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

VagabondSpectre

['Member']Joined: August 17, 2016 at 19:42Last active: July 13, 2025 at 13:4313 discussions1897 comments

Bio

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.

Discussions (13)

Comments

Apparently about 150 horses were killed in order to get footage this stunning. Probably on par for a genuine roman hippodrome event...
September 12, 2021 at 22:43
You should have the moss forcibly removed. It's defiantly squatting in oaken real-estate! Sure they don't parasitize the oaks (they make their own foo...
September 05, 2021 at 00:31
"Bull", meaning nonsense, has been in use since the 17th, it was conjugated with "shit" around 1910, and became popular as such during the second worl...
July 30, 2021 at 00:44
Absolutely not, which is why instead of bailing out Disney, cuz jobs or whatever, Disney et all should pay more taxes. Tenants and landlords alike are...
July 29, 2021 at 18:16
Never underestimate the white man's ability to free-style drum-beat on the subject of caravans.https://youtu.be/mL-LyKcFE5c
July 29, 2021 at 17:59
Eviction moratoriums are easy to do because they threaten only marginal impact on few corporate bottom lines. But heaven forbid we interfere with a pr...
July 29, 2021 at 17:02
NOTICE MEEEEEE!!!! https://j.gifs.com/KeRE02.gif
July 14, 2021 at 01:53
Interesting questions. But if you are consciously or subconsciously aware that you are more fatigued than normal, then you could take this into accoun...
January 24, 2021 at 03:34
You're leaving out some context and nuance from what was written. I stated that the clip marked a formal launch of the definitive alt-right, unifying ...
January 21, 2021 at 23:49
You have repeatedly stated that you don't know about the relationship between Peterson and the alt-right, but are you at least aware that there is som...
January 21, 2021 at 14:19
:lol:
January 21, 2021 at 13:21
When did Biden come out as a communist, and when did he urge Antifa and BLM to break everything, blame it on Trump supporters, and then exile them? Do...
January 21, 2021 at 13:19
You asked for evidence of a claim that I didn't make. In my view, the alt-right was still coalescing, and really began to take off around the time of ...
January 21, 2021 at 13:17
It's not the case. Semantics are indeed rooted in symbols that appropriate syntax can do logic-like actions on, but the validity and meaning of the sy...
January 21, 2021 at 11:19
I specifically explained how and why JP played a role in the emergence of the alt-right, which schism'd off from the anti-SJW crowd: Free speech was i...
January 21, 2021 at 10:54
Here's the long take on JP: Jordan Peterson rose to prominence among the right (including the anti-SJW center/left) partially due to a coincidence: as...
January 21, 2021 at 10:12
So there's actually a couple sneaky issues with the thrust that AI has no emotion... Firstly, it depends on the kind of AI we're talking about; with t...
January 20, 2021 at 21:25
If we selected for signs of emotion rather than the use of logic, I fear we would devolve into the philosophical equivalent of the above GIF. P.S the ...
January 19, 2021 at 09:33
Careful what you wish for... https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PastDismalKookaburra-size_restricted.gif
January 19, 2021 at 07:31
This post is a grammatical nightmare. Constant use of all-caps text, ellipses, slang, etc, make it unsuitable from the get-go, but the overall lack of...
January 19, 2021 at 07:23
It is a very interesting time that we're living in... After 4 whole years of Trump, most of America and its corporate patrons have finally and fully r...
January 19, 2021 at 05:34
This is irrelevant. Trump questioned the election results until the cows came home, as was his right, but then he rabble roused a mob and flung it dir...
January 19, 2021 at 04:05
Given that impeachment is not a matter of criminal law, the reasonable person test is irrelevant. All that matters is the congressman/senator test. It...
January 16, 2021 at 20:26
Both.
January 13, 2021 at 07:17
Yes.
January 13, 2021 at 06:07
