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It's true. There's bullshit on display on the anti-Trump side, which is disappointing and confusing considering the actual facts. I think his fiscal a...

He's not the antichrist, he's just an idiot, as his own former chief of staff observed.

Hey, cut me some slack. I'm traumatized.

How do you know?

A crazy old man started following me around in the grocery store mumbling things about the items on the shelves and grinning at me. I expedited my sho...

No, I mean he fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down. He forgot to pay his brain bill. He's dumber than a box of hair. A few...

Hope springs eternal.

He let it be known that Kim had given him a small apology for engaging in nuclear testing. He's an idiot.

Hong Kong is made of a lot of super rich people and a lot of incredibly poor people living in squalid conditions because the government owns the real ...

The Atlantic claims that the myths driving Brexit are memories of imperialism and memories of standing alone during WW2.

That's really an if-then statement.

Exactly. That's determinism, which is only conceivable in contrast to belief in volition. They're two sides of one coin.

I think that's closer to how a real wolf pack works (what you described).

This may be total bullshit, but imagine that moralizing is an aspect of social cohesion. You say something that reveals a flaw in me. If I respond by ...

Probably just a lack of concern for his well being, not stupidity. Since he was in the news and his offences were so extreme, he would have required a...

if he ended up in a medium security prison, it's likely he would have been killed there. Where sex offenders go and whether they receive protection is...

in love? :blush:

I agree. I think the lust for justice is part of a system like seed germination, but I only vaguely see how it works and what it's made of. Maybe nihi...

I agree. Kindness that's dictated is false. And the moral picture favors a perfect world. No, I wouldn't say that. So not all ought statements reject ...

Yes. It's like this: https://youtu.be/4K5fbQ1-zps

2400 years

But Johnson will be PM until 10/31. And then there's an election? I don't get it.

Anyway, you get the idea. Some people, like Hanover, are going to vote for Republicans even though they know that party stands against both gun contro...

I have a fascinating story about what my dad said about the meaning of life and how drunk he was at the time but I don't want to derail the thread. So...

I don't care either way. I'm 99% determinist. You do what you want, but you can't choose what you want.

"Law and order" is generally a dog whistle for racism, so no, it's not a Democratic thing. Democrats favor enforcing the laws on the books. Republican...

Woe. Hanover has become a Democrat.

I agree. So what about the next question: if time appears to the mind only in contrast to its negation, what do we make of its negation: stasis?

Is green a kind of system? Or does it imply a system? Is it the outcome of a system? Or would it be a name for one? The parts of a system are describe...

There's a room where I'm playing chess with my brother and we're listening to Led Zeppelin. I go there sometimes.

Interesting, but I think that's over my head. I don't quite understand what he means by "manifests itself."

While you're thinking about how concepts come in oppositions, focus on one of the more structural concepts: changing ---- unchanging This concept obvi...

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Yep. I think the basic idea here runs through philosophy from at least Plato onward. I'd like to hear more about Goethe's color theory. Exactly. The o...

I thought you were looking to understand US mass shootings. If that wasn't the point of the OP, what was it? The media is mostly on the internet. I gu...

So you're thinking that something like greenness would be detected by scientists? Ok. I have another question. It'll take a while to formulate it.

The rush of attention to a mass shooting should be mentioned if the goal is to try to understand why close to the same scenario keeps repeating.

Wow. I really didn't expect anybody who understands that to post on this thread. The totally green world is a colorless world. The totally green world...

I think the answer to the OP is that you're overthinking it. As for the rest, *sung in tenor* "I wasn't talking to you....." :joke: I crack myself up....

We focus on mass shootings because we're fascinated by them. For whatever reason, it's just more dramatic than the row of child abuse victims in the c...

But dont you think they'd need to be able to compare greenness to something else in order to be aware of it?

This forum appears to be on the rag.

:up: I think the question is paradoxical. I don't think people in WG would be aware of color at all. They would focus on light and dark. They might ha...

I see. Carry on then.

But you didn't adress the thing about how you were using probability. Your answer made me wonder at you especially since youre all immersed in math. H...

Is that why you didn't really address my posts? Because they weren't in topic? I was wondering about that.

Sorry, I thought Tim had mentioned that the US has the world's oldest in-use constitution. He said something else.

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If the Senate has a tendency to squash bad legislation, then it's protecting the people from the government. Since the senate is usually made up of ol...

The US government has a lot of features that are intended to protect the country from mob mentality. Yes, they're anti-democratic. Pure democracies do...