TogetherTurtle

Finally, something interesting. I find it strange how so often, we human beings wish for a world where we can all prosper, yet we are also so hellbent...

But you just defined what a fact is. Have you defined the non-existent? How can a fact not exist when a fact is an opinion verified by experience? Tho...

I'll try I suppose.

When input and output aline, humor is created. If the system doesn't line up, that seems to be where things go wrong. I've been in trouble for saying ...

That’s heartbreaking. I have some experience with getting help on mental health issues and I wish you all the best with helping these kids. It’s hard ...

I suppose that is just an effect of your employment. One of your top priorities is keeping kids safe so I can understand being a little over cautious....

I'm very aware of that, but it is about what they are writing, not that they wrote anything at all. Murderers are obsessed with how and why. They have...

That one got me. This one is great too. If funniness is derived from features that make up jokes, is funniness not also a feature of a joke? Semantics...

It is irrelevant if she got the joke or thought it was funny, the problem is that she took something so outlandish so seriously. Anyone who gets up in...

I'm looking forward to that. As for a chorus. I can see how such a concept could be applied to them. I haven't looked too far into the subject though....

The original joke is old by now. I laughed the first time I saw it eight years ago. That was it. You are correct in that the true humor is in her reac...

The Soup Nazi was ok, I enjoyed the little clip in there where the woman got kicked out for no reason. The Dingo Ate Yo Baby was funny to me just beca...

I'll try my hardest I guess. Most of the people I know accuse me of hating the world though. Maybe that ties into the sane/crazy dichotomy. I suppose ...

But I don’t think this is quite true anymore. People who do this kind of stuff have huge followings on social media. And why can’t we make those jokes...

Whether you are right or wrong, this world will get better. Again comes the caution I love almost as much as the stories. We must rely on the young to...

Well, the tweet I linked to is a good example, but if you want more, just turn on CNN or Fox. It isn’t hard for me to think of Bill O’reily doing some...

The more of something you have, the less meaning those things have. If I received as many death threats as she is claiming to receive, they would coll...

And yet even those who refuse to try for their desires die, and so do those who actually reach their desires. It seems the only alternative to death i...

Perhaps evolution constantly corrects, but the standards we hold ourselves to constantly change? After all, our social evolution is driven by us, but ...

It probably would not have been funny, but equally horrible things would have been, no? It perhaps wouldn't have been funny back then because the auth...

I agree to some extent, but I also love more vanilla jokes as well. To me, context can only make things funnier. Maybe I'm just a bit messed up, but t...

You are right in terms of it's level of humor. It gets less funny the more it is used I'm afraid, and most jokes seem to be like that. If this was a m...

I don't think that she is a representative of older people or 51-year-old women, but I do think she is a representative of the culture I'm discussing....

A reason I love this forum so much is the sense of humor of the moderators

I think it has to do with direction for me. For most of my admittedly short life, I've been told to do things and learn things, but not why I should d...

I was saying I did have the first definition. Not sure exactly why I was grouped in, but I’m sure it’s just a misunderstanding.

The truth is we don't really have any insider knowledge about how the universe works. We just kind of have to reverse engineer knowledge from our surr...

Similar to how animals can live only in environments that can support them. I think it is very interesting how a mechanic such as natural selection se...

Traditionally memetics is seen as a sociological equivalent to genetics. Ideas pass from one person to another and the ones that benefit those people ...

You showed me that before. I’ve refuted those points, at least from my point of view. I do think this is a good stopping point though. I hope we get t...

I don’t think they should but in parts of the world they certainly do. And people come out alive. Yes, but how limited? And limited for how long? In t...

You've yet to explain what those other powers might be. Really the only conceivable thing I can think of that could end the world is a nuclear war. An...

I think it is true that our weapons will only get stronger, but at the point we're at now, does that even matter? We've had a nuclear arsenal large en...

I agree that our new toys are more dangerous but I don’t agree on how much more dangerous. There are many systems in place to defend ourselves against...

I believe it will but know it might not. I think ultimately it is up to human ingenuity to create the tech that solves our problems.

The victors decide history I suppose. There's something crazy about us all but if it helps us survive it becomes a feature.

I’ll need to think on this one for a while. Earlier in this you say that finding out how nature works by observing its functions is “backwards” and I ...

Unrealistic now because we haven’t figured it all out. As far as we know, there’s nothing special in every human brain making us the way we are. It’s ...

what do you mean by alarms?

The desire for destruction. We love to destroy as much as we love to create. However, we can fufill such a desire in safer less harmful ways. Putting ...

Or were they already there? Perhaps sadness is just us lacking our desires. Theoretically someone with every desire they could possibly have fufilled ...

I think I understand now. You say that technology has created a want for new materialistic items. Your father couldn't have wanted a mobile phone beca...

But what of the nukes? What of the many other things that we thought would be our downfall even before 300 years ago?

And who can stop these? Certainly not us if we don't look into more technology. Especially if we can't fully understand these problems.

That is not a definition, sure, but it is an object we have defined.

And yet we have not destroyed ourselves yet, despite overwhelming odds. Why is that? If we don't define our place, who does? Definition seems to be an...

Dirt isn't the only thing creating disasters, is it? Wind and lightning and dry grass and the ocean cause disasters all the time. I never claimed that...

You just made my statement longer. Using the laws of nature to manipulate materials is still using (manipulating) the laws of nature. Whoever said tha...

And who said that there would be no consequences? Everything has consequences. So, humor me. How does nature work? Why can't I learn everything about ...

From my perspective, your argument is this: You can't prove that there is no god and humans can't understand the overarching themes that define the un...