Outlander

People like a guy who can take a punch. Or who don't abandon their beliefs under pressure, especially low pressure. Shallow as this may be, people vie...

People should "just not" do lots of things. This is why wars are fought. :grin: Humor and a sense of projected strength is favored by many. It's dishe...

Is this sand available only to you? Have you become resistant to such sand? If either of these are true you have a clear advantage. I wouldn't partici...

A drop of wine in a vat of sewage is still sewage. A drop of sewage in a vat of wine is also sewage. An analogy for a perfect world, one which we do n...

Hell is a place where everything once beautiful and pure will become ravaged, vile, and destroyed. Heaven is a place where everything once vile and co...

Owned by? Heh, you mess up and you'll not only lose said child but your own liberties, if not more. I don't get this one. Does the assertion that wate...

The only thing I questioned, is what you know and I suppose as a result are willing to share. We are similar in this respect, that is to say, you spea...

Ah, here we go. The classic statement. What I do works for the moment for me and me alone. If only you knew how many men greater than you chose these ...

Perhaps you seek the wrong destination, then. What made you seek what you do? Or even believe or want what you do? Your own human nature? Perhaps.. or...

You confuse the being with it's breath. An eclipse of the Sun with it's disappearance. A newborn's belief of a parent or guardian ceasing to exist due...

The way I see it there are a few options. Absent of sci-fi spookiness (religion) we'll call it two options. We'll continue as we are, barely getting b...

Oh but of course. Because if this were to be false... we surely are. And that's not something the mind wishes to comprehend. So it won't. Nothing wron...

Christian values, are essentially democracy. Giving people, who have no right or reason to have such a freedom, the ability to live and rule alongside...

You can't "edit out" human nature, without resulting in either a passive animal or monotonous robot. Do you really think, if this results in the succe...

We wouldn't know. If God wants to be three people, or one, or several thousand, that's wonderful. Meanwhile we're all still just ignorant people desti...

What of the quote "Some of the worst things in my life never even happened" by Mark Twain. The mind is more than malleable enough to deliver levels an...

What on Earth are you even trying to begin to talk about? Cool name btw, was wondering where it came from/what it meant to you? A criminal action is a...

Oh but apparently your truths and ideals do. This is encouraging, at least to a discernible degree.

If that's what you wish, let it be so. However! If you're willing to open up this back and forth toward a non-biased third party (myself at first, and...

Always! Now weather or not to you in said snapshot of circumstance.. is the question that many attempt to define such definitions upon/

Oh, if only! A molecule of plague left untreated is as good as an entire world of it, removing circumstantial factors such as state of being and time....

Assuming everyone's senses are calibrated the same.. it's one color. Merely different names or words (sounds) to describe it. And even if they weren't...

I've always viewed semantics as a distraction from real philosophy. No more than the concept of viewing one of two people arguing the same premise in ...

So, necessary? No. However if you have two places, one with law and order and one with rampant street crime, theft, looming war both civil and externa...

While I can't speak for Olivier, I can offer a plausible reason. Unlimited (or perhaps enhanced) pleasure could lead to unlimited (or enhanced) suffer...

You're not incorrect. However, most love is myopic and counter-productive when espoused with primal emotion and in line with "one's jollies". What I m...

Compare to Socrates' famous saying: "the only thing I know, is that I know nothing". The entire story of humanity and innovation and discovery is abou...

Where does pleasure from from? Does animal pleasure count? Why wouldn't animal suffering then? Animals won't kill themselves off, so what exactly are ...

I didn't mean without controlled, civil competition, a far cry from the days of cavemen and all out war. Curious times those days were. Who's to say w...

Noted philosophers? After my initial introduction (from my favorite book "Philosophy for Dummies", largely mentioning Plato, Socrates, etc.) I tended ...

Even chaos is a system. Everything we know, believe, or desire is the result of what is gathered by our senses and processed by our brain, neither of ...

Wouldn't this create two classes of humans, dividing us, ie. enhanced and naturals? They will be smarter and more blissful yes, but what's to stop the...

As Einstein said, "it's all relative". Nothing is perfect or absolute, only a fool would go about life with such a predisposition. However, some thing...

I would argue we live in the "set it and forget it" age. No it started with just turkeys. Then it expanded to children (video games and TV/V-chip pare...

Oh but there's greater. It just hasn't been implemented here yet. So, yeah you're right. Could be. So circumstance dictates your reality. And if somet...

Hate or hatred rather is merely the normal reaction experienced when one perceives something or someone that either has, is currently, may, or will, t...

It makes right if it benefits you. Conquest, besting or outwitting another, or otherwise doing something you would not wish to be done to yourself, et...

Uh I don't think the alternative was any more humane or non-exploitative. You have something I need, or want even, I take it. If you stop me, I stop y...

Based on Earth physics? We assume everything works on Earth the way it does elsewhere. It makes sense that it would. But so did lots of things that ne...

I mean, is there some huge waiting list or..? :smile:

Cognitive dissonance/bias. In one ear and out the other. Humor or other forms of entertainment, performance, or ritual can bypass the conscious mind t...

Not all who wander are lost, only those who insist they know exactly where they are at all times. Most people would probably make fame and influence o...

A mood ring with the simple instructions of "do the opposite of whatever this says". That or a box of Trump hats, they'll figure out the rest. Besides...

David, fictional or not, represents a person, someone who begged and cried to a higher power while he lost everything he knew and perhaps even more. I...

Does a jaywalker hope there's no oncoming traffic? Just kidding. It depends on the person I'm sure. Many atheists were once devoutly religious and due...

So, the assertions or belief rather of my concerns or criticism would be of the following points: Well before we get to that let's engage in the age o...

I think you might be drunker than I at present so, I'm just going to let someone else point out the many.. many flaws in your presumptive logic.

The main takeaway point being that you actually hear about them. :cool:

Small? Lol. Nah, that's "the everybody" .. we just get to live on the illusion we're good people propped up by those who engaged in illegal acts of mu...

First, I'd like to congratulate you on having the most intriguing screen name on this site I've come across to date. Also, The point of a government i...