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I was that guy, for nearly half a day. I actually got paid an unmemorable amount. ( It might have been ten shillings, which was nearly half a guinea!)...
October 31, 2025 at 17:26
I bet there's a lot of people have that symptom.
October 31, 2025 at 16:20
You misunderstand. Perhaps I was unclear. She was through menopause a long time ago because she is 73. You make no sense, and you haven't answered the...
October 31, 2025 at 08:59
Are you saying that heterosexuals ought to, or at least may, realise their real nature, whereas homosexuals ought not realise their really defective n...
October 30, 2025 at 12:13
How do I tell the difference between natural and non-natural? Or how do you tell it? Is the sex act a joyful act or a painful duty? Is the sex I have ...
October 28, 2025 at 21:17
No I'm not objecting to that at all. I am a moral realist. My objection is to his waffling on about essence and nature and spirit as if he speaks with...
October 27, 2025 at 21:00
My side? Same thing? Can you elaborate a little? My suggestion is that the allegedly "absurd view that everything a natural organism does is natural."...
October 27, 2025 at 18:36
Yes, if you did commit to that, you would have to come up with some story about how humans are the exception because they ate of the fruit of the tree...
October 27, 2025 at 12:56
Nature, it seems is unnatural. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals
October 26, 2025 at 13:55
And is there sex in heaven?
October 26, 2025 at 12:53
Why do you want to say that impregnating is uniquely performed by males? Why do you want to call it a role? Do you not think that women have a rather ...
October 24, 2025 at 19:47
It is rather difficult to make sense of all this decarative definitional stuff, because your definitions are not clearly distinguished, and at the sam...
October 24, 2025 at 19:13
Oh, you mean I can be a man but not masculine? Fuck! That's weird! It's almost like they're not the same thing!
October 24, 2025 at 07:56
It is tied, loosely. I concede the fashions are the fashions, no more. Just as lesbians and gays come in different flavours, butch and fem, so straits...
October 23, 2025 at 19:32
Anyways, No kings.
October 23, 2025 at 14:59
Bloody Americans, mangling t' language as usual. "You ought think him the king." You oughted write more properer.
October 23, 2025 at 14:58
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history. But no one is divorcing them, just distinguishing. But still, we hippy males like to wear flowers i...
October 22, 2025 at 19:50
I don't; you don't; but we do. As soon as you ask a question, you are in a relationship that constitutes a community. And you do keep asking questions...
October 22, 2025 at 19:21
Who is this "we" you speak of? "We" need a state because if it is not our state, then it is anybody's state and may become their state. Any territory ...
October 21, 2025 at 09:27
Well it's not completely clear. Game theory is founded on something called 'rational self-interest' and if that means 'cunning bastard' then the theor...
October 20, 2025 at 12:40
Why do many people belive the appeal to tradition is some inviolable trump card? And whence do you get your cards, sir? From the future?
October 20, 2025 at 08:16
Am I seeing this argument being made? Some people get away with murder. Therefore we should not try and stop them.
October 20, 2025 at 08:00
Rational being? Speaking of delusional... Let's just say, that if we are ourselves rational beings, and yet we are at war with each other throughout h...
October 20, 2025 at 07:46
'So long, and thanks for all the fish. ' as we dolphins always say. Also, all the best with your new project, and if I don't see you in this world, I'...
October 19, 2025 at 17:41
No. The world of illusion is unlimited, and the harder you look for something, the easier it becomes to imagine you have found it. Meditation absolute...
October 19, 2025 at 14:39
This is not something that can be resolved by any amount of discussion. Go, and find out. Not in a thread or a book, but in yourself, is the answer. I...
October 19, 2025 at 11:24
I have nothing to say about this topic.
October 18, 2025 at 13:07
If I say 'yes', will it make you look up to me?
October 18, 2025 at 10:33
I think, at least for now, the medical model is inescapable. But perhaps we can at least keep an awareness of some of the questionable features. First...
October 17, 2025 at 10:48
Keep taking the tablets! Annoyance is a serious and distressing condition, but it can be controlled with the appropriate medication. Have you read Bra...
October 16, 2025 at 12:28
If you have a vivid imagination, it can be an aid to thinking and a boon to society. An architect's function in society is to visualise a building in ...
October 16, 2025 at 08:56
The perceived risk is the subjective experience of another, of the person in question's behaviour. Are you claiming that the experience of the 'expert...
October 16, 2025 at 08:37
What is a proven success in this context? If one takes the view of the addict, a steady clean supply is success, but others might consider drug free l...
October 16, 2025 at 08:05
Well the immediate alternative is a social model. Rather than that you have got the imaginary pathogen of depression leading to the wrong chemicals in...
October 15, 2025 at 20:15
To speak of mental health, and mental illness is to subscribe to a medical model of mind and behaviour. This is misleading. All experiences are subjec...
October 15, 2025 at 17:45
Thanks for that interchange; it was informative and insightful, and I certainly agree that myself nor anyone I am aware of here could hold up AI's end...
October 15, 2025 at 16:35
Learn to fucking read Harry, and stop trying to be a clever dick.
October 15, 2025 at 13:49
I didn't say everything human was nonsense, the suggestion that it is, is certainly nonsensical, so thanks but no thanks for your contribution. But as...
October 15, 2025 at 13:43
But then AI was not being trained on its own nonsense, only on humanity's nonsense. And I'm not complaining about anything; I am reporting a warning b...
October 15, 2025 at 13:17
I'm not sure, but no one seems to be sure how much of this site is AI generated, and I may be quite exaggerating, but its use is so ubiquitous though,...
October 15, 2025 at 13:08
And 50% and growing of public website material is produced by AI. So it is eating its own bullshit to an ever increasing extent.
October 15, 2025 at 08:28
You tell me.
October 13, 2025 at 19:39
So stuff abduction.
October 13, 2025 at 19:34
Lets take a break, and wander into the beginnings of mathematics ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-MgQC6z3VU
October 13, 2025 at 18:49
14 pages of fulmination to arrive at the blank refusal to address the topic of the thread. No one forced you to engage in a topic you have only contem...
October 13, 2025 at 13:40
Did you not look at the quoted site? A dictionary or a thesaurus is useful, and AIs are useful. They are trained on material that we find useful, and ...
October 13, 2025 at 13:30
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/20/1065667/how-ai-generated-text-is-poisoning-the-internet/ I think this is the fundamental problem. AI does ...
October 12, 2025 at 12:36
I don't want to wound at all, and I'm not applying for a grant. I'm not even remotely saying anything original to take pride in. I'm interested in the...
October 12, 2025 at 10:32
Is that a law of nature? I think it's the advice of a propagandist. Scream softly or the children might hear.
October 12, 2025 at 10:08
It's interesting how emotively the rationalists defend. I agree with both here. It is the necessary bit of the game that gets induction started. But i...
October 12, 2025 at 08:31