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So, the mind body problem asks how can a non-physical mind (or soul) interact with the physical body, which doesn't seem to be your question. Identity...
March 29, 2019 at 13:59
You live the life of my cat, which is a nice life if you're a cat. If all's hunky dory, why the therapist? And what's up with your not knowing if your...
March 29, 2019 at 13:21
It's the ebb and flow of interest. Everyone varies their frequency for whatever reason around here, without maintaining obsessive interest for too lon...
March 28, 2019 at 20:09
We should start a sub-thread and ask whether the thread isn't about you.
March 28, 2019 at 18:12
It's great your mother loves you and you love her back. You ought go up and ring her neck with a big ole hug and tell her, "Mama, I 'preciate the shit...
March 28, 2019 at 18:08
It's not tiring for you at all. You delight in this conversation about you, which is now paradoxically about you to the extent we can talk about it be...
March 28, 2019 at 17:56
All that you say is true, but to give you some perspective on this, Wallows, as I understand it, is fully disabled due to emotional issues. That being...
March 28, 2019 at 17:48
It could be you've looked at the prisons and seen that most of the bad actors are male, or it could be: I'm just saying I looked at the same prisons y...
March 28, 2019 at 17:31
Yeah, well, I'm sort of attached to my kids as well, so I'm not sure it's a feminist thing in actuality, but more of a feminist thing stereotypically....
March 28, 2019 at 17:24
I think being logical probably helps in all fields.
March 28, 2019 at 16:22
I think it was sarcasm. He might in fact be crazy as shit. I'm not a doctor, so can't be sure. It was all in fun though. Many of us have known each ot...
March 28, 2019 at 16:20
The same could be said of you.
March 27, 2019 at 22:54
If harm includes sending someone to jail in order to keep him from committing other crimes, then yes. These antinatilism posts continue to pollute thi...
March 27, 2019 at 17:46
The OP asks, Q: "What will Mueller discover?" A: Trump did not collude with the Russians.
March 27, 2019 at 13:56
And you're still crazy as shit, so I guess I'll have to concede the point that psychiatrists and psychologists are useless. Well played sir. I went to...
March 26, 2019 at 19:36
Most people are psychologically healthy enough that they can function with or without any form of therapy. Since there's minimally wrong with them, th...
March 26, 2019 at 17:42
But what I said was: This would require that those being assisted are those who want to be assisted. I've not suggested that any branch of medicine im...
March 26, 2019 at 17:23
This conversation really isn't one that fits within the purview of philosophy as far as I can tell. Because psychology is a scientific discipline, the...
March 26, 2019 at 13:06
He was created in my image.
March 26, 2019 at 00:15
@"Baden" /uploads/resized/files/fc/hc16frirxhmdx0m0.jpg
March 25, 2019 at 22:59
It won't be awkward because I'm so charismatic. I'm like a cult leader, just more godlike.
March 25, 2019 at 21:09
I'm not sure who's coming. I've got a lot of maybes. I'm pretty sure @"Baden" and @"Michael" will be here because their mothers are already here and t...
March 25, 2019 at 20:25
Just take a cab. I'll pay the fare when he arrives.
March 24, 2019 at 15:46
Those 60s and 70s bands had a reemergence in popularity in the 80s when I was in high school and college, bringing back so many memories of old friend...
March 23, 2019 at 23:42
He's no Lord and savior. A real Lord and savior doesn't die at his own hands, but chokes on his own vomit old school. https://youtu.be/vWh3B8slIt8 The...
March 23, 2019 at 12:42
If you qualify realities into "mine" and "yours," you're inserting value into the term "real," as in the phrase "real reality" would distinguish, at l...
March 22, 2019 at 18:12
The examples were: The modifying adjectives employed all related to emphasizing the reality of the object, and the argument, as I took it, was that su...
March 22, 2019 at 14:25
But we do have to account for what we know to be subjective interpretation that doesn't exist in the original. What I impose on the interpretation of ...
March 22, 2019 at 13:05
I looked at a map and from what I can tell Canada is only a couple of inches from where I live. In terms of the underage thing, I'd think you could ju...
March 22, 2019 at 12:54
I come here for much the same reasons as @"Baden". One day we should all meet at a pub actually. There's one just down the street from me with literal...
March 22, 2019 at 01:51
Florida with its invasive snakes, Georgia with its invasive wild boars, and Minnesota with its invasive Scandinavians.
March 20, 2019 at 12:27
But doesn't that ignore the fact that the ability for different species to mate usually occurs only because the two already shared a historical geneti...
March 19, 2019 at 14:13
I started reading, but it was too long, and I couldn't find the answer to the question I was looking for. My understanding of hybrids is that they are...
March 19, 2019 at 14:07
As noted in the Bradenberg test, the speech must be directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action," which does not seem to be satisfied in...
March 14, 2019 at 13:57
The current rule is that the government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless ac...
March 14, 2019 at 13:23
Formalism, as a strategy (and I don't think it's a strategy with you as much as it is a personality quirk), is designed to jettison arguments and limi...
March 12, 2019 at 13:59
And when we look back in 20 or 30 years to this generation and to this time, will people claim we were the Trump generation that stood for whatever it...
March 11, 2019 at 18:24
Injustice and foolishness reign eternal and your itemization of them, some of which I agree with and others not, I hope does not mean to suggest there...
March 09, 2019 at 14:33
I'll offer you an observation. You seem to require a formalism that others are not nearly as married to and it's a constant source of exasperation for...
March 09, 2019 at 14:25
How do we know that we're using terms consistently in this thread, and that while you're talking about inconsistent term usage, I'm hearing tales of c...
March 09, 2019 at 04:13
What is so hard to understand? What is the question within the OP that you wish answered?
March 08, 2019 at 19:39
Unless you provided the factual basis elsewhere, I don't know how they could have. Their responses certainly didn't reference it, nor did they offer c...
March 08, 2019 at 19:12
Fair questions. The OP was poetic, and obviously subject to interpretation. As we are to learn, it references deep loss suffered by the author. Had it...
March 08, 2019 at 19:08
Yeah, well I had no way of knowing you were talking about such profound loss, so I couldn't have been mocking you unless I actually knew that. So you ...
March 08, 2019 at 18:56
You can only tell me that my words don't accurately reflect what you're feeling, but not that I'm not listening because you don't know what I'm actual...
March 08, 2019 at 18:13
Fine. You're jubilant.
March 08, 2019 at 16:55
Very well. I just see this discussion as trying to convince one's self to be joyful despite it all. I find joy because of it all.
March 08, 2019 at 16:00
Actually I am. Here's what I heard: You describe coping, not joy.
March 08, 2019 at 15:55
That was joy? I shudder to think what pain is. The best that was was a method for enduring pain. Real joy derives from feeling a sense of purpose beyo...
March 08, 2019 at 15:49
You sound depressed and you unfortunately use your advanced ability to reason to justify it, even to the more unfortunate level of rejecting the optim...
March 08, 2019 at 15:47