January 1970 7,549 4 View
Early Christianity (after 100 CE) functioned economically as a separate group within the Roman Empire and Catholocism is recognised for its extraordinary wealth: Islam was constructed by merchants...
01 January 1970 3,039 32 View
I struggle with neurology as producing genuine insights into human mental health, apart from those areas of possible degradation. Senility, affects on memory, brain damage, or areas where...
01 January 1970 2,036 5 View
This represents a long, indeed centuries old, debate as to where this major language group originated. Did it indeed originate in the Near East where modern urban culture began?
01 January 1970 224 69 View
I came across reference to the above recently in the world history of a Dutch writer and I was aghast as archaeological research has been going on in present day Israel for over a hundred years...
01 January 1970 3,237 10 View
Infidelity causes immense pain for its victims but how realistic is it to expect couples to stay together over so many years?
01 January 1970 9,259 2 View
Although we assume that thinkers change society, from Socrates to Marx, what about artists? What about writers (novelists and poets)? What for example did Shelley mean 'by poets are the...
01 January 1970 2,656 50 View
https://www.livescience.com/earliest-form-of-pythagorean-triplet?utm_source=notification Above proof of Pythagorean theorem existing in ancient Mesopotamian a 1000 years before Pythagoras...
01 January 1970 6,775 6 View
This is an important issue as it involves affects of sanctions, the nature of economic health and positive effects of starting a war. I hold that economic institutions need to reconsider their...
01 January 1970 3,338 0 View
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01 January 1970 4,369 38 View
My position on this is perhaps slightly different to some others as I was working in East London helping Moslem run colleges as a consultant at the time students were being radicalised and...
01 January 1970 8,473 2 View
Invented by Socrates (for Europe and the West) to signify the elite, it became part of the teaching of religious groups including Christianity providing longevity to a different kind of elite...
01 January 1970 8,103 45 View
Many aspects of our world function in that fashion: work, religion are just two prominent examples. But psychiatry makes claims as a science and, for me, lacks proof and at best (at best) must be...
01 January 1970 1,083 28 View
Let's try as this has gained immense popularity. My overall point is that there has been a change in language and the use of essentially psychiatric terms, or those based on this medical...
01 January 1970 9,240 1 View
Common understandings of Trump implies an incompetent individual driven by his own rhetoric into delusion. Is he that bad? Certainly, we may not have seen the last of his incompetences, made worse...
01 January 1970 7,787 51 View
I will first offer the perspective below. I will add that much of what we consider genuine science may not be but fit other less welcome descriptive. Psychiatry I claim illustrates a lack of...
01 January 1970 9,828 18 View
Nearly every economic move Trump has made appears to hurt the world economy and is seemingly directed at ensuring American economic failure. Why? Just stupidity or planned? Out of the resulting...
01 January 1970 1,041 13 View
Important pists in the American government are being handed to inexperienced people with worrying political views...Is this goodbye to America's greatness, however that is understood?
01 January 1970 2,522 19 View
📷 Mirror Follow 359.5K Followers Shock dementia study shows antidepressants could actually speed up mental decline Story by Martin Bagot Amongst my clients, not necessarily a large number, short...
01 January 1970 1,977 6 View
My recent work considers the reliability of the individuality perspective on human psychology.
01 January 1970 5,495 13 View
Keeping an open mind in assessing Trump's approach, my take principally on Tariffs and the destruction of the welfare sector: From my understanding, and memory, there have been two attempts, both...
01 January 1970 2,538 100 View
The above declaration is asked in specific circumstances, by people involved in these circumstances. It surely asserts the morality of those who have none and the morality of those who assert...
01 January 1970 7,897 0 View
As psychiatry functions within its own scientific values, can we believe in, and why do people believe in, a nosology that looks invented?
01 January 1970 5,682 11 View
Central powerful states and area of control and influence, the concept of Germany and Russia in a particular historical situation, is already looking ridiculous, with America and Russia winding...
01 January 1970 9,617 3 View
What trading system will succeed? Tariffs or working together? A return to the 1950s? Does this suit more primitive economies, like Russia? A likely end result is higher prices on nearly all...
01 January 1970 6,770 4 View
I have been warning against AI for one specific area. Today, reading yesterday's Daily Mail, I live in Portugal so they arrive a day late, I came across the same warning in the paper's Good Health...
