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Maybe some day someone will say the same of us. :smile:

If you don't rake the leaves they will blow into your neighbor's yard problem solved

Yay Invizzy!

There are worse things than death. Like potato salad.

Cool portrait photography by Lee Jeffries.

https://youtu.be/cydkTy6GmFA

Yes. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1200x675/p03br58g.jpg

I really don't think there's a point. And randomly, this is why I think progressives are breaking up the Democratic party. They're mirroring the extre...

A phenomenological take on reality: it's a product of limitations, or resistance to potential. Think about what reality would become for you if you wo...

On the one hand, you recognize that abandoning Ukraine is not the best way to help Ukrainians. On the other, you condemn the White House for supplying...

As if the US is doing this single handedly. Utter bullshit.

And your theory is?

Because implicit in Isaac's message is that the West should abandon Ukrainians because that would save Ukrainian lives. I've had it with that idiotic ...

What a disgusting sentiment. :vomit:

Don't order acorns on it next time.

LOTR is more than sentences. It's a story that's part of the culture. It's an abstract object, like the components of math. But yes, there's a differe...

He doesn't mean that the world isn't real. He just meant that we usually use the word to render a thing special in some way. Like the "real power behi...

Since I tend to peddle propositions at every turn, it's about why we can't do without them. "Real" is mostly an honorific according to Chomsky. We're ...

Suzie is discussing whether Frodo was a character in a dream that Gandalf had. She says, "No, he was real." You know from the context that she's talki...

If Bill points to the number "2", written on a dry erase board, and says, "That's a prime number", how do you know he's expressing the proposition tha...

"Frodo went to Mordor" "George crossed the Delaware." Both "Frodo" and "George" are expressions. They're both real in their respective frameworks, Fro...

There's a lot of corruption.

I don't know. I'm more interested in health than veganism, which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the health of humans or of the world. In...

So you go on my ignore list. :up:

He was just saying that the political entity, Brazil, has no indigenous people. The continent of South America does. No need to get offended.

He could be a reflection in a window that Jack takes for a bartender. "Real", as you've used it makes perfect sense in spite of the fact that you don'...

I'm not sure what that is.

Meaning tends to depend on negation. As Hegel said, a thing and its negation make up one concept. For example, far/near is one concept where "far" ult...

Why? We're just looking at instances of use. I assert that in some cases, "real" is meaningful when it's only known negation is "unreal.". Kubrick's S...

I was aiming for the Kubrick version which is more ambiguous. Is Jack delusional? Does he have the shining? We can identify the bartender as unreal wi...

Jack thinks the bartender is real, but he's not. What's the contrary in this case?

I also registered. Thanks!

I didn't know. I was going to ask you a bunch of questions if you were. :grin:

Are you Brazilian?

Yes, I'm aware of the problem. It's just hard to get enough digestible protein from plants.

I think the main issue is protein. I get most of my protein from goat whey and peanut powder. I don't have any interest in the taste of meat.

https://youtu.be/mhIay4-PbCY

There's no such thing as that, is there?

You're a butthead, so we're even.

I just wanna say: this is the outcome of playing hardball. Any sign of a lack of resolve on the part of NATO would have encouraged whistle britches ov...

Sure, but much can be accomplished by using deductive reasoning on premises that are sufficiently verifiable. And so-called "hinge propositions" aren'...

.. That's actually not true. People vary in how much they trust logic. Some can march, one logical step at a time, to amazing effect. Others flop arou...

I'm pretty sure this is the guy from the cover of Mad magazine. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/10/25/obituaries/21Hamilton1/21Hamilton1-superJum...

The adventures of Spud Jr.

There's a staple gun where I work that's huge and electric powered, and it makes a sound like a cannon going off when you press the lever. It makes me...

Into every life, a little rain must fall.

That's so true.

Sounds like you're getting annoyed with the situation.

A lot of people here beat the same drum over and over. Doesn't mean they're evangelizing. They're probably just trying to work through something. We s...

It's stronger if you put "God" in front of it.