Outlander

If I understand correctly, and agree with much of it, our circumstances in which we make choices or otherwise determine what choices can be made is la...

So along this line... there's truth here. You or I can't choose to have a 50-egg omelette the size of a truck tire with a side of caviar every morning...

If pessimism is the result of having to watch two people go back and forth, each time refusing to have their core beliefs challenged- it's looking mor...

FIFY. Furthermore the discussion of anything that profoundly affects a large portion of society and related discussion is very philosophical. Also, yo...

So... what makes something an ability. Competence is basic coherence. Why is it an ability of any use if everyone can do it. That makes someone elite-...

Anyway, let us continue. What are the arguments given from the former debater and what are yours? Again seperate the art from the artist. Let's hear i...

That proves there's nothing "elite" about someone who.. just happens to be more fortunate than you lol. It's called circumstance or- hopefully- hard w...

Lol. Sure. Just let subversives redefine everything and other people do what they want to control your whole life. See this is the cancer- no offense ...

Lol. It's a global pandemic. I mean I'd be the first to say there's problems here but.. come on now. If everyone in the playground has the flu the big...

Are we going to publicly denounce and revoke all relationships to them while using/keeping/and abusing everything that's now yours as a result of thei...

You don't have to literally devalue everything and anything in life to be a pessimist. Tangentially (i like that word), becoming disenchanted with (th...

Give it time. If it ever becomes popular enough. One of the many pacifist ("look we are good people") groups with the age old cosmic justice motif. Ni...

I'd imagine never. The parallels between comfort and boredom become quite evident for a highly intelligent person. So I'd imagine.

Probably right. Someone with a high IQ more than likely has an enjoyable and profitable job ie. is a "success" and would rather support the system tha...

I don't think the hyperintelligent behave better or have any less inclination to misbehave than the rest. They just know how to get away with it more.

There we go. That's what you meant. As they say in forumspeak "FIFY".

Mostly? Numbers are meaningless.

The fact that this is even a warranted statement explains why we're all here and probably will be for some time. Again, wow. Call it a proving ground,...

Well if we're gonna be religious about it perhaps it's worth keeping in mind God had to "give dominion to man over animals". One could deduce many thi...

Basically, yeah. Again this is more of a historic injustice thread so I wouldn't have been so blunt. Unless you're vocalizing a presumption about me? ...

I've thought about it. Unfortunately (or perhaps even fortunately) you tend to get less interested in the vain and materialistic dreams we're presente...

I understand this discussion is more about historic injustices but my thoughts when I read the title before clicking.... "People confuse privilege wit...

How did you grow up, fdrake? You're a mod so you're open to more scrutiny of course. Did you enjoy it? Eitherhow, others who did, usually do.

So you like to let people sit in darkness when you say you have an answer. Don't knock your own creation. It might knock back. Because if you did care...

Why do people work? So they can be rich like them. You can set a negative example or a positive one. Which would you prefer?

He can be pretty abrasive. But "that's why people like him" apparently it's "real" lol. Never know though... never know. Perhaps one day. But not now.

Wow. Then again when diplomacy fails... long live politics! ...at first I was trying to be concerned, allegedly. But the fact that semi-unique word is...

Who or what stop someone from trying to get ahead or perhaps even steal. Who controls them? This is perfectionist, idealist, utopian... wrongness. Lol...

Which turns to fertilizer. Which in turn grows more food. Ergo, buying groceries is a scam. :wink:

Just more of what I was saying. Gotta be right. Gotta have core beliefs protected and unchallenged. Until. Well. Let's not worry about that.

Shouldn't take much. It's already the majority view- by far. Summed up by the repeated use of "my". What works for me vs. thee, essentially. Not quite...

That's the paradox. One leaves another comes in. Why not just say the way to prevent death is for life to leave. Lol. Everyone has to make it worth th...

Only chaff likes to see others complain and in misery. With or without cause. Crab mentality in a nutshell. Of course, the best chaff knows to appear ...

Eliminating ie. de-incentivising via education and enlightenment versus fascist suppression of human thought and free will in a person's own mind for ...

"Unexplained neologisms, distorted grammars, contradictory phrases, unusual meanings of words, endless sequences of ideas without conclusion, unstruct...

In a word, no. That's why it's not science and total enslavement. Lol. As some would say... always when they do harm to others never when it's done to...

Post some examples of short passages that encapsulate what you mean.

Bury the human story then. If you don't remember the past it's sure to repeat itself. The solution is thought police. Which is doable if you're the ma...

How so? You don't know you'll be around long enough to ensure any offspring is raised desirably, even if you are you don't know they'd follow along.

Maybe then. For the past 300 years- at least- science has been advancing and creating so much including possibility the imagination is barely able to ...

Obvious answer. Like a suicide pact. You never really know if it's carried out.

Science. Technology. Both already proven to a ridiculous extent.

You can't really blame Pandora though. Someone created both her and the box. It can be argued the nature of both Pandora and the box should perhaps ha...

Ah. Harkens back to the last words of the state as they executed the heliocentrist. Before they were disproved and later overthrown of course. How rem...

I do apologize for that and would like if you believed that was far from my intent other than to say yeah, as far as quantifying life and other decent...

Great. Until you get drunk and take your dog skateboarding while flying a kite playing loud music and get hit by an ambulance you couldn't hear and no...

Because you're (presumably) a decent person. Know nothing of you personally but you more than likely had a tolerable upbringing and currently have a t...

As I'm sure would be asked, what are some examples? Emotions are something to factor in that hinder yet do not explicitly constitute what mental limit...

Ideas, emotions, concepts? Opinions, views of things? Potential energy ie. a rock atop a hill? Example I can visualize some insanely grotesque I dunno...

I see you have no physical disabilities then and take mobility for granted. Arguably there is little that can be done to instill to you it's value.