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Harry Hindu

['Member']Joined: October 26, 2015 at 10:52Last active: November 08, 2025 at 00:136 discussions5858 comments
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Adherent of Ganja God, Shiva.

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I have a Monocle of the greater Space and Time.
Some would like to get my Monocle, try'n use it for a Crime.
No success in that Category, you see
It derives naturally from the Sublime
And that's where I broadcast Me.

- Telekinetic Walrus and the Pride of Ions

Discussions (6)

Name-Calling

September 13, 2017 at 03:59 9 comments General Philosophy

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Sure. They could have been high on hallucinogens. Religions might have been founded on the ideas of insane or high people. I didn't use the word, "fun...
November 06, 2025 at 16:06
Are you trans? If not, then are you saying that you know better than the trans person in this instance? And is it that they are just "wrong", or are t...
November 06, 2025 at 15:33
But this is how YOU used the phrase. I already understand the difference between "normal" and "natural", which is why I offered to use the term, "comm...
November 06, 2025 at 14:04
The last sentence is reiterating the point that I made that the third-person view still occurs within the framework of the first-person view. You also...
November 05, 2025 at 14:33
If arguments depend on the speaker’s social or historical position, then we lose the ability to evaluate them universally. Philosophy then risks colla...
November 05, 2025 at 12:59
Honestly, Peirce’s enactive–semiotic theory sounds nice on paper, all fancy talk about signs, objects, and interpretants, and how the mind is this mag...
November 04, 2025 at 15:35
You have to know the programming language to understand the distinctions between what you want to happen vs what AI wrote. Vibe coding only takes you ...
November 04, 2025 at 14:55
I appreciate the advice, and it is valid in many cases. I like to do computer programming as a hobby. I'll use AI to sometimes vibe code, but I have t...
November 04, 2025 at 14:30
The amount of evidence that supports it. Every philosophical idea without evidence is just as valid as every other idea without evidence. Yeah, I thin...
November 04, 2025 at 14:02
It wasn't the just the same post. It was the same sentence "more normal for Nature". If you don't like the words you used, then would you prefer, "com...
November 04, 2025 at 13:48
This is to just say that sometimes doctors can misdiagnose, or that the tend to diagnose you with something you do not have to make a profit. You prob...
November 04, 2025 at 13:34
You're not telling me anything I didn't already know. I said this myself already. Yes, different people may have different reasons for identifying as ...
November 04, 2025 at 13:28
So it’s not just me who gets the dramatic ‘Oh ’? I feel… cheap.
November 04, 2025 at 13:19
Thank you, Frank, for being frank. :smile: It's nice to see that not everyone here is delusional.
November 04, 2025 at 13:11
Think about how one alters one's speech when speaking with specific people. It's not making any more sense than what I said before (to me). It just ma...
November 04, 2025 at 12:53
The feminist movement has fought for equal rights for women - for them to be able to do the things that men were normally expected to do - like voting...
November 03, 2025 at 14:12
Sure, the views of a society can have causal power - whether they be representative of reality or not (religion is a prime example). The fact that the...
November 03, 2025 at 13:39
Exactly - to prevent the participants from talking past each other. Right - don't cherry pick or else you're responding to a strawman. These philosoph...
November 03, 2025 at 13:18
Yeah, that was my point - you already knew how to read - which means you already have stored information to interpret the experience. But you can only...
November 03, 2025 at 12:59
I entered my idea into ChatGPT and asked it to reword it in the most unnecessarily complex manner possible - like how you talk. So if you're saying AI...
November 03, 2025 at 12:26
You must be delusional as I didn't see any children participating in this thread saying such things - just full grown adults that do not value logic a...
November 03, 2025 at 12:21
L-O-Fucking-L! YOU are the one that used the phrase "normal for Nature". I was merely using your own terminology. If normality has absolutely nothing ...
November 03, 2025 at 12:19
The hypocrisy is yours as I'm sure you would not like me putting words in your mouth that you did not say. Pathetic.
November 03, 2025 at 12:15
