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I thought you'd have suggested Frank's hot sauce.

Your self discipline is your superpower.

Have you met the boatmen?

My day was fairly similar. What happened was that my belly was empty, so I mounted my neighbor's ass to go purchase some cock to tide me over until mo...

I had the power, but not the authority, so I went back in the past and got it.

Why is that? Why can't control over the institution be by a leftist government?

I think the allowance of variation from the norm is a necessary concession that naturally arises in a pluralistic democratic society if it is to survi...

The right to exit societal norms is a critical element of progressive pluralistic society. That is, you can neither require books be in your library n...

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I agree, and I should add that one's feeling of belonging and self worth are impacted by bigoted comments. These attacks are not benign academic musin...

My comments were only on his thread that led to his banning, so maybe we crossed wires in referring to different threads. My point was only that I don...

I played ChatGPT in 21 questions where I picked a word. It's final guess for my chosen word was Oscar from Putnam's Twin Earth thought experiment, but...

What did he tell you?

I was looking for a specific cite to a specific journal that mirrors the 7 bullet pointed conclusions set forth at the beginning of this banning entry...

Maybe provide us the cite to the article from the academic journal that you suggest mirrors Ross's comments.

Speaking of which, are we supposed to pretend the whole @"Mudcat" episode never occurred?

I'd be remiss not to point out how lovely a tradition you have with your children.

Triggered : How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us by Donald Trump, Jr. Oh, wait, you said you didn't want a deeply philosophical book. ...

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Brooke Shields would be a beautiful mermaid if I were to use her image. She is mysterious and stunning in all her depictions and you shall never say o...

A turn of the century cod family, working hard to make ends meet, but whose perseverance is legendary. They will one day proudly represent the spirit ...

I had vanilla yogurt and added blackberries, peanuts, and pecans for breakfast. I say Pee-kahn. Others say Pee-can. Others are wrong.

You can't eat dolphin, but you can eat dolphin fish, which is mahi mahi.

Are any of these concerns peculiar to the word "normal," or are we using "normal" here just as an exemplar term to show the limitations of language ge...

Reaction is all we can gauge, which is just to say that if meaning is use, then that's how we define the word. The lack of referent isn't critical bec...

Surely you can envision there being an infant born today who will not have the capacity for higher thought of any type.

I do think it's knowable in a serious way. I think human worth is infinite, regardless of the utility of the human, as a matter of belief. That you th...

You'd think, but when I was a baseball playing fish it wasn't so bad.

It's not pretending. It's stipulating. I lack the capacity to learn nuclear physics. That is true. An infant born without a brain lacks any ability to...

I don't follow. In my example, I said I had no capacity to learn Spanish. I therefore lack that potency. I just can't do it. It's not within my abilit...

You're not saying "I think a thing can be special in virtue of potencies that it does not currently possess." You're saying a thing can be special in ...

This searches for a metaphysical distinction that can't be spoken, yet usage clearly dictates you're in error. What follows the murder of a person (po...

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There are a lot of great minor league mascots out there. There's a minor league team near where I live, and I saw them play the Iron Pigs from somewhe...

I referenced norms, not differences. Holding the door for the person behind me is a norm where I live, but not so up north. That's socially derived. I...

I'll teach you to play baseball. It's pretty straightforward. I throw a ball and you try to strike it with a bat. If you hit it, you run to the bases....

Mudcat wears the uniform of the Mudcats, a minor league baseball team from North Carolina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Mudcats They will be...

If I had the power to create life on a whim, do you not think I'd create something far more perverse?

It wasn't me. @"Mudcat" is the most vigilant overseer we have here at TPF. He mans his post without thought of recognition, making sure you sleep safe...

@"Jamal" will just lift his leg under the table and make us think the spirits have risen.

@"Mudcat" I summon thee. Where art thou?

The Mudcat response is fishy. Someone is baiting us I suspect.

You've been waiting for 7 years on standby waiting to be summoned?

Fair enough, but what can you expect from a man named Mudcat?

Actually, right now, I got my Hush Puppies on. I guess I never was meant for glitter rock 'n' roll. You take the cornbread batter and drop it in the o...

I'm up for it, but it's been below freezing the past few days and you're going to have to completely go under the water. It's going to be painful, but...

Speaking of cats, fish, and hand gathering. This young man went noodling, which is to find a catfish in a hole in the bottom of a creek or lake and to...

But all of those conditions refer to conditions that are generally thought of disadvantageous, where you could make an argument that Einstein was neur...

Words like "abnormal", "strange," and "deviant" contain negative connotations, but for our purposes we need a word that avoids that so that we can dis...