01 January 1970 4,542 5 View
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_LNsN9W3s Homo Namedi lived alongside modern humans but was not as advanced, with a number of ape qualities, but upright and almost as tall as us. One discovery...
01 January 1970 3,521 17 View
His ideas on this are sound in that the American poor will suffer without a chance of improvement, this can be seen under Trump. Part of Trump's efforts, probably without understanding, is to...
01 January 1970 8,405 1 View
Clearly Trump's government is turning towards fascism, and will continue in that way. We need to discuss how this has happened and how this can be avoided elsewhere in future.
01 January 1970 8,032 19 View
Corruption is spiralling under Trump, who was himself involved with New York Mafia. The corruption involves Musk and SpaceX, who moves government money towards his own projects and companies....
01 January 1970 6,651 5 View
The Great Gatsby focuses on money and the advantages of being rich, individual dependence on money for morals and choices, the ideal of an absolute society based on the values of the rich.
01 January 1970 1,414 6 View
All if the terms above have been employed, and, in many ways, Freud's understanding built out of culture, symbolism and biology rings at times with the greater resonance, bathed as it is in...
01 January 1970 4,440 1 View
This is entirely speculative. I am of the view that intelligence has an artificial nature as well as being rooted in the brain. As an aside, it seems clear that, in view of recent events,...
01 January 1970 7,748 4 View
Edwin Frank, the literary critic, 'Stranger than fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel, believes that Dostoyevsky's Notes From Underground introduced a new conception of...
01 January 1970 6,828 16 View
My papers indicate how harmful the first if these is, its money based ambitions and the power it gives to doctors, but although the therapeutic effects of Freud can be debated it still provides...
01 January 1970 5,122 36 View
Myth plays a significant part in the construction of knowledge and feeds into the creation of sciences, a product of the greater organisation of societies from the 16th century to the present, and...
01 January 1970 5,160 3 View
Trump was recently on TV claiming that all weaponry sold abroad will now be of poor quality. Canadians will be searched and even imprisoned. Canadians will not now journey to America. Europe has...
01 January 1970 4,289 13 View
Really, under Trump has America lost all the respect it had accrued since the end of WW2? This thought was mooted on a television programme from the US based on how America is not referenced by...
01 January 1970 1,140 8 View
The title says enough. The amiability of America towards Britain and Europe is recent. What would have happened if it had gone ahead? Also the attitudes of Trump, deplorable as they are, go deeper.
01 January 1970 7,812 14 View
Not wishing to include the politics involved, but aware of Russian reception of whatever Putin and his supporters say, constructing and reconstructing reality, and the same now in America with...
01 January 1970 6,115 9 View
Psychiatry used and using a range of hypnotics, mainly as tranquillisers, most of which like Ativan are now on the dangerous drugs lists now. These drugs have commonly been used in date rape...
01 January 1970 7,646 10 View
Below is an extract from a paper, the origins and author of I do not at present know, not just who they are and where this was published. On occasion, I save whatever interests me....
01 January 1970 2,865 14 View
Autocratic countries, oligarchs, leaders including Putin and Trump are moving money around. Is this the real end of liberty?
01 January 1970 5,838 4 View
At present I am reading with deep interest The Pledge by Howard Fast, a best selling American/British author of the last century. I was inspired by reading Irving Stone's Lust for Life, a novel on...
01 January 1970 6,506 0 View
The evidence for mobility is limited, as is the mobility, and where it has occurred has been the consequence of specific events within specific societies. Dickens went from a poor background (was...
01 January 1970 8,375 1 View
I suggest identity is prominent and with that division. Constructing ideas as a means of explaining our existence, and simply entertainment (stories, songs and poetry). Although in the present we...
01 January 1970 1,349 1 View
For over two decades I have pointed towards modern medicines (especially anti-depressives) as one source of mental illness, which appears (sic) to be raging in Western Society. But: Blockbuster...
01 January 1970 6,035 2 View
Article in yesterdays Daily Mail, 21st January, on a woman whose family paid for a facial for her birthday, and the effects of the facial reacted with a metal retainer holding her teeth in place....
01 January 1970 6,464 1 View
Trump appears to visualise the world as one run by Big Men (not women I suspect) grabbing what land and resources they can (while Europe looks on?). Trump seems concerned with gathering wealth for...
01 January 1970 9,694 14 View
