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Not trying to nitpick, but isn't your philosophy supposed to be like the USA is - welcoming to all, and I mean people from every corner of the world b...
September 20, 2022 at 18:07
Some of us need to turn off our empathy, like soldiers, who do all the dirty work, do!
September 20, 2022 at 17:59
Hypergraphia, graphorrhea in my case. Not so in your case of course! Keep writin' - practise, I hear, makes perfect.
September 20, 2022 at 17:56
An intriguing connection to make - that betwixt the paranormal & technology. https://youtu.be/q7BQKu0YP8Y Debunking is painful, both for the debunker ...
September 20, 2022 at 17:04
Please don't mention it! I'm rather surprised that you/anyone find(s) me posts worth the read.
September 20, 2022 at 16:58
Are there any documented cases of a double negation (1st negation, gender switched from male/female to female/male, 2nd negation, back to male/female)...
September 20, 2022 at 16:55
She might've if only she's been given the chance. There's more to it than just that though!
September 20, 2022 at 16:44
Aye, it is so! There's this awkward phase in life - adolescence it's called - everyone goes through. That be my best defense for intelligence.
September 20, 2022 at 16:43
:ok: The only reason Judy married John was because she never met Jack?
September 20, 2022 at 14:24
Overheard a mother telling her son, "you can be whatever you want." The son, later, decided to become a woman! Can we really be whatever we want? I wa...
September 20, 2022 at 14:18
Basically, the cost is (just) too high! However, we're comparatively more gifted in the brains department, oui? Surely the problem isn't an unsolvable...
September 20, 2022 at 14:14
So you believe that this is all politics! Is there a more fundamental point of origin, a radix, of our problems. Did you know? Some say "suffering, wh...
September 20, 2022 at 13:43
Is gender identity confusion part of a much broader psychological phenomenon of identity "disorders"? People would call the men in white in coats imme...
September 20, 2022 at 13:31
Si, si! That you politicize antinatalism, probably other issues as well, hasn't escaped my notice. Perhaps because people's lives & happiness are at s...
September 20, 2022 at 13:17
A severe case of Othello Syndrome or perhaps just a dude, hopelessly in love. Monogamytheism. From a medical standpoint, having multiple sexual partne...
September 20, 2022 at 12:45
How can we measure (keep time) something (Chronos) that doesn't exist? Isn't measurement N/A (mu) to nonexistent things? What would you say if someone...
September 20, 2022 at 12:30
The problem, mon ami, is we don't even know if there's a front us! :cool:
September 20, 2022 at 11:49
Maybe we can meet in the middle: the past exists, but in the way you think, but as memories (lessons) and the future exists, again not in the way you ...
September 20, 2022 at 11:47
Ati sundar mon ami, ati sundar! Stanley Kubrick's monolith is as ambiguous & vague as a Rorschach test can be. It's intended to represent an advanced ...
September 20, 2022 at 11:43
Everything hinges on the word "assume" I suppose. I believe there's actually a novel based on people making wrong assumptions about one another; the r...
September 20, 2022 at 11:17
So you've hit the bullseye! :up: Question: Are antintalists oversensitive? On the flip side, do natalists have, as Hermione Granger says to Ronald Wea...
September 20, 2022 at 08:56
I'll reconstruct Parmenides' argument as best as I can. 1. Becoming and Unbecoming are impossible because we can't get an x from what x is not and nei...
September 20, 2022 at 07:55
:lol:
September 20, 2022 at 07:37
Repair/improve your boat as you sail her. :up: On the fly! Dogmatists just won't give up will they?
September 20, 2022 at 07:25
It isn't simple is it now? Unless you make sense, nobody's gonna listen to you! There's a workaround for that though - money, power, fame (the unholy ...
September 20, 2022 at 07:21
To my reckoning forced to be immoral is a contradictio in terminis. Coercion negates free will and where there is no freedom, there can be no morality...
