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What are you saying? That pi never ends?

Funny thing is, if I'd started a thread that said we can know pi in its entirety, you would have said that ridiculous. :confused:

I didn't get that memo. Why not?

It's not a joke. It goes on forever, so you can never know it completely.

Especially after they banned all the Trump supporters. :lol:

Just as the index finger can grasp the coffee cup by the little handle, the mind grasps pi by the bits we know. I didn't realize that quote in the OP ...

This is a really distasteful topic.

Did you want a list of the things I can't do that everyone else in the world can?

It's been my experience as a day trader.

They say that being struck by lightning is a good thing.

Just depends on where the logic starts from. If what you are is a gear in the works, then it sounds like magic that you could rise up from gear-hood a...

Then why don't you short some stocks?

They say being struck by lightning is a good thing.

Sounds like you're unfamiliar with the topic.

Yes. Wall St appears to be ranging right now, which means it's just going up and down between two levels. It's presently going down, yes. It will hit ...

Yea. That's a pretty old down-sizing thing. In fact, I think $25,000 is probably a figure from some time in the last century. :grin: No, it isn't. Are...

That's not what this AP article indicates. It's a voluntary buy-out that's been offered, although $25,000 is chump change for a buy-out. But if someon...

You're saying that cultural "archetypes" are being represented in different party platforms, and masculine parties are on the rise. You discern from t...

I'm guessing something is lost in translation here. If I were at work at started talking about "feminine values" as described in the OP, I'd have to r...

The far right is a conglomeration. You're asking if incels are a primary driving force, as opposed to just being attracted to it because of an emotion...

I don't know. When it comes to trade, Americans are much more heavily regulated that Europeans, or really just about anybody else in the world. This i...

I was recently telling another poster about how Bronze Age people thought human action is controlled by external divinities. Another aspect of that is...

I like the crude oil futures market. As with any free market, the price reflects all the information in the market, things like what season it is, wha...

What market?

I have a German friend who's fluent in English and Russian. She read War and Peace in each language and says it's a different book depending on the la...

I first learned about milankivitch cycles from a library book that was published in 1970. It's ok to talk about the Earth's wobble without mentioning ...

Do you know of a theory that covers the anatomy and physiology of concepts such as free will and theological atavism?

Thanks for the lecture. :smile:

The alt-right is diverse, but for some, it's that liberal democracy failed to protect the people, leftism tried to help, but is now fossilized. So it'...

Maybe. My point was the Jewish right to Israel will soon be the right to an uninhabitable desert. All the killing will have been vanity.

In a couple hundred years Israel will be a desert due to climate change. Just as there is no state of the Sahara, there will be no state of Israel. It...

That is utter bullshit. The Jews lost Israel twice now. It'll happen again. They'll lose it and never get it back again.

There is no two party system. It's just that a third party always cripples one of the main two, so there's effort on both sides to avoid fragmentation...

I don't read the situation that way. Biden was a career politician. He could have backed out in a way that would have made everyone happy. He just wan...

The US administration isn't hawkish, in spite of the talk about taking Greenland and Canada. There's a lot of cognizance of the costs involved in gove...

Yea. I think morality is more about the heart than the mind. I don't know how to translate that into science-speak. An example is Iago in Othello. Obj...

You don't see Putin as a future threat to the region?

I don't think so. Also, I think contemporary medicine has defined health pretty thoroughly, so I don't know what to make of that part of the argument.

If you read the article posted in the OP, Harris is saying that it's ok that we don't have a "conceptual definition" for morality because we just sort...

I understand what you're saying, but that doesn't mesh with the Harris comments posted in the OP.

Aren't you describing consequentialism? If Harris defines morality as consequentialism, why would he give the opinion that morality doesn't have to ha...

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When Augustus turned Rome into a dictatorship, he lauded the health of the Roman Republic. They never officially had a revolution.

I think Harris wants to have his cake and eat it too. 'It's a meaningless universe, but you shouldn't do x.'.

Diplomacy wouldn't work on Hitler.

That's kind of nationalistic though.

That's billions of people worth of benefit!

How would you describe that reforming process? Or any kind of redemption?

I don't think the US government has any clear goal at the moment.

The plot thickens.