unenlightened

I can be a sneaky bastard at times, but this has not gone the way I intended at all. "If you don't like it, go somewhere else." I don't like this atti...

Indeed. But how can I remain abstract, when you are being so practical? I don't disagree with your decision, as the op makes very clear. But you have ...

No we don't all know that. It is exactly the distinction between a vigorous debate and a shit storm that constitutes the topic of this thread. Moderat...

Well that's my op exemplar thoroughly undermined. What shall we talk about now? Do you like fishing?

Are you oughtistic, Q?

Whereof one cannot speak, let's make a word for it. The 'immeasurable' or something. That which breathes fire into the equation. Is it not a great tra...

That Ruth is stranger than Richard is itself a happy fantasy. No! Fiction wins every time, and on every measure. It is more potent, more satisfying, m...

What's the basis for this? Is a real detective greater than Sherlock Holmes? I think not! Is existence not more so a limitation and an impediment?

Yeah, you're a thoughtless prat at times. We are delicate little flowers, some of us. A little kindness is not expensive.

I understand that feeling, but I urge you to take the pains to defend the truth, even at the cost of your peace of mind. The world is in sore need of ...

One exaggerates the unity of otherness, as if there is only one way of disagreeing with me.

Well I liked it (your link that seems to have vanished for some reason). Particularly the thoughts on the trinity - well known to students of the I Ch...

Yes. Complexity is more than a nothing but. My bed is made of wood, but I do not sleep in a tree.

I thought it was great, because it said in more detail some of the things I've been banging on about recently. 8-) To whit, All our problems are psych...

Apparently, I was laughably in error.

So, is your amusement worth talking about?

Let me put it this way. Who issued you with a warrant to declare laughable hyperbole on the basis of one sentence not even taken real issue with? It's...

QED.

If you can, do. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08frr85 If not, read this. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/08/welcome-age-anger-brexit-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan ???

Propositions about the world, evidenced by the world. Not propositions evidenced by propositions. The way out of the circularity of talk is not to sta...

The brexercised.

Rubbish. We apprehend the meaning or meaninglessness of propositions through the universe. First the world, then we can talk about it. And we talk sen...

Well there's a self-defeating proposition for you. Evidently it has been stated without evidence, and that is evidence that it is false, even if you h...

Sounds like a complete nightmare, unjust, punitive, unsafe, inhuman.

Yes. I wouldn't promise to get rid of money, but I might point out that it is beneficial to obsess a little less about it, and focus on other stuff li...

Well what hasn't been done cannot be done and must be a bad idea. I concede.

I'm having a hard time even defending the idea that it is possible or reasonable, I'm not expecting to get elected any time soon.

Exactly so. Like many unthinking sloganeers, you don't know the difference between law and order and punishment, and resort to sarcasm rather than sta...

Yes. My loss is ameliorated by the perpetrator's loss; its called retribution, and society's fear is ameliorated likewise. Fear and pain becomes anger...

No I don't. And don't you just hate it when folks attribute the wrong 'ism to you. Let's have lots of intervention, and lots of social control, but le...

I'm not sure how they can be prevented from reoffending. If they need locking up to protect the public, lock 'em up. Same with drunk drivers, or whate...

I'm not sure it would be that much different to what goes on at the moment. Prisons would be less punitive, more educational/therapeutic perhaps. Deat...

That's called deterrence. But I call it bullying. Sometimes, deterrence works, as you say, as a prevention. Ad sometimes there is deterrent effect any...

As a penalty? If someone is about to run into the path of a lorry, one has to prevent them. It might involve some violence. Similarly, one has to prev...

Punishment is never sensible. If someone is unpleasant, they are not made more pleasant by being unpleasant to them. One needs to prevent unpleasantne...

If that's your judgement, you have poor judgement in your own judgement.

It's a bad thing if you have bad judgement; that's my judgement anyway.

Was that three? I lost count. Look after your children, and look after your parents. Play nice, and nothing else matters. Nobody knows what they are d...

Who needs an excuse, unless some judgemental prig thinks there's something wrong with it?

Since this thread is about the implacable forces of the economy, the relevant question is what sort of education is required for an economy that has n...

I'm a damn smart dude, but I can't take the credit for inventing elementary probability theory. This is high school stuff that I assumed those discuss...

. I'm glad you noticed that. This models the situation with ravens. Then you need to show where my admittedly incomplete calculation has gone wrong, b...

Let's walk through this elementary probability problem. Scenario 1. There are 17 marbles in a bag, but they could be any colour in any combination. Yo...

I'm afraid this is just bluster to save the point. A universal does not have to be eternal in scope, and if one cannot rule out pockets that fill them...

But Tom's proof shows no such thing. If I have looked at 16 of my 17 pockets and found them empty, I have probable grounds for thinking that the last ...

I don't think so, Tom. I'll let you quote one that rules that not to be a universal. I'll even modify it a bit for you: All unenlightened's pockets ev...

Hypothesis: All unenlightened's pockets are empty. *checks all pockets, finds each and every one to be empty.* "Hey Tom, all my pockets are empty. I j...

It's always good for the US to keep everywhere else in subjection.

"America first" isn't isolationist it's expansionist and imperialist.