Unless you are a mean sort of fella. There were three guys from Sparta Each had a mean sort of phalla. They cleaned up the town Their leader went down...
if someone, anyone, could do something, do you think they would do it or not do it? Think of a carpenter: he or she could make a table or a kitchen ca...
Okay, instead of measuring the concentration of ions, I'll switch me to "I on" and "I off", depending on whether you, yourself personally, without any...
It does not work that way. A true sadist never finds true satisfaction, because he or she does not feel the pain of the victim. This is why sadism / m...
If this practice of skepticism was followed through thoroughly and logically and truly, then you'd need to put every word in quotes whatever you write...
You're a born critic, Hyper. I have known of editors who never published, they just enjoyed rejecting manuscripts with vitriolic comments on the submi...
A Theory That Explains Everything Explains Nothing I can't give a proof that this is necessarily so. But I can give one example that supports the prop...
I don't know... somebody answered the topic's question, and it got no attention. Instead, people here exchange maxims and quotes from those who they t...
I don't understand. You mean an axiom, or a subsystem inside of the system that is proved by other parts of the system? In that case it's still the ca...
Smith said that he is not 100%... we each have our good days and our bad days. It was a bit surprising to see this happen, but no big deal, I have sur...
Hidden pun? (Drop the s in swordplay. Also, "the pen is mightier than the sword." One rapper fighting a swordsman, stabbig him to death with a well-nu...
So your story can't be "Flood". Hypericin gave that a good review. So much for my detecting and guessing who wrote what. I don't know style, I don't k...
It's an even bigger strawman than you described. It's not question of whether a theory can explain everything... the question is whether a theory can ...
No, I can't. If you can't see it already, then there is no amount of explanation in the world that will make you see it. Sorry, I have my limitations ...
You mean, there are racial differences between African Americans, dividing them along the lines of living in Ghettos or living elsewhere? That's what ...
What about the Flight Attendant with the cup of coffee. (I hope you know the reference to a scene from a movie which I never saw or know the title of,...
You're right. A theory is not a proof. It is a substantiated explanation. So the original statement is wrong, ad obo. "A theory that proves everything...
In scenario 2, the suitcase may contain a bomb. That is remotely possible and must be assumed to exist. It may contain Satan himself who will grab you...
I take a different angle on this. The everything is a closed system. Proof requires something outside of a system. There is nothing outside of everyth...
You are saying in the three examples that being pessimistic is better than being optimistic; being cautious is better than being foolhardy; and that b...
I think there has been progress in philosophy. Not too much, and the steps of progress are hindered by counter-arguments, but the hindering is done ma...
I am hopeless at remembering members by their identifying user names. A few stick in my mind, but Streetlight's did not. So I ask anyone to enlighten ...
This is neither here nor there, but here she goes anyway: In my psychology class on the first day when we talked about racism, the teacher asked, of t...
I also love the new style of voting. It gives people the feeling of more choice: earlier you had had one vote, and if you had cast it, you were out of...
Dear @"180 Proof", I owe you an apology. I did not read your post right, and insisted that the math in it was wrong. That was wrong of me. I misread y...
Okay, I was wrong. I read the division sign as a plus sign. I must get my eye-glass prescription updated. I would not even be able to find that divisi...
I guess I missed it big time. I still don't know what I missed, because I read the things he wrote and if he does what he has written then this is a m...
What? If a post (short story) gets voted "not for me" 60 times, it earns 120 points, whereas another story that gets 14 "love it" gets 56 points. The ...
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