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In: Abortion, other forms of life, and taking life  — view comment
Clearly I am a dumbass. What is MRM?
November 07, 2020 at 05:23
In: Counting squares  — view comment
You can make things from things. Squares. Line segments. Points. Anything if you zoom out far enough. You just need to have a split perspective.
November 06, 2020 at 16:05
In: Abortion, other forms of life, and taking life  — view comment
My god.
November 06, 2020 at 15:54
In: Abortion, IT'S A Problem  — view comment
What do you have on Nikola Tesla? What do you have on Elon Musk? How many rockets have you sent into space? What does Musk have on extra-terrestrial l...
September 04, 2020 at 16:35
In: Dreams as gateways/windows to alternate/parallel universes  — view comment
You watching a movie is still you... just watching a movie. Dreams may give you a heightened sense of control... so do video games.
August 22, 2020 at 00:51
In: Leading By Example  — view comment
Yo maa braws, lemme posit sumptin' for a quick secund... Dunning Kruger, baby
August 22, 2020 at 00:01
In: One must imagine Sisyphus happy  — view comment
Is this not enough struggle to fill a man's heart?
July 25, 2020 at 15:44
In: Was Friedrich Nietzsche for or against Nihilism?  — view comment
ooeeuuuh, you gots 'im 1 : allegiance to duty or a person 2 : belief and trust in and loyalty to God --// belief in the traditional doctrines of a rel...
July 25, 2020 at 15:29
In: On the existence of God (by request)  — view comment
At last, I have found true love!
July 16, 2020 at 18:16
In: On the existence of God (by request)  — view comment
Oh my! Are we going in circles?!
July 16, 2020 at 18:09
In: On the existence of God (by request)  — view comment
I'm cool with that.
July 16, 2020 at 18:06
In: On the existence of God (by request)  — view comment
Ohh, ohh, teacher, teacher I have the answer!
July 16, 2020 at 18:04
In: On the existence of God (by request)  — view comment
Subtle distinction: I exist because I have a will to live that includes eating and drinking.
July 16, 2020 at 17:58
In: On the existence of God (by request)  — view comment
Also I'm not entirely sure that's a super-duper accurate statement...
July 16, 2020 at 17:55
In: On the existence of God (by request)  — view comment
Will to live encapsulates many instincts... drink water? will to live? eat food? will to live? etc... The three words "will to live" may only not be i...
July 16, 2020 at 17:55
In: On the existence of God (by request)  — view comment
If I didn't have some will to live I would not exist... See natural selection.
July 16, 2020 at 17:36
In: On rejecting unanswerable questions  — view comment
One day we may be able to suspend death and live forever, yes? Does that mean we aren't dying now?
July 16, 2020 at 17:30
In: On the existence of God (by request)  — view comment
What is this bs? Obviously. How could anyone even question your incredible logic? Though you might want to be a little more precise in what you are re...
July 16, 2020 at 17:19
In: On rejecting unanswerable questions  — view comment
Is there a question that we will never be able to answer?
July 16, 2020 at 17:05
In: advantages of having simulated a universe  — view comment
In fact I am one of them 5th dimensional creatures. Unshackle your eastern imagination... Behold!
July 16, 2020 at 16:55
In: advantages of having simulated a universe  — view comment
If we can simulate two particles bumping together, a nuclear reaction, and objects dancing through space, what abstraction separates the simulation of...
July 16, 2020 at 06:47
In: Schrödinger's ice-cream parlour  — view comment
Or did it?...
July 16, 2020 at 06:39
In: Is the mind a fiction of the mind?  — view comment
Escaping subjectivity is probably a lot like writing a sentence without words.
July 16, 2020 at 06:36
In: Schrödinger's ice-cream parlour  — view comment
So you can assume ten flavour timmy and a potentially infinite number of multiverses, but you can't figure out where the waiters fit in?! Interesting....
July 16, 2020 at 06:29
In: The destiny behind free will: boom this is deep stuff!  — view comment
Assumptions are elicited by assertions, yes? The one and only assertion I made in my original post was: "there are quite a few... hazy assertions in t...
July 07, 2020 at 04:22
In: The destiny behind free will: boom this is deep stuff!  — view comment
https://youtu.be/7eYsN66WQZg
July 07, 2020 at 03:47
In: The destiny behind free will: boom this is deep stuff!  — view comment
If you look rather briefly at the entirety of my post and the references I made to the original post... you may note the thick, goopy sarcasm. The que...
July 07, 2020 at 02:47
In: The destiny behind free will: boom this is deep stuff!  — view comment
Okay, I'm infallibly certain (ha) that there are quite a few... hazy assertions in the preceding deluge. I've taken the liberty to exhibit just a hand...
July 06, 2020 at 01:15
In: Is Not Over-population Our Greatest Problem?  — view comment
Interesting, a study that quantifies "desire" on the denominator that is a census.
June 30, 2020 at 22:59
In: Is Not Over-population Our Greatest Problem?  — view comment
I believe you are mistaken as to the usage of the word "contraception."
June 30, 2020 at 22:44
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Surely this is for lack of trying? Does a broken clock not happen to coincide with a serviceable clock on occasion?
June 29, 2020 at 19:38
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Is someone who has had two kids more trustworthy than someone who had one? What if you're child died when she was four, does that still count? Do Viet...
June 29, 2020 at 01:37
In: Nobel (Woe)Man  — view comment
Really? Then wouldn't it make sense that homo sapien females would be produced at a much higher rate than males, and not (roughly) 50/50?
June 21, 2020 at 17:15
In: Nobel (Woe)Man  — view comment
Under the assumption that an increasing population produces no cost to the surviving genes, yes. But because there is cost, even if the cost is signif...
June 21, 2020 at 17:04
In: Nobel (Woe)Man  — view comment
I'm quite certain that is inaccurate.
June 20, 2020 at 22:06
In: Nobel (Woe)Man  — view comment
June 20, 2020 at 22:00
In: Nobel (Woe)Man  — view comment
You seem to be approaching this from an organism-centric model of evolution which has been outdated since at least the mid-70s when Dawkins published ...
June 20, 2020 at 21:49
In: Nobel (Woe)Man  — view comment
I don't follow how being limited to reproducing at one rate or another makes it "more important to be more selective regarding their mating partners" ...
June 20, 2020 at 21:25
In: Nobel (Woe)Man  — view comment
Please explain; to my knowledge 50% of genetic material is sourced from both homo sapien parents.
June 20, 2020 at 20:54
In: Does this prove that God exists only because we decide that he does and we don't want to believe oth  — view comment
As far as I can tell, your observation is that the likely origin of the idea of an entity who resides in the dimensions of the unknown is spawned by t...
June 20, 2020 at 02:51
In: Does this prove that God exists only because we decide that he does and we don't want to believe oth  — view comment
Read that back a couple of times... Could not allowing oneself to believe in determinism alter one's decisions in any way? Or does it only work the ot...
June 19, 2020 at 05:55
In: Bullshit jobs  — view comment
Hanover 2020
May 02, 2020 at 19:48
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
HEY! My little Quasimodo is NOT ugly!
March 22, 2020 at 23:20
In: The fundamental question of Metaphysics: Why something rather than nothing  — view comment
Would you be willing to elaborate on that statement? Also I would like to clarify that I am not implying that we cannot necessarily define the concept...
March 22, 2020 at 22:49
In: The fundamental question of Metaphysics: Why something rather than nothing  — view comment
From the perspective of a computer programmer we could visualize the situation as pseudocode... # Our universe is one-dimensional, its contents quanti...
March 22, 2020 at 22:05
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