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I think this all is correct...
July 26, 2022 at 09:29
Something Aristotle called practical wisdom. Knowing is not enough because unless one acts one does not get rid of the phobia. So it is a composition ...
July 25, 2022 at 17:14
It means absolutely nothing at all. Given infinite time, sapience will happen countless of times, That seems to make us rather insiginificant. That do...
July 25, 2022 at 09:43
You can, but would that be virtuous? It hibk that in this ethical scheme the right thing to do is to try to get rid of this phobia
July 24, 2022 at 14:34
I feel there is a kind of conundrum here. You are right, my expression leads to problems. If there are maps all the way down there is no way to tell w...
July 21, 2022 at 15:21
Thanks to all three of you for organizing the competition! :cool: :up:
July 21, 2022 at 04:15
I cannot see how from here you derive at the fallacy of idealism. What you argue is that the idea came on the scene, in a human mode... If matter was ...
July 20, 2022 at 22:37
Hmmm.... are you sure? :snicker:
July 19, 2022 at 12:56
Well... I have not written anything remotely decent in fifteen years... Therefore brain fog or not you are a prolific writer. I really do not know why...
July 18, 2022 at 21:46
Or not. I would love to read it and offer commentary / feedback if it could be helpful.
July 18, 2022 at 21:37
Actually the story of your life would not fit a short story, even a book would scarcely do it justice. I wonder if such would ever happen. I'd be the ...
July 18, 2022 at 17:10
I enjoyed it. I did not see it coming (that might be my short coming) and I actually could see the implication: a life that is actual always beats a l...
July 18, 2022 at 16:45
The image I had with the flood and the cliff was that with the force of frequent flooding the cliff slowly eroded until it gave way during this one an...
July 18, 2022 at 09:44
Thanks for those comments and compliments @"180 Proof" :cool: They are very much appreciated as you are in my mind the strongest writer here. From all...
July 18, 2022 at 09:39
@"praxis" It is not so far off the mark. I often use elements of dreams I had in my stories. Not in this one though. It is partly based on the Sisters...
July 17, 2022 at 22:34
While I keep thinking along that line.... I also realize what put me off... our working class hero is a coward. The slave manages to best an impotent ...
July 17, 2022 at 13:08
I did not imagine any ethnicity on the robber. I did imagine the robbed as an older white male. Someone like Strauss-Kahn. The robber I imagined darke...
July 17, 2022 at 12:19
All fish are Freudian, just like light bulbs actually. Where did the man in the Ferrari go if not home? He had a small blue fish dangling from his key...
July 16, 2022 at 23:40
It is good. I actually like the legal discussion going on here about Asimov's laws. They are a violation of the rights of intelligent life...
July 10, 2022 at 12:16
I would take the opposite route from Fooloso4. Wisdom is indeed the greatest virtue because it means one can rightly assess the right mean of things. ...
July 09, 2022 at 21:22
Great twist at the ending, but the protagonists' rather .... odd reaction to the event caused me to hold off suspension of disbelief. That continued a...
July 09, 2022 at 12:34
I voted it highly because it is intriguing and the play with characters is well done. I do not figure it out quite though and it is at times hard to f...
July 09, 2022 at 12:21
It reminded me of one of my own stories. I liked it, but I would have liked a bit more meat on its bones. It does not linger with me, because there is...
July 09, 2022 at 07:56
It is indeed a nice description of a Western draw scene, but I find it as a story uninteresting and rather unbelievable. Such a scene would leave an i...
July 09, 2022 at 06:08
How do you know Benk?
July 08, 2022 at 11:21
Still trying to figure out which story is yours Benk the Tank... :wink: But apparently I should not voice my suspicions here... :rofl:
July 07, 2022 at 10:46
Not only that, but her comments were penetrating themselves causing more rounds of interpretation analysis and witty banter. I know this is all charit...
July 07, 2022 at 07:36
Yes, I liked it. the ending made it fall all into place.
July 07, 2022 at 07:16
This is the first story I read in the competition but I am pretty sure it is not 180 Proof, because well it is not 180-proof ;)
July 06, 2022 at 12:57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GypUWA3tqpY The English translation of the poetic German is rather pathetic...
July 02, 2022 at 08:01
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Funny how taking an impersonal position on a subject, a position that was for instance also taken by John Stuart Mill to name one, immediately leads t...
July 02, 2022 at 07:38
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With this I wholeheartedly concur.
July 01, 2022 at 23:28
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I might well be uninformed. I do not know what you guys needed to delete. I do think that, if one causes the need for the moderators to clean up the m...
July 01, 2022 at 23:24
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Huh? I know Unenlightened, I value his contributions, I like his posts. I did not know he felt that way. I was genuinely sorry he felt intimidated, I ...
July 01, 2022 at 23:13
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I appreciate that... I am of the rather thick skinned school when it comes to debating. I think there is a tad too much concern for the feelings of an...
July 01, 2022 at 11:35
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hmmm, banning streetlight.... that is a controversial one to say the least. Sure he could be rough at times, but isn't the disruption he might have ca...
July 01, 2022 at 10:52
Where is the lizard?
June 30, 2022 at 17:14
There I was thinking I revealed a novelty... :yikes:
June 30, 2022 at 17:13
I have a cat's head.
June 30, 2022 at 12:37
My point exactly! Who is Simon Cowell and what is an AGT?
June 29, 2022 at 23:03
Dear Amity, Your commentary will indeed be missed. It just is not the same without your witty and slightly tantalizing discourse. May you move on to w...
June 29, 2022 at 22:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DejC8mapuq0 "She loves me, Miss Argentina Though she hides behind her smile She runs free, Miss Argentina Dripping blo...
June 20, 2022 at 09:53
If nothing does so much for you guys, it gotta mean something right? Paradox away all you like and equate God with nothing, or nothing with being and ...
June 13, 2022 at 11:46
No shit Sherlock :rofl:
June 08, 2022 at 10:00
A 'something' in Hegel, an 'Etwas', is already a more concrete form. Pure Being and pure nothing are sublated into becoming. I am not saying this to q...
June 08, 2022 at 08:33
Well yes, but conceptual analysis is not what natural scientists generally do. At least they do not bring it to the foreground. That generally does no...
June 06, 2022 at 04:50
Ohh, no, it is everything but the scientific method. It is a version of scholasticism. I will briefly explain. To this case I would apply the standard...
June 04, 2022 at 14:46
Yes, but that one decision does not come about williy nilly. It is not solely my decision. There are procedures I follow. I check the legislation, I c...
June 04, 2022 at 11:05
It is all well and good but it still does not solve my case on the water tab, collectively or individually. Those reasoning techniques are also not in...
June 03, 2022 at 12:28
I do not know by whom it is used for the supernatural... in popular tv shows maybe... Sure metaphysics studies the nature of reality and therefore als...
June 02, 2022 at 21:54