September 20, 2022 at 07:10
The monolith is a simple 3D geometric shape; somehow reminds me of Plato's forms. It's tall, compared to the pre-sapiens and so symbolizes superiority...
September 20, 2022 at 06:56
:up: & :rofl:
September 20, 2022 at 06:45
Maybe we should do a more detailed study of Kubrick's monolith vis-à-vis Jungian archetypes. Shape: Rectangular prism (cell phoneish) Color: Black (ab...
September 20, 2022 at 06:43
Intrauterine device (contraceptive, used to contain copper which is allegedly spermicidal).
September 20, 2022 at 06:37
Have you heard of Boltzmann brains? It's supposedly far more likely that the monolith simply assembled itself from nearby matter & energy and did its ...
September 20, 2022 at 06:35
Indeed, hence God/alien! Apophenia/Pareidolia? Still, not bad, not bad at all! The cell phone does look like that monolith.
September 20, 2022 at 06:04
Your example is a case of inverse consequences. You want to achieve X. You have a plan P. When you implement the plan P, the result is ~X (the exact o...
September 20, 2022 at 06:02
Well, true, to thrill an audience is to present them either something brand new or simply offer a perspective they hadn't encounterd. So, god/alien in...
September 20, 2022 at 05:45
The question reminds me of predator-prey eye positions. Prey have eyes on the sides of their head, giving them a 360o field of vision in order to dete...
September 20, 2022 at 05:12
I see that you're utilizing your BothAnd concept to full effect! Bravo!
September 20, 2022 at 05:00
Why did God, He would be the most advanced alien we could hope to encounter, take a human form, as Jesus? My compass tells me we're in alien gods terr...
September 20, 2022 at 04:53
True, true. religion imposes a moral standard on every activity we undertake. In religion's eyes there are only 2 categories, to wit good and bad. Eve...
September 20, 2022 at 04:46
All sensations are actually measurements: 1 Color: Wavelength/frequency 2. Sound: Ditto 3. Touch/pain: Pressure, Temperature 4. Taste: Chemical compos...
September 19, 2022 at 18:57
Well, Yaheweh manifested in the world, presented himself to us, as a man, Jesus, son of a humble carpenter's wife's son. Stone age folks had better im...
September 19, 2022 at 18:47
:grin:
September 19, 2022 at 13:28
True, burial is a rather unnatural thing to do with a corpse. I haven't seen anything like it in other animals, not even in our closest cousins, chimp...
September 19, 2022 at 12:25
On a more serious note, if I feel like I'm a proboscis monkey (Rastapopoulos), does that mean I am a proboscis monkey? I am according to transgender l...
September 19, 2022 at 10:42
To hazard a guess I'd say gender dysphoria is basically an embryological relic - from the zygote to a certain point in the fetus' development, we can'...
September 19, 2022 at 10:27
@"Gnomon" might wanna chime in with his BothAnd idea. Differences are not a bug that we must lament but a feature that we should celebrate. It's eithe...
September 19, 2022 at 09:42
What is democracy? Giving everyone a say in government - all are monarchs in their own little one-yea/nay-vote way. It's as if the crown were dismantl...
September 19, 2022 at 08:22
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The difference being ... ? Paradoxical laughter, a condition seen in some psychoses - it ain't funny and that's why it is? :chin: Paradoxical crying, ...
September 19, 2022 at 08:10
We can know a fact i.e. facts are truths, known/unknown, but knowledge is known truths. Facts are independent of intelligence (knower unnecessary) whi...
September 19, 2022 at 08:05
Fab! An intriguing business model - base your company on nature's surplus (there surely are/were more trees than necessary for a healthy ecosystem; th...
September 19, 2022 at 07:53
Time 1. There was a flower, now in its place a fruit, then the fruit ripens (it can be eaten). There's progression of states (the plant hasn't moved) ...
September 19, 2022 at 06:43