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Ah. Well this really would be a separate thread if you're interested.

Oh! Why can't it be conceptualized as a pattern? If the rest of the folks on the thread would like us to take this discussion elsewhere, let us know.

So you're saying that things like the desire and sorrow of a certain person at a certain time are equivalent to a unique neurological signature, the a...

It's definitely an interesting idea. I'm reading a sci fi novel now in which one person's memories and skills can be recorded as something like ROM an...

Are you identifying the artist's neurological states as the source data? Then the artwork is the channel and the viewer is receiving information that ...

All true. I would just say the piece itself is like a seed. Some seed falls on rocky soil and comes to nothing. Some seed falls on fertile soil and be...

That's basically the scientific definition. Information is distinctions.

You're describing art as if it's like a phone call. I think it can be sort of like that, but sometimes an artist might make a painting that she hersel...

Like a one tree forest. Still utterly irrefutable.

Ah, good. I like to be maximally irrefutable.

Then what's the point in criticizing capitalism if the alternative is assumed to be no better regarding CO2 emissions? It just reduces to criticizing ...

The virus doesn't live long outside a host.

Oh, Alabama is higher than I thought. That's encouraging

Hospitals are starting to mandate vaccination. Mine has, and we're discovering who was never vaccinated, so who was potentially exposing old people to...

The quoted word usually refers to use. We were talking about mention. Plus I think it's probably time for your Ativan little buddy.

I don't think it does. I learned to treat it as a symbol. Or how do I tell that a mass of differing shades of green is a tree? There's nothing in the ...

Can visual images convey the idea of the present? How? The visual image of that painting doesn't tell you that there are symbols embedded in it, so ho...

That painting is full of symbols that relate to events before and after the Supper. I think you need words to convey past and future.

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Well ok then.

Yea but the sage acts by doing nothing.

The sage acts by doing nothing.

https://image.isu.pub/200610160600-79a9652154a52f7181d68ebcb1736c1f/jpg/page_1_thumb_large.jpg Like stuck in a Lorn video. Yea.

What I don't like about this attack on capitalism is that it seems to imply that a leftist approach to life would have been carbon neutral. Capitalism...

It's to let the moderators know someone's breaking the rules of the site so as to diminish the experience of posting here.

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Yep. Silent summer.

You're equivocating on "share".

How can you tell it's that, and not that he's just unaware of what's going on around him?

Birds don't sing in the summer because they're growing new feathers and they're vulnerable to predators, plus they've already mated and they don't nee...

You have no idea. Some Americans believe the vaccine has a nano tracking device in it. Like, they really believe that.

I guess so.

One day you'll be an adult and you'll understand.

Of course. I was talking about people who believe Bill Gates engineered the virus to make a profit off the vaccines. They're living in an alternate re...

I'm not sure which problem you mean.

I've been wearing a mask because 1) I could be a carrier, and 2) I want to help destigmatize mask wearing. I pay close attention to hand sanitation an...

Ok stop. He's in jail because a reporter deemed the facts suspicious, looked into it, and raised a stink, THEN they investigated the murder like they ...

I just got a booster. I went to the Walgreens and asked for it. They said they needed more paperwork. I said I didn't have any paperwork, so they said...

It's like the boundary between a mountain and a valley. We think of a mountain as an independent thing, not noticing how the concept is bound to it's ...

A liberal world called him a genius instead of burning him at the stake. He's their boy. Darwinism is definitely a dogma.

Yeah, because it would seem that a loss of distinction between subject and object would be a loss of cognition. It's also called "in the zone" It's a ...

As usual, you hit the nail on the head. What goes around, comes around.

That's because you like to obfuscate.

Yes. But liberalism is based on a Darwinian outlook, not a religious one. I mean Jesus was very anti-rich-people.

All is half truths except for this sentence?

Isn't the state based on an ideology as much as the church? Why define one by its temporal presentation, but not the other? Right now it's a global su...

A state-church combination is very stable. The church supports the legitimacy of the ruling class, and the king protects the church. This is an old an...

Yeah, but I think that saysmoreaboutyou thanit doesaboutme.

They'll take their hoards and move to a space station, leaving us mutants to choke our last in the dust of a barren world. Cough.

@"NOS4A2" Yeah, you just have a history of allying yourself with those who welcome racists with open arms. It makes it hard to take anything you say a...