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As an addendum to this part of the thread related to loneliness... I took the dance lessons with a strategy in mind to help me learn how to re-socialize after spending nearly 5 years in emotional isolation tending to Mom before she passed. After I reached the Silver standard for the studio, I...

I have claims on Fox Trot, Waltz, Rhumba, Cha-Cha, Tango, Mambo, Samba, two varieties of Swing, and lesser skills with the Hustle, Merengue, Paso Doble, and a couple of line dances. Silver standard on most, but bronze on the "lesser" category. Since I was never involved in the exhibition...

What you are calling inflection may be what my (older) generation at various times called introspection and meditation. During those times you must be alone to avoid the distraction. Sometimes, when my mother was still alive but seriously ill, I would meditate to try to understand what was...

Jen, New Orleans can be fun place to visit. It is neither more nor less dangerous than any other moderate-to-large city, safer when you are in crowds such as a convention. The music venues are a bit subdued now on Bourbon Street because the city took action some years ago to "tame" it a bit...

AI, your opinion is not uncommon. However, ... Depending on your religious beliefs and the way you were taught, it is valid to ask "what child" and still not be disingenuous. According to many religions, a fetus is not a child. Judaism and Islam share the belief that you don't have a child...

I remember Erich von Daniken, author of Chariots of the Gods?, and his claims regarding Earth having been visited by aliens. We have a TV series that I never watch so can't tell you much about it. It is called Ancient Aliens. So much speculation, so little substance. I also remember that...

When I was working my way through college, I was a musician on Bourbon Street. One of the band members had played in another band a few blocks deeper into the French Quarter so was able to give us some tips about people parading around pretending to be who they weren't. This was long before...

For me, sometimes those voices are merely me trying to work thought a potential scene (or set of scenes) for something I would want to write. They can be directed, so I see it as nothing more than an active imagination. The people who have issues would be those who cannot direct the voices to...

I recall Mark Twain (Samuel L Clemens) once being quoted as saying: "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics." Someone who is really good with statistics can say ANYTHING THEY WANT and trot out stats to prove it. What they don't tell you, and the reason why statistics are at the top of...

I look at it this way, Bee. When someone says, "Are you a man or a mouse?" my response is easy: "Where's the cheese?":giggle: My poor, long suffering wife usually asks a different question: "Who cut the cheese?" :eek:

I remember the feeling, but not from recent times. Being retired will change your perspectives.

Organic matter is based on its components and chemical bonding, not its state of being or degree of animation. Poop is strictly organic. Even if it CAN form crystals, it might be mostly organic. For example, the material that was Louis Pasteur's subject of research for a university "extra...

Moral relativity strikes again. One man's truth is another man's blasphemy. But Christianity, particularly after the advent of the King James Version of the Bible, is also oppressive. James was a know misogynist and also knew the golden rule better than any else. "Them that has the gold...

Wow, you don't want much there... This answer comes from a PhD chemist whose specialty was inorganic analysis using spectroscopy and computer real-time data capture. Hold on to your seats for this one. The biggest difference stems from a combination of atom size and the ability to form...

Jen, be nice and share! But my question is, what KIND of cheese? What it if is Limburger? Or worse, German Handkase? For purists, I should have put double-dots over the A to make it A-umlaut, in which case the A would have the same vowel sound as the E in Spanish "queso", and the trailing "e"...

You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but I don't think it needs to go that deep. All we need is one layer of subject filtration in a world of true - or "absolute" - reality and we are still stuck inside our own heads. Of course, like that famous Jack Nicholson line, perhaps we "can't...

Didn't catch this at first, but 3 mph is fractionally faster than I can walk. That counts as a "brisk walk" according to my primary care physician. Every day I walk a measured course of 3.05 miles and with my wonky knees, foot issues, and a typical New Orleans summer, there are days I can't...

Welcome, Jen. Sometimes we get thought-provoking here. Sometimes downright silly. Step right in. And Jon isn't that uptight about people who post first and ask questions later.

OPINION: I believe there is an objective reality because it can be repetitively and consistently measured by inanimate devices that have no "subjective" aspect to the act of measurement. This is not to say that WE would see reality because our perceptions are filtered. But that inanimate...

There are different interpretations of the word "accept" so I'm not sure how to answer you, besides which it would be an opinion anyway. To me, the "biggies" are... "Accept" in the sense of "can I believe my eyes" (or ears or whatever sensory inputs are functional in experiencing the...