It is my humility and self-deprecating sense of humor that endears me to my inferiors. As a result, I post occasional comments like the one above, only to have it used maliciously against me. An ordinary person would protest, but I sit back content, appreciating how my comments have elevated the self worth of those who have so little.
ArguingWAristotleTiffOctober 23, 2015 at 17:25#5120 likes
Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics. (Charles Peguy.) He also noted that "Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
ArguingWAristotleTiffOctober 25, 2015 at 14:53#9581 likes
[quote=BitterCrank]Sorry, Heathcliff, Hamlet and the Don are just too far back in memory -- can't pry them out. [/quote]
Mayor of SimpletonOctober 25, 2015 at 15:57#9672 likes
[quote=SIR2U]
Whilst many that come here do use Twatter and farcebook to keep in touch with others, a lot of us come here to avoid the high quantity and quality of the stupidity found on those mostly brainless areas of the internet and avoid the multitude of ads, likes, followers, and general bullshit that so blocks up your thinking processes.[/quote]
Taken from a place far far away. :D
Meow!
GREG
btw... How about them apples... you can cut and paste a quote from our old home here in our new home. SHAZAM!
Hey, ain't I the funking greatest. X-) Suck that up Yahadreas, I's the most awesome t'day.
The first, one and only, original, unique posted in 2 Wiser Words threads on 2 different forums at the same time. I shall have to tope six packs of Schlitz more often.
Thanks MoS.
Ps please don't no one look further up in case I'm wrong.:s
Mayor of SimpletonOctober 25, 2015 at 21:08#9911 likes
Reminds me...
Should I invite Schlitz?
He also had some really great posts.
Meow!
GREG
btw... did you like how I suggested we should maybe form a club? ;)
Thanks to all of those who extended an invitation to this new forum. I am curious: who is planning on severing ties altogether with "the old forum"? I am adopting a provisional, "wait and see" attitude with regard to the new owners. It looks like some fairly strong posters (e.g. AndrewK and Nagase) are still hanging around PF. I am thinking that I will probably divide my time between these 2 forums for a while.
Mayor of SimpletonOctober 26, 2015 at 14:09#11182 likes
Indeed I am still checking in at PF, but have the feeling that my days there are numbered.
I was contacting 'theSoren' a bit to get a bit more of a picture of what is really the intention and direction of PF. It's sort of like driving by a former home to see what the new buyers have done with it.
There are moments where it is difficult to 'let go', but it seems as if it is not really what it used to be, so the 'letting go' might well have been taken care of for me, as hat it was is not longer there to hold.
I will post now and then there, but for the most part as to keep contact with folks who might well be interested in looking into our new option.
This is not so much a territorial war, but more a realization that this is no longer really home.
Anyway...
in the words of the band that brought me back to philosophy, Maximo Park:
[b][i]"What happens when you lose everything?
You just start again
You start all over again!"[/i][/b]
For me... somewhat autobiographical, right down to the nose bleed out of the left nostril (exactly what happened when my head literally exploded a few years back).
Thanks to all of those who extended an invitation to this new forum. I am curious: who is planning on severing ties altogether with "the old forum"? I am adopting a provisional, "wait and see" attitude with regard to the new owners. It looks like some fairly strong posters (e.g. AndrewK and Nagase) are still hanging around PF. I am thinking that I will probably divide my time between these 2 forums for a while.
You're welcome.
I for one am planning to abandon the old forum altogether, provided things here either remain as good as they are, or improve.
This place is a breath of fresh air, is an improvement in some ways (both major and minor), and has grown on me.
The other place has been poorly managed in some respects, since the takeover, and I've been in the line of fire. I don't trust Borat, et al.
The best possible future for humanity, in my view, is one where we collectively agree to cease reproduction and live our lives for as long as we desire to. We would be abstaining from forcing people into existence while pursuing our dreams for as long as we can sustain them.
Mayor of SimpletonOctober 30, 2015 at 20:33#18540 likes
Thanks!
