RegularGuy

:lol: My vagina is now dry. Thanks.

LOL

@"S" may be a dick sometimes, but at least I have respect for him. Others, not so much.

Good for you! Just letting you know where you and I stand.

Anyone who would stick up for someone as purely evil as Ayn Rand is no friend of mine. Besides, the title of the thread was directed at Ron Johnson’s ...

I’m sorry but I don’t see any solutions to an impossible situation. Hug your loved ones is all I can say.

You seem nice

Get in great shape, build an arsenal, build a bunker and stock it with stuffs, etc. Naw, I’m fucking kidding. Have a beer, smoke a joint, snort some O...

Naw. I would ask you to lead a reading group on a symbolic logic text, but you’re probably already too busy. Perhaps @"andrewk"?

You should really post more often. :up:

Do you have a maths degree or are you self-taught?

Thanks. I will read that later.

I guess “c+c=c” is nonsense as a logical string.

I don’t remember if “c+c=c” shows up in the paper, but one of the things shown was that the speed of light is constant, hence “c”.

You could read Einstein’s paper on Special Relativity. It’s short.

I just postulated to my wife a couple of months ago that in a few years everyone is going to have 3D printers in their home. You will go to Amazon.com...

I was being facetious. I don’t know if civilization collapse will happen in my lifetime, but I suspect whenever it comes it will be hell.

Shit, unenlightened. I’d like to get physically fit enough before the upcoming free-for-all at the end of civilization. I reckon there will be a lot o...

I’m perhaps going to cross a line. Does it have to do with hacking and identity theft?

Now I’m wondering if it was by illegal or unethical means.

Well, your ignoring me is just plain rude. Is Objectivism your religion and you didn’t like what I said about your beloved Ayn Rand in the lounge? It ...

You don’t have to defend your wealth if you are truly wealthy (unless it is in the billions of dollars, then I would say you’re treading on the people...

For me it depends on what you mean by “wealthy”. I would like to have $1 million of cash, but I don’t need to be like Jeff Bezos. A lot of people thin...

You should hear the jabs between me and my 18 year-old son. We take shit-talking to whole new levels. I love that shit-head! Love you, William, pussy ...

LOL. You don’t have to wear the headgear. I don’t.

Cool. I make you an honorary cheesehead. :wink: :up:

“2+2=4” is universally true but isn’t a property of matter outside of a mind observing it. Something like that.

I don’t know how to link the thread here.

Yeah, I worked toward that conclusion in the course of the thread, but I also worked in the materialism/idealism false dichotomy.

Is 2 + 2 = 4 universally true?

Absolutely agree. I think I was saying something like that in the “2+2=4” thread.

Ya der hey. I think I agree with that but you would have to spell it out for me.

I’m happy that you can dig it.

I think this is logically necessary. My question is: what is the significance of this argument?

I think mind and matter are both necessary conditions of existence. (As an aside, there may also be something called “spirit”, but I don’t know if thi...

Like I said earlier, I sort of jumped in without reading through the thread. What were people saying about subject/object dualism? I think subject/obj...

I now realize what I originally commented with was something of a non-sequitir. You seem to know much more about maths than I do.

You’re right, though. What I said may not deal with the OP. I guess ”2+2=4” is always true (universally true). It’s just that it’s not possible withou...

My point was that mathematical relations require a mind. “2+2=4” does not exist in the physical universe outside of minds.

@"Baden" is correct. Btw, I edited my post if you have further comments.

There very well could be energetic relations, etc. in these “sterile” universes. However, “relations” and “differences” and “entities” are observation...

I think acting requires a lot of intelligence. It requires thinking in counterfactuals and requires a level of emotional intelligence in that a good a...

With relativity, it requires a conscious observer with a particular location. Aliens are conscious as well. Without observers, would “location” even m...

I can have fun just as well as the next bloke, but it got to a point where I wasn’t sure if this was pure fun or if you really harbored animosity towa...

A mathematician friend of mine did his dissertation on something that was over my head. I asked him if it referred to anything in the physical univers...

There is math that doesn’t refer to anything in reality. For example, if String theory is correct, then the fundamental units have a minimum size whic...

It’s a perfectly fine thing. Vaginas are actually tougher than testicles, but telling a male chauvinist they have a vagina is like using their own gun...

But you didn’t start with a true statement. “2+2=4” is true given the conventional meanings of the terms used. “2+2=5” is false given the conventional...

You’re absolutely correct. My brain works by grouping things into categories more so than stringing together different entities. It’s a fault of my ne...

You’re right. All Western countries have similar provisions in their constitutions. I assume we all live in the West? I don’t think Saudi Arabia has t...