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As I noted, the only reason I believe any object other than myself has consciousness is by observing its behavior. Consciousness cannot be seen direct...

Because alteration of an organism's nervous system predictably affects its consciousness.

With the Turing test, the question is whether an AI entity that behaves entirely conscious is actually conscious. It is indisputable that consciousnes...

The holidays always seem to come and go fast. Time to take down the Memorial Day tree already.

With $200m, you're prolly gonna be ok no matter what.

Thatcher.

You shouldn't have put all 5 pounds in a single currency but should have diversified.

They are carrying on. That's what they do when things suck.

Yes, but right now we're limited to wishing and waiting for that dream to become a reality, as we sit back from afar watching the already realized com...

It's a false dichotomy to require that I either accept we are either (1) entirely products of our environment and genetics or (2) entirely products of...

If you evolve in an adverse environment, then you may be ill equipped to survive once you leave it. While your paranoia might make you particularly we...

B might own a cat. Are you suggesting cat ownership is unethical because cats are unethical because they are carnivorous and any association with a me...

Voting is like praying. It supposedly makes you feel good, you're bad if you don't do it, and no one is really sure it does anything.

The point is that no study has shown the effectiveness of prayer in offering a cure for the illness. Having cancer and feeling calm about it because o...

I saw the movie a long time ago. It was about robot cowboys in an old west theme park that went rogue and fucked everything up. It was a cool movie, s...

This just defines true blue religious believers pejoratively as zealots. Is it really a zealot who believes that if he prays for his dying friend, his...

It depends upon the religion, though. Those who look at the Bible, for instance, as historically accurate will have serious problems making those view...

I'm now caught up in an endless circle. I don't know what to do now.

Although it goes against everything I stand for, I'll do it, only because I'm fully committed to doing everything you suggest.

I have never watched an episode of Game of Thrones. I've actually never watched any show that you have to stream or whatever it is that the kids do th...

That's the problem with determinism. The conclusion we reach is determined by preexisting causes, not necessarily by the force of the accuracy of the ...

You've first got to define monotheism. While that seems like a simple enough concept, it's really more complex than the idea that there is but one god...

Maybe, but I doubt that's the real basis for the progressive tax system. I think the real reason is simply that the wealthy can afford to pay more tax...

Submissions aren't queued for moderator preapproval. They should immediately appear. I checked and didn't see your post in the spam filter (which is s...

Baby Jesus weeping: /uploads/files/gm/vrlx63k7cea2zf4x.jpg This is why baby Jesus is my favorite Jesus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1Nh_3JCFj8

I find the OP a bit of a straw man to the extent there's a suggestion that current day anti-Semitism is the result of ancient accusations of the Jews ...

Southerners always say that they declare before they declare in order to not startle anyone. I do declare, It's a most genteel society. It's well know...

AAVE isn't non rhotic like New England, British, or old South (I do declaa), but it truncates most all final consonamts. "Where are you going" becomes...

1886 wasn't the most progressive of years.

No, they called them as they did because they reminded some redneck of how black men's heads looked and so he and Bubba coined the term and they laugh...

So salty. Definitely Celtic. You lack the refinement of an Anglo.

What is the specific name of the rock you're referencing?

It is useful. My son is half Jewish, so he checked the mixed race box on some application for something for preferential treatment.

There'd be little gained if I overcame my limitations and was finally able to speak the N word with greater comfort. It offers me one less area to get...

Everyone pretty much is. You're probably Anglo and Saxon or maybe Scotch and Irish. Most black Americans have some European blood in them. This whole ...

I'm more comfortable not using it, so I don't. Some people don't say Fuck for the same reason. I say Fuck, but not the N word.

I don't believe that the official name of those rocks were N-rocks or something similar. That's probably what people called them because poor black pe...

You'd probably get away with calling your wife and her friends a bitch. I actually think you could pull it off if you used it in the right context, li...

I'm not sure that's entirely the case though. I think the utterance itself has become a perfomative act to some, where it's inexcusable regardless of ...

This forum began prior to the old PF fully unraveling, out of a sense of concern for its direction after it changed ownership. Had there not been a gr...

My father used to call called black people "colored," which was actually an official designation for a time period. You checked off the box on governm...

The reason a white person wouldn't use the omitted R version of the word is because it would sound like mockery, assuming you have a white person who ...

No, it invents you. I'm a grown ass man and I do what I do when I wanna do it.

It sent in mid sentence. I think I leave it that way. Use your imagination.

Nice. You just called my departed mother a retard. If I weren't so

Can the white community pass a convention normalizing the use of the N word and condemning of the Black community's use of the term?

You shouldnt use the word "retarded" anymore. It's somewhat insulting to those parents of the intellectually challenged who would rather not have thei...

So now you're offering the "you gotra live it" definition. Does Eminem get a pass? What about the Huxtables? Do they lose their pass?

I'm thinking the predictions made in 1819 about what 2019 would look like are pretty much wrong.

Our immigration laws are really strict.