The Cleveland Clinic is a medical center for humans, not other species, so we are talking about humans. Your argument can be used to assert that sexua...
November 02, 2025 at 13:39
Yet you posted links to articles online as if it would support your premise. You're simply picking and choosing the things you want to believe with no...
November 02, 2025 at 13:23
You give up so easily when things don't appear to go your way (Banno?) I thought it might be the same for you. If you really read what I posted then y...
November 02, 2025 at 13:16
Geez Louise, guys. This is making a mountain out of mole hill. Can, "I believe" and "I think" be synonymous. Sure it can. We often precede statements ...
November 02, 2025 at 12:57
Exactly. Which is just saying that there's the biology of sex and then there is a society's expectations of the sexes, and it can differ from culture ...
November 01, 2025 at 19:03
Then don't expect your cherry-picked posts and strawmen to deserve a response.
November 01, 2025 at 18:09
So you're saying you were born with the knowledge that 5+7=12? Maybe I should rephrase the question. How did you learn addition - what it was, why you...
November 01, 2025 at 18:03
That is not what I am saying at all. If you've read all my posts you would have seen that I have said that a man can wear a dress if they want, but th...
November 01, 2025 at 17:23
Well, yeah I did have a visual of what the limerick was representing, but then integrated that with the rest of what you said which led me to then thi...
November 01, 2025 at 17:14
And from where does it generate, and using what information? Information. So is it an image or isn't it? An visual experience can be defined as an "in...
November 01, 2025 at 16:53
We can't perceive the entire world. We only perceive our local environment and infer that the rest of the world/universe follows the same laws. The th...
November 01, 2025 at 12:47
I don't know. It was a question, not a statement. I said there is nothing inherent in the scribbles that explains why 12 would come after the = sign i...
November 01, 2025 at 12:37
Ad hominems and cherry picking posts is all you got.. You lose. I win. ...mental illness, social illness. It's still an illness. Maybe you didn't noti...
November 01, 2025 at 12:29
There are, and it requires a second, third, fourth, etc. opinion, or however many it takes because if it is a mass delusion, and the other person is a...
October 31, 2025 at 17:53
There is. Gender isn't a role like an actor or actress in Hollywood where the role is fictional, segregated from reality. Gender is more of a social e...
October 31, 2025 at 14:41
Doesn't the experience of the pamphlet include the information received from it? It seems to me that you have to already have stored information to in...
October 31, 2025 at 14:29
Yes, but still divided up in your mind depending on your present intention (goal in the mind). As I said before, "It’s our focus, intention, or interp...
October 31, 2025 at 14:13
Memory stores information - whether it be who won the Super Bowl last year or what habits work best in which conditions (the past). All you are doing ...
October 31, 2025 at 14:03
Philosophy tends to do that - leading you to question things you took for granted only to find out the reason you take it for granted is because the i...
October 31, 2025 at 13:13
It seems to me that we might already be where you don't want society to go. We already have subservient agents in the animals we have domesticated and...
October 31, 2025 at 12:59
Thank you for patiently clarifying. Agreed. Now, how would we go about deploying these properties in a machine composed of electric circuits that proc...
October 30, 2025 at 13:07
That is my point - that it is only in some mind that they are identifiable as different thoughts. The world independent of thoughts does not make any ...
October 30, 2025 at 12:56
Well, now you're talking about different minds, not thoughts in the same mind. So yes, I would consider thoughts in different heads different thoughts...
October 30, 2025 at 10:52
This is just more of throwing our hands up in the air and saying, "I don't know how human beings obtain their unique, inspirational and novel ideas, b...
October 30, 2025 at 10:48
Look a little deeper and you might find that the boundaries of any thought or process are determined by the present goal in the mind. The boundaries a...
October 30, 2025 at 10:26
You were the one that used the word, "isolation" and I was simply trying to get at your meaning of your use of it. I don't know - that whole block of ...
October 30, 2025 at 10:12
But why is schizophrenia a mental illness? Why would anyone link trans to mental illness if there were not some type of similarity between being trans...
October 30, 2025 at 09:51