Jamal

Or like a mutating virus? :wink:

Pretty sure it's him. Joined 14 days ago and has the same posting habits.

Agent Smith is him, I believe.

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No problem. I aim to please! :grin: Unfortunately my mind seems to have moved on to more verdant pastures.

Update: in fact, it seems that carving neeps goes back further than carving pumpkins: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/26/go-back-to-...

I wish I could take credit for it. When I reached unassisted carving age, pumpkins had become all the rage.

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Nice.

Another new concept for me. :grin:

When I was a kid there were no pumpkins, at least not where I lived, but the Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins had taken hold already, so we car...

I'd heard that word before but I had to look it up. Where I come from we call them neeps. I also call them turnips. The English call them swedes and r...

To be more accurate, the metaphor is the particular use of the word. But we can still say when referring to the sentence, as the unnamed philosopher m...

Of course, there are deeper and more interesting levels of metaphor, as pointed out by @"Amity" earlier: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/com...

"I was bruised by @"T Clark"'s harsh criticisms" The metaphor is "bruised". Is there more to say?

So my earlier claim was making the point that the following in the OP... ...is not affected by an argument to the effect that a metaphor requires the ...

Analogically, a preposition can be one word even if it takes more than one word to make it a preposition. A preposition on its own is nothing. This an...

I shall attempt a clarification. There appears in jancanc's posts to be a conflation of two things: first, a metaphor as a term with no (implied) conn...

As far as I can tell, all that has been established is that a metaphor cannot be a single word without context, which, however, has no bearing on the ...

And yet you read Stanislaw Lem recently.

I can't go back to Toronto.

I'd like to know how to sound like that.

Cool. Now I feel like I might be able to turn my life around. Thanks to Mrs Hanover.

There's more to literature than porn, comedy, and horror. Or is there? Discuss.

That's right, and he'll know it's from you so you don't need to include your name.

I just took one: /uploads/resized/files/37/q2aiz202occfjqu1.png What drugs do I get?

It was me, and I confess to abusing my powers. I detest animated gifs at the best of times. I can't read anything if I can see an animated gif somewhe...

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Yep!

Yes! :party:

I enjoyed "Hitchhikers", if that gives you any encouragement.

I noticed you saying you were thinking of writing a science fiction novel. It would be cool to see a story from you. No pressure.

I think I've had Molloy on my reading list since I noticed you saying something about it years ago, either here or on the old forum. So, thanks. :cool...

Just a time-frame American Furniture Warehouse thing. There's no holiday theme.

Just read and currently reading, with detailed emoji reviews. Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities :up: :starstruck: :sparkle: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against...

Very evocative. :cool:

I hope they're as warm as my camel socks. Softer, probably. Where in the US does your friend keep those 135 alpacas? It's not just socks. Apparently t...

There were some alpacas running around the outskirts of Moscow a few weeks ago: https://cdni.vm.ru/2021.11/original/700_61a5082882682c200d8edfc6.jpeg ...

Sperm whales are great, so don't get me wrong, but an hour and a half isn't all that impressive to me. I mean, they're sea creatures. It's been 50 mil...

That's Hypatia, Greek neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician. It shows up on all the staff members' thumbnails.

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A state monopoly on magick enforced by clairvoyant tactical police units.

Yes, it's odd that the question of regulation would come up. It almost makes me suspect that the OP is some kind of satire. But if we're talking about...

A magickal act of will is arguably an act.

That's what I was thinking. Maybe something like The science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will alone or unaided.

Okay, 180's gets my vote too, partly because if I'm not mistaken he's been using it unwaveringly since I first encountered him on the olden forum way ...

That's what lying is. Deception is an obvious fact of life.

All of them are fine except for TheMadFool's and Sir2u's.

Obviously they make good guard dogs, but the constant barking can get annoying.

I cycled past some cows and was chased by a Great Pyrenees. It was huge, and it was running faster than I was cycling. I was very intimidated. At the ...