T_Clark

Why would you assume when you can look it up in 7 seconds? Here's the list of animals that have opposable thumbs: Gorilla Chimpanzee Bonobo Orangutan ...

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Thought some of you might be interested. There is a recent movie, "The Discovery," with Robert Redford that describes events after a scientist proves ...

That's one of the things God does. If I can watch all 3.28 x 10^80 quarks in the universe all day every day since the big bang with one hand tied behi...

As I indicated in my alliterative post, I wasn't asking for a pig-free Shoutbox. Just a bit of restraint.

So you're saying "Go fuck yourself." Is that right?

Welcome to the forum. I suggest you put in some paragraph breaks if you want people to read your post. I read about half and got lost. If you're going...

How about one pig picture post per person per pday.

You can change my system when you get to be God for a day.

But if I'm going to be God, I get to set it up the way I want. None of this so-called "karma." If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. I'll take...

But I don't. You don't either. Why should we live our lives as if we did? You seem to have a lot harder life than I have. I don't begrudge you some bi...

So. Are you willing and able to work and live with people who have strong differences in opinion from you? I'm 70 years old. I've lived, worked, playe...

So I guess you're saying that you in particular are not willing or able to work and live with people who have strong differences in opinion from you. ...

Your pronouncement would sound a lot more authoritative if you were still The Baden.

I'd change the whole punishment and reward system. No more hell, if it exists. Instead, all of us would have to experience all the pain and unhappines...

This is not true in my experience. Whatever their politics, religion, philosophy, or other characteristic, humans always have more in common than in o...

As I understand it, the correct number is 200,000 years. Some pretty close relatives were there earlier. The last common ancestor between humans and c...

They just finished up an unmanned trip that is supposed to lead to a manned landing sometime soon.

I don't have strong feelings. I've always been skeptical of such plans, but Elon Musk and his competitors have convinced me that there may be commerci...

You inspired me. No, not to go to work for NASA, but to get my son "Rocket Boys" for Christmas. Written by a West Virginia boy who grew up to build ro...

Don't change them back. Even now, I can feel the profound respect I have always had for you both ripening into reverence.

Thanks. I have always resisted calling science fiction "literature." What it has meant to me from the beginning is books written for 13-year-old boys ...

I agree, but I think the "t" should be capitalized.

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I see you are calling yourself "The Baden" now. For what it's worth, I've always thought of you that way.

I've been reading science fiction and fantasy since I started reading things I didn't have to. The first book I remember is "A Wrinkle in Time." Even ...

I've taken my part in this discussion as far as I can. Let's leave it at that.

That's how I experience it, how it feels to me. If we're looking for an explanation of that, I think what @"unenlightened" wrote is a good one.

Temperament, personality, attitude - whatever you call it - I've noticed that some people are much more willful than others. More forceful, persistent...

To the extent I've rediscovered my authentic self, it's happened more the older I get. Philosophy is one of the ways I do that.

I don't see that.

Are you saying that will is useful to stop us from doing something rather than motivating us to action? If so, I think I agree with you.

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Thank you. Thank you very much.

Part of it is what unenlightened wrote: And part of it is that I experience them in similar manners. They both feel like intrusions, weaknesses, distr...

Here we are in our own dome imagining, inventing, hoping for, fearful of something outside of the world we experience every day. Why wouldn't people i...

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A couple. First a question - how is will different from intention? In my experience, most of our actions are unwilled. Not that they are inadvertent, ...

Yeah, but Johnny Carson was great. Staying up to watch Carson was a rite of adulthood. I've liked other late night hosts - Letterman and Ferguson - bu...

Thank you.

Banno and I discussed the meaning of the word "real" in a recent thread. In that discussion, I wrote the following: So I guess I would say that it's n...

Thanks. I remember you talking about it before. Yes, that went over my head till you clarified. Thanks.

Yes. Famous last words - What could possibly go wrong. Problem is, if you change anything, you have to change everything.

If you made me God and that didn't include my foibles, prejudices, and values, it wouldn't really be me anymore.

I'm asking you. You wrote it.

You would just fuck things up. Anyone would. I hope there's a reset button.

Here's a link to an article in "The Atlantic" about people who are looking forward to the end of humanity. Thought people might be interested: https:/...

How is this relevant?

Are you saying that all fiction is ironic? Let me think about that... Is it ironic that we know a character is not real while they have to act as if t...