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dimreepr

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  1. "Told you I was ill." - Spike It was a case of the brain adapting to the body it's given, without the deaf death thing, so no it's not a support for your position.
  2. "That death dumb and blind kid, sure plays a mean pinball". The brain adapts to whatever body it has, if we could cut the head off and keep the brain alive it would adapt to that too.
  3. It wasn't a criticism it was an observation, but however you spin it them = people. Because it's subconsciously dividing people, it's not about how you talk about them, we can all hide our feelings when them is bigger than us, it's about how we think about other people; it's easy to call them assholes, when everyone else does. Like I said it's an insidious word/concept.
  4. The mind is in a box that is mobile, it has the correct sensors to navigate its environment by default, bc if it doesn't it won't get too far...😉
  5. So why do you call them, them? A person without arms, it's just easier to see what the problem is, the other side of that coin is also, them. Them is such an insidious word, that it can be twisted to mean anything 'they' want... 😉 That would help me too, bc I'm too lazy to work hard, but I can think of a million ways to make work easier... 🙂
  6. One of my friend's, would eat from the compost heap when he couldn't do his colouring-in.
  7. Looks like you didn't read the thread, oh the irony... 🙄
  8. This is a topic on it's own; each one of us could be describe as disabled by that criteria. It's like anyone who declared themselves as a self made millionaire, they're deluded. If we think we can function in any way, without the help of other's, then so are we. The vast majority of us would struggle to stay alive, without the cacoon of society. I think the vast majority of us want to be better at life. It's not me that's accused of being diseased or disabled. I'm just referring to 'people' that struggle with what life throws at them, who here can say they don't?
  9. No-one is born a hermit, besides what is more pervasive, the party or the candidate? Even the most intellectually challenged can tell when things are fundamentally unfair. LOL, yes indeed, we're unlikely to solve any of the worlds problems in this forum, but then again every journey starts with the first step. You can't have it both ways... What reputable journalist came out of Alabama. 😉
  10. Of course not, bc you can only read the updated text, you have no access to the original text to make a comparison; it's essentially chinese whispers.
  11. I meant that I don't think it is a disease. I worked at a Rudolf Steiner care home, as the house father (their title) I'd stay there for 3 day's at a time, and I saw a lots of issue's both good and bad with lot's of people on the extreme end of the spectrum. I didn't see anything that made me think they had a disability, sure from my POV their 'severe cognitive and social issue's' was challenging bc I couldn't think like them, my natural empathy couldn't get a foothold. Their good days and bad days, resonates with ours, theirs just seem extreme to us, it's just another day for them. What I will say is, who are we to decide they even need a cure, let alone welcome it?
  12. First you have to explain why autism needs a cure.
  13. OK, let's put a pin in that for now... The other fork of my argument is the propagation of fear, a way more insidious threat to every society; it's the old question, is ignorance bliss? Most of what's in newsprint, beyond the local press, doesn't really affect us in any meaningful way bc it both point's to what we can't do anything about and it spins the meaning in favour of the party they support. If a hermit came out of his cave, everytime it was time to vote and asked a dozen people, randomly chosen, who he should vote for, I think his answer would be free of the press induced propaganda; ignorant? For some, knowledge is a burden. I'm not suggesting print et al has replaced anything, I'm suggesting the acceleration phase is too fast for society to find it's feet before it takes the next step. General AI, might be able to catch-up and find a balance, with an efficient algorithm that filter's what we're allowed to see.
  14. Indeed, the real world in which chumps like you aspire to be a Trump like fart...
  15. WTF are you talking about? A one dimensional view of life is better than the other three? Dude you're out of your depth... 😉
  16. If you're aware that memories can be rewritten, how do you know if the rewrite is perfect? My only fight at school was with the person who is now my best friend, and we both remember winning. That depends on the engineering degree you chose to study... There you go again, thinking influences can think, the gut doesn't control the brain, it just assists in it's abilitty to think.
  17. And all the knowledge of internet doesn't guarantee understanding anything, just reading a dry textbook without context is a good example of rote memorisation. Salons like this are like an oasis in a dessert of misinformation and misunderstanding, most of us are stuck in the desert of screen's, as described by Will later in the speech. My friend said to me "what about your position on democracy, where everyone who can hold a pen gets a vote? Doesn't that contradict your position?". My answer is no, bc that system only work's when everyone isn't reading from the same hymn sheet and it's upto guy's like you to provide the context; basically what I'm saying is understanding doesn't scale up easily and printing more isn't the answer.
  18. The meaning is understood bc the oratory has changed in step with now. Understanding is better than knowledge.
  19. In some way's I think it's easier, in that etymology has no real meaning in an oral tradition bc they only have to understand what it means now.
  20. The opperative word here is 'appeared/apparent' time can't slow down and a generous ghost can't interact with our world; whatever you think you remember has no basis in the reality of the moment, due to the way we automatically rewrite every memory in the context of the 'now' in which it was remembered IOW everytime we remember something, it's meaning is tweaked to suit our current mood. The software can only run on the appropriate hardware.
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