So the true purpose/meaning of America is to have an electoral college? I'm curious as to how you would rationalize that America evaporates with the e...
January 13, 2021 at 05:50
https://youtu.be/WTLXtE8ihcY Too funny not to share...
January 10, 2021 at 00:57
Dude, you're dreaming. Despite a concerted effort by Pelosi et al to sabotage their own party, Trump's performance was just that bad. There's not real...
January 08, 2021 at 02:22
I think it understands and encompasses them perfectly. But let's not so quickly forget that Trump was legitimately elected president by hordes of peop...
January 08, 2021 at 01:49
It's fairly handy to have someone seemingly earnestly trot out les memes du jour, especially since this is a mostly left-leaning forum. Becoming famil...
January 08, 2021 at 01:12
"Breaching the barricades"... You once likened the George Floyd unrest/riots to "insurrection", but breaching barricades in a capitol building and get...
January 08, 2021 at 00:53
Congress continues: https://youtu.be/y7-prYZpE84 A few republican goons are objecting to Pennsylvania's votes
January 07, 2021 at 05:27
Imagine if the DNC didn't sabotage Bernie as the democratic nominee way back in 2016... How much different would the world be today?
January 07, 2021 at 01:49
Do you reckon there is any chance of anything close to reasonable making its way to the supreme court? I'm curious to know what the boofer would say/d...
December 01, 2020 at 21:21
This thread is hilarious. Reminds me of Fry and Laurie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDDxyaNSJl4
November 12, 2020 at 10:18
As far as assertions go, it definitely passes the sniff test. I'm of a moral persuasion that only tolerates incarceration as a form of intervention/re...
November 12, 2020 at 09:28
Nope. It's more like this: Brains evolved to make useful anticipations, and so we're hard wired to make connections between disparate stimulus that co...
November 12, 2020 at 06:28
If I could cover extra bases in a single game, then yes. (are we buying tickets to be drawn or selecting numbers on a wheel, or are we buying scratch ...
November 10, 2020 at 23:29
Word on the hill is that the radical leftists almost cost the Dems the election by being too left. It's definitely not the case that foisting Biden ah...
November 10, 2020 at 21:33
Allow me to tweak and probe the hypothetical slightly: Assuming that we *must* play, what are the consequences of going bust? In other words, what is ...
November 10, 2020 at 21:00
It's more like this: Solipsism cannot be deductively falsified (we cannot prove that it is untrue). This doesn't make it "valid" though. Validity refe...
November 09, 2020 at 22:55
Here's something interesting that I found through Trump's most recent retweet: https://i.imgur.com/KlPxKKx.png The second tweet in the above picture i...
November 09, 2020 at 22:48
His present level of sophistication is reminiscent of an upset toddler https://i.imgur.com/NVlSd4O.png "I WON THIS ELECTION BY A LOT, AND JOE BIDEN IS...
November 07, 2020 at 20:29
https://youtu.be/zRJ7jdI1YdQ
November 06, 2020 at 22:58
I seriously doubt he will have the energy in 4 years, but I imagine it would be a sequel to the circus we just survived. Kanyé is going to run again i...
November 06, 2020 at 21:53
It takes an obscene amount of effort to dissuade these folks, (See: "The flat earth movement" for a similar cast of confusion). Wacky conspiracies are...
November 06, 2020 at 21:45
Y'all were supposed to remove Trump from office after impeachment (it would have been an important lesson and catharsis for America and the world, and...
November 06, 2020 at 19:11
In: Emergence  — view comment
Mental phenomena aside, one of the keys to understanding the epistemic frame of reference that we try to take when labelling emergent phenomena is the...
November 05, 2020 at 22:25
:rofl: I'm definitely willing to accept that America needs at least a best of 7 to really get firing on all stupid. https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/nCG...
November 04, 2020 at 21:18
So... Like... Cheat until it's become clear you have lost, and then try to call a mulligan cause fairness?
November 04, 2020 at 21:08