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It would be much better to take sperm samples and sterilise men. Less invasive, easier to store, and insemination, when required, more certain and saf...
March 15, 2020 at 08:29
It might be the sausages and sauerkraut.. Reports from Japan suggest that keeping your mouth moist, sipping water every 10 minutes, washes the virus i...
March 15, 2020 at 08:00
I'm pretty sure the government is made of bodies.
March 15, 2020 at 07:45
Also, dead pensioners don't vote, so the policy is admirably Machiavellian. My analysis is that you cannot call a government incompetent when they hav...
March 14, 2020 at 18:26
To every thread, turn turn turn, there is a Dylan song turn turn turn, and a youtube video to every topic under heaven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
March 13, 2020 at 13:30
You need to meet Raymond Smullyan. He is dead, but his puzzle books are available with many doors in many configurations with tigers or princesses beh...
March 13, 2020 at 13:09
I wonder if there is a difference between the feeling of loneliness, and the feeling of desire for company/ intimacy? One of the effects of being alon...
March 13, 2020 at 12:46
https://www.creditdonkey.com/world-hunger-statistics.html Fortunately, starvation is not very contagious so we don't have to worry and the economy is ...
March 13, 2020 at 12:09
The only way to combat a bad guy with a virus, is with a good guy with a virus.
March 13, 2020 at 10:42
The thing about this cerebral secretion, understanding, is that one can still understand the difference between a house and a horse even when one is n...
March 12, 2020 at 20:05
I happen to agree. They are however existent in the world. 'Row' does not exist 'in its own right', wherever that might be. but I can get my ducks in ...
March 12, 2020 at 17:51
Do you not see that this policing the language doesn't get you anywhere? "Row" is just an abstraction until you get your ducks lined up straight, and ...
March 11, 2020 at 22:41
In my stillness, I experience flux, in my variation, I see permanence. Each needs to assume the other as fundament.The same eye sees the hands of the ...
March 11, 2020 at 22:10
Internal relations = arrangement of ducks. Ducks + row-arrangement = row of ducks. Internal relations are not the same kind of thing as ducks. Rows ar...
March 11, 2020 at 20:51
Which line?
March 11, 2020 at 16:04
Does a row exist? My thesis is that this is a foolish question Of course I exist and rows exist and arrangements exist. But these arrangements are arr...
March 11, 2020 at 15:53
We know that immaculate conception is rare. So if we wanted to, we could these days identify the responsible male in almost every case and oblige him ...
March 11, 2020 at 10:36
Yes indeed, a row of ducks is more than the ducks, but you haven't come out and said that the more is material, because it sounds odd to say that. In ...
March 11, 2020 at 09:21
If you've got three ducks, it's nice to get them in a row. And then you've still got three ducks but now you've got a row as well. Assume the ducks ar...
March 10, 2020 at 18:47
I'm fine with that, if I can have it that red is the colour of my true love's hair in the morning, when we rise. My inner world is soggy meat, and I l...
March 09, 2020 at 23:13
Yes, but that's what I always thought the redness of red was - the appearance of something. Was I supposed to have thought it was something else? A th...
March 09, 2020 at 22:49
I don't think there is a choice, because there is no one making the decision. The invisible hand has decided that human lives, and particularly the el...
March 09, 2020 at 22:00
Zungumze mwenyewe, mzungu.
March 09, 2020 at 19:36
Not my problem. I didn't speak in Swahili as far as I'm concerned.
March 09, 2020 at 19:22
I find illusionism very odd. Ordinarily one says things like, "it looks as though there is an oasis, over there, but it is an illusion, there is just ...
March 09, 2020 at 19:21
Good. Glad to have sort that out.
March 09, 2020 at 19:06
It's your thread, dude; I'm just commenting on what's been said. What you just said that quoted me makes no sense to me. It having a question mark at ...
March 09, 2020 at 19:01
Huh?
March 09, 2020 at 18:49
Ok, but what's the problem? God says 'don't fuck your neighbour's wife', or whatever... what's the difficulty?
March 09, 2020 at 18:23
I don't understand. If Mummy loves me, and Mummy says 'don't run into the road', then Mummy already knows not to run into the road. What's the problem...
March 09, 2020 at 18:07
Indeed, I am far from having exhausted the theological possibilities. :grin:
March 09, 2020 at 15:08
Clearly there is something in some people's minds that make them know that divine commands are moral. Whatever it is, it is not the faculty of reason,...
March 09, 2020 at 14:38
Why? I wonder if you see a certain safety in asking a question? As if a question cannot be wrong. I will venture to suggest that not only can a questi...
March 09, 2020 at 14:24
Nobody would be so callous as to make that sort of calculation, would they? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIMffhpZRw
March 09, 2020 at 13:19
And what about the God of the Flood, of Sodom and Gomorrah, of the ejection from the garden of Eden? What about the God who created the Guinea worm an...
March 09, 2020 at 09:18
You think Zeus is benevolent?
March 09, 2020 at 09:08
March 09, 2020 at 09:06
That question is a compliment of an extremely limited order, however, the idea of the thread is to find them on the site and quote them, rather than m...
March 09, 2020 at 08:54
Yes indeed. If Mummy loves me and Mummy knows best, then I should do what Mummy says. But 'does She?', is rather the question here. Mummy is not defin...
March 09, 2020 at 08:39
Well yeah, at the moment, that's why they call it the anthropocene. But that boiling down is not very useful; one wants to know what things and what o...
March 08, 2020 at 15:22
I don't care who you caught it from; just quarantine yourself until the symptoms subside. And you. Actually, what you have is more like an allergy tha...
March 08, 2020 at 09:32
That can't be right. Death is a symptom. If you are asymptomatic, you don't die any more than you cough or have a temperature. And if you are asymptom...
March 08, 2020 at 09:26
Because life is complicated and scientists are humble. In some cases it is straightforward, but quite often it isn't, because one thing affects other ...
March 07, 2020 at 22:03
No. Don't play with other people's deepest ideas. If you don't like the taste, choose another flavour. Heaven as undesirable is just fucking about.
March 07, 2020 at 21:58
You like reasoning and argument, don't you? Here's some reasoning and argument. https://slate.com/technology/2020/03/coronavirus-mortality-rate-lower-...
March 07, 2020 at 20:26
I don't argue it. My argument is more simple; if you do not want abortions (and no one thinks they are a good thing worth getting pregnant for), if yo...
March 07, 2020 at 18:24
I think he is a typical anti-abortionist that wants to lay down the law without taking an iota of responsibility. And that's another abortion debate a...
March 07, 2020 at 18:00
Yes, you rightly change the wording, from 'risk' to the more neutral 'consequence'. But it is very little improvement. Are you the consequence of a fu...
March 07, 2020 at 17:49
Abortion is a horrible thing. It is almost equally horrible to consider pregnancy or birth a "risk". In fact they go together. As if having children i...
March 07, 2020 at 17:02
You are following in venerable footsteps. Congratulations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma
March 07, 2020 at 11:14