Recent events have sort of shuffled my brain cells.
Time to take a break...
... but atleast I had the fun of misreading the post 'The Problem of Nihilism' to read 'The Problem with Niles Rodgers'. I was thinking over a post regarding his time in the Black Panthers when my wife said honey, look at the thread title again...". :s
this is only the opening part of The Lord of the Flies, where everyone is still nice to each other. Man's primeval nature will emerge eventually, leaving you mods plenty to do. :D
By "Man's primeval nature" I take Arkady to be referring to Kwalish Kid, but he's yet to find his way here.
Reply to jamalrob I am going to start an arcane, tribal chant "Kuh-Wal-Ish Kid; Kuh-Wal-Ish Kid" in the hopes that it summons him from the ancestral realm. Current statistics puts the effectiveness of this chant at a zero percent rating, but it worked on my dog, so hopefully it will work here.
Mayor of SimpletonMay 29, 2016 at 10:30#124030 likes
Let me put it to you this way, the unscrupulous have all of the options available to those with scruples, plus dishonesty. misinformation, misdirection, relevant omissions, and spin.
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Where I live, using the phone is involved in more fatal accidents than alcohol. The statistic for alcohol is far less than 80%". — Metaphysician Undercover
"Where do you live, at the Samsung Galaxy S7 store?
Now that's funny! 8-)
ArguingWAristotleTiffDecember 02, 2016 at 11:23#365620 likes
This gem was found on the "Moderation" thread and made me smile at the crew of 'thinkers' we have here at The Philosophy Forum! Quoting Bitter Crank
And here I was all set to discuss moderation in all things, rather than moderation on THE Philosophy Forum.
Like those people who audition for a singing competition but they sound like a dying horse need to be told that they won't get far in life as a singer, sometimes there are people who have a rather awkward intellect that need to be told that perhaps they should try dabbling in something less intellectually vigorous, like new age spirituality. It may just be that you unfortunately got caught in between, brush your shoulders off and move on.
This made me laugh, relate and take note of how to move on through today. (Y)
ArguingWAristotleTiffJuly 13, 2017 at 14:52#862170 likes
Did you also predict that N. Korea would grow ICBMs? Considering your proximity, maybe you folks should pick a general to be your chief of staff (or whatever you call that person).
I heard from some doctors that Viagra is good for old people in terms of heart health.
And it is a Medicare covered medication. Yippie! These poor men walking around the old folks home, with a boner they wished they had in high school and no one to share it with. Nurses have to LOVE that! (N)
These poor men walking around the old folks home, with a boner they wished they had in high school and no one to share it with. Nurses have to LOVE that! (N)
So... do the nurses have to provide hand relief when that happens?
Make friends with people who are not afraid to tell you that you are wrong, not people who will agree with you tooth and nail. Do not project your own faults and problems onto these people when they expose to you that you are wrong and claim that it is them doing what you are actually doing.
While it is unlikely you will heed this advice, IMHO I believe it is best that you reading and writing about philosophy other than what you are doing to earn your degree on your own terms and doing what interests you. For if you don't there is a good chance that it will all will become just 'work' to you and it will become just as boring and tedious as whatever you did before you did for the government before you enrolled in the program you are now in.
Excellent advice~
ArguingWAristotleTiffApril 13, 2018 at 13:30#1715650 likes
Not sure if this will help - I don't have a lot of friends, but I have found friends here. If you hang around a little while, you will too. Maybe that's not enough, but this could be a place where you feel at home.
What a beautiful perspective on The Philosophy Forum~ Thank you~
We're all technically idiots, when we hypothetically compare ourselves with a more advanced civilization. You never know, they might just be idiots like us. In that case, we are not the only idiots in the universe. There is something comforting in that statement alone. Otherwise, we are bound to be the lonesome idiots floating through space, until the day we discover another civilization that is more or less idiotic than our own.
This goes to the question of how things are grounded. I want a rational ground; someone else wants emotion/feeling; a third wants utility; a fourth, care. A fifth shrugs and say it's all relative; a sixth says nothing matters - do what you want.
