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MPen89

['Member']Joined: June 14, 2017 at 02:03Last active: September 11, 2018 at 05:421 discussions17 comments
Location: Cornwall, UK

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I live in the South-West of England.
A passion for music and art.

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Only in comparison to dogs. The only thing that makes us stand apart from all the other animals is pattern recognition and an incredible rate of learn...
September 27, 2017 at 06:27
I just try and remember that i am essentially no different to an animal that dies and no different to the billions of people that have died before me ...
September 25, 2017 at 00:30
I don't know, and i struggled to come up with a solid answer as to why i said this because i've never actually asked myself the question. I'll provide...
September 14, 2017 at 09:57
What would be the point in doing anything if you lived forever? You'd eventually get around to doing it... at some point... maybe tomorrow... or the d...
September 13, 2017 at 21:15
Thanks, a brief search also taught me its origin is derived from the cracking of a whip, and also a reference to cracked kennel corn - poor white farm...
September 13, 2017 at 21:11
The question is; if time slows down for one person but no one else, did it really happen at all? It's the same question that you have probably heard o...
September 13, 2017 at 21:05
I think of minimalism like i do with music. You can strip away all the frilly parts until you're left with something that sounds raw. Maybe just the d...
September 13, 2017 at 16:47
World peace becomes a further distant reality with the more people that live on the earth. You simply cannot make friends without making enemies. Not ...
September 13, 2017 at 16:39
Agree with all the posts here. When you strip away the law, it is all a question of the observer. One person might think that something is right, when...
September 13, 2017 at 16:35
Except for psychopathics. I would argue against that humans 'came up' with logic. Logic just is, just as is water, it goes where it goes and we are ab...
September 13, 2017 at 16:22
Well, this would suggest that without language you simply would not Be, which is of course not the case. Perhaps i'm not picking up what you're puttin...
September 13, 2017 at 16:12
Some racial name calling has a deep history to it. For instance, the term nigger has been used throughout what we consider history, and has eventually...
September 13, 2017 at 15:08
In: Best?  — view comment
I think you can only be the best at something you can measure, things like speed, time, weight, distance and so on. You cannot measure, for example; w...
September 13, 2017 at 14:53
nice
September 13, 2017 at 14:24
I'm not entirely sure what your point is here, i got confused when you started talking about painters and then changed the subject to men and women. S...
September 13, 2017 at 14:22
I very much agree. There is a huge difference between knowledge and understanding. Sometimes we come to understand things within ourselves that we did...
August 29, 2017 at 01:52
I would love to read all the posts on this topic before contributing my own thoughts but there are just too many and they're coming in too fast! My op...
June 20, 2017 at 18:31
First of all, I'd like to quote Hume: We're all just ever changing bundles of impressions that our minds are fooled into thinking of as constant, beca...
June 20, 2017 at 18:06
"Like children, you are haunted with a fear that when the soul leaves the body, the wind may really blow her away and scatter her; especially if a man...
June 20, 2017 at 16:58