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Not quite the same. In those examples, it's reasonable to assume that the recommended action will result in the predicted outcome. In the case of maki...

That's funny, because I'm often annoyed by people losing letters that are supposed to be there or substituting them - helmut for helmet. It's not near...

Aye. And do we also understand that everyone's rhetoric is meaningful, even though they have different notions of 'meaning' or even, gods help us, 'me...

No, I understand that people believe this. I just find it sad that they don't consider life itself valuable enough not to require a meaning added to i...

Uh, sorry. I guess, then, I should have said the lack of external demand makes life meaningless. Somehow that doesn't improve the situation that life ...

Insufficient external validation renders life meaningless?

Right and wrong. I think global unity is a very good idea that will continue to fail - just as the EU is failing. But not because of any notions of pe...

Only man is cursed with the capacity to consider himself less significant than he actually is.

On what what do you base your opinion of my notion of freedom when it was never mentioned - except by Athena in a misunderstanding. I was referring to...

Okay. How about horsepuckies? It's less polite. Athena claimed that Americans had true freedom as long as the western wilderness existed. I pointed ou...

Ah. So, now that you're omniscient, your life isn't enough; it needs to contain some message. OK.

How did you climb above the universe?

What's that to do with robbing, killing, dispossessing and enslaving other people, in the name of their own freedom? You mean most of the pillaging an...

I wonder whether it was natural selection.

Does a lion search for a meaning to his life? Does a dolphin? Why should they? They are themselves, integral and complete, in harmony with their envir...

They were rights under American law. You have no power to rescind them, and they continue to go unpunished. Indeed, many of the fortunes acquired then...

That's exactly the same thing. It assumes that life is no more than a means to something greater than itself.

Then it's the wrong question. "Meaning" is necessary for a conveyance or container: it exists for its content - the information it delivers. What does...

Why should I care? I Really Don't Care Do U? Trumps, trumpers, trumpeters with guns and muddy boots on other people's carpets breaking things broken t...

At least the math is accurate and true. They can apply it to non-capitalist-propagandized economics later, should they be so inclined. "We" - white pr...

What for? Life is its own meaning, its own purpose, its own narrative. The search for some artificial meaning is a huge waste of life... and lives. I ...

I meant it as refutation of the nice popular mythology of the rugged individualist, Davy Crockett spirit of America: barely constrained personal freed...

Why would life - the essential property that distinguishes passive matter from energy-consuming matter that knows itself - need any more meaning than ...

Your problem means nothing to the average working yob. Nor does the historical background. There are still old imperialists who take pride in past 'gl...

or what. A sneaky piece of legislation in 27 states that does the opposite of what it says. Maybe both and some other stuff as well, like they're brai...

Unless the mutant ants take a dislike to them. Maybe it's time for another species to be dominant.

For best possible outcome, I would hope for the second. Save your campaign funds. You just lost a fair chunk, if the not the majority, of the working ...

Not really. The minority of rich and their politicians make the laws, make the rules of employments, make the system in which workers have no choice b...

Except I don't think that, either. On the contrary: without union protection, every employer is equally empowered to exploit the workers. Many state g...

How aware the average American is of anything is not so easy to gage. All we can see is what's on the media, and they are largely muzzled on controver...

Okay. It's a real corpse. It was remiss of me to set a single criterion. Maybe i can do better with corpses?

But at least we've made a liar of the thread title.

A canid is a chien is a koira is dog. Whether each is real or imaginary doesn't depend on labelling laws but on whether they can bite.

Why would they need to solve the exact same problems on a completely different planet? What are the odds of all suns and planets capable of supporting...

Then they'll have to be killed all over again.

What? Why would I think that?

:clap: :clap: That's why it's always necessary to eliminate the true socialists when you take their flag.

...which sucks in all the same ways, since the owners are sleeping together - with the senator at the foot of their bed.

That won't deter the true believers. "Deep state conspiracy to silence our spokesman strikes again!" Wonder why all the aliens died in South America.....

Maybe, sorta, academically.

Exciting for some scientists and a lot of fans.

A rather elaborate one, by appearances. They must have some objective to go to the trouble. I don't think so. But there are motives that can make inte...

Not for me. Probably for many others, perhaps it should, but won't. The ones who reject the idea of alien life, will brush it aside as a hoax. The one...

If a can of peaches falls on your foot and breaks a couple of toes, you can be pretty sure both the foot and the can are real. How you know is from di...

They can't do that in North America. The moneyed interests have political power through campaign financing and lobbying. That's why they're able to co...

Good grief, Virginia, there is someone who sees through the glass even more darkly than I do !

No. It's not about my concerns. You said Americans value their freedom to do as they please over co-operation with others. I replied, and it went on f...

You have evidently not seen collective rage at a long-suffered injustice. That's the stuff revolutions are made of.

That's possible - at least in the case of shootings and road accidents. But I'm pretty sure that isn't the media's prime motivation. As for 'loving' n...

Yes. In a society. With dues and rules. A club, a union, a country, a fraternity, a professional organization - they are all societies that have const...