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Robert M. Kelly

rmkelly@zirk.us

<p>(he/man) I am 72-year-old paperhanger writing often about wallpaper history. My &quot;likes&quot; are: neoplatonism, democracy, and learning to be a better human. I live in Berkshire County, MA. I have a lovely wife and we do the Jumble every night in bed. My (So. Korean) adopted daughter is married and lives in Portsmouth, ME. That&#39;s me in a nutshell!</p>

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    @RickiTarr True. I think the French government has the right idea about this. It&amp;#39;s ok to be atheist; it&amp;#39;s not ok to be anti-theist.

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    @carnage4life Of course. Because as we all know, quantity equals quality.

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    @DrYohanJohn All true. However, do we really need &amp;quot;the significance of a complex process of mediation&amp;quot; for most, if not all, of the everyday things we need to grasp and make sense of? Is not this &amp;quot;immediate knowledge&amp;quot; enough, for most purposes?

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    @DrYohanJohn Here he seems to be following Kant in a distrust that we can really know &amp;quot;the thing in itself&amp;quot; as we should. Or, enough; or maybe even at all, as you say. But when it comes to me accepting that you see a certain tree, for example, pretty much in the same way, and with the same results, that I see that same tree, and so we can therefore talk about it and compare notes, I&amp;#39;m a bit lost as to why this exchange cannot be at least a small step on building a knowl...

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    @Wolven Sounds like it is closely related to the Angelic Fallacy (humans have mind without body).

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    @jetton &amp;quot;So you want to substitute &amp;quot;YOU&amp;quot; for &amp;quot;THOU&amp;quot; in the singular? Motherfucker, not here.&amp;quot;

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    @heidilifeldman Rising fascism is no joke, and we do need to respond to it. I think Heidi puts the emphasis where it belongs: on needs. Our existence takes place in a world of accidents but we ourselves are not accidents but substances. I feel called to make choices between what I want to do, and what I need to do.

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    In 1965 Walter Kaufman (with some help from Nietzsche) explained Hegel&amp;#39;s peculiarly bad writing style.

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    @Gargron Disagree. Calling it &amp;quot;artificial intelligence&amp;quot; is absolutely justified. It&amp;#39;s only when the qualifier &amp;quot;artificial&amp;quot; is dropped, unknowingly or uncareingly, that interpretive problems arise.

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    @heidilifeldman All I can fathom is that R. wants a pardon when/if TFG gets back in. Now, a pardon does not mean you&amp;#39;re not guilty of the crime you were found guilty of. It just means that your sentence is pardoned. See &amp;quot;Bernie Kerik.&amp;quot; As I understand it. If so that seems like a pretty slender reason for R&amp;#39;s continuing pretense. Then again, if R comes to Jesus, this would spell trouble for Trump&amp;#39;s re-election bid.

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    @heidilifeldman Nail on head. My take is that the GOP is clinging to Trump like someone on a raft. Trump is now trashing Haley&amp;#39;s character, revealing more of his true character (and thus the instability of the raft which the GOP is clinging to).

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    @robhughes Nice. I really don&amp;#39;t get CNN. With what I assume are fabulous newsrooms, they can&amp;#39;t be bothered to do a little fact-checking before writing a pop article? Puzzling.

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    @heidilifeldman The Comstock Act of 1873 made it illegal to send “obscene, lewd or lascivious,” “immoral” or “indecent” publications through the mail.

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    A summary page for &amp;quot;The WALLPAPER&amp;quot; project on SSRN (Social Science Research Network): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4769365

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    Summary of &amp;quot;The Wallpaper&amp;quot; Newsletter (Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2022) on Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:64601/

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    @liam I will allow it.