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Food for thought: The body feeds on food. The mind feeds on ideas. As we ascend Maslow's hierarchy of needs, we're chewing all the way, but on differe...
March 21, 2022 at 04:03
:lol: Surnames, biased patriarchally, are unfair to women. It's as if their contributions to the familiy and its achievements don't matter or are rela...
March 21, 2022 at 04:00
Reminds me of hunting game. We don't block all escape routes for the prey, we leave one open. Of course it leads to a trap but you get the idea. What'...
March 21, 2022 at 03:51
I can think whatever the hell I want. That's freedom, oui? Suppose determinism is true. Even in this case, I can ponder upon all options available and...
March 21, 2022 at 03:30
Men make laws; look around you, this law, that law, we seem to be completely immersed in it from womb to tomb and sometimes beyond the grave. Perhaps ...
March 21, 2022 at 03:21
:fire: :ok: How true. It just dawned on me that you're unequivocally right, no strings attached. We can actually think anything, absolutely anything a...
March 20, 2022 at 16:24
Gorgias started it, Rasmussen will end it.
March 20, 2022 at 13:20
Time can't be stopped, yup. Time, in physics, is defined with clocks in mind. Smash all the clocks, stop playing the drums, digitalize your heart and ...
March 20, 2022 at 13:19
Heads you win, tails I lose? :chin:
March 20, 2022 at 13:05
I don't understand something. Why is lineage an either/or deal? Too, it seems that most people don't really care which it is - patriarchy/matriarchy -...
March 20, 2022 at 13:04
In: Colour  — view comment
No, what's that?
March 20, 2022 at 12:55
We all have to start somewhere, we then (try to) move forward, and we (apparently) do. Then, in the life of every philosopher, comes the time when you...
March 20, 2022 at 12:37
Naturalism is not an escape pod for atheism. Newton, when he established the foundations of science, said something to the effect that only God could'...
March 20, 2022 at 11:35
If family resemblance (re heredity) is a fact, a philosopher's gotta look like Socrates (the father of Western philosophy) which is to say a philosoph...
March 20, 2022 at 11:17
Well, it seems rather natural to respond in kind, oui? It feels right so to speak to scream/hit back when screamed at/struck. That's what usually happ...
March 20, 2022 at 11:08
¯\_(?)_/¯
March 20, 2022 at 09:20
In: Colour  — view comment
No, unfortunately no. What is your point? Nature's a mood-altering device? Intriguing and not in the least. It's as is she (momma nature) has her own ...
March 20, 2022 at 09:18
I didn't mean to suggest that karma is a means to an/some end. I simply wanted to point out that karma is a law of nature, every bit as real as Einste...
March 20, 2022 at 08:58
Mastication is basically a process that initiates the digestive process, breaking food down into smaller and smaller (manageable) pieces. The basic id...
March 20, 2022 at 07:39
Yes, I was mulling over that. What is karma? Are you agreeing/disagreeing with the above exposition on Karma by Wikipedia? I thought karma is what goe...
March 20, 2022 at 07:32
You breaked my toy! :cry:
March 20, 2022 at 05:19
:smile:
March 20, 2022 at 05:17
Your reply is an eye-opener for me. Merci beaucoup, monsieur! Kant was, I believe, trying to make moral laws as all-encompassing and as strict as natu...
March 20, 2022 at 05:15
:up: I just feel it's the least worst option. Could be way off the mark though.
March 20, 2022 at 04:56
:fire: Perhaps nothing is necessary. Reality is overrated. Why is the film industry a multi-billion dollar enterprise?
March 19, 2022 at 15:41
https://youtu.be/s9eBXyJJhFI Quartering! :smile:
March 19, 2022 at 15:33
In: Colour  — view comment
:lol: Let there be peace on earth.
March 19, 2022 at 15:04
In: Colour  — view comment
Colors are nature's way of expressing her emotions! Bright colors - she's on cloud nine, Crimson & fiery red - she's in the mood or she's screaming "o...
March 19, 2022 at 15:03
In: Sophistry  — view comment
:rofl:
March 19, 2022 at 14:56
:smile:
March 19, 2022 at 14:55
:ok: I happen to call that the life I want. :smile:
March 19, 2022 at 14:54
:rofl:
March 19, 2022 at 14:54
:up:
March 19, 2022 at 13:24
I always, as a rule, miss the bus.
March 19, 2022 at 13:23
:lol: Good one! Blighted ovum! Much worse, more painful. Propaganda, what is it? Truth, sexed up, and/or lies sold as truths. Reminds me of how busine...
March 19, 2022 at 13:15
In: Sophistry  — view comment
Yeah, yeah!
March 19, 2022 at 13:09
Tickle Torture :rofl: Reserved for terrorists who refuse to divulge the secret locations of their bombs!
March 19, 2022 at 11:38
I'm just flummoxed by the fact that when I do something bad, I don't break any known laws of nature. Evil is perfectly compatible with the known laws ...
March 19, 2022 at 11:30
Why do I feel like "conscription" falls in the same category as "passed away", "bought the farm", "left for his/her heavenly abode"?
March 19, 2022 at 11:24
Sometimes to show that something is not real, we employ the literary device of describing it in totally unbelievable (read impossible) terms. The Bibl...
March 19, 2022 at 11:16
Time has an odd geometry: it's linear & circular. If it's 5:00 PM today, it's again 5:00 PM (circular), but tomorrow (linear). Line + Circle = Sine wa...
March 19, 2022 at 10:37
Time Never Begins But it's Saturday 19th March, 2022. Take that, Pembroke scholars!
March 19, 2022 at 10:33
There is no reason to doubt that our private experiences are not identical. Were they not, if they were even slightly different, society as we know it...
March 19, 2022 at 10:17
Uniqueness is actual, a result of differing experiences; Sameness is potential & actual (we could be mind twins for all we know).
March 19, 2022 at 10:09
Occam's razor, :kiss: Men are simple folk. Women, no, they remind me of Rube Goldberg machines, they do!
March 19, 2022 at 09:09
A curve is beautiful, feminine. I wonder why we're hell bent on finding linear correlations. So masculine straight lines are. I'd rather use a sine wa...
March 19, 2022 at 09:06
Genes?
March 19, 2022 at 08:28
Nonphysicalism hanging by a thread. It's the last stand. Do or die!
March 19, 2022 at 08:28
Why is it a false assumption. It's proven that genes are the determiners of our physical makeup. We use genes? :chin:
March 19, 2022 at 08:26
I thought I made the case for our private experiences being similar (enough for government work) or even exactly identical.
March 19, 2022 at 08:24