The small sticks came from the branches that came from the trees that came from the ground that came from the earth that came from the sky that came f...
Much of what you said isn't interesting. Your experience offers me nothing because it is obviously considerably less than and different than mine. Wha...
You might be incompatible for any reason, which might include that the person doesn't satisfy some utilitarian purpose , that you don't share common m...
But, as you said, there are plenty of abusive partners who are trustworthy and committed, but they're not good people. I was in a relationship that I ...
That explains why I've been looking for a dead person to be my wife. (Sure, a little dark). I have a real question. If you found the perfect woman, wh...
Years ago when coaching 8 year olds in soccer, Keith kept throwing small sticks at Anthony, so I made Keith sit out, and so he sat on the cooler and c...
A good woman is not one who you break up with and camps in her car outside your house for hours until you call the cops. All others are just dandy aft...
Yeah, but we agree to this point entirely. The "external world" as you use it is the noumena, as I've said, and positing any meaning or relevance to i...
The "alternative" is that they do not adhere to the scientific method. If these alternative treatments were scientifically shown to work, they would t...
This just makes no sense to me. You can't say it's not about perception, but only about meaning, when the only meaning you're interested in is the mea...
By this account, you've identified 3 levels of reality: (1) what you experience, (2) what immediately causes the experience (you call this "the simula...
No, we actually got the kind of mattress that only dad can figure out how to carry up the stairs. I actually am indebted to this mattress for having p...
Well, it may or may not. We just don't know. In fact, we can't even comprehend the world outside the simulator. It's the noumena.No. The cupboard is c...
The world is the simulation, composed of the simulated facts transmitted by the simulator and the simulator itself, which is the independent metaphysi...
You're refusing to define the simulator. In our community of observors, we take note we see things. We must therefore ask ourselves why. Instead of ag...
P has a truth value at all times, you're just misapplying the rules of the direct realist on the indirect realist. If you ask an indirect realist if t...
I understand your distictions, but I'm saying they're irrelevant. What you're saying is P is true if P corresponds to X, where X is some event indepen...
My cat is kneading it's claws in my chest and my dog is whining on the floor because she wants up in the bed. My efforts at negotiating aren't working...
Speaking of mattresses, I bought a mattress for my son and the morons who strapped it the top of rental van didn't do it right, and it caught some win...
I see no distinction between the simulation and the external world. The simulation is the shared reality, making it external to to each person sharing...
A person has a consciousness and a brain. That is a reasonable division of a person into 2 seperate parts. Your position I take it is that those two p...
You sort of made this up. There's no way to know that the first man did. I remember when my kids were little, I would point to things and they'd look ...
That is in part what BitterCrank said to you. That is not what you said to BitterCrank.You and Agustino seemed to have been offended, maybe Un, but I'...
I never provided you the first hint, so I don't know why you ask that I provide you more. What I said was: "I'm only disagreeing with you to the gener...
Telling someone not to make a mountain out of a molehill is not preaching apathy; it's preaching perspective. I'm not suggesting that you were wrong i...
My thought is that Kevin ought be banned. Whether others ought be offered an opportunity to publicly lambast him seems a pretty silly question in ligh...
And here you admit to what Agustino denies, which is this thread is about Mongrel. As since it obviously is, it doesn't belong on this site. This is a...
The OP is a thinly guised attack by Agustino on Mongrel. He today asks that a rule be formalized that decrees Mongrel's past behavior an official tran...
The job of cashier requires that you accept people's money for the good you're selling and to exchange niceties in order to have them return and buy o...
I like to put sardines between my lip and gum and suck on their carcasses and spit the juice out like dipping tobacco. I keep the open tin in my shirt...
I'd agree with all you say regarding your superiority but for your sunken beady myopic eyes, capable of seeing nothing but the twisted florescent pris...
You're just saying the smarter guy is always going to prevail. Given two people, one with a highly refined skill set and the other who's just really b...
The less you adapt, the faster you will become obsolete. If I specialize in finding apples and that leads to me becoming stronger, faster, meaner, and...
If the mind could see the flux, it's doubtful it could consistently identify it, which seems necessary for survival. There is therefore not a premium ...
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