TheMadFool

I believe I am (justified). The calculator nearly always gets basic math right. What's your point?

I've gone over this issue with another poster who, very insightfully, raised the issue of knowing how to cycle in another thread on epistemology. Does...

You missed the point.

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Yes? Someone called mu name? Hello!?

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I wonder how being partly right/correct fits into the notion of consistency/inconsistency. I'm half-right seems far better than completely wrong, the ...

For a change, just for fun if nothing else, let's look up instead of down and sideways. We've been diggin' like archaeologists, exploring at eye-level...

it's Donald Duck or Daffy Duck or any other anthropomorphized duck.

I don't get it. Conformity is usually considered a bad thing. Yet, when people are different, :brow: . WTF?

:chin: Very perceptive. Nobody gets to where they are by being nice. The higher they rise, the bloodier their history. It's a rat race, dog eat dog.

Yes...it all boils down to dollar bills! No such thing as cheap thrills. Sorry Sia.

Well put, beautifully phrased. Spot on! A blend of the principle of sufficient reason & Agrippa's trilemma and we get an infinite regress of explanati...

Metaphysically minimalistic...perhaps.

It's always been like that. So, long as the US has a bogeyman to frighten its people with, it can get away with anything: exotic WMDs, unethical exper...

The way I see the issue: 1. Stereotype OR Sexist Or Racist Casting director, make a choice! Oh, I'll choose a white (that takes care of stereotyping),...

It's the thought that counts! :grin:

What word(s) is/are suitable then? "Yes, you're spot on!"??

I missed a spot. There's also the problem of stereotyping. My, who knew a casting director's job was that difficult. I hope they get paid well.

It appears we've both misread each other. Never say always but also, never say never. Oops! That's what reality does to you.

The 5 Rights

Change, something's wrong. Suppose I say "The apple was green, now it's red, it's changed". Nothing amiss in this some might say but it gives me petit...

Well, actually, let's (split hairs). What's the difference between them, plus, why is my response "perhaps" not up to the mark?

Therein lies the rub. Is racism a natural response? What lies beneath.

You have a point but so do I.

Let's not split hairs, shall we?

I'm just puzzled. So, according to the casting director of Dr. Strange, the following equality holds true: A white woman = An Asian male :rofl:

That's about right.

I agree but it is a sensitive subject. Indeed, a possibility we can't rule out. Perhaps. At least the Ancient One was in Kathmandu :lol: and not in Ne...

Enlightenment is basically getting the dosage right. Responding to the right person/thing at the right time, in the right place, to the right amount/d...

:lol: Sorry for cluttering your thread. I have a very poor memory, consider me as Dory from Finding Nemo. Should I delete my post?

Absolute power corrupts absolutely? Why is God, then, omnipotent and still good? Aah! Omnibenevolence is necessary to check power on such a scale. Doe...

I dunno. I still feel there's more going on than meets the eye in the arts (movie industry). Sinister goings on that is. In cynical mode, do be carefu...

Wikipedia's break down of metaphysics 1. Ontology 2. Identity & Change 3. Causality 4. Space & Time 5. Necessity & Possibility It appears that metaphy...

It's not!? :brow: Perhaps this :point: cross-gender acting will prove a point or two.

Yep, it's real but we can conceive of a better deal (heaven); Christianity/other religions step(s) in and annoounces that heaven is real, it's just th...

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I guess it was a choice between not being sexist (cast a woman) & not being racist (cast an Asian). We all know how that played out. Funny, I was just...

. Pascal's wager. Risk-seeking. Risk-aversion. It looks like people are gambling with their lives; in monetary terms, as per the US federal government...

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Yep. Throw away a perfectly good real opportunity for an infinitely better but imaginary one. Reminds me of Pascal's wager.

This touched a chord. It resonates with me and as chance would have it I have something to say about it. In the book Jurassic Park, the mathematician ...

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Unresponsive \rightarrow Coma. :lol:

Dear ol' Mother Earth aka Gaia is telling us in the sweetest way possible, "help yourself."

Physics offers a different perspective to the issue of work. It's likely that I'm not completely on the mark but whenever we fail to understand someth...

Empedocles, when he was a tree, just sat there, rooted to the spot, and did absolutely no work at all. Technology and its progenitor, science, to the ...

I don't think I will. It probably doesn't make sense.

I'm reading the novel Jurassic Park by the late Michael Crichton. In it the gigantic T. Rex is a problem no doubt but its the much smaller Velocirapto...

Really? I must be seeing things.