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I can't imagine how a sugar-free drink could turn you into a boring robot. Perhaps another cup of tea would spur my imagination. :chin:

I read there are reasons in Michael Pollan’s book on caffeine, though I don’t recall the specific reasons.

Think I have one left, the morality one, the longest one. I’m gonna need to be fresh and well caffeinated.

Nice framework, I enjoyed it.

Don’t we already have this with computers? The device that I’m using to send this message can easily beat me in chess, for instance, and its not consc...

“I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.” ? Jeff Hawkins

The truth is that I only get a feeling from the song and the story, which is dark, somewhat mysterious, used-up, and ill-fated. I can imagine the writ...

Subsequent to this you say: And this suggests that one or more faith’s are not invented but genuine.

If that’s phalic innuendo I’m seasonably unimpressed.

I made shrimp scampi & asparagus for dinner. No kiwian’s, neither human, bird, nor fruit, was injured in preparation of this meal. Feel empathy for th...

Nice :up: Criminals need a fast getaway!

Remind me what the conclusion is again, if you don't mind.

It's an interesting idea, that a satisfactory world must be unsatisfactory in some way, otherwise it will be unsatisfactory.

Conan always faced challenges, as I recall from reading those books as a kid, and he's a character with a strong sense of honor. Hungthor is a big wan...

Heaven is destined to be boring. That’s the moral of the story. I’m surprised that, to date, I’m one of only two who enjoyed it.

No, that doesn’t appear to be the price. The price seems to be not being over-the-top hostile and bigoted. A very low bar, actually.

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Inauthenticity burned too hard and I quit about a quarter of the way through it.

I copied and pasted the story into a text-to-speech app and listened to it while walking the dog. The reader in the app wasn’t the best, being rather ...

Religion is only a small, and rather silly when you think about it, part of the world. Imagine a larger world It may prove hard to do Other things to ...

You eat what your chicken eats, as the saying goes, and industrial chickens eat GMO corn and soybeans and are also given antibiotics because they're f...

https://designpraxis.biz/img/red.jpg If I were to have named my dog after a food item like Hanover I would have called him something like Caramel-moch...

Define “details”.

:lol: I don’t need to imagine a world without religion. Only fucking fools can’t imagine such a world though, I would say.

Actually there is a rather strict social hierarchy in Buddhism.

Indeed, what could be more natural than a social hierarchy and subjugation of the underclass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUVPuCuEF-E

It I immediately sends us to “religions and spiritualities” because it is entirely religious in nature. The concepts of cause and effect aren’t religi...

I like the new voting system. I think it may encourage more voting. In the last contest it seemed like voting was neglected, but it may have simply be...

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I suppose that folks are more apt to be twisted up by it the further down the caste system they’re born into. :confused:

Perhaps if you focus better you can post something actually lived and offering that kind of value.

What a shame. The forum is lesser now.

The way something is framed may influence how we see it of course, however, I think it’s possible to see anything aesthetically and we shouldn’t alway...

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution By Francis Fukuyama Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life By William Finnegan Go...

Commie bastards. She seems to enjoy the contest, and that being the case, no reason to not participate.

I didn’t say anything about craft, did I?

I recall reading about a study which claims that people think, to some degree, that aesthetically pleasing tools work better, even though they may act...

Think for yourself. And I got a word to spare. :grin:

If the decision mostly affects single mother’s of very limited means, there should be a significant uptick in crime in the areas most affected in abou...

Personal aesthetic expression, to put it broadly. What does “making objects which convey meaning” mean to you? Dictionary’s are objects made to convey...

Forgive me for utilizing my common sense but wouldn’t that be art for the sake of decoration?

Art for art’s sake is not art then? That can’t be right, can it?

Heretics and infidels. :death:

The core of it is tribalism, a survival strategy, and though religion may be the most potent expression of this it exists in many forms.

I suppose this means that you’re not going to tell me about your little tower now. :sad:

Oh, I get it now, if you had anything honest to say your little tower would fall like a card house.

You go on a five paragraph diatribe about Towers and now you can’t say anything about the value, or curse, of them? WTF?!

Why would I want to do that exactly?

Then why bother building a stupid Tower? :lol:

@"karl stone" All that talk of PC suppression and you end up completely censoring yourself. How ironical. :snicker: