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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...

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It was Pacific sardines.

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...

I dont think the budget situation is trump. It was the republican congress doing weird stuff.

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...

Very very very well said!

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Ok. Yep.

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...

You have to slice the pie in order to conceive of an unsliced pie. That was your profundus for the day.

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...

Cool. I just meant that food has energy in it and has the potential, given the proper circumstances, to become a human.

Whars your first language?

What product was canned in Steinbeck's Cannery Row?

Interestungly, the food in your refrigerator is a potential human. A pile of un-decomposed trash is.

Sure. I just don't have anyyhing to say about the world where everything runs together.

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...

I think you have to do a certain amount of dichotomizing. That's how the intellect works.

So its not just with angst that we face mortality? Lately I've been filled with angst-less purposelessness. Just being.

You actually think it's possible that you missed something? :joke:

Wooow, Mr. Pessimism.

Well, a couple of people saw what I was pointing out, which was awesome. I had more, but as you noticed, the thread died.

But isnt thanatos also a response to mortality?

Yeah, it's the will of the people. What else?

Ok. I dont know what you're driving at, and you're not inviting me to care.

That's cool. Time is change. Its negation is changelessness or eternity. The negation of being is angst? Why so?

Tim. What are you drinking?

It's the will of the people.

I'm in favor of legal abortion up to the end of the second trimester.

I'm not sure. It defies pinning down, I got that at least.

I guess we tried, but failed to understand one another. It happens.

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 ...

So aborting a pregnancy is immoral (in the same way homicide is), but under certain circumstances it's ok?

:yikes:

If abortion is immoral, what sort of right could a woman have to one?

Minimize variance? The sympathetic nervous system dramatically throws the body out of equilibrium. The parasympathetic does also. Some systems resist ...

If abortion is immoral, a woman doesn't have a right to one. The issue is not about rights. It's about morality.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I don't know. Was there a point you were trying to make?

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), ...

Yea. I didn't mean it in a hippy sort of way, though.

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...

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 ...