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I will say what my old friend Alesandro Battaglia, a passionate Italian, might have said in my place - the OP offended my essence.

I think it is wonderfully ironic that you clearly don't understand the Dunning Kruger Effect very well and that your opinion of your competence in tha...

Isn't this the question of all metaphysics, or conceptualization, or envisioning, or whatever you want to call it. Our concepts are never the same thi...

Interesting. A lot going on here. Some thoughts. This doesn't strike me as true at all. Special and general relativity are full of what you call "idea...

You're right and I'm ashamed. I searched. There are 28 uses of "bawbag" in the history of the forum, more than half by Universeness. @"Jamal" also had...

I thought you might have written this, but it doesn’t have “bawbag” in it so I know that couldn’t be right.

This is a very good poem. A real poem. I’m envious.

Willy Wonka was written in 1964 and the Gene Wilder movie was made in 1971. The book you were describing was written in 1979. Calling a penis a snozzb...

I’ll look and see if it’s available on my streaming services. Thanks.

I turned 21 in prison, doing life without parole No one could steer me right, but Mama tried Mama tried to teach me better but her pleadings I denied ...

This is neither weird nor nonsense, but it is very playful. anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autu...

For me, Marlowe in the “Long Goodbye” was, in spite of his goofy, sloppy appearance, a man with a fierce moral center. It’s ironic to me that the main...

After Watching a couple of movies based on Chandler‘s work, a few months ago I decided to read some of his novels along with some by Dashiell Hammett....

Thank you. I’m telling myself that others didn’t get the reference, but I really think they just didn’t think it was worth commenting on.

Twas brillig.

Hey, I resemble that remark.

I think the plan you’ve laid out is the right one for someone new to philosophy.

Speaking of which, I voted today and there is an initiative petition on the ballot to allow the use of psychodelic drugs under the supervision of a pr...

I have a bit of a different attitude towards philosophy than most people here do. I once started a discussion called "You don't need to read philosoph...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Athens

The population of ancient Athens was about 250,000 people with only about 30,000 able to vote. That's comparable to a large town or small city. In the...

Yes, this is true. My daughter lives in Michigan, another state where votes matter. I had just moved here when "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts...

So somehow you’ve gone from hundreds of millions of people voting on laws to 200 people voting. I don’t think you’ve thought this through very well.

As the article notes, it seems a lot like the electoral college system. I place both of them under the classification of “seemed like a good idea at t...

In the US Senate we have the opposite of this. Each state gets two senators, no matter what it's population. That means California, with 34 million pe...

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In my town, that would be about 4,000 people. As I noted, only about 200 choose to come.

And this would be worsened a hundred-fold if the OP's plan for internet voting were implimented.

When towns get to be a certain size, they do elect representatives to the town meeting by district. Good question. I don't think there is a quorum. I'...

I really like the idea of the town meeting and I've enjoyed participating. It can be inspiring and effective on a very small scale, i.e. a few hundred...

No, that's the moderately difficult problem of Javi.

We have a short fiction contest here once or twice a year. What you have written is at least as good as many of those submitted for the contest. You s...

I think the real hard problem of consciousness is how to get the members of the forum to shut the fuck up (STFU) about the hard problem of consciousne...

Millions of people in dozens of jurisdictions disagree with you.

The quote describes it simply and clearly and it's easy to understand. You should read it again. Why would we possibly bring in a new system when ther...

That’s ridiculous. I think you just made that name up. People like you make it harder for true spiritual leaders like me.

This would be a monstrous, horrible, monumental disaster. There is already a better system than this in place in a number of jurisdictions. It’s calle...

1) That’s clearly a jar of pickled turds. 2) A better name for the product would be “Buckaloo’s.” 3) Other than that, I can foresee no problems.

Thank you, thank you all and thank you, Barken. you are all too kind. I’m happy to be here tonight to tell you about my new book - “The Tao of T.” To ...

I find the metaphysics of science interesting, so I bought it. I’ve only just started reading, but it looks pretty good so far. I especially like that...

I think the only way the kind of physicalism you described can be tenable is if we buy into reductionism. I can easily identify phenomena that are obv...

I read the first issue online. I don’t think I’ll read anymore. Thanks for the quick summary. A little too creepy for me.

So they don’t live happily ever after?

I am deeply honored.

Great post, but I want to know who the first guest is.

If you think that's true, tell him. Unless someone is violating the rules, don't be a tattle tail. Even then, do it more subtly. Contact the moderator...

I don't understand what you mean or why you put it here. Any comment should go in the relevant discussion. Unless I've misunderstood your point, this ...

This is an argument we have here all the time - the hard problem of consciousness. As I see it, there is no hard problem of consciousness.

Here's my take. Neither of the premises is true. Neither is false. Whether reality is deterministic or we have free will can not be verified or falsif...

He said more than that. He said science can not be shown to be a rational method of inquiry. My post was an attempt to refute that. We don't have to t...