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Not really. You just seemed to be in a bad mood. I was advising a hobby.

Take up weaving. It'll take your mind off it. Or pottery. Buy a kiln. Then realize you don't like making pottery. Sell the kiln on ebay for super chea...

Yep. Bill Clinton was elected because the Republican party split in two... which is one of the reasons we usually only have two parties: the developme...

What usually happens is the Republicans fall apart due to the weight of their Nazi/KKK extremities... once a third party forms, they're done.

Oh. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/21/a8/f8/21a8f8dbc542119940e0cea62dfeef17.jpg

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Out of curiosity.. why not?

Right. My understanding is that Watergate was also a factor in the development of suspicion. I'll look out for Twilight of the Elites.. sounds good. T...

I also agree with a lot of what he says. If we could just persuade him to drop the belligerence over trivial stuff...

That's a lot of confused people. Are you sure you're not the tuba player complaining that the band is going the wrong way?

Yes, I remember the red rocks. Awesome. I guess I was thinking about the north rim because I think it would be a little cooler up there. I stayed at t...

I think you really believe there is some widespread breakdown in comprehension of the concept of truth. Strange. I don't see that. Trump was a demagog...

But I think you'll agree that difficulty ascertaining the truth is a separate issue from failing to value truth.

I've never encountered a person who didn't seem to understand the concept of truth.

As I mentioned, the reason his lies are effective is that people expect honesty. There is no collective misunderstanding. Are you American btw?

I agree that Trump is unusually dishonest. For instance, he would exaggerate the number of floors in his buildings. It's called lying. His lies aren't...

I think a lot of folks here have turned this into an analysis of the President of the United States. The OP explained he didn't mean to focus on that,...

North rim of the Grand Canyon. Smell the juniper. Gaze off into oblivion. Wish I was there now. :) There are little cabins up there. Have you been?

I think it's as you said: seeing the same frame. With the average statement, there aren't too many different interpretations (somewhere around 5 in so...

I guess I misunderstood from the beginning then. I don't see the change you've spoke of. Maybe it's more prevalent where you are?

So we make limited connections with each other? I wonder if there is a way to look through other people's eyes.

Plus you get to disappear behind the camera and it's all a documentary and you're just the narrator. "I'm just reading from the encyclopedia here."

likewise people start to live out the ideas they internalized. I witnessed it for 12 years in an integrated school system. Females also internalize st...

I just want to say something in earnest here. My impression is that you don't actually believe Trump was elected because Americans, suffering from a p...

Maybe a change of scenery? Is there a special place you like to visit?

Mesozoic sauropods are estimated to have put out 520 million tons of methane annually (in their burps and farts). Scientists believe it may have contr...

Cool :)

"Either A or B is true." Why would we say that A and B are necessarily judgments? Does the author say?

Sanctions won't work even if China would allow that. Clinton probably wouldn't be in this situation, but if she was, she would have no problem doing t...

Lol. What did I tell you?

I think we just start with observations. A baby feels something, but can't distinguish that feeling from any other until words come along. That's hung...

His viewpoint is pretty vile.

Copenhagen says the stuff has no location. Cups have location.

We agree on the underlying ambiguity, so were good.

It's what I assumed you are based on your last comment. Could be direct realist I guess.

Ann and Beth aren't in the void. It's just the object.

So what are you..indirect realist?

Ideas impose order on the realm of sensation. What you claim about the nature of ideas reflects your ontological commitments.

But there's nothing inside an elevator that tells you If you're actually accelerating or under the influence of gravity. It's not what we were talking...

I wasn't summing up SP. I was explaining the circumstances in which the denial of absolute space impacts truth aptness.

What did you conclude re that? That memories are physical patterns that are somehow preserved after a subject's death?

what's interesting is the underlying ambiguity. No need to crowd the void.

SP says that for an object in a void there is no true statement about its motion. Period.

Some say language sets out what's there, and so what's real. We wouldn't call that fabrication.

I get that. Not to tangle the issue too much, but to some extent Trump was elected because of his power to evoke nostalgia. So it's interesting that a...

Progress may be it. The concept of progress is said to be an innovation of the fertile crescent region circa 1000 BC. Prior to that time seemed more c...

Oh that's ok. The glory is implied.

How many thousands of years ago did the first human condemn the present age as if the world was once perfect or even slightly better? It must satisfy ...

Sir2u's avatar looks like a dude sitting on a toilet.

(Y) Interesting comment.