You are viewing the historical archive of The Philosophy Forum.
For current discussions, visit the live forum.
Go to live forum

Hanover

Comments

I had recently driven on my roof to gain a better vantage point to surreptitiously watch my sunbathing neighbor. I'd have gotten away with it, but I c...
August 11, 2023 at 02:05
/uploads/resized/files/e9/ecjc947ihccj5g1p.jpg I removed this nail from my car tire and plugged it. That's how handy I am. So you know.
August 10, 2023 at 23:52
Climaxing finally into a calming eruption.
August 10, 2023 at 17:14
Speaking of wives, my wife must have been amazing in a past life to get me. I'll text her that right now just to remind her and include a broccoli emo...
August 10, 2023 at 13:13
I feel like if something bad happens to me, it's the result of someone else's karma because my sadness affects others more than it affects me. Like if...
August 10, 2023 at 13:06
The old number people used to cite that represented the amount you had to make in order to be happy (with happiness not increasing after this number) ...
August 10, 2023 at 12:18
https://youtu.be/BERd61bDY7kI just wrote this quick tribute to that great 70s couple, remembering that tragic ski accident. It's a quick glimpse into ...
August 08, 2023 at 01:59
Thanks! Unlike my other true stories, this one was true.
August 08, 2023 at 01:37
At the gym today, I got my heart rate to 182. The guy next to me was at an embarrassing 155. He lost a competition he didn't even know he was in. That...
August 08, 2023 at 00:32
I've seen squirrels eat pine cones, so it comes as no surprise Russians eat them, especially the candied variety. You make sense of that. I started a ...
August 08, 2023 at 00:05
More importantly: chicken legs, 4.5 lbs for $5. That's $1.11/lb for those without calculators. /uploads/resized/files/zp/m5i7b22pl76obeic.jpg https://...
August 06, 2023 at 15:31
I'm watching the Wolf of Wall Street. I think I should be that. It's my lower calling.
August 05, 2023 at 21:59
I don't disagree with what you say. My larger point was to say that it is just as valid to posit a teleologucal basis for a link between event A to ev...
August 05, 2023 at 10:39
Entailment is a logical, not physical property, so one cannot logically deduce that event X will cause event Y, nor can one logically deduce event X w...
August 05, 2023 at 02:14
In: Dilemma  — view comment
How hot is the 20 year old and how hot is my mother in this thought experiment? Also, if I'm important enough in this town to decide who lives and who...
August 04, 2023 at 22:44
My opposition is not to tipping generally, but it's to the continual increase that has occurred in what is considered a standard tip. 15% was standard...
August 04, 2023 at 18:53
I recently went to Great Clips. A haircut is now $18.99, which by itself is ridiculous. The automatic tip options when I paid were not percentage base...
August 04, 2023 at 12:26
Not conceding isn't the result of not knowing the truth, but it's the result of whatever else they think they can gain by pretending the truth is diff...
August 01, 2023 at 19:59
The problem with this wording is that it's likely that many who don't believe Trump won still refuse to concede he lost. Trump is a good example of so...
August 01, 2023 at 12:45
A Biden supporter who believes Trump won is a curious thinker.
August 01, 2023 at 02:03
I believe we're all angels.
August 01, 2023 at 01:57
I did. Stirred it into to my scrambled eggs. I tasted their thoughts, which were purely bitter, still unhappy about having their brains made part of m...
August 01, 2023 at 01:09
That happened to me once.
July 31, 2023 at 20:42
In lookiing over that ancient writing, it appears that the letter F played a dominant role. Perhaps the speakers had no tongue and could only make the...
July 31, 2023 at 13:17
As couldn't be clearer as described on Plimpton 322: /uploads/resized/files/im/xlx5gm4ifurimmy4.jpg
July 31, 2023 at 01:24
In: UFOs  — view comment
Yet the witnesses only speak of sightings that are very much in human terms, just super human. As in these other worldly critters can move faster and ...
July 30, 2023 at 23:36
In: UFOs  — view comment
Sort of. You started out better by calling it all bullshit, but as others seemed to be offering more tempered views, you turned diplomatic and said yo...
July 29, 2023 at 22:32
In: UFOs  — view comment
The evidence seems to support that UFOs are comprised of elusive lights or dark objects in the sky that dart about but leave no physical trace that ca...
July 29, 2023 at 18:33
I call this piece, "Man in Tevas in Hip Hotel." Enjoy. /uploads/resized/files/67/q8j1vmsag0349j22.jpg
July 28, 2023 at 20:25
I looked up the address to that place and know know where you were. Exactly where you were. Creepy, huh?
July 28, 2023 at 20:21
Likely the result of an illicit sexual union between a fallen angel and mortal woman. Duh. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim#:~:text=The%20Neph...
July 28, 2023 at 13:46
Most modern day Assyrians live in the US. I looked this up to be sure you weren't on to something. There are only about 1,000 in Israel. https://en.m....
July 28, 2023 at 13:44
So I'm building a third temple. I went to the Jerusalem Home Depot and bought all the shit, including the gold inlay pieces, cherubs, purple velvet, a...
July 28, 2023 at 00:13
Yeah, well, you have no idea what it's like to have no altar to sacrifice animals on. I've been using makeshift altars made of garbage cans and chicke...
July 27, 2023 at 22:44
Wishing everyone a difficult Tish'a B'Av.
July 27, 2023 at 20:02
I agree with this. I think the reason a secular humanist bristles at the charge that they are evangelical is that it asserts a moral equivalency to th...
July 27, 2023 at 02:33
No.
July 26, 2023 at 19:06
While some think homelessness is terrible, I think it's worse than terrible, and those who only think it terrible are super terrible. However you migh...
July 26, 2023 at 18:27
My two cents: I tend to favor a less expansive definition of evangelism so as to keep conversation as open as possible on the topic. On the religious ...
July 26, 2023 at 12:50
They are attempting to remove the apostrophes from street names in England, which is upsetting to some: https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2014/01/22...
July 25, 2023 at 19:18
Both. Those languages with more irregularities pose more serious problems for non-native adults than anything else, but that might be an evolutionary ...
July 25, 2023 at 17:16
"I have come home" is correct. If someone said, "I had came home, " I'd think either they are non-native, not as formally educated, or millennial. He ...
July 25, 2023 at 17:11
I'd just point out that irregular verbs are difficult for adult, non-native speakers, but not for children. They may make errors at first, but it's ge...
July 25, 2023 at 16:21
But we have computer mouses because of the general rule that we accept the more modern forms over the older forms when we create new words, but maybe ...
July 25, 2023 at 16:13
Some of the verb endings are irregular because they originated in other langauges and then were brought into English. There are languges with no regul...
July 25, 2023 at 14:57
Infinite division of matter is not possible. Infinite division of lines is. The former is a physics question, ultimately provable by empirical study. ...
July 25, 2023 at 11:17
I think I did. You asked if point A and point B would be included in a line that went from A to B, asking then if A and B would be included in the len...
July 25, 2023 at 10:18
No. The point has no length. The point defines only a location. It's not like measuring a board where you have to cut on the other side of the pencil ...
July 24, 2023 at 19:21
But your OP postulated there were an infinite number of things, but here you reference our world which doesn't have an infinite number of things, so t...
July 24, 2023 at 17:02
A line is not a material object. It's a mental construct. In an infinite series of points, no two are immediately adjacent to the other. There will al...
July 24, 2023 at 16:31