@tim wood You tagged each of the personalities in my group of friends!
Wait a sec: when a dude's been being studied by scholars for a thousand years or two, he might be wrong, but he's obviously not obviously wrong, right?
Right! :lol:
ArguingWAristotleTiffApril 20, 2018 at 15:32#1730990 likes
A person's opinions are formed through their way of thinking and the information that they have. Most people don't see the opposing arguments as valid because their mind deals with the information differently and it is difficult to see from someone else's point of view.
This place is as special we make it. You are sacred. Subjective value versus objective. If we all agree this place is useless, it is. If we all agree you are useless, we're wrong.
(May have got jumbled in the box of shouting... but :up: )
It's no wonder you're getting lost, you're inverting what I said. What I meant is that we speak of the unintelligible as an unknown. This implies that the unintelligible is an instance of the unknown, it does not mean that all unknowns are unintelligible. Therefore, that you provide an example of an unknown which is not an unintelligible, is really irrelevant, it just means that you misunderstood what I said.
This feels very circular. :sweat:
Metaphysician UndercoverJune 03, 2018 at 00:59#1848330 likes
Reply to ArguingWAristotleTiff
If I say that a poodle is a dog, and you give me an example of a dog which is not a poodle, as evidence that my claim is false, all this means is that you have misunderstood what I said.
ArguingWAristotleTiffJune 07, 2018 at 12:38#1862650 likes
I remember in the old PF how quick and effective the administrators were to spot the occasional crank or the person who would start to make ad hominem attacks and be too abusive. Poof! And they were gone instantly. The NKVD worked so well. That instilled a little bit of fear into us and kept the discussion rather polite. Yet when the old forum crashed the first time, the first thing on my mind was had I written something bad and gotten evicted for some reason.
God I remember that feeling....and I think we were in good company that had felt that way. It was a fear that one day, you would no longer have a space at the table of "thinkers" that was set. As @Hanover used to say: when someone gets banned it kind makes you wonder if you could be next and maybe had to up your game. :eyes:
ArguingWAristotleTiffAugust 31, 2018 at 12:51#2094330 likes
Well. Being, being being, is no being; or to put it another way, no being can be being, because being is being. While it may be true that beings be, by being they are not being. Thus we avoid caricature.
There will be an answer...
CiceronianusOctober 30, 2018 at 15:36#2234110 likes
I wasn't putting any words in your mouth as you're quite capable of making an ass out of yourself without my help. All I was trying to do was helping you figure out the inanity of your position.
I hope to be able to definitively answer the question in the OP before long. I have been busy in the important exercise of observing everything and identifying for every single thing whether it has a start.
When I am finished, I will post the result here, and then we'll finally know for good and all.
:smirk: :up:
ArguingWAristotleTiffJanuary 07, 2019 at 13:24#2439660 likes
Stay happy, walk in the shade and don't talk to strangers unless they are firemen.
Probably the best advice I received for 2019 from another forum member! :cool:
ArguingWAristotleTiffJanuary 07, 2019 at 13:25#2439690 likes
You ain't no peng'un historian, Mikey. Don't be given papa Hanover no lip or you'll be in for a good hidin'. Your kind ain't welcome around these parts. Take your new spangled intellectualism elsewhere. You hear me, boy?
My obvious hostility is what makes me so endearing. Everyone I force into submission tells me so.
So they don't tell you too often then do they. :lol:
ArguingWAristotleTiffMarch 30, 2019 at 18:39#2707770 likes
With respect, I am wrong more often than you think. But when I play devil's advocate and all I get is ridicule and argument from authority, I smile quietly and shake my head a little.
@unenlightened
My mentor, my sage~ I am trying very hard to walk in your shadow my friend~
[quote="whollyrolling]The existence of horses and narwhals proves the existence of unicorns.
You could apply this principle to anything really. It's a simple formula, "because there's this, there must also be that".
