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Your eye is directly exposed to light bouncing off the cat. That's the only directness to the situation. Humans don't have any kind of direct percepti...

We have the same experience of moving a flashlight around in dreams. I've had a lot of dreams where the locals have these violent and horrifying custo...

There are, but they're wrong. :grin:

Again, sensory organs are interfaces. They convey electrical discharges to the central nervous system, which is separated from the rest of the body by...

I asked this crazy guy what his all-time favorite birthday gift was. I can't tell you what it was though.

A computer sees the world indirectly through its analog to digital converters. A microphone is in direct contact with the world. The computer recordin...

Scientists say humans look purple to cats. So to a cat, it would be true that humans are purple. If a human says that, there might be something wrong....

I think they probably thought you were saying something a little more substantial. :up:

It doesn't appear the OP is saying anything that isn't trivially true.

They were born with a certain sex. That's true. They tell you what their gender is.

Ok. But when you go to the hospital, someone is going to fill in a blank beside the words: Gender Preference. So you're cool with that because every h...

Cool. So if people change the way they talk about gender, you'll change your views.

Conceptions of reality change. Language changes with it.

The architecture of the nervous system makes indirect realism a no-brainer.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

I mean, it's not like the US is going to herd the residents of Greenland into a re-education camp and zap them in their heads with cattle prods if the...

But for the perfect Amish woman, would you go all out with goat and what not? This is a test for how conservative you are.

Ok. Are fresh ones different from dried ones?

misanthropy, yep

No, that's Steiner in 1979. The black notebooks just put an end to any possibility of apology. Well, it's just that most of us would be filled with ho...

Fresh bay leaves. Thoughts?

One of Heidegger's biographers accused him of sadism due to his easy attitude toward violence and even genocide. If someone is happy with the concept ...

There's some kind of syndrome that causes that. I don't know what it us, though. :grin:

I think so. That's kind of the theme of War and Peace. Every story is made of directly opposing truths.

A Baptist told me that liberal Christians don't care about denomination, or even the divide between Christianity and Judaism. Conservative Christians ...

And yet his theory of truth emphasized revelation, uncovering. My theory of truth is that we see ourselves as in communication with the world. The div...

I think that's the main advantage of religion. It's a ready-made community that's held together by something over-arching. So even if people shout and...

Like in dreams, we know there is a world beyond the immediate. Consciousness seems like a flashlight in a dark room. We move the flashlight around and...

That's nice. But in the middle of night, some Latina lady is being discharged from the emergency department, and I know she needs some help. I give he...

The big expert on Homeric Greece was named Moses Finley (his real last name was Finkelstein.) The World of Odysseus

I knew you knew I was going to say that.

I think we understand each other via empathy. We're telepathic. :grin:

Probably not. There's no fact about which rules anyone has been following.

Ok. Grieve then. But accept what you can't change.

If by "meaning is use" we're envisioning that some activity is underway, and my language comprehension is entirely dependent on successful collaborati...

You sound pretty bitter about the whole thing. It's just politics. It doesn't mean anything. Feeling the rain on your face. That's what's important.

The bromance has been souring lately.

I think in this case, a "reasonable price" will be determined by global politics. It will be a whole new world as the global scene becomes more fragme...

And yet there's still little in the way of socialism in Europe. That's because the EU controls economic policy, and it's firmly neo-liberal. Again, wh...

I didn't say it was more left leaning. My point was that except for maybe France, Europe is not left of the US in any significant way. Europe is a lan...

How are we supposed to have a conversation if we're in agreement?

For the most part, Europe is not socialist. Private ownership of the means of production is the rule there. What you're calling socialism is actually ...

Strictly speaking, that's bread and circuses, not socialism, but it's not true. Medicare is essential to the financial stability of every hospital in ...

But when you talk about socialism, do you mean government ownership of the means of production? Or is it more bread and circuses you're referring to? ...

I think fathers used to be more dictatorial than they are now. Martin Luther was severely physically abused by his father, but he just laughed about i...

Members of the US government have wanted Greenland for defense purposes since the 1860s.

He joined 9 years ago. This is known as a "zombie account" and reuse generally signifies that the user was banned and is now resorting to the use of a...

They'll get around to banning you again. Eventually.

You're @"Bob Ross" right?

He said the two coincide in terms of values. Christian nationalism is the attitude that all Americans should be Christian. The people who are worried ...