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Anyway, there's a very important reason to be clear on whether it's the system that's against you, or just a mass of personal sentiments. If the syste...
November 04, 2019 at 16:43
Oops
November 04, 2019 at 16:30
It was Pacific sardines.
November 04, 2019 at 16:03
When people say "business is business" they mean that it's a world where contracts are much more important than friendship or even familial relationsh...
November 04, 2019 at 15:41
I dont think the budget situation is trump. It was the republican congress doing weird stuff.
November 04, 2019 at 14:09
I think you're right. Natural language is in use where experiences vary (as Leo pointed out). It would take time and special personalities to even unc...
November 04, 2019 at 13:21
Very very very well said!
November 04, 2019 at 13:18
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November 04, 2019 at 10:31
Ok. Yep.
November 04, 2019 at 10:30
That's a good question. What fact would you point to to assure yourself that a meeting of minds has taken place? Correct focus? What's that and how do...
November 03, 2019 at 20:53
You have to slice the pie in order to conceive of an unsliced pie. That was your profundus for the day.
November 03, 2019 at 16:51
Even if this is true, the Empire is apt to be filled with fudge factor. That doesnt help us to know by observation of people whether they understand w...
November 03, 2019 at 16:02
Cool. I just meant that food has energy in it and has the potential, given the proper circumstances, to become a human.
November 03, 2019 at 11:31
Whars your first language?
November 03, 2019 at 10:58
What product was canned in Steinbeck's Cannery Row?
November 03, 2019 at 10:52
Interestungly, the food in your refrigerator is a potential human. A pile of un-decomposed trash is.
November 03, 2019 at 10:09
Sure. I just don't have anyyhing to say about the world where everything runs together.
November 03, 2019 at 09:55
What's odd about W's paradox is that we intuiti that we can define a word with accuracy and completeness, but then appears we can't. We imagine that t...
November 03, 2019 at 09:51
I think you have to do a certain amount of dichotomizing. That's how the intellect works.
November 02, 2019 at 23:50
So its not just with angst that we face mortality? Lately I've been filled with angst-less purposelessness. Just being.
November 02, 2019 at 01:17
You actually think it's possible that you missed something? :joke:
November 01, 2019 at 22:52
Wooow, Mr. Pessimism.
November 01, 2019 at 22:39
Well, a couple of people saw what I was pointing out, which was awesome. I had more, but as you noticed, the thread died.
November 01, 2019 at 22:38
But isnt thanatos also a response to mortality?
November 01, 2019 at 22:16
Yeah, it's the will of the people. What else?
November 01, 2019 at 22:14
Ok. I dont know what you're driving at, and you're not inviting me to care.
November 01, 2019 at 20:20
That's cool. Time is change. Its negation is changelessness or eternity. The negation of being is angst? Why so?
November 01, 2019 at 20:19
Tim. What are you drinking?
November 01, 2019 at 15:34
It's the will of the people.
October 31, 2019 at 21:00
I'm in favor of legal abortion up to the end of the second trimester.
October 31, 2019 at 20:25
I'm not sure. It defies pinning down, I got that at least.
October 31, 2019 at 20:13
I guess we tried, but failed to understand one another. It happens.
October 31, 2019 at 20:12
I said: if abortion is immoral, a woman cant have the right to do it. And you disagree with that because to you, morality is dynamic and resistant to ...
October 31, 2019 at 19:50
So aborting a pregnancy is immoral (in the same way homicide is), but under certain circumstances it's ok?
October 31, 2019 at 18:11
:yikes:
October 31, 2019 at 17:49
If abortion is immoral, what sort of right could a woman have to one?
October 31, 2019 at 17:36
Minimize variance? The sympathetic nervous system dramatically throws the body out of equilibrium. The parasympathetic does also. Some systems resist ...
October 31, 2019 at 17:33
If abortion is immoral, a woman doesn't have a right to one. The issue is not about rights. It's about morality.
October 31, 2019 at 17:23
The similarity is that Southern states were insisting on the right to engage in an activity that's immoral. Were they right to make that claim? (don't...
October 31, 2019 at 16:08
Cool. May the oral surgery not be as bad as you expect, and may your project go better than your dreams. Can you say what the target population for yo...
October 31, 2019 at 15:59
I appreciate this approach. Too many defend abortion by saying it's a matter of women's rights. That argument is similar to that of Southern slave own...
October 31, 2019 at 02:07
11K is a sucker punch. Could you hire Rudy Gulliani to launder some of your profits through Ukraine? In the meantime: I keep thinking of a white buddh...
October 30, 2019 at 17:37
That's one scripture. You left out the part about white-washed tombs. The so-called Woes of the Pharisees are an important component to Jesus' message...
October 30, 2019 at 13:59
It's in the NT. He accuses the Pharisees of making a show of morality. I'm not quite motivated enough to give you a citation. You can't be made to val...
October 30, 2019 at 00:14
Huge impact? Eh. Paul Krugman says 1/5 of the economy is in recession, mainly because of the trade war. Life has ups and downs. I don't think trump is...
October 29, 2019 at 20:00
I don't know. Was there a point you were trying to make?
October 29, 2019 at 19:51
Sometimes "morality" refers to rules and rule following. Can you see how that if I command you to value birds (when you don't of your own sentiment), ...
October 29, 2019 at 13:20
Yea. I didn't mean it in a hippy sort of way, though.
October 29, 2019 at 13:08
As I frequently find to be the case, our perspectives are closely aligned. In a way, morality is the true nihilism because to be wholly dependent on l...
October 28, 2019 at 11:34
Pessimism is an aspect of apocalyticism. Al Gore was John. His video was Revelations. But now that google has a quantum computer, we should be seeing ...
October 28, 2019 at 10:35