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Maybe I am misremembering but didn't I also (iAlso?) have a similar conversation with @iNow in the fairly recent past? Might even have been about effect vs affect.

I got a Covid nose swab last week.Not into my brain ,I think

They might mistake us for God and be worshipping us from afar. the Prince Philip syndrome. Maybe a high quality simulation could have predicted us

Our experience is based on such an infinitesimal section of our own evolutionary development that even that apparent roadblock needs to pass the test of possibly millennia of further development before it can pass its "Sigma test." Agreed it seems likely we will never encounter intelligent alien species in the flesh. If they had themselves survived long enough to discover us they might be well advised to keep their social distance based on present and past evidence.

First this,then I said I will finish up with this thread I started Back to school for me?

Reported for jocular plagiarism.🤔

No I don't like the dead string sound but I don't like the brand new string sound either. I have had a guitar for over 50 years without understanding the basics of what strings you could use or even what woods might sound better or different. This new guitar was a shock as it is at least twice as light as what I have been using all my life. I would rather it was heavier but I got the next (000) size down as that was all there was in my specs and it turns out fortuitously that it fits my little fingers a lot better and so it is much easier to actually play.

I wood upvote but then I wood have to downvote. Ah feck it I will then.

My name is my (now dead) dog's.I just bought a brand new Fender paramount acoustic and wonder if I need to change the strings.I normally do that when they break or get too rusty but this is a new instrument and I am curious as to how it could sound. Mind you they say it may take a few years for the wood to mature so maybe just wait😀

So pleased you could renew your subscription with the Delphic Oracle.

I agree with your premise that it is dangerous and misguided to disassociate ourselves from the environment we are part of but I don't suspect we have left any golden age in the past generations. I hope that the prison walls we have gathered around our world view are gossamer thin and that the existential fight we now have on our hands will blow them away for many of us. We will ,nevertheless very likely revert to new paths of delusion if or when the dust settles because that is what we are by nature ,flawed. So no ,previous generations, while with equal potential for admirable qualities as we do ,surely had their own Achilles heels. We all have our own hurdles to cross in our own time here and the hurdles do not have to resemble one another down the ages.

Since I am the OP ,perhaps I have the permission to drift in an out with a basic question or two that may or may not contribute to the ongoing state of the thread. So ,that being said do the qualities of being alive and that of being conscious overlap ? Overlap 100%,or are there important distinctions between the two ? Or have I perhaps veered into the muddy terrain of definitions vs what those definitions "point to"? If I am going off topic (even as the OP) please let me know.

Think I agree Interpretation may be overrated. It always ends up needing amending? Kind of meaningless(oxymoron?)We can only talk about the "universe" as it affects us directly The parts are the only things we can talk about confidently. Some parts seem to exhibits forms of consciousness and others don't but as a "gathered" whole we can't say ,can we?

There are no real distinct demarcation lines between conscious and unconscious thought processes ,are there?Don't they blend into each other? You can't have unconscious processes without some kind of a conscious process in the background (and vice versa),can you? At the very least,they must "talk to each other" don't they? Unless I am quite likely talking rubbish.

I think so I think the mind ,on a deep level just cannot accept that anything is not unexplainable and so instinctively creates a "placeholder" so as to move on to to the next activity. Not a matter of convenience but a biological necessity. "God of the Gaps?" (I wonder could that behaviour even be observed in other animals.It might require some evidence of a long cogitation process bridged by a gap in the middle with the shape of the gap somehow being retained for later use) Do animals react to the unknown with fear?That fear factor seems prevalent in religious behaviour.(the Greek gods weren't your luvvy duvvy types as I have heard) I

I would ,again with no statistics (would they even be possible) be surprised if emotional (is "emotional" the same as non-physical?) abuse (or manipulation ) could be anyways neatly disentangle from physical abuse. Or even that they were in some sense opposites. It all sounds very ad hoc to me,but I agree with what has been said that this recent case shouldn't be taken as especially indicative of the situation at large even if both these characters are entitled to fair - but not exhorbitantly fair treatment in the paths and circumstances that they have chosen or taken. O

Oh,how does that automatic ban work? What is the Peacemaker? An official organ of the state? Is Kissinger really banned or are you making some kind of a tendentious point? I get a range of prices around 5.60$ for gas in California from this website https://www.gasbuddy.com/gasprices/california

That 3rd link doesn't say Kissinger is banned from Ukraine either Any more links that do not back up your presumably baseless assertion? Indeed have you any more presumably baseless assertions to share?

Where in that link does it say he was banned from Ukraine?

God's uncle.

Same here.I hated playing sport but I enjoy watching rugby and even boxing as people's will to endure can be so admirable. But then we look at Ali and wish he had cut it short.

Yes,I had that in mind.There are positions in rugby where quick thinking and the ability to get the ball quickly from the feet of your own players means that those who play that position are much lighter build. Think the position may be called scrum half. https://www.rugbyhow.com/rugby-scrum-half.html I myself played hooker as it was meant to favour smaller people with good foot skills.

So you would have some fairly thuggish males battering some slightly built females? (I know this happens anyway between males but would that be acceptable for a 20 stone man mountain to injure a slightly built female in the course of a rugby match?) I don't know if you saw the video of Boris Johnson "running through" a young school child in a game of rugby for the photographers. Found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5NN5S9sPFM Not really very edifying.

@iNow Suppose one did segregate along purely physical lines would there be an argument for running competitions in parallel that were segregated on traditional lines and finding out which setup was more satisfactory? Also,in Rugby (other other types of sport) different sizes and builds apply to different parts of the same team. (some are runners ,some are grunters and some are fielders/catchers) Would each part of the team have its own physical standards so that it would be open to anyone regardless of sexual attributes?

I think the French would have a "head start" if there were international crochet competitions https://lisawallerrogers.com/2018/11/03/the-tricoteuses-of-the-french-revolution/