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You seem to be taking this very personally. I don't understand why. You should know me well enough by now to recognize my sense of humor.

Love John Fowles. Is "The Aristos" worth reading. It's not available electronically. It's been so long I can't remember how to turn pages. I keep gett...

I don't know, it told you to go fry ice. That's a pretty human thing to do.

What a great idea! I wish I'd thought of that. five boxes of Cheerios and two gallons of whole milk. And a big spoon.

Lions and Tigers and Bears sleep a lot too, and they're the mightiest of animals. Cats and old men too.

@"javi2541997"'s body is Spanish, but his soul is Japanese.

Dan Reeder is a... n unconventional folk/something singer who lives in Norway. He has a song, "Angels May" that begs to differ. https://www.youtube.co...

Me in my lounge chair, in my pajamas, eating Cheerios. Note the orange bowl, my favorite given me by my younger son for Christmas a few years ago. /up...

Corn flakes are also good, but you should try Kellogg's Frosted Flakes - corn flakes with a glaze of sugar. Too sweet for me now, but when I was a kid...

I certainly have drives, both conscious and unconscious motivations, that push me in particular directions and influence my actions. But a drive is no...

I don't know to what extent our differences in experience are caused by the fact that I am neurotypical and you are autistic or are just the regular d...

I can't think of anything else I can say if you won't accept my description of my personal experience. We can leave it at that.

You and I see this whole subject so differently I don't think we'll be able to come to any agreement. Yes, I do think there are uncaused actions, both...

I don't see this as a problem. The act of seeing other people as people requires we make a metaphorical connection with them. We intuitively, empathet...

Love Cheerios: Whole grain oats Corn Starch Sugar Salt Vitamin E Tripotassium phosphate It's my understanding the tripotassium phosphate is what gives...

That's not how I see it and it's not how it feels from the inside. The fact that I may learn something while doing it doesn't mean that was my purpose...

I doubt that. I've spent a significant amount of my life fairly fucked up, but my intellect is the healthiest thing about me. I've always thought that...

No. Rice Krispies are mostly just puffed rice with no flavoring and not much sugar.

I don't think Churchill's reputation needs to be protected against obvious satire.

That seems plausible to me, although I don't think it answers the question of experience that bother some people any better than other theories. As I ...

If you eat it for breakfast, we call it a muffin. It's really a cupcake, but we don't want people to think we're pigs. Muffins don't generally have ic...

I wouldn't over romanticize American breakfast cereal. I like Cheerios and Rice Krispies with milk. Have you ever tried them? As I say, I like them, b...

No. The most important meal of the day is the bowl of Cheerios and milk I eat at 2:00 am before I go to bed.

For no purpose. Because I'm curious. Because I have a drive for self-awareness. It's not a goal I'm striving for, it's a force that's pushing me, wher...

That's silly; you, @"Michael", and I agree on many things. Some examples: I'm really smart I'm really funny I'm kind of an asshole

I would say the same to you. Interesting and thorough. I appreciate it. I wasn't accusing you of this, I was just identifying my understanding of why ...

In my experience, pop philosophy/psychology sources, and even serious secondary sources, often leave out important aspects of the primary authors idea...

You previously were surprised to hear I spent time on Reddit. One of the reasons I go there is that they have some good discussions on their r/Taoism ...

This is a really good point. I hadn't thought of it in this way before.

I've been meaning to never read Kafka again. So far things are going well with my plans.

Made with cockroach?

Pop philosophy is about self-improvement. Real philosophy is about self-examination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyF0tR6cQA4

I rarely cry. I'm more of a fan of growing resentment escalating to rage and then violence.

So, you admit I'm really smart.

There's a phrase that people sometimes use around here in Massachusetts - "Shit the bed," which is a vulgar way of saying that someone has died. I don...

When I think of my curiosity, I get an image of a cat moving around a dark room. Looking behind every object, into every nook. Following sounds and sm...

For me, philosophy isn't about being more rational or educated, it's about being more self-aware. I'm not interested in being more self-aware in order...

Yes. Sorry for the parochialism.

Donald Trumps arraignment is scheduled to take place at 2:15 today. Events around the arraignment will be broadcast and streamed live by a number of s...

Events around the arraignment will be broadcast live. It's scheduled for 2:15. There will be a live press conference by the prosecutor at 3:30.

Not Kappa, Kermit.

If I remember correctly, he left the forum to work in Trumps 2020 campaign.

As I noted: If I say that all apples are fruits, the fact that all fruits are not apples does not prove I'm wrong.

Thanks for letting us know. I thought I might have had a stroke.

See, I've already started using it.

This goes back to @"Isaac"'s previous question: I classify phenomenal consciousness as a mental process. That's the kind of a thing I say it is. The c...

It only took four minutes.

When I want to do that, I decrease the size of the image using zoom out. Then I do a cutout of the smaller image using the snip function (Shift-Window...

Thanks. Sounds interesting. I'll try it on a few verses. My general strategy for figuring out what Lao Tzu is trying to show us is to read a bunch of ...