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No dude, 10 % after 100,000 years, not 10% after 10,000 years, You're missing a zero again.

You are misrepresenting your source, I'm afraid.

Dude, the book is called "The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate ". Not 10,000 years. I'm not sure I'll be a...

I'd like some citations on that if you have them. Because the story I heard is that there's no going back. Rather a new equilibrium will be establishe...

Here is the reasoning that will destroy us. There's no point in me reducing my carbon footprint when The Bogeyman is increasing his The Bogeyman is in...

Yes. Try the practice that leads to Nirvana and experience what it is. That or ague a lot and waste your time for nothing.

Consider traffic lights. One might say that red means stop because people stop when the red light shows, and equally that people stop when the red lig...

Keep it simple; keep it nostalgic; keep it racist; repeat hypnotically. Something like this: "Bring back our White Christmases!" :scream:

Those people might consider UKIP. Didn't win many elections, but got their policy through. Losing votes influence winning politicians and other voters...

Ok. Not the thread for that argument. I'll leave it there.

Yes to both. To be wildly extravagant, it's like a satori, a transformation as a result of a conscious deliberation and deliberate insight.

No. When I smell tobacco, or see old films with lots of folk smoking I smile and remember that person I used to be. I haven't given up anything at all...

The contradiction was, I want to stop smoking, and I want a cigarette. They cannot both be true. The resolution is simply to decide which is true, and...

Indeed. Try it, and find out. No point in asking a bunch of amateur, mainly Western philosophers to speculate in ignorance, no point in trying to unde...

I made a small discovery about addiction. I was a smoker for 50 years or so, and always found it very difficult to quit. Well impossible actually. And...

I have to smile. Inside your head is quivering meat, the way inside an engine is quivering metal. I am more a psychologist than an engineer, and psych...

We have a legal name if it isn't too: - fraud.

Wittgenstein was an engineer. He had this analogy of philosophy as the engine of language idling. So engineers want to put their engines to work, but ...

1.) I read the menu and choose - "Black coffee and scrambled eggs on toast, please, waitress." Breakfast is served. 2.) I don't read the menu - "Bring...

Ego is extraordinarily resilient. Unfortunately. One thing Covid has demonstrated is the flexibility of logistics. Don't cook, Just Eat. Don't shop, D...

I agree with quite a lot, but not this. I suggest to you that goodness and badness are the relation between mind and world. I think this changes your ...

Yeah, I'm not actually advocating misery; imagine removing all the cars from the roads. Imagine the peaceful environment that results. Add back plenty...

Which is more important, knowing shit or giving a fuck? Answer: giving a fuck. If you don't give a fuck about the shit you know, it's not even going t...

By the 'human condition' I simply mean the state we humans are more or less all in that is peculiar to humans, which is primarily a state of mind. If ...

Yes, it helps to get the story straight. I read the story as a psychological explanation of the human condition, and a pretty insightful one. We start...

If you like black comedy, you'll love COP26.

On the fiddle while the world burns. That is the problem, and that is why we have fantasists in government talking nonsense and making no decisions. I...

Trauma can ruin the appetite; your hamster will not hold it against you.

The back yard is not a death camp. I kill chickens, I pay an expert to kill pigs. The back yard is unquestionably preindustrial. It's familial, as Han...

I concede to the master.

Not so. I am generally vegetarian and have been for 50 years, but have eaten animals I raised, and also one I ran into. The principle I live by is tha...

I am alas old enough to remember the good old days when the economy was tanking and we were applying to join the EEC as then was, and DeGaulle kept no...

Must be wrong, then. If life = simulation, then death = 'game over'. This is a repetition in garbled pseudoscience of the standard religious trope, th...

If I were you, I wouldn't start from here.

You can certainly live a fulfilled life and make a contribution to the world without a scrap of philosophy. On the other hand, there is much to be sai...

How much to not listen and not participate? (Asking for a friend.)

What they probly mean is that when it gets wet, it stinks of piss, like Harris tweed, because of the processing in 'foul water' . You have to pay extr...

Well I've installed the new kitchen all but the floor, and I'm about halfway to making the old kitchen into the art room and laundry. Then its just a ...

One of the difficulties of this discussion is that pain is not a simple sensation, but a sensation under judgement. Or more likely a complex of sensat...

I must be Plato, then. But no, When the cat is on the mat, the real cat is really on the real mat. But there is no eternal realm containing the form o...

Every schoolboy knows, that if he has 6 pairs of pants, then he has a dozen pants. Banno has spoons on the table. I prefer beans if there are five, or...

Death cures nothing. To celebrate death is also to be a warmonger.

" The group mind? A small word that carries a heavy load in many a philosophy. Now that really is a strange concept that I cannot understand. Clearly,...

What's a 'concept'? What's ' 'understood'? Without mind nothing can be conceived or understood. I can conceive that I understand that the cat creeping...

Life's too short. In particular it's too short to engage with people who think they are purveyors of "challenging ideas". And I don't buy much snake o...

I think when there is commanding of self by self, it is a conflict; if there is an effort to be something, even/ especially to be stoical, then one is...

Well you are the expert in this, but you don't read satisfied. Samson Agonistes.

Consider time. We are natural stoics wrt the past. Good or bad, we take it as it went. Currently, I am writing this, and I am stoical about the presen...