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Remember my mirrors example. You have one mirror and it can't see itself, experience itself. Add in another mirror that similarly cannot see itself, b...
January 31, 2017 at 21:10
How do you read this?
January 31, 2017 at 21:10
Yeah but such comes about as a result of the world. Experience is in the nature of the world and of the mind.
January 31, 2017 at 20:59
This doesn't follow. Is thinking and feeling not conceptual or experiences one might have or what? I think one can be relatively certain that material...
January 31, 2017 at 20:57
What else exists?
January 31, 2017 at 16:21
Which is?
January 31, 2017 at 16:16
I think it's more pertinent to ask, "why are there material things?" I'm not necessarily making that claim, but if this is true, then why is there mat...
January 31, 2017 at 15:49
You misread. I mean to ask what is the cause that A and B taken together creates?
January 31, 2017 at 15:17
Erm, no I don't think so. What are you suggesting is the cause of A and B taken together? And tell me what A and B are, or at least what you think I f...
January 31, 2017 at 15:13
No, no, I just found it absolutely hilarious that you were trying to do an autism test on a PS4, >:O For whatever reason that struck me as comedy gold...
January 31, 2017 at 15:05
I'm not sold on going down the rabbit hole of there being a first cause, which seems too linear a causal chain. Infinite regression becomes a logical ...
January 31, 2017 at 15:04
Neither. :-d I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. What sustains us? The wall? What sustains the wall?
January 31, 2017 at 14:52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TQ-sXszJ3Y
January 31, 2017 at 02:08
The mind requires the world because the world is the body in which the mind houses itself (the brain).
January 31, 2017 at 01:23
Sometimes I find it more striking and poignant when I read something that I vehemently disagree with, but which makes me pause and admire the beauty t...
January 31, 2017 at 01:06
At a fundamental level, I'd argue that the world needs the mind, and the mind needs the world. Imagine two mirrors reflecting back at each other - the...
January 31, 2017 at 00:10
>:O No worries, you don't need to take the test.
January 30, 2017 at 22:41
O:)
January 30, 2017 at 00:16
Cheddar broccoli soup with some garlic toast, so yeah.
January 29, 2017 at 23:26
Sappy's bored. *goes to fix dinner to wait it out*
January 29, 2017 at 22:55
You didn't take my borg bait, zzz :(
January 29, 2017 at 22:39
Not if you melt pennies down into a nice paste and loob yer bum, eh?
January 29, 2017 at 22:19
No, I imagine sappy being some hipster faggus who likes cats and drinks coffee while performing some mundane office supply/crafts job.
January 29, 2017 at 22:18
Stash corporate cash up their rectums.
January 29, 2017 at 22:17
I think in the next 50 years Sappy will actually engage someone in a debate and discussion.
January 29, 2017 at 22:12
I'm patiently waiting for the Borg ships to come upon you and you'll be like, "I always wanted to assimilate."
January 29, 2017 at 21:51
Is having a child moral?
January 29, 2017 at 17:47
I'm a feminist.
January 29, 2017 at 15:10
Speaking of space... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS-A6LBoKeI
January 29, 2017 at 01:08
At base, they're the same, yes. However, my point has been that we're more often necessarily required to swat a mosquito than kill/eat another animal....
January 29, 2017 at 01:04
At base, killing either would be doing the same immoral action. But it is true that you and I are more required as we live our lives to kill mosquitoe...
January 29, 2017 at 00:24
This still sounds like a hokey sentiment to me. Just because we tend toward thinking this way doesn't mean we ought to. Not sure if serious, but you'r...
January 29, 2017 at 00:13
>:O Floogoolwoop you Agu, now you're playing games. Reread what you wrote before and tell me how you got to what you did. Otherwise.... I think that d...
January 28, 2017 at 22:45
A simple reason that falls completely flat. Why? ??? >:O I would not eat their meat, no. Just as I wouldn't raise my pet dachshund, let them live thei...
January 28, 2017 at 20:30
Progress is progress. I'm not ruling out positives, though :D
January 28, 2017 at 19:18
Progress is an illusion, friend. Also, you'd be surprised how many Africans have phones. Let's stretch this. Say I kill a human being with the purpose...
January 28, 2017 at 19:15
Perhaps, perhaps not. The same could be said for our slaughtering animals, even though in the vast majority of cases and situations we need not do so ...
January 28, 2017 at 15:24
I just checked my bank account, and can assure you that I am not rich. Although, perhaps I am rich in poverty... http://replygif.net/i/782.gif What di...
January 28, 2017 at 15:04
My iphone.
January 28, 2017 at 14:57
I edited it, sorry. It's not yet noon, and I haven't typed on a keyboard in several days, haha.
January 28, 2017 at 14:55
Somehow like 4 pages have gone by since I last checked, but I want to get back to this. Torture is never justified as a punishment, just as death isn'...
January 28, 2017 at 14:53
Whaaaaat? You haven't read it? :O Hup to, Mater Tiff!
January 28, 2017 at 14:46
I'd say that if torture is only intended as a means of punishment, then as I'd argue that it's always unnecessarily immoral :D
January 28, 2017 at 13:12
The Phantom Tollbooth all the way!!!
January 28, 2017 at 13:09
Private shaming's a far bigger problem.
January 28, 2017 at 13:08
Well, technically.... >:O
January 28, 2017 at 13:04
If you're certain that someone knows a specific bit of information and if it is judged that no other way will extract said information in a timely man...
January 28, 2017 at 13:02
Torture is very rarely necessary.
January 28, 2017 at 12:50
He's a complete shill. Success doctrine windbag. Just because he agrees with you on a few issues like abortion doesn't mean he's not a dick.
January 27, 2017 at 23:36
You don't???
January 27, 2017 at 23:26