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Yes, but people and outcomes are variable to a much greater extent than the characters of Cypher and Neo, and what happened to them in the film.

People are different. Cypher isn't Neo. And misery isn't what you dictate it to be.

Phew.

A gentleman? Oh gosh. I hope find the antidote.

:grin:

*puts down phone and begins destroying evidence*

It wasn't me, officer. I didn't do nothing.

Yes, officer, I fed the cat Patrick.

Cheer up. At least you're not @"Baden". :smile:

No, this is Patrick.

The options weren't that specific, but I suppose that that's a risk, and one which I hadn't considered. It's kind of off putting. But wouldn't similar...

I don't understand why you claim not to understand the appeal of power. Both wealth and power are about having more options available to you to take a...

No. :grin:

Wealth and power in the dreamworld.

Hello, hello, hello.

Yes, abstract entities exist, just not concretely, obviously. They're concepts, general ideas. It'd be odd to deny the existence of concepts or genera...

Michael Crackipott.

The question is worth investigation and reasoned analysis. It's not worth transcending the bounds of reason in order to reach one of those two conclus...

So, first you suggest that we haven't worked to answer the question, and now you're calling us indifferent umpires. These are merely ad hominems.

Happy Gerald.

And around we go again. This response leads to a dead end, remember? There are other dangers, so it's alright to keep guns and explosives? It isn't wo...

Lol, no thanks. I don't do voice chat. Here's good enough.

That isn't the position, as I interpret it. Having a different position to the two positions which you would count isn't the same as having no positio...

It takes some nerve to roll your eyes and suggest that it's inappropriate to bring up what Trump has done in relation to gun control here when you've ...

Now there's an oxymoron if ever I saw one. Anyway, I find it disgusting that a discussion about a peace prize is being used to put forward views in fa...

What TV channel, and when's it on?

I'm a responsible explosive collector. I keep explosives at my home, but I'm really careful not to blow myself or anyone else up, or allow the wrong p...

I like KFC, and you're making me hungry.

Mockingbirds mock. I hear there's one around these parts mimicking an owl, but I have yet to spot it.

But that's not the full extent of what the position is about. Positions on this topic - most topics even - don't tend to be taken based on mere possib...

Ah, so that's the secret ingredient.

Yeah, well, I think that those who have that simplistic attitude of, "You're either with us or you're against us", should go and sit somewhere else an...

There are those cases where I'd say that there's a God because of a trivial definition (e.g. God is love, God is the universe); those cases where I'd ...

:lol:

Ah, good. That's close enough to what I'd say. Gold star for you. It's not strictly about the former, and it's better defined in terms of the latter. ...

Skimming through the first page of replies, I was struck by a part of your reply which stood out as more reasonable than other parts of your reply, an...

I hope no one endeavours to humour this false dilemma.

Have you noticed that it's a pattern? At this stage, I wonder whether anyone here is in any doubt that he'll do anything other than presuppose such th...

What you're basically saying is, "I'm going to stick with the erroneous way and try to spin it as a success". That's it, call it "logic and proper rea...

Have you lost the plot? What reason have I to do that? I have a reason to defend my position, not to criticise positions invented by you. I've already...

Yes, and that's why guns should be banned.

Yeah, because he believed that there was a good chance his keys were there.

:gasp:

Human decency is for humans.

So, what's with all the sexual euphemism?

I asked her how she's doing, but she refused to answer my question. So I've shipped her off to Guantanamo Bay.

Send him to Guantanamo and waterboard the fuck out of him.

Sorry, but a snarky partial explanation is the best I can offer you. Have a nice day. :smile:

"I'm intelligent. Some people would say I'm very, very, very intelligent." - Donald Trump.

No, I would take away the scissors and replace them with guns. Upgrade. :up: Of course it should be followed by an explanation! I was only talking abo...