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The question though, is whether it is the horse-face that makes the knight or the moves he makes. Players don't like pieces that don't make the moves ...
March 08, 2017 at 17:05
I think this is more to do with birth trauma than transgressive sex.
March 08, 2017 at 15:20
Happy to slide on down. It's between him and his surgeon; How the Olympic committee resolves their issues is of no interest to me either. He'd probabl...
March 07, 2017 at 14:35
Draw your own line wherever you like, just don't tell me where to draw mine. If you're a plastic surgeon, you have to consider your ethics, but otherw...
March 07, 2017 at 09:27
It doesn't much matter who shat on the carpet, it needs cleaning up.
March 05, 2017 at 21:28
If a simple world is possible, not much is necessary. In fact you have already made clear that all that is necessary for a possible world is that it o...
March 04, 2017 at 17:49
Your intolerance of boredom is symptomatic of the degenerate liberal hegemony exemplified by the mods. {five paragraphs of censored insults} So get us...
March 04, 2017 at 15:08
Thought is particulate, but mind is not.
March 04, 2017 at 14:45
No one shouldn't, and for the same reason. If you are happy about being happy and unhappy about being unhappy, your mood swings will be exaggerated.
March 04, 2017 at 14:44
A bit of point missing going on here. One of the right things of which one should be proud was not 'being proud'. One of the things one should not lov...
March 04, 2017 at 14:37
The question arises in what esteem should one hold self-esteem? If self-esteem is esteemed, then having high self-esteem will lead to higher self-este...
March 04, 2017 at 10:54
Meanwhile, some jealous professor is writing our manifesto for us, poor chap. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273136063_A_Possible_Forum_for_...
March 03, 2017 at 20:52
Incidentally, I happened across the same picture except on this site the strawberries look grey to me. Has anyone checked out the actual image for act...
March 02, 2017 at 20:47
Anyway, I have definitely demonstrated the power of poetry. Strawberries are of course green, until they get the urge to be eaten, which is the plant'...
March 02, 2017 at 20:11
Looks more like pixels to me. And what's that thing under the bridge of pixels that looks like an upside down bridge? Is it a bridge made of water? We...
March 02, 2017 at 16:40
There was a blind woman on the old pf for a while, who presumably did not see pixels, but still managed to reply to them.
March 02, 2017 at 15:30
Indeed! And it is irrelevant that there were any pixels at all. The same meaning could be conveyed with brush strokes, finger-painting, or carved in t...
March 02, 2017 at 15:25
How many were there?
March 02, 2017 at 14:36
I'm seeing some pixels on my screen that you have indirectly put there. But seeing pixels is seeing nothing. With a bit of 'brain adjustment', I see w...
March 02, 2017 at 13:16
The dress wasn't both, but definitively whichever it was, I forget now. The particular image was ambiguous, not the dress itself. One does not often m...
March 02, 2017 at 12:23
Line 1 is a feeble joke. Line 2 is a serious question that you need to address, because the way you talk is as if the brain processes and adjusts, and...
March 02, 2017 at 11:41
Ah, the communal brain, what would we do without it? ;) What is seeing? Is it something other than the brain's processing of the eye's sensation? Ligh...
March 02, 2017 at 10:38
There is, it's my pov. From the pov of an astronomer, the stars are each as big and bright as the sun (approx). He does not cease to feel the warmth o...
March 02, 2017 at 10:28
Well no. When I look at blue pixels I see that they are blue, that's how I know they are blue. And when I look at strawberries, I see that they are re...
March 02, 2017 at 10:10
Strawberries are red, pixels are blue, Indirect realism still isn't true.
March 01, 2017 at 21:41
What I like about Hanover is his humility, his kindness and generosity to others, his gentle self-deprecating wit, his insightful and well reasoned ph...
March 01, 2017 at 15:01
"It takes one to know one, but opposites attract", said the pot to the kettle as they leapt together from the fire to the frying-pan. "But ignorance i...
March 01, 2017 at 13:59
The best it could possibly be is hologrammatical proof, not real or true proof. If one is in the desert, one might reasonably be anxious that the oasi...
March 01, 2017 at 13:13
I don't see how you can be definite about what you are not conscious of. But of course there is much one is not conscious of that varies from person t...
March 01, 2017 at 12:07
Like any other 'ism, Fascism is first and foremost a state of mind. I hope Mongrel will excuse my dissection: There is no need to sharply differentiat...
March 01, 2017 at 00:04
It's a stupid game, this. The sign doesn't mention Trump, and my post doesn't mention Trump, and the sign says Early warning signs. Many of these sign...
February 28, 2017 at 20:44
It's not a definition, its a list of warning signs. If you got one, don't panic; if you got them all, don't complace. Like blood in your stools might ...
February 28, 2017 at 20:14
/uploads/resized/files/8q/c6z0p1nj4dxnfnl8.jpg From a display in the United States Holocaust Museum. Purveyors of old news, but not fake news. When on...
February 28, 2017 at 10:38
Have a read, and chill. http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/ernst-kantorowicz-life/
February 27, 2017 at 23:03
Absolutely. Parents shouldn't vomit in front of their children. Moderators, on the other hand absolutely should model productive and respectful disagr...
February 27, 2017 at 21:57
Try this for size. What one might realise at some point is the distinction between internal and external. One does not have in one's possession an int...
February 27, 2017 at 21:41
By an odd coincidence, I raised the issue of moderation quite recently. This was Empty's contribution to my thread: Perhaps he thought he had bought h...
February 27, 2017 at 21:07
If one can speak objectively of human subjectivity, then it seems to follow that there is something generic about it. One might say that the contents ...
February 27, 2017 at 13:48
I think this is metaphysics: the world is under no obligation to conform itself to our talk; therefore we had best conform our talk to the world, to t...
February 27, 2017 at 12:21
Yes. If talk proves talk wrong, stop talking. If talk proves the world wrong, talk differently. Which do you think you've done?
February 27, 2017 at 12:10
I actually prefer to dismantle reason, over dismantling the world. That talk and theory and reason is in the end inadequate to the world is relatively...
February 27, 2017 at 11:54
My understanding is that this is definitive. It locates facts as physical, worldly affairs rather than linguistic. Statements of fact are statements a...
February 27, 2017 at 11:00
And I predict it will do so again, according to this theory I have.
February 27, 2017 at 10:13
Yes. It is necessarily an act of empathic imagination, but actually not only that. Because I can ask you what you find engaging and thought provoking,...
February 25, 2017 at 16:51
I don't disagree with that decision, as I have already said. And since the decision was made after I started this thread, it is not the case that "we'...
February 25, 2017 at 16:36
The subject is governance. The feedback I am giving is that the governance of the forum, like the governance of many places in the world is failing. I...
February 25, 2017 at 12:54
Do you really think so? I thought he might have a point too, and that is why I responded. I'm quite amenable to having differences of opinion. There i...
February 24, 2017 at 23:24
The original intention was much wider than just this board. There is an ongoing global issue about freedom of speech; the backlash against political c...
February 24, 2017 at 23:04
Whatever gives you the impression I want any sympathy? Well that's just butt stupid. I do have that power, but have decided I don't want to exercise i...
February 24, 2017 at 21:20
How odd, to call for us to stop using a whole lot of terms that you have just introduced for the first time. Paul had lengthy guidelines both for post...
February 24, 2017 at 19:44