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Yes, and also just a failure to execute a goal. I have issues with people lauding Nynorsk as something it never was, and even less is today (since the...

I see your point, but it is not the mechanism behind my dislike for Nynorsk. The exclusion of the Northern dialects is significant because it is an in...

Are you referring to Fosse when you say author, or Ivar Aasen? If the former, then you need to re-read the conversation. If the latter, then your argu...

That is indeed a factor in Norway; dialectical pride, that is. We are often told to hang onto our dialect when we move. Personally, I have not done to...

It's a shame you don't have people you can talk to about this IRL. I think no activity is above scrutiny, including that of being alive. How can we sc...

The more I hear about Fosse, the more interested I am in reading his stuff. As for your question about how Norwegians look at suicide; I have some tro...

Yes, but also perhaps due to a diversity in the ethno-lingustic origins of the UK people. Gaelic, Brittonic, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, Latin and Fren...

Both rejection and detachment, yes, which is not abnormal for Norwegians regarding Nynorsk, especially not those my age. I reject Nynorsk because of i...

I am indeed Norwegian, but I don't quite understand your question. I think I'm lacking the context surrounding the meaning behind the silent language....

Nynorsk is not a spoken language. It is purely a written language; and I don't mean that practically; there is no standard, official way to pronounce ...

How do you define (dis)order? The capacity for intentional change? There aren't too many definitions of order and disorder that generally confer with ...

Some people have better things to do than to quibble about what phrases are the best when the meaning is clear. Also, if you have any experience with ...

My post deliberately avoids taking a stance on whether or not absolute nothingness is a thing. Okay, absolute nothingness is either a thing or not. If...

So long as there is something, absolute nothingness as a concept is like a four-sided triangle. If there had been absolutely nothing however, absolute...

Maybe, but I wouldn't want to. Too many empty calories.

I was waiting for when my undefined use of thing would come bite me in the ass. By thing, I mean anything that could exist, be it a process or a conce...

Could you elaborate with a formal proof? If you want, I can try to formalize my proof as well.

Anything that is not nothing.

No worries; it takes two for confusion :)

I completely agree. No. Nothing is impossible because something happens to exist, regardless of if it had to or not. Proving that nothing necessarily ...

I was referring to this: I thought this was meant as a counter-example, but given what you're saying, I see now you were probably refuting it as an ex...

A void where you could place something into is not absolute nothingness, given that the action of placing something into it implies there was the pote...

Well, absolute nothingness is not just a mental negation of something, it is actually the negation of something. That's what it is defined as, and any...

It is contradictory to reify absolute nothingness, but it is of no consequence. All issues of absolute nothingness exist only because there is somethi...

You're almost right. All I've succeeded in doing is reducing this supposed answer to why is there something to the grammatical point you're mentioning...

I don't see how. You seemed to offer a counter-example to my claim that absolute nothingness is impossible.

I am not claiming absolute nothingness is possible from its own perspective; only that it is not impossible. It is not possible either. It isn't anyth...

I might agree. True absolute nothingness, that is, absolute nothingness without anything to give it meaning, "is" an empty concept. That is, true abso...

How so? To be clear, I am not arguing that its possible no thing exists. The argument only shows why the current impossibility of absolute nothingness...

The empty set (and thus its interior) is a thing, for it has a definition. It is not absolute nothingness. That is self-contradictory. The space is no...

My response was not argumentative, it was a monologue. I was simply explaining my motivation, I was not explaining why anyone was wrong. The passage w...

There's a meta-reason for reality. Okay, as for non-meta-reasons for reality; what options are there? There's reason 1, reason 2, etc., and then there...

I am of the view that there is no "normal" reason for reality, but there is a reason for why there must be no reason. Thus, with this belief, there is...

This inference is only valid if one assumes there is something to begin with, which makes it a circular argument.

I agree. Get to know the person by minimizing biases as much as possible. But then, how can one combine this with one's knowledge of the statistics re...

Yeah, that's what I am saying too. But the question is, how do we stop actualizing it? As many have pointed out, ignoring something does not make it g...

Sure, but by using this false taxonomy, it becomes less and less false, and must thus be contended with to some degree. That's my point. Regardless of...

The law is a social construct too. We're still able to determined what is legal and illegal. We're still able to be affected by the law. The law is st...

It is no more of a riddle than anything else is.

Without revealing too much of my own framework, this is my description of logic: Hilbert said, "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to diff...

What if the events happen faster and faster the smaller the scale is? Why not multiple kinds of shapes? Why must there be one fundamental building blo...

I mostly agree with your post. The cycle between psychedelic and non-psychedelic modes are characterized by an increase and decrease in people's conce...

I think an immortal life would be meaningless, if we assume the person's memory is immortal. What is the meaning of your life? Well, that depends on h...

Great question and I will take my time to respond to it. I hope others are interested in taking a jab at it. It is veering away from self-help and int...

This paragraph shows you have misunderstood me. By social servitude, I mean servitude for some social cause, which does not necessarily involve direct...

I agree that people with meaningful lives are more dangerous. Meaning is dangerous, and perhaps the world would be better off currently if our lives w...

By describing it in these terms, we show just how fundamental and profound having a compass is. A compass (that is, serving some greater thing) change...

That is one way power-hungry people capitalize on man's need for meaning, but it is not representative of a meaningful life. I am not claiming that wa...

I have health insurance, and even if I didn't, you'd probably not have to pay a dime, unless you happen to come from the same country as me.

I agree. I think a bit part of the appeal of running away is the escape from the social limitations, especially in that they restrict (to some degree)...