Jamal

I mean, you're on a philosophy forum and you're saying it's fine to be ignorant of widely recognized philosophers. Seems obnoxious and dumb to me.

Actually, it's had some good responses, but the best of them are mostly dismissing your position.

That was me. Seemed to me like an insubstantial unphilosophical discussion. I can move it back if enough people want that or if it gets some good resp...

I'm up for it

We could fax it to you monthly.

You're not selling it to me. :grin: But I'm still curious about it. Nothing is stopping anyone around here from starting their own philosophy discussi...

Someone else did suggest it, but it hasn't really been discussed. I briefly tried out Discord once for a small group of friends but it didn't work out...

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So very human.

I'm joking about these incidents, but can you picture it? One moment a peaceful bucolic scene, next moment, unimaginable horror. I hope she didn't wak...

I can imagine the writer's pleasure when opting for that word. Exactly. Like the wallowsome Shawn himself, they're not as harmless as they at first se...

When I lived in France, a woman I knew who had some pigs slipped and fell over and one of her pigs began to munch her. It took a chunk out of her arm....

:cool: This is the main thing I wasn't sure of, to what extent the vowel marks are used today. I'd guess it's similar with Arabic. But TheMadFool seem...

@"thewonder": I think Wheatley meant for this thread to be for informative links, videos etc. You're making it your own twitter feed, and later you ed...

BTW there are other ways of indicating vowel sounds in writing, without using separate letters. I think modern Hebrew does this, though I'm not sure.

There are always battles to be fought, and sometimes we fight for ideas.

You weirdly rejected Tim's answer so I won't attempt one myself. In any case, it's an empirical question for historical linguistics and I'm not sure w...

But vowels and consonants are by definition speech sounds, and written letters represent them. If there's no need to represent speech, neither consona...

Yes. Some of the clear, well-argued posts here can seem too self-satisfied, as if they're done thinking and now it's just a matter of convincing peopl...

I know what you mean, but I think it's unavoidable in philosophy. The ideas are what's important, not the style, although that in itself is probably d...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLcbmG0uOA

https://youtu.be/Y5KlgpqcdBc "Dense" by Univers Zero. The whole thing is great, but there's a section from 3:46 that culminates in an oboe (or cor ang...

Fair enough. May your botheration dwindle.

You keep on promising, but never deliver :wink: Are you drunk?

:grin: It's possible. She did have a short relationship with a spy many years before we met. Whenever I bring it up she says "I don't want to talk abo...

I was living in Spain and one summer she was on holiday at her villa there and we met in the plaza and boom, lives were transformed.

Just to be clear, I didn't order my wife by mail.

Yeah I'm not just here for the cultural diversity and 24-hour shawarma kiosks.

That'll be me. I know several Brits here, but there are many more Americans. Mostly men coming here to be with their Russian wives and girlfriends, li...

Thanks! You're now my go-to source for all migration issues.

I'm not the kind of guy who goes on cruises, but I went on a cruise. Moscow to the Caspain Sea, 2000+ kilometres down the Volga, going through several...

As the Russian media tell us every day.

Go along ... to the opposition rallies? No way.

Yes, there is that.

One thing that I don't like is that people (Russians) accept that they have to carry their passports wherever they go, to answer to the authorities wh...

I'd never give up my British citizenship. I don't think I'd have to, but I'm not sure. I keep meaning to check that.

Of course, none of what I say should be taken as an approval of Russian politics. It's a bit fucked up.

I don't mind at all. Bear in mind that the following contains generalizations. British only, but I now have temporary residency in Russia, which lasts...

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That's cool. I searched for a European equivalent and found this: https://eurobirdportal.org/ /uploads/resized/files/3u/88pv6hbyy3rpy3ix.jpg Unfortuna...

Urah!

Don't fret. It'll all work out in the end.

I very much dislike running and my knees are not up to it anyway. Sometimes in winter I go for a long brisk walk, puffing down the icy avenues like Tr...

But I'm sure that unlike a fixed gear bike, you can just stop pedalling on your spin bike when you're going 30km/h. On a fixed gear, that's going to e...

I have a lot of trouble motivating myself to stay on my exercise bike for more than 20 minutes. It's a perverse mockery of cycling. But in the Moscow ...

A single speed bike, like most bikes, has a freewheel, so you can stop pedalling and coast. A fixed gear bike's back cog is fixed to the wheel and tur...

Fixed gear now, not just single speed. The difference is huge. But I can get boring about this subject so I'll stop here. Sweet dreams.

Right now, riding a fixed gear bike around Moscow. Generally, cycling on steel bikes with as few gears as my old knees allow.

This doesn't speak to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7inw4z2TWTM