This is what makes ancient philosophy so lasting, so impossible to defeat, so impressive and amazing. It's reverse psychology, if you say something so profoundly and incomprehensibly stupid that no one can argue against it, then you win while the world scratches its head.[/quote]
ArguingWAristotleTiffApril 12, 2019 at 12:44#2758220 likes
Nah! Most of us do not have the opportunity to use morality spreaders on others. (They look just like manure spreaders. And sometimes it's the same old bullshit.)
:grin::up:
unenlightenedApril 22, 2019 at 13:19#2804720 likes
ArguingWAristotleTiffJune 29, 2019 at 16:37#3021440 likes
I'd say that makes you a more introspective and honest person than the majority of humans. It's a good thing. Go with it and cultivate that. In the long run, you'll have more refined and interesting ideas to show for it. Just make sure it doesn't become debilitating.
@NKBJ
Editor: I am not sure how to get a -name link at the end of the quote. I might be rusty!
There is no point in discussing values until the whole is portrayed graphically. End-values or elemental forms of society then show themselves. In the ultimate analysis we simply have a choice between them, or do as we must do. [B]Keep your replies in plain English[/b].
There is no point in discussing values until the whole is portrayed graphically. End-values or elemental forms of society then show themselves. In the ultimate analysis we simply have a choice between them, or do as we must do. Keep your replies in plain English.
— RW Standing
There is no point in discussing values until the whole is portrayed graphically. End-values or elemental forms of society then show themselves. In the ultimate analysis we simply have a choice between them, or do as we must do.
Premise 1: values are given to wholes, such as persons, pets, sentimental objects, etc.
Premise 2: Some of these wholes have intrinsic value.
Conclusion: We choose between wholes with intrinsic value or sometimes wholes with pragmatic value such as ideas or concepts, or, we do what necessity demands.
Whoever posted the above quote was most likely a marijuana connoisseur.
...and since my posts were not responded to, IN A WAY I UNDERSTAND but people wanted to react, they decided to put a million-word posts in response to what I have written.
Annoying, isn't it?
god must be atheistAugust 16, 2019 at 11:30#3163370 likes
...and had to do a IQ test. It was 151 so IQ was not an issue (its really about 130 - the test was biased heavily towards logic ... )
Well, I guess you're right... society does not value logic as a means of being reasonable. Reason and high IQ is commonly attributed to poise, charm, lots of dough, a flashy sports car, or good looks, and / or allegedly being fantastic in bed.
(... not to misconstrue, Bill Hobba, that you lack in the qualities listed... 130 still puts you in the top 2%.)
Arthur Schopenhauer claimed that the human brain (the understanding) spontaneously constructed perceptual objects by applying (a) the pure “a priori” intuitions of space and time and (b) the transcendental principle of cause and effect to the body’s subjective “under the skin” sensations.
I consider this claim to be valid and to have been a significant advance over Kant’s epistemology.
However, neither Schopenhauer, nor Kant, ever attempted to explain where the body’s subjective sensations came from in the first place; i.e., what the nature of their originating source might have been prior to the brain’s construction of the perceptual objects out of them.
Schopenhauer did provide an explanation for the originating source of perceptual objects; viz., the brain’s activity, but he did not provide an explanation for the originating source of the bodily sensations that comprised those perceptual objects. Nor did he try to determine if the originating source which preceded the body’s sensations bore any resemblance to the constructed perceptual objects which succeeded the body’s sensations.
In other words, I submit that the perceptual objects (which are after-the-fact constructions of the causes of the given sensations by the brain) are merely “purported” causes of the sensations because we can never be certain that the brain’s spontaneously constructed perceptual objects actually coincide with the “real” cause(s) of the subjective sensations, which cause(s) would necessarily have “predated” the brain’s act of spontaneous construction.
