Everything posted by dimreepr
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Philosophy II
How do you know? Is life for a partially sighted person any less real than a person with 20-20 vision? If so, how? FTFY Also, how is this relevant to the topic?
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Philosophy II
Ironic, isn't it???
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Philosophy II
You didn't read this did you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle If you don't ask the right question, you'll never understand the answer...
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Philosophy II
If make your cake with talc instead of flour you'll end up with a lump of rock, what meaning does that have? Read this before you answer.
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Philosophy II
If you make a cake, it only has meaning if you can eat it...
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Philosophy II
This word salad just demonstrates your confusion, you may as well argue that the universe has intent, and since this isn't in the religious section, we can dismiss God out of hand; unless we trace back any meaning to "me"...
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Philosophy II
Then you need to ask better question's and think about what you, "really", want to say.
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If you get down in the mud with pigs, you end up smelling like one
I've never been able to smell how much I stink, and I don't wash...
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Philosophy II
It's actually the same question, philosophically speaking, what is the purpose of me? The answer to which is, learn from your teachers and then decide for yourself.
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What is Ground in electricity?
My car can do that... 😉
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Why can`t one sense god?
If you're sensitive to other people, perhaps you'll detect the benefits of a deity to them (God is made by people for people); God doesn't have to make a rock to achieve that.
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Gun control, which side wins?
When you fear the gun, don't walk into a firing range...
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Gun control, which side wins?
Of course not, you've entirely missed @iNow and @Phi for All point.
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Am I dead?
It's a question I've pondered for a while now: I love my food, the taste, the texture and being completely satisfied, the enjotment is X 1000 when I'm very hungry; so I tend to starve myself throughout the day (not very healthy but YOLO), the problem is, I also enjoy a JD. Now here's the rub; I sometimes have one too many and then eat; the problem is, the next day I can't remember the meal, I know that while drunk my enjoyment of the meal is no different to when I'm sobber (don't ask me how, it's a long explanation and tangential to my point). I'm me in the moment, but I'm also me because of my memories, so given this spectrum there has to be a point where the meaning of me is meaningless.
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'Johnson by Name, Johnson by Nature'
Why would Lord Kato want an extension on his mansion? He was smart enough to know that a well fed worker, neither has the time or inclination to challenge his privilege; Bojo doesn't seem to understand that fundamental social(ist) fact.
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'Johnson by Name, Johnson by Nature'
Many follies, particularly during times of famine, such as the Great Famine in Ireland, were built as a form of poor relief, to provide employment for peasants ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly
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'Johnson by Name, Johnson by Nature'
policy: the art of persuading others to agree with what you want, whatever it costs them...
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'Johnson by Name, Johnson by Nature'
He's a bloviating buffoon, that we voted for; the tunnel is a mobius strip and the light we see is a train; maybe one day we'll stop kicking the can down the road and put it in the bin: that would be the end, until it's not... Politics is like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog their both biting.
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English Language - words, meanings and context
Exactly...
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English Language - words, meanings and context
Perhaps you need to live in America to appreciate the subtleties...
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English Language - words, meanings and context
Sorry, I don't get the joke... 🤔
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English Language - words, meanings and context
And contemporary language is essential for that; you can teach people with out of date books/language but the meaning gets lost to easily; so we end up teaching intelligent people that it's OK to kill/hate/belittle those that you consider have wasted potential.
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English Language - words, meanings and context
It's all relative...
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Electromagnetic fields and the Big Bang
OK, break out the math and show us; I won't undestand if you do, I don't speak the language... MEH I can't be bothered, you don't even know the right word for hypothesis...
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Electromagnetic fields and the Big Bang
Believe it or not, you're not the first person to rock up on this site knowing their opinion is more valuable than the knowledge of the ages; few of us stay long enough to actually learn something.