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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... 🙂

One of my friend's, would eat from the compost heap when he couldn't do his colouring-in.

Looks like you didn't read the thread, oh the irony... 🙄

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?

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. 😉

My point from the start has been, your faith has no objective measure.

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.

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?

That is the nature of our existence...

No, just questioning the disease.

Too what? Stain? That would be interesting, if the stain decided to be indelible.

First you have to explain why autism needs a cure.

Not enough of them have uncomfortable furniture, yet.

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.

Indeed, the real world in which chumps like you aspire to be a Trump like fart...

WTF are you talking about? A one dimensional view of life is better than the other three? Dude you're out of your depth... 😉

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.

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.

The meaning is understood bc the oratory has changed in step with now. Understanding is better than knowledge.

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.

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.

So is a mirror, for instance why is the image back to front instead of upside-down (a paraphrased question by Richard Feynman.). Except a Spanish bee wouldn't understand a good old British bee; metaphysical your way outta that?

He also famously refused to write thing's down. The topic title was meant as a metaphor, the juxtaposition of the rate of change in a world that supposedly understands what 'the sword of Damocles' means. Writ large in the opening of Will Self's speech that I linked to, in which he explains the value of him not writing his speech. The word gay for instance, in my lifetime, has changed meaning quite radically; if my grandchildren read a book of the sixties that suggested the pope was gay, etymology would be of little help if their teacher was biased enough to want the pope to be homosexual, to put the cat among the chickens, perhaps. Not at all, it's simply a sign that my thoughts are hard to capture in this format and that I'm quite stupid and slow witted. I'm sorry that your biased perception of me, makes you so angry; but are you aware that you don't have to read anything I say? It's not the first time though is it, please stop peppering my topic's with your personal attacks.

Bolded mine, How do you know? Have you actually had an NDE (if you say yes, I'll now that you're lying? That's the exact antipode of your previous argument, like I siad "the wiring is complicated, the neuron is as simple as it gets".

That's my point, understanding a complicated concept is far more likely to be taught effectively through the spoken word, than the written version of knowledge, bc that version is always at least one generation out of date; and I think that might be the tumor of societies, since every empire in history has failed, for some reason. My apologies for my lack of verbosity/eloquence, for some reason god didn't give me that gift...🙄