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Yes correct, what we perceive as funny is what is unlikely and unexpected and thus low in entropy. But you're going from an example of something being...
November 27, 2016 at 19:18
But that's not really what you mean. You don't really mean that every word has no intrinsic meaning or value. All that you mean is that the intrinsic ...
November 27, 2016 at 19:10
Okay but that's not an answer to the question is it? You haven't explained how it actually happens that a non-numerical answer of this kind could be p...
November 27, 2016 at 18:55
No, I wouldn't thereby feel meaningless. Meaning is determined by things within my world - that's what meaning is. What the demon does is meaningless ...
November 27, 2016 at 18:54
Okay so it seems to be that you propose that a straight answer cannot be given because we simply don't know it and we must advance towards an answer, ...
November 27, 2016 at 18:48
Ok I know about this too. I know that stock trading is getting handed over to the computers with more and more complex models at predicting market mov...
November 27, 2016 at 18:38
Well yeah good luck with that. Very often when people run out of things to say they speak of love, but they do so vacuously, with love meaning only so...
November 27, 2016 at 18:34
When force, love, justice and so forth have failed, you don't talk to your mom, you pack your bags and out you go :P Yeah so? I'm just saying that the...
November 27, 2016 at 18:24
Sure it is used, but that's not what I'm asking for. I've actually studied and worked with chaos theory for engineering purposes with regards to struc...
November 27, 2016 at 18:21
Okay, but I gave you a practical problem. I wanna beat Coca-Cola. How do I go about it? If this beginning of systems logic cannot even suggest a path ...
November 27, 2016 at 18:15
So do you take it that organised society, both today and 2000 years ago is "bad", and we should be living and working in communes?
November 27, 2016 at 18:12
What stops the Republican party from doing the same? And more importantly, if you can predict with mathematical precision, then please predict for me ...
November 27, 2016 at 18:08
Getting paid is part of what I like about working so no, I would definitely not do it without being paid (well depends who is asking for it without pa...
November 27, 2016 at 18:05
Well that's not necessarily the case. You could be self-employed and working in something you like or care about for example. I think work is a necess...
November 27, 2016 at 16:36
Why can't the ones with power and wealth comprehend it? What is the necessary link between power and wealth ability of comprehension in this case?
November 27, 2016 at 16:26
And you reckon the Chinese Daoist masters would consider such gatherings as part of the Daoist practice? I feel they were more interested in statecraf...
November 27, 2016 at 16:23
I agree. Probably like this: >:O
November 27, 2016 at 15:58
>:O You must be like some damn lion lying in indolence and inertia doing nothing. But common - how can one be interested just in themselves without ev...
November 27, 2016 at 15:50
Yes, that is true. You have to do something in your unstressed quiet time. Read something. Watch something. Learn something. Talk with someone. Play c...
November 27, 2016 at 15:47
Okay, so if he were saying that, does it follow that one should therefore cling to life at all costs? What he is saying is with reference to the after...
November 27, 2016 at 15:04
Except that I don't embrace struggle for a better life. I embrace it because the SPIRIT is greater than the FLESH - IN THIS LIFE. You can kill the fle...
November 27, 2016 at 14:57
So according to you Solomon says the following: If someone, under the threat of death, tells you to have sex with them (for example), then you should ...
November 27, 2016 at 14:48
That's because they're weak and petty, and worth nothing. They are like worms and vermins, they will do anything to cling to one more day of earthly l...
November 27, 2016 at 14:40
That's why they screwed the pooch, you answered it yourself. Because they only want paradise aftera life of great struggle. it's the struggle that tea...
November 27, 2016 at 14:31
Yes, banning them only makes sense if I am opposed. Romeo's and Juliet's love only made sense because of the great opposition against it. Because they...
November 27, 2016 at 14:24
No - because a world tailored to my needs takes away from the merit of my character. The world we live in isn't tailored to anyone's desires. That's g...
November 27, 2016 at 14:09
I don't find that entertaining, actually that's fucked up and disgusting. If I was in charge, I'd ban all horror movies for teaching and entertaining ...
November 27, 2016 at 14:04
You mean a world where my overcoming is guaranteed instead of merely possible? I would refuse, because then it wouldn't be my merit. My virtue, my cha...
November 27, 2016 at 14:02
Yes neither are right - the boy's interest is transitory (despite the fact he thinks otherwise), and the parents' interest is self-referential and wro...
November 27, 2016 at 13:58
I think the problem isn't that the truth can't be known, but rather that folks don't give a fuck about the truth. The one who can compel the others - ...
November 27, 2016 at 13:02
Yes but it's vacuous. It's empty of content. It makes no difference if you are a brain in a vat, or you are actually a living human being - it makes n...
November 27, 2016 at 12:56
I think the actual distribution is skewed to the left ;)
November 27, 2016 at 12:43
Yes but these abstractions are precisely what folks use to negotiate. Intolerance is inevitable as my post shows. It's merely the fact that we are dif...
November 27, 2016 at 12:39
I googled this rainbow warrior and all I found is some native American tribes, and nothing to do with Taoism. There seems to be no Taoist rainbow warr...
November 27, 2016 at 11:17
Yes. What is it that you mean here? I'm trying to understand the sentence and read it a few times but I don't get it. Are you trying to say you don't ...
November 27, 2016 at 11:14
Maybe for you. I for one cannot conceive life without suffering. The possibility of suffering is an integral part of what it means to be alive. Yes th...
November 27, 2016 at 11:12
I wouldn't press that darn button mate. Just leave the world as it is, it's already great.
November 26, 2016 at 23:53
>:O
November 26, 2016 at 23:51
Yes, if your plan is to become the most knowledgeable man of your times - someone of the likes of Aristotle or Newton or Einstein - and your mission i...
November 26, 2016 at 23:40
No this is wrong. Most of the intelligentsia in Russia supports Putin. You're making a terrible mistake in thinking that Leftist ideals happen to be t...
November 26, 2016 at 23:32
Yes but I'm talking about your discourse - you talk as if patriarchy is bad, and matriarchy is good - that's what your discourse is saying.
November 25, 2016 at 22:50
Is this the POMO propaganda that male = bad and female = good? :D
November 25, 2016 at 22:39
Call me stupid, ignorant or morally fucked up but I for one fucking believe that biological sex is one and the same with gender! >:O
November 25, 2016 at 22:38
Any proof or evidence for any of this? Where do you get this stuff from?
November 25, 2016 at 17:37
Do you actually believe this Sci-Fi stuff of self-assembling robots? >:O We can't even cure diseases - like cancer for example - and we'll create self...
November 25, 2016 at 17:02
Why? This is only condescending if you presuppose that not having a strong man is better than having one. I think that's false. I think great nations ...
November 25, 2016 at 00:09
Hahahaha! That's why Obama talks like a kitten to all world leaders and went on an apology tour. That's why Obama has been allowing the Russians to ta...
November 25, 2016 at 00:08
Yes yes, like Hillary said that Trump's supporters are a basket of deplorables.... see what happened to her because of such cock-sureness and disrespe...
November 24, 2016 at 17:14
So? How is it of any help that you have such a large military when you have to cross the god-damn ocean? Nobody would bother to attack the US. That's ...
November 24, 2016 at 17:06
I can still remember when I went to Holland... my aunt drank "Mann Pis" - she thought it was juice >:O - so no, I don't think i would take the chance ...
November 24, 2016 at 12:47