Fairly certain the idea of a human society considering unpleasant things unpleasant enough to agree by vast majority they should be avoided (and those...
We are blind in this world. We have senses, such as they are. But they are nothing suitable to understand the vastness of the universe. We poke and pr...
One man's trash is another man's treasure. Not all that glitters is gold. A drop of wine in a vat of sewage is still sewage; a drop of sewage in a vat...
Isn't this far too generic? As my favorite euphemism I've read on this site goes "there are far too many tails pinned on that donkey for it to have an...
This reminds me of an argument or "systems model" (not sure if I'm using that correctly) one of the mods brought up a while back. https://en.wikipedia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test Half-facetiously speaking, it doesn't seem that difficult to bestow a "mark of humanity" on one's arguments....
What do you think the purpose of "en passant" was. Was the game too boring otherwise? Not us, but say for example, two people who basically have every...
Ok, ok, so you're saying many people today use services that they would prefer not to go elsewhere, specifically because feasible alternatives are una...
I don't necessarily agree with this as it implies that people are basically, what's the polite word, mentally deficient. Which I generally agree with,...
You're one of the only posters here, aside from @"Tom Storm" whose online moniker or "screen name" I read aloud with ferocious excitement. Like, it ju...
Gentlemen, the answer is now quite obvious. @"Baden", the man who we thought was merely an innocuous fellow poster is clearly some sort of demi-god, b...
I recall that piece of literature. Actually, since I'm not ashamed of myself nor do I have desires or habits the world considers horrid, nor am I a cr...
There might be some confusion since the naming is inconsistent. You have 'Short Stories', 'Short Stories Competition 1, 2 3, etc' that have no date, t...
Sorry, I'd have responded sooner but I was assaulted by a superfluousness of 5 ads (mind you, I'm strict to grammar generally typing out a number if i...
Bad things are going on in the Lounge. I am afraid. :eyes: Let me "haiku" that real quick, though. "Words fail, chaos reigns. Frustration defeats logi...
Thank you for the video. I plan to watch it when I get the chance. My question would be: How do we know it even exists, then? Specifically if, presuma...
I'll regret this in the morning, no doubt. (so in about an hour) Let's hope that knight of yours isn't as blind as he is fearless. http://www.chessvid...
It cannot, therefore ever, perhaps at least once (or even reliably and constantly), be triggered by a static and consistent means? So, Pavlov's theory...
Well, it has one thing going for it. It's aptly-named. :smirk: So, to notice. If you "see" something unfamiliar, you might think that something to be ...
How's that? Is he smaller than others? Daintier? That means nothing, that's size-ism. Just because a person is born larger and another person is born ...
Does a boy really know what sexuality is? What straight is? What race or being "white" is? They do not. They know colors. Which have no meaning other ...
I'll have you know those are genuine emerald gemstones. Entire civilizations have been sacked, massacred, and turned to rubble over the pursuit of suc...
Because the human experience cannot exist without consciousness. What is the human experience without emotion and mental response to one's environment...
Oh, please. And every time a child chews a piece of gum for the first time it's a grandiose experience of past meets present. Get real. Aggression is ...
No, no here we go. From this forced "walking on stilts on a catwalk" position of human experience, so is every emotion, per your claim. And from there...
I hope this isn't in poor taste, but I am simply too excited to care. I actually ordered a book from one of you guys (members on the site) and it came...
Gross. But what's not gross is logic. A goat is often considered associated with malevolent deities in Abrahamic religion. I almost said folklore, und...
He's saying it is subjective, the "idea exists" the concept is what he is arguing, not the individual and specific actualization of said idea or conce...
What is any man up to, really, but the deeds of his father. I suppose that doesn't answer the question. What is any man up to, really, but the doings ...
You've never been in a real fist fight, have you? Don't take that as an insult, most intelligent people never have. Most people alive are not very int...
http://www.chessvideos.tv/bimg/3vlnhfuk5s00k.png Your move I also find it silly and against the rules of all sort of monarchistic dynamic that the kin...
I find it difficult to believe a well-traveled man of his intelligence and understanding of human nature and essence didn't foresee this happening lon...
I do. The layperson is a miserable thing that secretly wants nothing but death, doesn't mater who's, yet is too afraid to pull the trigger. So they go...
I like this one. Seems simple enough to be accurate. So, one can know facts. But we cannot the truth. We might know true facts, similar to the way a b...
I'm assuming he likes his rooks. Or whatever the cross-bearing, diagonal-moving pieces are. Perhaps they're paramount to his preferred strategy or sty...
Think of it like having a favorite color. Everyone has one, and no one's favorite color is any more better or worse than that of another's. He seems t...
Bro, that's what I said, too! But to be fair, he did this with me the 3-4 (not sure however many) years ago and apparently, yeah. There's 3 "special m...
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