ArguingWAristotleTiffSeptember 17, 2019 at 17:51#3299300 likes
[quote=Baden] Can we try not to harass posters who want to leave? Seeing as we don't know what their personal situation is an' all. Thank you. [/quote]
Well said Baden Thank you :up:
you know, I'm trying my best to be a nice and considerate philosopher. So, perhaps you can help me. If someone has a religious belief which is stupid or ridiculous, what should I do? Should I give them a hug
What ever you do, try not to make plans to off your wife or husband. Prison is a lonely place, though you are closer than arms-length with most other inmates.
People are allowed to inflict pain on someone to give them sexual pleasure,.But up to a point because there is a discrete difference between enjoying sex and being suicidal. There is no soul though because truth is relative, coming from within since it is unsubstantial
Okay, I'm really done you can definitely have the last word but how can you say you're safe from all this? Don't you follow the news?
:rofl: This took me straight back to my first time as a teen in love playing the "I'm really going to hang up now...are you still there?" banter. :flower:
Thanks for the memory :heart:
This took me straight back to my first time as a teen in love playing the "I'm really going to hang up now...are you still there?" banter. :flower:
Thanks for the memory
Are you saying my posting style comes across as a petulant teenager? Well maybe it does at that! LOL
ArguingWAristotleTiffFebruary 05, 2021 at 20:12#4972360 likes
Well obviously the ending has its own merit, but when all things are said and done the end of the road only really serves to look back on the journey.
I flipped out of the thread this quote was in but what you said caught my eye and I had to go back and read whole quote again.
Nice perspective :flower:
ArguingWAristotleTiffMarch 21, 2022 at 18:01#6706370 likes
Self-confidence is about problem ownership, admitting mistakes and being prepared to let go of beliefs when they turn out to be wrong. There's no self-confidence in dogma, only a failure to think.
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:D
Whilst many that come here do use Twatter and farcebook to keep in touch with others, a lot of us come here to avoid the high quantity and quality of the stupidity found on those mostly brainless areas of the internet and avoid the multitude of ads, likes, followers, and general bullshit that so blocks up your thinking processes.[/quote]
Taken from a place far far away. :D
Meow!
GREG
btw... How about them apples... you can cut and paste a quote from our old home here in our new home. SHAZAM!
The first, one and only, original, unique posted in 2 Wiser Words threads on 2 different forums at the same time. I shall have to tope six packs of Schlitz more often.
Thanks MoS.
Ps please don't no one look further up in case I'm wrong.:s
Should I invite Schlitz?
He also had some really great posts.
Meow!
GREG
btw... did you like how I suggested we should maybe form a club? ;)
Either the poster or the cans would be great.
Quoting Mayor of Simpleton
I'm game, who we gonna be beatin on, the twits or the farces?
I just noticed that Arkady was online at PF so I sent him a PM.
I beat you to it. He said he'd check this place out.
I was contacting 'theSoren' a bit to get a bit more of a picture of what is really the intention and direction of PF. It's sort of like driving by a former home to see what the new buyers have done with it.
There are moments where it is difficult to 'let go', but it seems as if it is not really what it used to be, so the 'letting go' might well have been taken care of for me, as hat it was is not longer there to hold.
I will post now and then there, but for the most part as to keep contact with folks who might well be interested in looking into our new option.
This is not so much a territorial war, but more a realization that this is no longer really home.
Anyway...
in the words of the band that brought me back to philosophy, Maximo Park:
[b][i]"What happens when you lose everything?
You just start again
You start all over again!"[/i][/b]
For me... somewhat autobiographical, right down to the nose bleed out of the left nostril (exactly what happened when my head literally exploded a few years back).
Meow!
GREG
You're welcome.
I for one am planning to abandon the old forum altogether, provided things here either remain as good as they are, or improve.
This place is a breath of fresh air, is an improvement in some ways (both major and minor), and has grown on me.
The other place has been poorly managed in some respects, since the takeover, and I've been in the line of fire. I don't trust Borat, et al.
I suppose it was only a matter of time.
Lol, that's funny shit.
What is it like to be a rock? Hard.
Is there a possible world of p-zombie rocks?
If we can achieve immortality (of a sort), I'm guessing we'll be able to give birth to people who don't suffer.
