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Not really... "quantum" is derived from "quantity", and is just a quantification, or a mathematical representation of the minimum values involved in a...
July 26, 2017 at 12:37
"Quantum state" is a higher level abstraction than just an experiential cup is. "Quantum state" may be more spooky, and interesting, because it lends ...
July 26, 2017 at 12:20
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Sounds like you have everything, and are nice and compassionate... I hate you now, lol. I just needed to talk about myself, you know how it is. Feelin...
July 26, 2017 at 11:40
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I don't tend to talk to neighbors, and sometimes go to yoga, but I hardly ever talk to people there either. At stores and stuff the weather is my favo...
July 26, 2017 at 10:05
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Thanks a lot. I should attempt to actually do some stuff, and not just deteriorate here, but I don't even attempt most things, gut a harsh judge, of m...
July 26, 2017 at 10:00
Well, no one is an island, and it takes a conspiracy of everyone for such a thing to work at all, for sure. It isn't even as if people are against it,...
July 26, 2017 at 09:32
We didn't, a tiny minute fraction of us did, and then we all dance to their tunes. Where even they were dancing to someone else's tunes, you aren't en...
July 26, 2017 at 09:13
So that's what I'm stuck in!
July 26, 2017 at 09:04
I actually think that more than that, art has taught us all how to see, hear, feel smell and taste. Our minds works by bundling things together as ana...
July 26, 2017 at 08:54
One time someone was addressing me by name while saying the things I do to someone else, and I told them that it's rude to talk about people in the th...
July 26, 2017 at 08:47
I have always spent most of my time alone, and when I was a kid, I used to repeat the same words or phrases over and over again in my head, and speaki...
July 25, 2017 at 14:33
Descartes thought that the overwhelming vast majority of fallacies were informal, or confusions of meaning, and not logical. What's interesting to me ...
July 25, 2017 at 09:39
A distinction between reality and fiction isn't really a good one, unless parsed out in a very subtle way. Telling a story about what happened to you ...
July 25, 2017 at 02:42
I saw Campbell say that myths are mirrors for the ego, that tell us where we are in life. I like that a lot, probably because of whom I've identified ...
July 24, 2017 at 03:26
Existence isn't a predicate, because to exist is to stand out, be distinct, but saying that something exists doesn't introduce a new distinction to th...
July 23, 2017 at 22:38
Oh, I was just giving my favorite one, but I'm always up for a good chant -- or drum circle. Any of that, as long as I get to be involved. "We're obsc...
July 23, 2017 at 01:47
I prefer "we're not the worst! We're not the worst!". Back in the day on street sense they had a hockey tournament (not for reals, it was a comedy sho...
July 23, 2017 at 01:20
Okay moral responsibility as distinct from causal responsibility is a lot more difficult to establish, and reach consensus on, rather than argue about...
July 23, 2017 at 00:53
I don't understand your objection. Do you disagree that the actions of influential people have wide-reaching consequences for those that look up to th...
July 22, 2017 at 22:18
I think that it's far more useful to own the responsibility. Denying it in them to appease feelings, or self-perception, blame, or for a sense of indi...
July 22, 2017 at 20:14
Even though the formalization of language is fairly new, and if you read anyone from more than like a hundred and fifty, to two hundred years ago, you...
July 22, 2017 at 19:41
Yeah, he's pretty great. There are often little segments posted on the channels essential truth, and bite-sized philosophy by someone, maybe not him, ...
July 22, 2017 at 19:01
Manhood used to be a character you matured into, noted by certain masculine characteristics, and often had to go through rites in order to acquire. It...
July 22, 2017 at 10:47
Yeah, but you aren't supposed to catch on to that, so as I gets away with it.
July 22, 2017 at 10:41
I'll have you know that my fursona is a unikitty. The technology is just around the corner!
July 22, 2017 at 09:05
The concept of freedom coincides the concept of slavery, freedom is to not have a lord, to be sovereign. This is what we negotiate in the real world, ...
July 22, 2017 at 08:53
Im just teasing.
July 21, 2017 at 22:33
Kind of individualism vs collectivism. Which wins? I'm sympathetic to the individualist view which I live, but in the past couple of years I've felt a...
July 21, 2017 at 20:51
Not to mention that hanging is an awful way to go... they used to drop you from a few feet, and even tie sand bags to you if you were a skinny guy lik...
July 21, 2017 at 20:50
I don't know that we always have a survival drive, both Buddha and Freud talked about a death drive. We're social animals, and I think that social rej...
July 21, 2017 at 20:10
I think that my explanation is the best one. Go figure, eh?
July 21, 2017 at 19:39
A lot of flirting amongst the staff there... I flirt more like a Klingon.
July 21, 2017 at 19:14
Yeah, weed was definitely to self-medicate my crushing loneliness... oh why God did you make me too beautiful for this world? I should take up the gui...
July 21, 2017 at 04:26
Too salty and chickeny.
July 21, 2017 at 04:20
I drink tons of coffee too.
July 21, 2017 at 01:08
Well nine brains have gots to be better than one.
July 20, 2017 at 22:24
I do love me some myths, and fables. They're my favorite thing. I'm like totes on the verge of yogi mastery anywho, and just need the hot wife to get ...
July 20, 2017 at 22:23
A bit before I moved, a big dog was on my property inside my garage that I forgot to close, and came out and started barking at me, so I pointed at it...
July 20, 2017 at 21:49
Sam Harris doesn't strike me as all that intelligent, and his best move has always been mocking through some analogy.
July 20, 2017 at 21:35
I do find it extraordinary how similar many of my experiences, and views are to his, also that we're born on the same day, and might be related, which...
July 20, 2017 at 21:32
At least one of those is a guarantee...
July 20, 2017 at 15:43
Presumably why that's why life is both suffering and impermanence.
July 20, 2017 at 14:55
Well, I don't drink, and have quit the drugs, although I confess to relapsing twice in the last couple of months, still smoking cigarettes, although o...
July 20, 2017 at 14:17
Yeah, it's notes from the underground.
July 20, 2017 at 13:29
Well, I wasn't referencing an ancient thought genetically, I was just talking about suffering, negatively felt things, as opposed to positively felt t...
July 20, 2017 at 13:14
The very act of being conscious of something alters it. We only become conscious of something because it needs to be altered, and the less creative, o...
July 20, 2017 at 11:42
I heard that OJ was up to play the terminator, but everyone was all like "nah, he's way too nice, no one would believe that he would be a cold blooded...
July 19, 2017 at 14:55
I've been playing Bloodborne while listening to Bart D Ehrman's book on the gnostic gospel of judas. Just finished the book today.
July 19, 2017 at 14:49
I loves everyone's art. Some super talented peeps.
July 19, 2017 at 14:47
Sometimes I think I can. Other times I'm not so sure.
July 19, 2017 at 13:52