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Who or what is your god? It is not a question much asked now, as we have become obsessed with mere existence. But it used to be psychologically inform...
August 30, 2025 at 06:51
They never taught it my school, we had to make do with books. I put that down to prudishness, along with the fact that mammograms hadn't been invented...
August 29, 2025 at 17:32
Don't confuse reality with video. It's a rookie error. Video Men don't play violin: Real Men can't play violin.
August 29, 2025 at 14:12
You are so insightful! So it seems that freedom has to be learned, or possibly earned, at least some of the time. And in that case, and in this partic...
August 28, 2025 at 19:39
I quite like The Lark Ascending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOWN5fQnzGk
August 28, 2025 at 19:22
Someone gave me a violin the other day - said I could do what I liked with it. But he was dead wrong; I can't do anything I like at all with it. and I...
August 28, 2025 at 19:00
If people can't stomach something, it seems mean to try and ram it down their throats. :nerd:
August 28, 2025 at 15:48
Buy a packet of seed or, several. and plant up the back lot.
August 27, 2025 at 19:47
Unless you are prone to kidney stones and the like, eat beetroot. Red, white. or yellow they are very sweet with an earthy flavour and they are terrib...
August 27, 2025 at 10:05
The wretched bees put yeast inhibiters in their honey, and I found mead hard to ferment, compared with apples, grapes, or malt. Took me more than a mo...
August 23, 2025 at 13:40
Sorry, not sorry.
August 23, 2025 at 11:23
Oh, them smart people trying to make us passive with their theories. I have strong feelings about feelings; respect my feelings! Alas, you do not seem...
August 23, 2025 at 10:27
Oh, your sacred feelings! How very woke! How very feminine! How very irrational! https://www.unh.edu/sharpp/prevention/rape-culture
August 23, 2025 at 07:04
I suspect you are the one projecting onto me here. Your go to response to something you disagree with is personal insult. Rather weak. Has it ever occ...
August 22, 2025 at 19:51
Always happy to help. So why, do you suppose, in America rapists are treated better than trans?
August 22, 2025 at 12:05
That's what we woke loonies call 'rape culture'. Specifically, rape and fear of rape is part of the mechanism of control of female sexuality by the pa...
August 22, 2025 at 06:40
I think it would be an issue for us.
August 17, 2025 at 18:05
That's true. One can be open about it. The aliens could announce their intentions to observe humanity to see whether we were sufficiently civilised to...
August 17, 2025 at 08:40
Any science whose object of study encompasses that which is liable to form opinions of science, and be influenced thereby, suffers from a feedback, wh...
August 16, 2025 at 10:17
Measure is the thing of all mans.
August 15, 2025 at 18:34
A human went searching, of course, For the truth and its absolute source. He found it, but then, Instead of zazen, He shouted until he was hoarse.
August 13, 2025 at 07:41
Lies, damned lies and... https://assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-6079807/v1_covered_209e5182-d9a5-4305-a4e0-70204151d2b3.pdf And here is a nice ...
August 12, 2025 at 11:51
You should probably consult Hanover on this, but I believe there are specialists that they could delegate to serve formal prayers, which can be done a...
August 11, 2025 at 13:14
Hanover, Outlandish, and Weird. Lawyers to Philosophy. Have you suffered a contradiction that was not your fault? Unfairly deprived of meaning, or fou...
August 10, 2025 at 10:46
— Wales where I reside is a Principality, because it has a Prince, who is the heir to the throne of the UK. Aren't we lucky!
August 09, 2025 at 20:41
Einstein's first theory Special Relativity was an attempt to resolve the contradictions resulting from from The Michelson–Morley experiment. Basically...
August 09, 2025 at 16:53
I think this might be our projection. We are obsessed with sex; we have made endless taboos and rules of conduct. I would go so far as to say that it ...
August 09, 2025 at 16:34
I'd call it a matter of coordination. What's unnatural is that there's no communication. n is not the same for everyone. So there's no skipping to n p...
August 09, 2025 at 13:05
That's not the catch, it's the hook on which the whole thing hangs. If the guru says he sees blue eyes but I see no blue eyes then I must be the blue ...
August 08, 2025 at 19:56
This is somewhat a repetition of stuff I have mentioned before, but with more detail and certainty. It is alarming. Hansen maintains, and it is explai...
August 08, 2025 at 08:23
I used to have a couple. We let them roam the forest on weekdays, and called them home for supper. But at weekends they had to stay at home because th...
August 07, 2025 at 15:03
It depends: sometimes manners are markers of class, and used to identify bounders (social climbers) by exposing their ignorance of the social niceties...
August 07, 2025 at 14:51
Let's try and keep religion out of the shout box, OK?
August 07, 2025 at 14:24
Out what jelly mould or cake tin was this truth turned? It is sometimes difficult for me to say with certainty even on this site and in English whethe...
August 06, 2025 at 18:48
I probably should put this in the "woke" thread, but they don't deserve it so fuck 'em. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGu8x7MzFg
August 06, 2025 at 13:56
Sometimes things ain't not what you mightn't have thought them not to be, and sometimes they're just a pile of words, that are unclear and meaningless...
August 04, 2025 at 11:09
That's what I think, and I have given a fairly strong argument for it, which you have ignored. I have seen no argument from you to show otherwise, and...
July 30, 2025 at 07:01
You are flailing. If you are magic and a mind reader then bla bla blah, anything you like. But in the scenario there is no magic, no one knows their e...
July 29, 2025 at 11:43
Then it should say '...and someone has said "I see blue"' because otherwise it is contradictory.
July 29, 2025 at 11:26
This is an impossible condition, because if you do not see a blue, and no one has told you anything you cannot know that there is at least 1 blue.
July 29, 2025 at 11:05
Perfectly valid. As is this: There are 100 blue. I see 99 blue. Therefore I know I have blue eyes and leave immediately. Unfortunately, no one within ...
July 29, 2025 at 11:01
Imagine rather, that there are 3 blues, 5 browns, 1 green, and you. You know thus that everyone can see at least 2 blues if they are blue, and at leas...
July 29, 2025 at 09:18
If there was only 1 person with blue eyes, and nothing was said, that person would be unique in the group and could not know their colour. So they wou...
July 28, 2025 at 19:07
Ok, I concede. You are unteachable.
July 27, 2025 at 20:57
We all know there are multiple blues. If there was only one blue, that blue would not know there were multiple blues or any blues. Therefore?
July 27, 2025 at 19:11
Yes you do need someone to say it because the first counterfactual needs someone to say it and every iteration thereafter rests on that necessity; you...
July 27, 2025 at 19:01
You've gone wrong already.You see 99 blues. The blues that you see, all see 98 or 99 blues. The 200 of you are all thinking that. You can know that to...
July 27, 2025 at 18:27
It doesn't allow any such deduction. Knowing is not the same as saying, and I think we agree that if someone has a unique colour, they cannot deduce i...
July 27, 2025 at 17:58
You made that point before. but you are wrong. I have already also explained before why you are wrong. It is bizarre but it is true because the puzzle...
July 27, 2025 at 10:35
No they don't because they could have a unique colour and being, unlike you, perfect logicians they know that, and therefore do not make the fallible ...
July 27, 2025 at 09:27