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I like to make things up, too. My father was an astronaut, and he would always say to me, "Son, when you grow up, I want you to be the first man on th...

A Mormon was seated next to an Irishman on a flight from London to the US. After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken. The Irishman asked f...

Learning to see things for what they are is important. Not necessarily to see through them, as though they're a sham and truth is on the other side. T...

There most definitely is deception from you. Otherwise you wouldn't say the incredibly misleading things that you do, in spite of the misleading natur...

No, here is where you are way off the mark. A world devoid of life matters to lots and lots of people. Just ask them. And no, I know exactly what you'...

Convince through the deliberate deception involved in mis-selling a product. Yes, your agenda is much more noble and praiseworthy.

It alternates between that and sarcastic son of a bitch.

It doesn't matter how many times you repeat your opinion, you know. I already know that that's your opinion, and it won't become any closer to being t...

In the world of the superficial and easily offended, straight-talking criticism is mean and nasty. It could be that. It could also be that some people...

Oh. Well, that doesn't apply to me, anyway. I'm like a most evil malignant cancer poisoning and rotting humanity, but in a good way. No, scratch that:...

Eh? What are you calling "mean and nasty", though? Chances are that it's something that I would have others do unto me, like mockery or bluntness.

Okay, fine, you're right. You have never hated anyone in your life. Not even that girl you hated at school.

In a good way, though. Right?

Okay, well posit away, but there is a meaningful distinction. I'm not talking about those, "I hate Brussel sprouts!" moments where there isn't one. An...

What? Me? A jerk? No one has ever called me that before. I'm shocked and upset. @"T Clark" said that I'm cute and nice.

Yeah, nothing agressive there at all. Do you define aggressiveness like you define hatred, by any chance?

I'm not confusing disgust and hatred. If I had meant disgust, then I would have used that word instead. And your answer is definitely novel because no...

Yes, because I already know the answer. It's me. Anyway, I have other things to be getting on with. The world isn't going to destroy itself now, is it...

Okay, sure, I get the general gist of that. That's not controversial. But let's be honest. There's no way you haven't once, in your entire life, hated...

Your humour has no power over me, DingbatJones. I freely decided to laugh at that.

No, just advocates of terrorism. :grin:

Thanks. You're pretty good at committing fallacies to keep me on the ball.

Ah, you got me before the edit. I'm pretty good actually, and that was close, but it's an association fallacy. You're trying to make those on the othe...

Ah, I love a good old game of spot the fallacy! Poisoning the well. No, wait, guilt by association.

What sourcery. Jokes don't force anyone to laugh. They have no power over anyone. All those people filling up theatres to watch a popular stand-up com...

But that's what we do here. We celebrate Groundhog Day in this insane asylum full of idiots and nutters. Yes.

His next discussion: music doesn't invoke feelings, that's sourcery.

You are by implication, but if you don't want to discuss it, that's fine.

The latter. It's laughable to set your threshold so high that it allows in so much that's wrong. It's laughable for the same reason that it's laughabl...

What are you talking about? It matters now. Now is prior to the birth of possible future generations, which is what I was talking about. It matters al...

But that's laughable. :lol: That's like saying the only way I'd ever ban asbestos is if it literally forced cancer on immediate contact. That's just n...

Yeah, and people aren't going to remember that you go by an unusual interpretation which no one else goes by. They'll just revert to ordinary language...

Again, funnily enough, if you deviate from the norm in terms of how you interpret key terms in use, then you will keep encountering this problem. Just...

That's understandable, but I don't think that that was helpful.

Okay, but again, I don't really care about that. Why would I? I don't think that the main thrust of his opening post had anything to do with a trivial...

Okay, so we're all just talking past eachother. Maybe it is overestimated. Maybe not. It's hard to judge because where do you even begin? You could lo...

And the point that I was making was that that point misses the point, meaning that whether true or false, it has no logical bearing on what he said. I...

That speech, by way of advertisement, generally speaking, is effective, or powerful, or however you want to word it so long as you don't completely ge...

No can do. I'm too full of malice, you see.

And a lot of stupidity. For example, I once encountered someone who suggested that it would be true that the shape of our planet is hexagonal, so long...

Then you're for acts of terrorism, like those committed by acolytes of Anjem Choudary, the infamous preacher of hate speech who influenced their later...

But that just misses the point. Perhaps your replies miss the point because you misunderstand the point.

Well, it seems obvious to me that you could just use the word "force" when that's what you mean. Clearly I don't mean to suggest anything like that an...

Funnily enough, that was his choice of words. I don't mean anything above and beyond what I've previously said, so influence, cause, motivation, effec...

How to go about performing a craniotomy and why people think that topknots are cool, among other things.

You were talking about words having agency and acting on people. That's a straw man deliberately using inappropriate language suggesting a category er...

That doesn't outweigh the overall value of the lives of many people. Given that the nonsense ideal of living without that is not a possible alternativ...

That doesn't work as an attempted refutation. That some businesses overestimate the effect that advertising will have to the detriment of their busine...

No, it's not patently absurd to say that their words altered the world, so long as that's not interpreted in a silly way. Words do have an influence, ...

It's hard to tell whether you're being silly with your choice of words and the way that you're interpreting them, or whether you're saying something a...