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But, they can "fly" for short distances. Does that count?
January 05, 2019 at 16:06
I don't know. It seems like one can't say that chickens can fly like a bird. But then how else can you put the fact that chickens can flap their wings...
January 05, 2019 at 16:01
Here's chickens in China. They seem to either be flying or gliding. You tell me? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idDtTGEbyGA
January 05, 2019 at 15:14
They say anything and everything can fly in the Carribean. One day you wake up finding a goat on the roof. Anyway, chickens in the US are too plump to...
January 05, 2019 at 15:08
Chickens can fly. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otfxWbaSOPs
January 05, 2019 at 15:02
*cluck*
January 05, 2019 at 14:47
So, it can fly. Just not very far.
January 05, 2019 at 14:39
Can a chicken fly?
January 05, 2019 at 14:17
Lovely analysis. Please go on.
January 05, 2019 at 13:31
The only solution is that God must be a solipsist.
January 05, 2019 at 03:34
This is a podcast about the issue that I found very interesting. Thoughts? https://philosophybites.com/2013/01/john-campbell-on-schizophrenia.html
January 04, 2019 at 23:59
Yeah, I've tried Abilify, Vraylar, and Latuda. I like how Zyprexa calms me down and makes me docile. Do you get akathisia from your Zyprexa? I had rea...
January 04, 2019 at 13:54
Mhm. No more drama.
January 04, 2019 at 13:47
In regards to Trump saying that he would have been a great general with his decision to pull out American troops from Afghanistan (so that ISIS and th...
January 04, 2019 at 13:45
Not really. Again, you don't have anything to compare life to apart from your neighbor who always smiles every day when going to work and coming back ...
January 04, 2019 at 13:21
Yes, they are. But, even in the book that got me into CBT, called Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns, the author highlights that cog...
January 04, 2019 at 13:05
There is no comparison. So, we must appreciate life for what it offers us regardless.
January 04, 2019 at 12:09
That's like trying to prove a negative. Don't you find life rewarding enough to not want to die?
January 04, 2019 at 11:40
Well, obviously we need a doomsday weapon. Just hope that everyone is rational enough to not want to die. https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/u...
January 04, 2019 at 11:31
Well, delusions are rather not beliefs; but, convictions that are justified and maintained through erroneous reasoning like cognitive distortions. Yes...
January 04, 2019 at 10:00
@"unenlightened", your input would be very much appreciated and welcome here. What are your general thoughts about delusions, paranoia, and delusions ...
January 04, 2019 at 08:44
Indeed.
January 04, 2019 at 07:23
Just some more about a blind elephant enjoying a piece of Bach. Quite fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOr2O0FfpT8
January 04, 2019 at 02:51
Clearly, music has some appeal to animals, specifically elephants. Perhaps, a radio might be playing some opera or the blues and the elephant overhear...
January 04, 2019 at 02:37
Whoa Noah, that sounds pretty serious? Are you on meds? I'm on Zyprexa and am calm as a Hindu cow on it. It kind of takes away the high and elation of...
January 04, 2019 at 02:30
I wonder how much of music is derived from its social context. For example, everyone knows that Chopin is renowned for inducing a feeling of nostalgia...
January 04, 2019 at 01:09
Great to have you with us, @"Fooloso4". We are around propositions 2.5. If you want to start over, I'm fine with that also.
January 04, 2019 at 01:01
Yes, I am here.
January 04, 2019 at 01:00
I've been for a while now interested in the phenomenon of delusions. I recall that I had some when my psychosis first started. Some of them included b...
January 04, 2019 at 00:53
Interesting nuanced choice. What got you interested in it? I'm reading the Amazon description and it sounds as if one we're to take Moore's naturalist...
January 03, 2019 at 08:59
So, I hope we can lay down the topic of definite descriptions to rest, and simply say that under certain circumstances definite descriptions are or ca...
January 03, 2019 at 08:51
Perhaps I should mention that in the Judeo-Christian traditions God most often has qualities of subjecthood. I don't know many religions that ascribe ...
January 03, 2019 at 02:34
I think as mentioned previously, definite descriptions can be categorized under certain conditions as rigid designators. What do you or anyone else th...
January 02, 2019 at 23:59
Yes, they do sound like attributes we ascribe to God.
January 02, 2019 at 23:25
It is mostly a tiring effort. Like a flat tire that needs to be constantly inflated. Anyway, idiotic analogies aside, the issue is that reason, in som...
January 02, 2019 at 16:51
The fish has no idea what the water feels like.
January 02, 2019 at 15:56
I guess, they're two sides of the same coin. One is a more active and dominant belief that hides under the guise of inverted totalitarianism. Hard to ...
January 02, 2019 at 15:28
Some more:
January 02, 2019 at 15:18
A great deal of the book is history, and reinterpreting it through a different lens. I find many of Wolin's comments as insightful and penetrating. He...
January 02, 2019 at 15:13
I have actually read his "Democracy Incorporated". The thing I noticed that Wolin struggles with is as if trying to describe how the water feels like ...
January 02, 2019 at 14:58
Do you display symptoms of paranoia? I'm apprehensive to straight out label you as a schizophrenic, as you may have a simply perceptual disorder. I ha...
January 02, 2019 at 14:13
We do not have to argue about feelings. It's a real possibility that the Axis powers might have won WWII. The nuances in which our reality has been sh...
January 02, 2019 at 05:43
Had the Axis powers won the war, then what? Nothing can be said about the axis winning. It would seem an impossibility; but not so.
January 02, 2019 at 05:11
I'm not quite sure. It seems to me that philosophy is a dialectic act. One opposes a different opinion through dialogue.
January 02, 2019 at 05:00
Matter, essentially, but, what else can be said?
January 02, 2019 at 04:58
Now, time to watch the series?
January 02, 2019 at 04:10
Eggs provide nourishment and LOVE to ALL.
January 02, 2019 at 03:26
Wallowing intensifies.
January 02, 2019 at 02:12
Do you think philosophy progresses in a dialectical manner? I don't know what to say about philosophers who "really" get the message or anything like ...
January 01, 2019 at 16:24
55 mintues to go before New Year's here.
January 01, 2019 at 07:05