Having a child would make me suffer, though. ;)
I wanted to place it in the 'What are you listening to right now' thread and somehow landed it here.
I'm seriously tired.
Meow!
GREG
Recent events have sort of shuffled my brain cells.
Time to take a break...
... but atleast I had the fun of misreading the post 'The Problem of Nihilism' to read 'The Problem with Niles Rodgers'. I was thinking over a post regarding his time in the Black Panthers when my wife said honey, look at the thread title again...". :s
Wise words indeed. ;)
I'll see you guys tomorrow.
Meow!
GREG
Who could argue?
By "Man's primeval nature" I take Arkady to be referring to Kwalish Kid, but he's yet to find his way here.
No, he believes that ants are real.
O:) Ha, ha...whoops....
Meow!
GREG
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Bait and switch!
This is now official policy on how to do things around here.
Now that's funny! 8-)
Quoting Bitter Crank
A Motley crew we are!
My sentiments exactly.
Too much time is spent arguing over what some -ism means. Better to just ask what the proponent means by it and go with it.
Such is the Lawyer's perspective! (Y)
This made me laugh, relate and take note of how to move on through today. (Y)
This I like. (Y)
Quoting Banno
That was a brilliant exchange to read from two of my favorite 'thinkers'. Thank you for your contribution to my sanity. (Y)
The past, a place half remembered, a place half envisioned.
And now, enhanced with Viagra X-)
>:O - I heard from some doctors that Viagra is good for old people in terms of heart health.
And it is a Medicare covered medication. Yippie! These poor men walking around the old folks home, with a boner they wished they had in high school and no one to share it with. Nurses have to LOVE that! (N)
So... do the nurses have to provide hand relief when that happens?
[hide="Not For Kids"]
The socialist countries have higher taxes.
Excellent advice
That's exactly what this discussion is for (from the old site). Tiff explicitly said "taken out of context" (as far as I can remember).
"Fuck, man, that's a brilliant argument!"
Add yours favorite candidate below.
Very wise
Well folks, this phrase is an indicator that the "NEXT" generation has arrived at the 'thinkers' sandbox. :victory:
Excellent advice~
Quoting ahmad bilal
Perspective matters. :up:
So does the actual meaning of the idiom, which is not so literal. :eyes:
What a beautiful perspective on The Philosophy Forum~ Thank you~
Given as a source in an exiting thread. I think I need help in understanding what it says. :rofl:
@tim wood You tagged each of the personalities in my group of friends!
Right! :lol:
I do believe I am a two. :wink: Married to a 6 or 7.
Opposites attract right?
:grin:
@Hanover seems a page of the "How to handle a Woman" Playbook fell out! :love:
I know how to handle women. Just pretend they're human and everything will work out ok. :meh:
Ah ha! :up:
:rofl: :lol: Such rich words coming straight from the administration!
:heart: :cheer: :party:
:heart:
(May have got jumbled in the box of shouting... but :up: )
:100:
This feels very circular. :sweat:
If I say that a poodle is a dog, and you give me an example of a dog which is not a poodle, as evidence that my claim is false, all this means is that you have misunderstood what I said.
Quoting T Clark
Golden words that I have rarely heard from a male. :heart:
Hey! I resemble that remark.
:wink:
— Isaac Shmukler
A reasonable bedtime.
- Noble Dust
:up:
:grin:
Hey! No cross-pollinating in here! :smirk:
:lol:
:lol:
@Lif3r How true what you said can be~
Did I make a list? Yayyyy haha
God I remember that feeling....and I think we were in good company that had felt that way. It was a fear that one day, you would no longer have a space at the table of "thinkers" that was set. As @Hanover used to say: when someone gets banned it kind makes you wonder if you could be next and maybe had to up your game. :eyes:
And then almost everything changes except for the nugget of contention that started the war.
- fdrake
I LOVE the gratefulness of it all! :heart:
There will be an answer...
Let be be.
