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Thank you. I'll give some away for trick or treaters on Halloween.

Telegram, definitely.

Cool. Could you send me one?

Well, yes. Do they have Merino sheep where you live?

Seriously? That's awesome.

Maybe. If someone uses AI to create a fascinating post, could you engage with it?

Sometimes people who become trans go off to another city and start over where they can be taken as their new gender. Still, sooner or later, they have...

I see this from time to time. One I'm thinking of tries to baffle with bullshit. Best to walk away, right?

Oh. That was from a South American artist's memoir. Maybe they upgraded the technology. That's because you've been driving on a tiny road for hours an...

In South America, if you stop at a gas station and buy a drink, they serve it to you in a plastic baggie that's tied at the top and it has a straw pok...

What do you think the nature of the nonphysical part is?

That you can't prove we aren't nonphysical.

I don't think you can prove that we aren't physical.

Yes. They used the windmills to grind the dried tulip bulbs. Then they put on their wooden shoes and danced around.

Due to a Dutch railroad strike which undermined the occupation, the Nazis disrupted transport of food to civilians. The Dutch made flour out of tulip ...

https://i.imgur.com/Ax47PzL.jpeg

https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/download_file/view_inline/6207/ andrei rublev balloon scene

What if instead of a car you had a jet-pack you put on like a backpack and fly off, encountering birds and gusts of wind that cause you to end up in o...

I don't think so. Divine right is why kings were supposed to rule. Natural rights are what people have by virtue of nature. I thought your point was t...

Yes. Natural rights, not divine rights.

You're agreeing with me. The concept was natural rights, not God-given rights. Meh. The Bill of Rights mimics the English Bill of Rights. It doesn't c...

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Is that in the system? Jefferson was particularly opposed to allowing a place for religion in state and federal law. He said "infidels of all denomina...

My guess is he's running a scam.

I was just asking out of curiosity.

I guess I'm curious about why you use it. Is it because English isn't your first language and using AI makes that easier? Is it because you use it per...

Like the OP, this post appears to be AI generated.

You can initiate a fight or flight response by deciding to think of something scary. Maybe that would be an argument that a description of how neurons...

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Hedging is a way of reducing losses by doing directly opposing things at the same time. For instance, you enter two discussion about idealism. In one,...

They can go to college for free though.

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This touches on an aspect of belief that Davidson focuses on: that no belief exists in isolation. Each of your beliefs is part of a web of inter-relat...

Who is actually in charge at Burbleson Air Force base?

It's always darkest before the dawn.

If someone suggested a referendum, wouldn't Putin just send them to the front in Ukraine?

Certainly one of the themes of the novel will be unrealized potential due to conformity and manipulation by the "culture industry.". Our protagonists ...

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Fruit started another night shift with the knawing feeling that something was wrong. The same half bitten moon hung in the same dark chocolate sky, bu...

This. If anything, abduction is a description of the problem.

You have to make a Hero's Journey for them where they struggle to uncover a secret about why they're stuck in a cake, and this reveals death and destr...

They probably already know that.

We could give them South Carolina.

Ontological anti-realism isn't the view that reality is constituted by the mind. You're thinking of Dummett's anti-realism. Ontological anti-realists ...

Speaking of change, a cool thing to do is compare Adorno's conception of emancipation to Heidegger's, then think about how very different their approa...

Sometimes knowledge enters philosophical consideration in the form of a propositional attitude. The SEP says it well: I recently did a thread in Frege...

I think in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory they had gum that tastes like a whole meal.

Yep.

Adorno was an ontological anti-realist. He wouldn't take the concept, as you're using the word, and materiality to be anymore than a dichotomy that pl...