T_Clark

If you've paid any attention to my posts, you can see that voicing my actual thoughts is no problem, although sometimes I have trouble not voicing my ...

Speaking of which, I feel like I am treading dangerously close to treating you with disrespect. Perhaps we should leave it here.

Of course I behave in ways that might be described as typical for a women. I show affection in action and words. I try to look after the emotional wel...

You lawyers and your legal language. I do remember that one. I think it was from the State of Georgia vs. Some Seven Year Old Kid.

You'll note I did not request information from you, I speculated that you might provide it.

As I noted in a previous post, I don't identify myself as a man in opposition to anything. That would make me +/... I think people think that's imposs...

Yeah. Fuck yez both.

Perhaps. Will the real @"Hanover" please stand up.

I don't expect anyone to do what you've described. As I responded to @"universeness", I can understand identifying as just about anything, it's identi...

I don't know what I would do, but it's beside the point. Converting to Islam means you identify as a Muslim. That's really different from identifying ...

Say what you will about our @"Hanover", he's an intelligent and informed person. I think he's having us on. Setting us up for a smartypants comeback. ...

I was not a very socially aware teenager. I must have been aware of homosexuality, but I don't remember thinking about it much or being bothered by it...

I never knew that. Makes sense though.

It's a good likeness, although I've quit smoking.

The rich guys neighbors are rich guys too. They feel entitled to complain about disruptive factors where they live. Poor guys won't complain because i...

If they'd only had Ebay and Amazon 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs would probably still be around.

My sister and I are not related by blood. Her mother married my father when I was about 30. The decision had very negative impacts on the family - my ...

You might be right. Alas, I'm too lazy to try to figure it out. Maybe @"BC" will do it for us.

What confuses me is not that some people are not attached to their gender identities, but that it is important enough to them that they must reject th...

I would have thought that one reason would be that there were a lot more birds living in a lot more different habitats than dinosaurs.

One of my sister's children, a biological male, identifies as non-binary. I must admit I have a hard time understanding that. Do you think that's the ...

And a daughter.

No magic involved. And no talking - just typing.

You're probably right.

One thing that was always clear is that Tiny Tim was completely sincere. I'm not sure whether he was not aware of the fact he was used as a parody or ...

Reminds me of a Laurie Lewis song - You don't choose the one you love, love chooses you. By which I mean I agree.

Forgot to say - welcome to the forum.

Sorry. It seems trivial. Philosophers sitting around the campfire making up spooky stories, flashlights under their chins. Not that there's anything w...

What you are describing is metaphysics - the intuition that sits as the foundation of everything you believe. Don't get me started.

I have a friend who is going through the Hugo winners one by one till he's read them all. When he gets done with that, he plans to go through the Nebu...

Yes. The framing is the skeleton of the building.

I'm an engineer, not an artist. But you and I do share a characteristic - a vast upwelling of energy that spills out and is hard to keep pointed in th...

Although I've seen it used before, I wasn't familiar with the term "truth-apt," so I looked it up - "A sentence is truth apt if there is some context ...

Thanks.

My problem with Tiny Tim is that he built his career on a joke or rather on him being the joke. As far as I could tell, he didn't have any talent beyo...

The book is next on my list as soon as I can get it from the library.

I've found this to be true. But every once in a while I will be surprised to find that I've convinced someone or even that someone has convinced me. E...

Being an engineer, I've always seen it as the framing of the structure.

I'd prefer to think of it as having built a worldview and then tested it out on the field of philosophical battle. When I was an engineer, at one or m...

Yes. Thinking is what I do. It was what I did for a living and it's what I do now for recreation. What could be more fun? I guess that's it, I need to...

A good, subtle insult.

Sure, but that's a different kind of writing than I'm talking about. For what I write, it only matters if what I write is good, or, on a bad day, good...

I've said before, for me, philosophy is about becoming more aware of how I think. How my mind works. How I know things. I don't fee like I have to con...

I find myself holding back on issues I care most about - metaphysics, epistemology, Taoism - for just that reason. I get tired of saying the same thin...

I have many metaphysical positions. I'm always a pragmatist - whatever works is the right way to go. When I do science, I am a materialist. When I do ...

This is clearly wrong. As the member who started the discussion "You don't need to read philosophy to be a philosopher" I am clearly in the forefront,...

Yes... well... Perhaps I was wrong.

I always hated when people talked about "literary" science fiction. I think that was because it meant so much to me as a kid - it was people with the ...

Yes. I don't generally think of writing as competitive. Maybe that's because I have confidence in my ideas and my ability to express them and I'm not ...

Perhaps we should wait till Noble Dust gets off his ass and starts a separate thread. Then you can, if not try to convince me, at least help me unders...