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I'll pray for you.
February 08, 2023 at 09:55
On the basis that that is clearly a saw cut, the hatchet holding boy is innocent despite his confession.
February 08, 2023 at 09:51
Hey, someone's made a funny joke about my name, as if names had to be justified, like everything else in the universe. I direct my ire at bad philosop...
February 08, 2023 at 00:01
Money, bottled water, shelters, clothes, generators, road repair teams etc. Prayers and tears are not ways of helping, but expressions of empathy. Thi...
February 07, 2023 at 20:46
There is hope, even for mechanicals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDZzWEI00fg
February 07, 2023 at 14:11
Of course, you have to find a use for tears, to justify them: There's no educating a fanatic. :roll: More cross-bracing and movement dampers, I say, a...
February 07, 2023 at 11:50
In: Brexit  — view comment
I suggest a single "Elizabethan age", subtitled "the age of Empire" to stretch from Liz 1. to Liz 2. Brexit is the thus the last gasp of Colonial sent...
February 07, 2023 at 11:34
As useless as tears.
February 07, 2023 at 10:45
The thought police insist we speak of 'determinism', and pour scorn on 'fate'.
February 07, 2023 at 09:54
"Water seeks its own level", we used to hear. More generally, the will of matter is to clump together - I think that's called gravity, There being no ...
February 07, 2023 at 09:38
Thoughts and prayers time for Turkey and Syria after a pair of quakes. "Gaia is angry."
February 06, 2023 at 13:50
I'll put this here by way of waving a little flag at one of the experts, and linking to a related thread:
February 06, 2023 at 13:44
The experts will correct me if I am wrong, but this is a recapitulation of 'the beginning' of philosophy. It aligns with what we know of the prehistor...
February 06, 2023 at 13:09
@"The world" Americans are even more antsy than the British about sport, which is ridiculous, as we invented them all including athletics, which we ge...
February 06, 2023 at 00:24
Yes I have noticed the ongoing competition between the two of you in the game of "How wrong can I be?" And the answer in this case is "completely wron...
February 05, 2023 at 18:25
I foresee hundreds of mass murderers rushing about with cries of "for Matthew", "for Luke", "for John", "for Adolf", on their lips, and very few survi...
February 05, 2023 at 11:33
Does anyone else suffer from the following synchronicity? I'm perusing the newish topics, and come across one that deserves a pearl of my great wisdom...
February 05, 2023 at 10:28
Philosophers are the thought police of consumer society, and materialism declares all such talk useless and therefore meaningless. This is amply demon...
February 05, 2023 at 09:36
Meaning is use. These words are meaningless. Therefore you must not use them.
February 05, 2023 at 09:09
What is interesting is that this is scientific magic. The psychiatrist actually believes his own magic. With marriage, at least civil marriage, we all...
February 03, 2023 at 21:55
Sounds like a magic spell. The sort of delegitimising incantation a psychiatrist uses by way of dehumanising his clients into patients. Your thoughts ...
February 03, 2023 at 13:54
Excellent analogy. A game you cannot lose is a dull game where winning is no achievement and has no value. Games have to have baddies so that they can...
February 03, 2023 at 11:31
February 02, 2023 at 18:09
1. This is insane. 2. There can be no objective method for dealing with subjects. 3. The results of personal interactions are immeasurable. 4. The use...
February 02, 2023 at 13:40
Divine comedy therefore.
February 01, 2023 at 22:33
Hi there, Royal Bank of Scotland. Well this is what matters in this life isn't it? Not a dull topic at all. Can we call it sexual attraction? I'm not ...
February 01, 2023 at 19:46
I just don't see the sinister or aggression of an Agent - no insult intended.
February 01, 2023 at 09:17
February 01, 2023 at 08:49
In: Brexit  — view comment
Yeah, and look how well the NHS is doing on the extra £450M. per week!
January 31, 2023 at 18:04
Yes, leaders always want to unite us. Yes, loyalty is a good thing if society is good. But Hitler was a leader who united people, and all too few of h...
January 31, 2023 at 15:45
That was not my experience. What I learned from spending time alone is that my feeling experience comes from within; there are happy days and miserabl...
January 31, 2023 at 11:46
Yes. But whence the stress? If you don't know, that's fine, or if you don't care. I stress the word 'stress' there to emphasise the tension between wh...
January 31, 2023 at 09:28
Can you explain why, or how, the stress arises? In engineering, stress is produced when there are two or more forces working against each other. The l...
January 30, 2023 at 14:42
So I asked google if pigs are racist, and apparently, some are. https://dribbble.com/tags/racist_pigs Also, the latest news is that your Black pig has...
January 30, 2023 at 12:09
If one were to change the language just a little... Why can human understanding not understand human understanding? ... it becomes rather easy to see ...
January 30, 2023 at 11:52
Ok, but don't bet on it.
January 29, 2023 at 15:47
Your words are very clear and you claim is very common.
January 29, 2023 at 09:02
Yes. I know what you are doing because it has been going on for generations. It is a racist justification, akin to the racist justification for mortga...
January 29, 2023 at 08:54
In very short, myopia. These are my fingers because I can type with them, and those are not my fingers because they type and type-not according (as I ...
January 29, 2023 at 08:44
Imagine a police force that thinks falsely that this is the case. Their prejudicial behaviour will mean that Muslims are lightly policed and Christian...
January 29, 2023 at 08:24
And the absence of food does not cause starvation.
January 28, 2023 at 22:16
Yeah, whatever. I think you are missing my point. You are adding two thoughts together and creating reality. I don't think the world works like that. ...
January 28, 2023 at 20:24
Curious. Note that 1 and 2 are thoughts, whereas 3 is not. Try an analogy. There are three dwellings. 1 is the architect's plan 2 is your address. 3 i...
January 28, 2023 at 19:41
No, no, I do proper thread theme tunes that relate to the topic, like this:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RicaUqd9Hg
January 28, 2023 at 19:22
To be alive is to be sensitive and to be sensitive is to be vulnerable. I want to have that sensitivity that can be hurt, because it it is the effect ...
January 27, 2023 at 22:09
No. I think the word 'statistics' used without any statistics or reference to statistics is bull. Hence my, by my own criterion, unbelievable comment.
January 27, 2023 at 17:19
Of course there will; my grape peeler will always have a job, as long as his tone of voice is more pleasingly subservient than the robot grape peeler....
January 27, 2023 at 13:58
In other news, we are entering a post mass-production economy. It used to be that the masses were necessary as both labour and consumer to produce fro...
January 27, 2023 at 11:28
Show those statistics. Statistics show that 97% of claims prefaced by 'Statistics show' are a steaming pile of male bovine excrement. The other 3% alr...
January 27, 2023 at 11:18
Excuse me Agent, but this bids fair to be the silliest thing you have ever proposed. A tribe living in mud huts has no difficulty in meeting and decid...
January 27, 2023 at 11:03