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Devil's luck or good planning! Can't tell which! :smile:
March 27, 2022 at 03:05
That's quite an interesting statement there! What if you could develop an IQ test consisting of only jokes, a rich variety of jokes (from slapstick hu...
March 27, 2022 at 03:02
In case anyone's interested, Lagrange points (aspects of the so-called three-body problem) are points in space at which the gravity of two masses canc...
March 26, 2022 at 18:53
Correct me if I'm wrong... Materialism is the position that all that exists is either matter or energy, the two being equivalent E = mc2. Dualism espo...
March 26, 2022 at 18:18
A stronger argument for God would be if the universe were impossible in which case chance would be completely eliminated from the list of candidate ex...
March 26, 2022 at 16:18
Don't remind me of activities better than being on this forum, EugeneW!
March 26, 2022 at 13:55
March 26, 2022 at 13:53
The OP's query is deep! Are there people (mayhaps there's only one among us) who wake up in the morning, perform the customary ritualistic ablutions a...
March 26, 2022 at 13:51
:smile:
March 26, 2022 at 11:26
My favorite theologian is Frederic Brown (1906 - 1972) Short Story: The Answer (Frederic Brown, 1954) Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connect...
March 26, 2022 at 11:04
:broken:
March 26, 2022 at 10:51
:up:
March 26, 2022 at 10:39
Is the chicken and egg problem an issue for evolution? We could say non-egg laying chicken evolved into egg-laying chicken and be done with it, ja?
March 26, 2022 at 10:38
:death: :flower: Now I get it! Death and Life.
March 26, 2022 at 10:31
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March 26, 2022 at 10:09
Clifford's Principle
March 26, 2022 at 10:04
Omnia possibilia sunt, omnia possibilia sunt, EugeneW
March 26, 2022 at 10:01
Why would we need to do the explaining? We had no hand in creation. Is it possible to be good when the way the game has been designed is such a way as...
March 26, 2022 at 08:41
Alternatives modes of expression (recommended): 1. We're bound to rerun in the universal domain eternally. Again and again and again... 2. We're bound...
March 26, 2022 at 07:51
:fire: Confront! Explain yourself, God/priest/cohen/mullah/lama or whoever the hell you are! Words, words are all I have, to take your heart away... K...
March 26, 2022 at 07:43
What I find puzzling is that our lungs, or more generally our respiratory system, seems to have evolved to operate at even higher concentrations of CO...
March 26, 2022 at 06:46
The President of the United States of America is the counterexample to utilitarian ethics of numbers. The USA will send its entire army to fight to th...
March 26, 2022 at 06:27
Democracy, whatever it is, seems to provide the right kinda environment for healing of a society (people can vent their frustrations. Important! Talk ...
March 26, 2022 at 05:04
I would! :grin: I want to make everyone happy. :lol:
March 26, 2022 at 04:54
What's a tautology?
March 26, 2022 at 04:53
Simply connected the dots, you know a result of doing the math, adding 2 and 2 together. However, I'll attempt a rough proof: The Greek fascination fo...
March 26, 2022 at 04:51
@"Banno" Is it a profound idea? It doesn't look like one to me. :chin: 1. To be is to be perceived 2. To be perceived is to be. 2 is problematic for t...
March 26, 2022 at 04:21
Well, well, well! The PSR: Everything has a cause. 1. Uncaused 2. Self-caused 2 seems to square with the PSR, 1 is contradictory. 2 doesn't imply all ...
March 25, 2022 at 12:25
:lol: :lol: Even!
March 25, 2022 at 12:22
That takes me out of the running, I'm a generalist, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, you know, jack of all trades, master of none!
March 25, 2022 at 12:11
Even for realists, existence is predicated on perception (seeing is believing kinda deal). For a realist, perception (sense-and-instrument-based detec...
March 25, 2022 at 12:04
Are so-called mystics neurological patients with subclinical TLE (temporal lobe epilepsy)? :chin: Could be a brain tumor or perhaps a parasite (t. sol...
March 25, 2022 at 09:46
FIGHT-OR-FLIGHT-OR-FREEZE RESPONSE 3 options in an emergency (life-threatening situation): 1. FIGHT 2. FLIGHT 3. FREEZE Just wars don't exist!
March 25, 2022 at 09:40
:rofl:
March 25, 2022 at 09:32
Hmmm. So the holocaust was inevitable, necessary. Ought implies can?
March 25, 2022 at 09:19
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:grin: Protagoras...makes...clear :rofl:
March 25, 2022 at 09:14
No, you carry the whip, cur! She, however, wields it! :smile:
March 25, 2022 at 09:13
:lol: When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging! Common sense 101!
March 25, 2022 at 09:11
I bet that you tell that to everyone in every forum you visit! :smile:
March 25, 2022 at 09:09
:smile: Yes, yes, let's destroy him...her...it...er...who was it you wanted to destroy? It won't hurt will it?
March 25, 2022 at 09:07
Desolation, everywhere I look, it's desolation! I need to make an appointment with the ophthalmologist. Why does everything look gloomy grey and death...
March 25, 2022 at 08:52
:smile: I know a dentist!
March 25, 2022 at 08:49
Spot on! :up:
March 25, 2022 at 08:47
Ne quid nimis. Gracias señor!
March 25, 2022 at 08:46
How does it all hang together? We have to work for it i.e. we need to earn our place in heaven here on earth, a place where being good is, well, "impo...
March 25, 2022 at 08:45
The problem of other minds? :up:
March 25, 2022 at 08:13
It has to be, oui? How else did it grasp continuua? The question is did the brain actually comprehend continuua? Infinity enters the scene, all hell b...
March 25, 2022 at 07:43
The last time I read a book on physiology was 2 decades ago. Times change, things do. The dynamic nature of life seeps into all that it touches, inclu...
March 25, 2022 at 07:32
No! Don't ask me why?
March 25, 2022 at 07:27
Deus, sive natura: God or Nature. Not an offer of choice, a statement. Spinoza at heart, eh! Ataraxia: Equanimity via, inter alia, aporia (bewildermen...
March 25, 2022 at 07:26