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What he means is they are all invented tourist crap that no one here drinks or ever has. Tea doesn't grow here. My favourite is Ceylon. It doesn't exi...

3 years have passed and I am 70, and I am now having difficulty reading small print as well as road signs. It might be because I have neglected my eye...

Have you seen the film "We need to talk about Kevin"?

Cheese always comes in cheeses hence the name. If someone is selling you some dry powder that smells and trying to convince you it is cheese, shoot th...

I'm probably being slow as usual, but can all p be known? I'd have thought only the true ones could.

Too much shouting in the shout box chaps, I can't hear myself snore. And what's for dinner anyway? Pasta salad is good on a hot day I hear.

They do all that, it is dishonest, and in effect it is lying. We had the bollocks about the distinction between lying and being 'economical with the t...

And I disagree with you. Weather forecasting has become hugely more accurate since the advent of computer modelling, but it hasn't become more scienti...

No, but what I am saying is that we are seeing science being hijacked by commercial interests to some extent, and by career considerations, and so on,...

Thanks for the references. You own summary above, though, is highly misleading. The principles are not at all simple in their interaction and you have...

Terrorism is always a political act. Religious organisations always have political aspirations. Thus the target of this attack is not the man himself,...

Incidentally, I make the same argument for direct realism, that deception must always be the exception and not the rule, because if deception were the...

But is that true? Are you telling the truth about postmodernists, and are they telling the truth about totalitarianisms? I say if it is not true, then...

It's a better place to be than the moral pit, for as long as there is any place to be at all. Nothing ultimately matters and we're all ultimately dead...

Indeed, and insects sometimes pretend to be sticks. But I didn't say 'evil'. Imagine a world where everything looks like something else. Sight loses i...

This begins to add what seems to me to be lacking in the discussion, which is the moral dimension, which I suggest is inescapably there from the begin...

You can dam your contributory tributary to the river though which would have reduced the flow and shown that it could be done. The tragedy of democrac...

Yes I remember the brinicles now...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAupJzH31tc But that's what I was saying earlier; that sea ice formation increases ...

I think you may be right. I don't actually expect to model the climate in a paragraph. I think the situation is a lot more complex than this. And in f...

Well, more the sinking and upwelling replacing the surface water, that is presumably reaching an equilibrium with the atmospheric CO2 saturation, with...

Yes so the effect of circulation is to cool surface water and allow increased absorption. So why the claim that it does the opposite?

Source? Ex cathedra claims are being discounted in this thread.

Your first article makes this claim, but does not explain it. On the face of it, one would expect vigorous stirring to facilitate absorption of CO2 fr...

I know it (ocean circulation) is slowing down. I expect it to slow down because polar ice is melting and lowering the salt, and thus density of the po...

Looking myself I have found this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/younger-dryas But that is a very different scenari...

I haven't seen them, and I just looked back over the last couple of pages and still couldn't see any links I hadn't followed. I'd really like to see w...

It hasn't started though; on the contrary deglaciation is accelerating and it is the loss of ice that we are seeing. It is bizarre to suggest that som...

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_currents/05conveyor1.html#:~:text=These%20deep%2Docean%20currents%20are,very%20cold%2C%20forming%20se...

I don't want YOU to MISINTERPRET and MISREPRESENT my posts. I cannot stop you, and I am not going to stop posting, but I have asked. I understand that...

I just this moment did say so. Again. You made a false claim about me which I wanted to deny. I have denied it. And Now I ask you, again, not to talk ...

You don't seem to know the difference between a theory and an analogy, which i used to try and make sense of what other people have been saying. So I'...

I know what I said.

Whence the religious language? Angels? Soul? You are arguing with your fantasy of what I have been saying. So you can carry on without my input, or pr...

You say 'talking meat', I prefer 'embodied mind'. It's not exactly controversial or even original.

Yes, and livers and kidneys too, I guess. Am I talking to a piece of meat here? Or why are we discussing meat in a thread about minds?

No. I have never seen a brain, only models, and possibly a piece of meat on a butcher's slab that I failed to recognise. I see your posts, and I assum...

Well yes, I suppose it is; my mind pours out here and drips onto your screen, to be absorbed by your mind, and vice versa. They call it 'social being'...

I cannot say why. But I observe, as a matter of fact, everywhere but the internet and the phone, that minds are always embodied. Without embodiment th...

A life, a brain, I suppose. and the mud is personality and identity.

I struggle to see what can be meant by the suggestion that mind is indivisible. Clearly @"Bartricks"' mind is completely separate from everyone else's...

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the cof...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/08/08/study-finds-100-renewables-would-pay-off-within-six-years/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

I want to stop smoking. I want a cigarette. I don't want to live. I am afraid to die. Any other internal conflict, ie any cause of stress. Stress, phy...

Yeah, sure. I'm not a Buddhist, but you know best.

Of course not. It is not absurd to kill yourself either; I simply point out that in choosing oblivion over pain, one is trying to escape something, no...

The questions make no sense. Death is the ending of life, not a state. If life is filled with pain one wants pain to end. If the discussion is depress...

So much for the views of the living. But now listen to the dead.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX3ll_cCkqg Just a little nervous from the fall, chaps...

No. You are trying to make reality fit your moral qualms, when it patently does not fit them. It is largely a gay plague unfortunately, and it would b...

No we don't because no we ain't. Vaginas are more resilient than arses and better lubricated. Arses tear and bleed during sex and this provides the ga...

If they'd used fresh ones, I bet they'd have been wide-awake too! The Celts always used a live ferret - guaranteed to excite the ladies, but the pract...