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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2020, 12:19 am
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Replies: 63,325
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Logic |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2020, 2:42 pm
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Replies: 59
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| 7th Grade (c.1970): The German in the green house (4th from the left) drinks coffee, smokes Prince, and keeps fish as pets. The green house could also be 4th from the right if the order of the houses was reversed, but the rest would still be the same. That's exactly what I got, except the brand of ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Logic |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2020, 4:36 pm
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Erewhon wrote: la_fenkis wrote: The German has the fish. Very clever la_fenkis ! Did you solve it by visualize it with pen and paper, or just in your mind?
I wrote it out. It's a bit too much to keep in working memory. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Logic |
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Posted: 10 Jan 2020, 11:56 am
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Replies: 59
Views: 5,937
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: This or That |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2020, 7:43 pm
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Replies: 31,822
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Epoche, entertainment and ethics |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2020, 2:21 pm
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| storytelling and structure, not entertainment as such, I'd say. playing fortnight doesn't create meaning, but becoming the best fortnight player in the world fits well with stories about people becoming successful andfinding meaning in what they're doing, no matter how trivial. fortnight is still a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Epoche, entertainment and ethics |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2020, 12:18 pm
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Replies: 2
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| Epoche, entertainment and ethics: On the hyperreality of everyday life Abstract: In this essay, I argue that popular entertainment can be understood in terms of Husserl’s concepts of epoche, reduction and constitution, and, conversely, that epoche, reduction and constitution can be explicated in ter... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Weaponized Sacredness |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2020, 1:39 pm
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Replies: 5
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| flat earth theory is however a bad example, because it is a belief mixed with a bad scientific argument. there is a certain ridiculousness in its attempts to use its bad scientific argument to justify the belief. The scientific scepticism runs empty, as the flat earther blatantly reveals his bad sc... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Quantum Mechanics and an Ontology of Intersubjectivity |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2020, 12:24 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Putting these all together sounds like a mishmash that almost makes me want to cringe. As it should when you attempt to use a dictionary that way, which is an "argument from the dictionary" and is considered an informal logical fallacy. The intersubjectivity herein described is of a much ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Quantum Mechanics and an Ontology of Intersubjectivity |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2020, 7:35 am
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Replies: 6
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That is not in the least what this article addresses.
And it is perpendicular to the content of the article.
What is your point? |
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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: Got anything random to say? Adult Version |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2020, 7:33 am
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Replies: 20,225
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| Brought a married couple home with me tonight to have me as their third... The story of the day is long, featuring drinking beginning at 2PM, a reunition with an acquaintance met before, a movie attended until I ushered said person out at the behest of others, the abandonment of another person who'd... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: scale of -10 to +10, how do you feel right now? |
| la_fenkis |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2020, 6:37 am
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Replies: 35,360
Views: 1,862,965
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And then the night made a distinct turn in a different direction...
Life mostly provides crap, but sometimes providence.
I tend to build up into lament across shorter timescales than the average distance between the kindnesses of reality. |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: scale of -10 to +10, how do you feel right now? |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2020, 12:26 am
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| -5 I'm scared of humans. There was a guy at the bar tonight that was being really creepy to people I was around. I told him outside that "I'm sorry you struck out with those women," exhibiting a neutral affect. He swung his bike lock at me. It hit the pillar I was hiding myself behind. The... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND? |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2020, 2:52 pm
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Replies: 63,325
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Quantum Mechanics and an Ontology of Intersubjectivity |
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Posted: 01 Jan 2020, 2:28 pm
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| Something interesting I read back in October. Abstract: Contemporary theology has realized the importance of integrating what we know from the “new physics”—quantum mechanics and relativity theory—into the metaphysical and ontological categories used by theology to consider God, the world, and the G... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: scale of -10 to +10, how do you feel right now? |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 4:17 pm
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Replies: 35,360
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Read a number of papers yesterday. Laboring in interesting ideas after a time of indolence felt good. |
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