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I liked this short story in that it was very short, it offered helpful advice, and it was written by someone other than @"Noble Dust". I give it an 11...
January 02, 2024 at 01:49
Very well written. I would describe it as a first installment of a seriel, where the mystery is set out at first and with each additional installment,...
January 02, 2024 at 01:46
My dryer broke, likely from a power surge from a recent thunderstorm. I took a string and tied it at various places throughout my garage, zigzagging a...
January 02, 2024 at 00:13
What's weird is that it's not divisible by 9. For that, the digits have to add up to a number divisible by 9. 7,722 would work. The answer would be 85...
January 02, 2024 at 00:00
I read this as the introduction of a character, maybe of the guy in Falling Down, but then it just sort of ends, the guy having lived out his boring l...
January 01, 2024 at 23:54
So the guy is watching TV and catches a blurb about some strange solar activity, then he has a scatterbrained talk about the end of time with his wife...
January 01, 2024 at 22:31
This threw me. Do you cease being a pedestrian when you enter a train now that you're no longer walking or do remain one because you walk about the tr...
January 01, 2024 at 20:46
This doesn't follow from Moore’s quote in the post above it. If Moore is adopting a Kantian view where he claims moral principles are synthetic, then ...
January 01, 2024 at 18:16
Just manipulate yours up to the top by commenting on it and then deleting your comment so people can see you first.
January 01, 2024 at 14:33
That's not how Moore describes the non-natural. Show me where non-naturalism is defined as having no effect on our lives. Non-naturalism is that which...
January 01, 2024 at 14:25
I'd be happy to read the stories to you, but only if I can sit bedside and do it in person. That way if you get sleepy eyed, I can just tiptoe out of ...
January 01, 2024 at 04:10
I know only one that it's not. The rest be buns I shall sort in search of yours and will undoubtedly know it when come upon. Tis now how I speak, bein...
January 01, 2024 at 03:43
Where be your buns?
January 01, 2024 at 03:35
But Moore holds that moral facts do matter because when people do as they ought to, societal good increases. So why does it matter if killing babies i...
January 01, 2024 at 03:33
And should he kill a man where he stands, where does he get tried? Might he stand in Arizona and smoke reefer while the condemning Mormons of Utah loo...
January 01, 2024 at 02:29
Looking forward to milking you milkers in this milker milking contest.
January 01, 2024 at 01:19
Why are you calling for milk?
December 31, 2023 at 23:40
If my math is correct, it's finna get real round here.
December 31, 2023 at 23:39
You're asking a question Moore doesn't ask. Again quoting from the article you cited: "In applying this view, Moore gave it the form of what today is ...
December 31, 2023 at 19:21
I liked how your nationality remained in flux with varying accents. I wasn't sure if you were in the plural like Joe was and there were many of you or...
December 31, 2023 at 18:21
To summarize, you are an Irish jar of octopus leading a pack of stray dogs named Joe through the empty streets of Thailand at half to midnight. Either...
December 31, 2023 at 15:51
Calendar in hand, ready to flip the page.
December 31, 2023 at 15:13
No, what I was referencing was your misuse of language in order to compare the "genocide" and "concentration camps" of Nazi Germany to the current day...
December 31, 2023 at 12:39
But the non-naturalist isn't a moral skeptic. He's a moral realist. And no one is an essentialist anymore. It's like so yesterday.
December 31, 2023 at 02:56
Octotwats. I can only be taunted so long. https://youtu.be/1mipOFszqNE?si=vL0PfSIb8AP1y3KK
December 31, 2023 at 02:23
I'm trying to make sense of it as well, and I don't know if I'm understanding it or just imposing some linguistic meaning = use philosophy into it. Th...
December 31, 2023 at 02:16
He does have a definition of "the good" from what I quoted above, but he claims it is undefined because he says there is no essential component to it....
December 31, 2023 at 01:01
Where are your buns at the moment and have they been injected with leavening agents yet? EDIT: This was intended for @"Noble Dust", but it makes even ...
December 30, 2023 at 23:52
Thoroughly offensive comments like this add to your charm.
December 30, 2023 at 22:54
Moore's view is this: "In applying this view, Moore gave it the form of what today is called “indirect” or “two-level” (Hare 1981) consequentialism. I...
December 30, 2023 at 22:40
Octopodes maybe.
December 30, 2023 at 20:04
Octopae. My bad.
December 30, 2023 at 20:03
Good one. Make me up a non-naturalst ethical theory. Would an example be ethical itemizationism? That's the belief that something is bad if it appears...
December 30, 2023 at 19:51
My point remains that the usage of the terms "concentration camp" and "genocide" has been and continues to be used to create a moral equivalency argum...
December 30, 2023 at 16:14
Meaning is use, and it's no coincidence that the language used to describe the Israeli response is intended to write an ironic and hypocritical narrat...
December 30, 2023 at 14:45
So you were the jar with an inner octopus. I see now. I had the jar as the external restraint on the octopi of humanity, which is also a good name for...
December 30, 2023 at 12:27
Well yeah. This is the Shoutbox.
December 30, 2023 at 12:13
In @"BC"'s post we were trying to escape @"Baden". In yours we're trying to explore him. In both, once again, he's the center of the universe,.
December 30, 2023 at 12:10
Reminded me of Buster Scruggs with just a bit more flair.
December 30, 2023 at 11:59
Are we all not that octopus in the jar?
December 30, 2023 at 11:56
Speaking of roofs: Once I saw a beautiful woman on the roof, so I summoned her to my lair, but she was married. I impregnated her nonetheless, but I d...
December 29, 2023 at 23:55
I will formalize the process so that we can achieve our objective and eliminate all enjoyment. It's what I do.
December 29, 2023 at 23:26
We could create a review form and encourage all entrants and other interested people to fill them out as to each story. That would increase participat...
December 29, 2023 at 18:28
You seem to be describing a drama or perhaps something that wants to explore the inner workings of the character. The movie Airplane for instance, I d...
December 28, 2023 at 20:40
That deals more specifically with health insurance companies, and I can't speak as much to it. It's a very different industry, where quibbles over cod...
December 28, 2023 at 19:55
I'm not vouching for either claims adjusters, attorneys, judges, or juries. All do all sorts of wrong things. Do they train the adjusters not to retur...
December 28, 2023 at 19:31
I don't know if my story reveals any deep seated emotional issues, but I'm sure it does say something about me in some way.
December 28, 2023 at 18:44
What you need to understand is that the system does not work if there are not equally passionate people on both sides of the case. That is how our jus...
December 28, 2023 at 18:37
That's not just a gripe. That's a conversation ender. If you have an ethical position that lacks a definition of "ethical," then why should it come as...
December 28, 2023 at 14:32
And if there were a single instance where an injured person overstated his injuries and recovered as a result, then that too was monsterous. I guess. ...
December 28, 2023 at 14:22