What group of people are we talking about again? :razz:
Another one of my favorite forum attorneys!
:smirk: :up:
Probably the best advice I received for 2019 from another forum member! :cool:
:starstruck: You put em in place S!
My obvious hostility is what makes me so endearing. Everyone I force into submission tells me so.
So they don't tell you too often then do they. :lol:
@unenlightened
My mentor, my sage~ I am trying very hard to walk in your shadow my friend~
You could apply this principle to anything really. It's a simple formula, "because there's this, there must also be that".
This is what makes ancient philosophy so lasting, so impossible to defeat, so impressive and amazing. It's reverse psychology, if you say something so profoundly and incomprehensibly stupid that no one can argue against it, then you win while the world scratches its head.[/quote]
:up:
:grin::up:
A fate worse than birth.
:rofl:
Powerful thought.
Welcome to The Philosophy Forum~
Pull up a chair to the table of "thinkers" and enjoy yourself~
Tiff
Astute observation my friend~ It has a PB feeling to it~ :flower:
Thank you, Tiff. Just don't tell anyone about my compassionate side, as it will fuck up my hardball persona. :victory:
Your secret soft side is safe with me~ :flower:
Error 404: Wayfarer has lost his way.
Woah.
Not sure if you are disagreeing or not.
It is as true as 2 + 2 = 4 in base 10.
:clap:
More broadly, a state that runs on lies and falsehood becomes unstable.
I'm sorry, I had to do it. :clap:
Ooh, Sir. I know sir. Me sir.
That picture doe. It is infused with so much meaning. The tilt of the ducks head. The arms exuding confidence and exuberation. Just speechless.
:100:
@NKBJ
Editor: I am not sure how to get a -name link at the end of the quote. I might be rusty!
:lol:
This actually makes sense to me.
It makes sense to me that it would make sense to you.
Premise 1: values are given to wholes, such as persons, pets, sentimental objects, etc.
Premise 2: Some of these wholes have intrinsic value.
Conclusion: We choose between wholes with intrinsic value or sometimes wholes with pragmatic value such as ideas or concepts, or, we do what necessity demands.
Whoever posted the above quote was most likely a marijuana connoisseur.
You must be new around here.
Annoying, isn't it?
Well, I guess you're right... society does not value logic as a means of being reasonable. Reason and high IQ is commonly attributed to poise, charm, lots of dough, a flashy sports car, or good looks, and / or allegedly being fantastic in bed.
(... not to misconstrue, Bill Hobba, that you lack in the qualities listed... 130 still puts you in the top 2%.)
Quoting I like sushi
:brow:
Should we call the NSPCC?
@BrianW Can you confirm~?
I don't think you need confirmation of that from Brian, either, unless you have no knowledge of physiology. ;-)
As per the title.
Well said Baden Thank you :up:
Welcomes. :smile:
Yippee :party: Gotcha :rofl:
Hugggss work!!!!
Quoting PhilCF
In to the closet of irony I lay these bones.
Tell me clearly and concisely, where are the holes in my arguments?
I'll wait for the tumbleweed.
Ignorance is just vile.
There's a big hole right at the very start, when you begin, "The meaning of life is...".
:lol:
You guys should be more happy @ssu @Tzeentch @StreetlightX (source). :broken: :rage: :fire: :death: :
:rofl: This took me straight back to my first time as a teen in love playing the "I'm really going to hang up now...are you still there?" banter. :flower:
Thanks for the memory :heart:
Are you saying my posting style comes across as a petulant teenager? Well maybe it does at that! LOL
:joke:
The Greek are rolling in their graves! :lol:
--Orangepek0e
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:flower: Thank you for being you :flower:
It seems I can't help it, no matter how hard I try. :wink:
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That is written on my family coat of arms.
I flipped out of the thread this quote was in but what you said caught my eye and I had to go back and read whole quote again.
Nice perspective :flower:
I'm flattered.
The Philosophy Forum Sunday Funnies :lol:
thanks!
~Benkei
Brilliantly articulated!