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That's fake news propaganda, or perhaps it isn't. Google translate doesn't make you understand what has been said; it replaces the words you don't und...
March 13, 2019 at 13:47
Rwy'n rhannu rhai geiriau gyda chi, ond oni bai eich bod eisoes yn gyfarwydd â'r Gymraeg, ni fyddwch yn deall yr hyn sy'n cael ei ddweud. As I'm sure ...
March 13, 2019 at 13:08
In: Brexit  — view comment
The game has played out so that there is not time with a short extension to hold a referendum, and barely time to hold an election. I suspect there ar...
March 13, 2019 at 12:22
People are like cheeses; the good ones get better with age, but the bad ones get worse. In times of stability, the wisdom of the old is a valuable res...
March 13, 2019 at 12:12
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
March 12, 2019 at 15:49
From here. @"jorndoe" Being informed isn't helping anything until it informs some action. I'm not the definitive expert, but the standard list of easy...
March 11, 2019 at 16:40
Haven't noticed much of that, fortunately, aside from the wall building, migrant hating, xenophobia. But I suspect it will manifest right along with t...
March 11, 2019 at 11:55
What use is money? you can't eat it, you can't milk it, you can't wear it or warm yourself with it. If it had any use at all, it would be less useful....
March 11, 2019 at 09:58
But it's marginal isn't it? So slightly less than half of US voters supported a complete tosspot. Hurrah for the good sense of US voters? I'd really l...
March 10, 2019 at 21:19
Not perfect, not indubitable, but quite a nice talk about Mr W, that might be of interest.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw44w7Tvz2I
March 10, 2019 at 16:18
I agree and disagree. Immediately, for sure, as the cliche has it nowhere is more than about three meals away from chaos and insurrection. It is not h...
March 10, 2019 at 11:43
Dudes, the universe does not do what you tell it to. If the universe wants to produce a bowl of petunias from nothing or less than nothing, your argum...
March 09, 2019 at 21:39
Divide and rule is definitely a thing, and that's what astrology is all about. Therefore do not allow folks that have a different special day to you t...
March 09, 2019 at 21:17
Hmm. I was not being sarcastic, I don't think i was being hypocritical, and I don't for certain think that social movements are conducted by cretins. ...
March 09, 2019 at 21:05
That's new to me. Thanks, a good song. Happy the son to whom it doesn't mean that much!
March 09, 2019 at 12:26
Whence, I cannot say. It seems enfolded into the fabric of creation. The lack, I think, comes from childhood trauma, from a lack of love, from a child...
March 09, 2019 at 11:44
Today, the slates were dry, the gulls gone fishing, and it was a single black crow, knocked off his arial perch by a scudding cloud, flapping like a b...
March 09, 2019 at 09:53
There is indeed a wonderful dark humour in the story of the Face of Glory, like a good fairytale.and yet something of me is antagonistic to making tha...
March 09, 2019 at 09:42
I'm glad to hear it. The current pope does not read God that way at least, and I certainly don't think He's concerned about His fanbase particularly, ...
March 08, 2019 at 21:58
Can you expand on this at all? Is that really their distinction - the believer and the wicked? I have to stay in that sorrow; the loving guidance of G...
March 08, 2019 at 21:32
It was the latter. And I have had an apology and we are friends again. Well almost. Complaint addressed and withdrawn. Thanks everyone.
March 08, 2019 at 21:22
Thanks. Your offering is acceptable in the sight of the Lord. ;) I guess poetry is unavoidable anyway, and the cartwheel puts me in mind of Ecclesiate...
March 08, 2019 at 20:48
It's not a duty I would seek to impose on anyone. Still, having married 'til death do us part', or thereabouts, the pain of the parting is, to me at l...
March 08, 2019 at 20:22
No. You don't get my clarifications on the basis of your wilful and repetitive insults. You need to back off a long, long way.
March 08, 2019 at 19:45
Yes. you have no idea what I am talking about, as I have already pointed out to you and yet you feel entitled to litter the thread with criticisms and...
March 08, 2019 at 19:27
But everyone else did.
March 08, 2019 at 19:06
People who are listening do not talk about my feelings, but about their own. That is mockery. Such disrespect is uncalled for and objectionable. I am ...
March 08, 2019 at 18:25
I love that frank. :heart:
March 08, 2019 at 17:39
Well ever since the 70's I have been exploring and advocating 'alternatives' in eduction, food production and distribution, and housing. There is no e...
March 08, 2019 at 17:37
You're still not listening.
March 08, 2019 at 16:57
Apropos of absolutely nothing, and directed firmly at no one, if I ever resorted to musical flame wars, this one would be for you. Think of that speci...
March 08, 2019 at 16:54
The last line of the song is "I guess it doesn't matter anyway." And if you just look at the words, you might find something indicative of nihilistic ...
March 08, 2019 at 16:16
You're not listening to me telling you you're not listening. Listen to me telling you I'm not depressed, not coping, but joyful, and stop telling me w...
March 08, 2019 at 16:03
You are not listening.
March 08, 2019 at 15:52
Thread hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDuZfdf4hFQ
March 08, 2019 at 14:43
I don't know if I am particularly sensitive, or particularly insensitive. Probably, I haven't conveyed anything very clearly. But consider the conditi...
March 08, 2019 at 14:36
And yet again, one cannot even wonder what to do about the various factual trends that have been observed and catalogued, because one has been diverte...
March 08, 2019 at 12:12
This is a major failing of the justice system. Perhaps we need a corollary to the principle that one be tried before a jury of one's peers, that one s...
March 08, 2019 at 11:42
Now that is perhaps revealing. If we say that doubt and certainty are psychological, states of mind, and that Wittgenstein is describing, not prescrib...
March 08, 2019 at 11:13
Well the good news is that Emergency triage protocols are being adjusted to grant your wish. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-deadly-choices-at-...
March 07, 2019 at 09:44
Very foolish in my opinion. Far better to sit in your armchair and conserve energy and not try and out live your species.
March 06, 2019 at 18:39
I don't know what to say, except don't hold your breath waiting for insights, solutions or even recognition. My own recent thread on the topic was not...
March 06, 2019 at 18:30
I'm perfectly happy to say that we are sharing our thoughts on this thread. And in another context I am just as happy to say that the mental is the su...
March 06, 2019 at 14:42
If you are going astray, you are in good company. Wittgenstein suggests that philosophy almost entirely consists of such muddles. It might be worth yo...
March 06, 2019 at 13:39
That is what I'm complaining about; that you use words without any meaning and then ask someone else to make sense of them. To define 'objective reali...
March 06, 2019 at 12:43
Well now you are using 'objective' in the same way you were using 'absolute' before. Are there different kinds of reality? Different grades? Really re...
March 06, 2019 at 12:17
A supernova doesn't happen in an objective or a subjective way, and it means nothing because it is a misuse of language. A supernova is an object. Exp...
March 06, 2019 at 11:46
It's a distinction that is much misused and misunderstood. The argument you are making is to my mind almost as misguided as your opponents' position.T...
March 06, 2019 at 11:15
If I might rename your things a moment red, yellow, and blue, Then all I think this gets you is that yellow and blue are both "not-red", and so on all...
March 05, 2019 at 23:49
Indeed not. and your right to not discuss the topic of the thread is fully acknowledged on my part. Indeed I wish quite a few people who do not wish t...
March 05, 2019 at 15:19