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How many months supplies do you have stored behind that door? and how strong is it? There are going to be some frightened desperate people coming down...
April 03, 2021 at 18:32
I had covid and I didn't like it, so now I have had the suspect astra vaccine and I'm going back for more of whatever's on offer as soon as maybe. Pub...
April 03, 2021 at 18:19
Yes, it appears quite possible to me too that a person could be uncertain. However, you do not appear to be uncertain, but quite dogmatically certain....
April 03, 2021 at 18:01
No it isn't. What is this 'doubt' of which you speak? I know of no such thing. what is it made of? What even is 'deficiency'? From what perspective ca...
April 03, 2021 at 16:39
If this is your truth, it is a lie to me. And that is the end of the conversation, because this claim of yours denies the function of language. There ...
April 03, 2021 at 08:54
It seems to me that Grayling wants hinge propositions to be 'grammatical' distinguishable from distinguishable from contingent and thus dubitable prop...
April 03, 2021 at 08:51
Peace cannot result from strife.
April 01, 2021 at 08:24
The best sense I can make of this is that you reject ideals completely in favour of some pragmatic measures. But I find it very odd, because i do not ...
April 01, 2021 at 08:13
No. You hardly have. Respond to Jesus, the communists aren't posting.
March 31, 2021 at 21:04
Used to keep pigs, and they liked to roam in the forest. They came home for sleep and supper, and we had to keep them in when the hunters were out loo...
March 31, 2021 at 21:01
Being useless is the most useful skill. It enables one to avoid exploitation.
March 31, 2021 at 20:56
Yes, but I don't accept your proposal that they mean whatever you want to make them mean. They are well understood by very ordinary folks. The use of ...
March 31, 2021 at 18:05
No. Manipulation is something one does, not an ideal or a purpose. This dialogue is not interesting me.
March 31, 2021 at 15:18
To hate hatred is to hate oneself. I am full of hate, for cruelty, for lies, for ignorance, for unnecessary suffering, and so on. Sometimes it is so p...
March 31, 2021 at 10:57
For the purposes of argument, let's say it has. Let's also admit that, other things being equal, wealth is preferable to poverty. Still one might pref...
March 31, 2021 at 10:31
Of course, what else would ideals be used for?
March 30, 2021 at 19:00
Sure, why not?
March 30, 2021 at 17:28
Just don't though.
March 29, 2021 at 19:59
Truth. Justice. Kindness. Democracy. Respect for person.
March 29, 2021 at 19:26
I have seen people play rugby of their own free will.
March 28, 2021 at 20:22
Philosophers of a nervous or gay disposition, look away now. https://www.healthcareglobal.com/technology-and-ai-3/porn-fuels-increasing-demand-designe...
March 28, 2021 at 19:34
As if one has a choice! But at the moment, in particular, I am hoping to leave behind a small plot transformed from a grass and concrete desert to a b...
March 28, 2021 at 09:51
Yeah, think so. I wasn't really watching the film, but happened to see the subtitles translating 'quatre' as 'seven' and so on. A neat example of how ...
March 28, 2021 at 09:36
Lost in Translation I'm not much watching a French film, and a woman says, (but in French, and the subtitles render) "I have this talent, I can instan...
March 27, 2021 at 22:07
We'll get to the philosopher in next year's course. For now put your minds to the slightly more simple question of what is a real armchair.
March 27, 2021 at 21:19
I would say that whinging is self-righteous whining - give or take. Dogs whine, but they don't whinge.
March 27, 2021 at 20:56
Let me say a word about the poverty of a lack of expertise. I do my own water plumbing, because if there's a leak it's easy to spot. I don't do gas pl...
March 27, 2021 at 20:38
It's what they crucify you for speaking.
March 27, 2021 at 18:37
Perhaps you and I are a small minority. But I notice a related phenomenon that might be called "food porn". Here in the UK at least, fast food and rea...
March 27, 2021 at 11:41
Told you you wouldn't understand. If you are to teach me something, you will have to be less predictable.
March 27, 2021 at 10:46
The freemasons developed from the master stonemason/architects that made an international business of building castles and fortifications, but more es...
March 26, 2021 at 22:05
The type of the fantasist is the architect. A type so dangerous to authority that he has to apply for "planning permission" to even begin her fantasti...
March 26, 2021 at 20:54
I am clever and you are stupid; you wouldn't understand.
March 26, 2021 at 19:25
It doesn't suit my purpose to agree with that either. Or with you, a lot of the time. So it goes, as Mr Vonnegut used to say. But in particular, the a...
March 25, 2021 at 21:05
:100: (To quote like above, simply select some text from a post, and click the quote button that pops up.) Yet he agrees with Hume, a philosopher so u...
March 25, 2021 at 15:10
It is a commonplace notion, but if you go looking for the monstrous in humanity, you find it in such reasoned solutions to life's problems as the gas ...
March 25, 2021 at 10:56
Hume is neither glib, nor an apologist. And Chesterton is right in his observation that it is the logician more so than the artist that is vulnerable ...
March 25, 2021 at 10:07
Reification is definitely a thing.
March 23, 2021 at 21:22
Make a distinction. Call it the first distinction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Form
March 22, 2021 at 22:08
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To answer my own question, as one always must in a dream:- no it is quite impossible, because to lucidly dream is to be aware of the unreality of the ...
March 22, 2021 at 21:43
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Is it possible that I am lucidly dreaming you said that?
March 22, 2021 at 21:09
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In your dreams! Dreaming only makes sense in the context of wakefulness. I might dream that someone posted, " It is possible that you are dreaming the...
March 22, 2021 at 20:57
It doesn't of course. No more does loving a white woman prevent one from loving a black woman. But if you will consider what is being said about ident...
March 21, 2021 at 23:47
Applied philosophy.
March 21, 2021 at 22:48
Well strictly, one can only steal something if 'we' agree it belongs to someone else. 'We' have very detailed rules about this. Sure. But Identity is ...
March 21, 2021 at 21:48
A drunk driver who kills is not a murderer, but that doesn't make drunk driving acceptable. Some instances of nationalism are much less damaging than ...
March 21, 2021 at 16:17
Belonging is never up to 'you', it's always a social matter. 'We, the empowered' make the decision to include or exclude you. We have seen of late tha...
March 21, 2021 at 09:09
:100: It's always nice when someone understands the topic. So far, i seem to have attracted mainly the right-wing in defensive mode, rather than compr...
March 20, 2021 at 10:33
I think this ranks as about the most idiotic thing George ever said (he didn't say that many). If he had ever seen the British Expeditionary Force tro...
March 19, 2021 at 19:24
It doesn't look much like a barrel of laughs for anyone. I suspect that people did what they did on all sides for reasons other than to arrive where t...
March 18, 2021 at 16:11