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Understandably. I have now explained my lies to Tiff. Thanks for the thought, anyhow.

I'm allergic to most forms of entertainment. Odd one that.

To be fair, it would take some time to count the many ways we are all hypocrites. I recently bought a laptop and a phone and I haven't thought too muc...

Everything the same, just call them Muslim, mention the word "guns" and the hysteria would begin. (Of course, a posse of Muslim ranchers is pretty muc...

There is some legitimacy to the ranchers case from what I've learned about this issue although it's hard to have much sympathy for them considering th...

I did...2 months ago... :)

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Any more? We need to set up a poll fairly soon.

"Philosophy Forum" - Google - Page....1! (Ninth on page). Fantastic achievement.Thanks to all! (Y) (Seems to go up and down on each search, so this ma...

Cheers, same to you~

Ah, Mars Man... :(

Nicely done, Bell :). I still hope Trump wins the nomination because he will almost definitely lose the election, and also because he is honestly expr...

The fact that existence isn't a property makes this a fairly straightforward point, no? Allowing for at least a minimally charitable reading of @"John...

No, sorry. Will you still consider it though? How about if we throw in some bestiality?

According to Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks @"ArguingWAristotleTiff" (see below), Paul Ryan just recently blocked legislation aimed at preventing those...

Don't know about this. I find I learn a lot more by posting than by reading alone, or posting requires more reading and so on. I tend to forget what I...

I can relate, but a dose or two of your caprine wisdom would be appreciated anyway. Do indulge when you get the time. (Y)

When I first saw Brassier's quote a while back, it did kind of bug me, but on reflection I have to say the elitism of university academics is to an ex...

I see @"Hanover" hasn't been initiated yet. >:)

I have a student named Ada. But don't worry, I won't expose her to your hate speech. :-x

We all have our ups and downs with internet forums, but you've made a really important contribution to the growing community here, and it's appreciate...

Christmas. Death. Kitten. Error. :-|

Yeah, it's a pity the system says "cancelled" instead of "expired". Makes us all look bad :). Anyway, I'll let @"jamalrob" take care of this one.

Brassier it is. (Don't want to interrupt your discussion @"TheWillowOfDarkness", @"Pneumenon" and @"Ciceronianus the White" but in order to close the ...

Close at the front. I'll leave this open for another 24 hours. If nothing changes, it's Brassier.

We're all still in the babbling stage in a certain sense. We've just learned to internalize our babble into what we call internal monologue. Children ...

@"StreetlightX" - It reminds of a video I saw of Judith Butler talking where she mentioned she regularly gets insults thrown at her about her appearan...

Strangely enough, BC, I don't have much of an idea what to do over there. The three plus points were: it's warm, not too far away and I've never been ...

Thanks, Tiff. Not sure I'll be playing a lot of Mah Jong over there, but hey, you never know. :)

Anyone been to the Philippines? Any suggestions on what to do (or not to do) there? (Going around Christmas).

Hopefully something for everyone there.

(Y) No great loss.

After writing the above, I came across another article in the Guardian by Mehdi Hasan, one that makes just the point I was making above. We accept tha...

- It's more of a personal attack on Jeremy Corbyn than the Labour party who have largely turned on their own leader (as Behr makes clear elsewhere in ...

I agree a lot of the things we do are as morally abhorrent as a lot of the things they do. If agent A deliberately targets innocent civilians, it does...

Well, apart from the recent furore over the surprisingly emotive topic of water charges not much in the way of menacing going on that I know of. The e...

I don't see anyone here claiming that (except maybe discoii). Certainly, Western imperialism undermines attempts to take the high moral ground against...

Ireland. Mostly harmless.

Sadly unsurprising to see the most "Christian" red states turn out to be among the first to give the red light those in need.

You don't know what to do and, unfortunately, the governments doing things don't know what to do either. But they're still doing them because like you...

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@"shmik" - (Typed manually)

@"shmik" - (Using auto system)

I don't really object to that as you put it here, John. I think it's counted as a word just for grammatical reasons. I imagine the same type of contex...

You can translate even within English among synonyms from those of one word to those of more than one and vice versa. I "give in", mentioned before, m...

If anyone's wondering why that didn't get deleted, it's because it's in Feedback. Viewer discretion is advised.

Welcome, Andrew. 8-)

- You can upload it on a third party site for free and link if you like.

I can see both sides to this. But whatever happens, as I said, will at least likely end up pleasing more people than the present system does.

Yes, as the situation develops there may be more for us to debate but as we both seem to agree that there shouldn't be a knee-jerk military response, ...