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...does change exist? Is it a substance? Yes change exists. Yes, change is in a substance. I guess what you are saying is that change is dependent on there being things to change. Time on the other hand would march on, even if nothing happened. I have difficulty to come with an example of something...

Harbal wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:01 am

uwot wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 4:37 am Well, does change exist? Is it a substance?

Yes it does exist. I have some in my pocket, as a matter of fact.

Well, that's metaphysics sorted.

bahman wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 12:57 pm Time exists otherwise the change was impossible. What could ever exist mean if time is not a substance?

Well, does change exist? Is it a substance?

Time experienced relative to the given state of one's biology. Well at the risk of repeating you and without getting into what exactly perception is, there is at least a strong correlation between physical states of our brains and conscious states. We all know that our perception of time is influen...

Rather than allowing change, how can you be sure that time isn't just a by-product that results from change? My guess is that you are on the money. If you combine that with popeye 1945's: Time is the perception of temporality... You get a universe in which stuff happens, but not all at once, and we...

Time is a substance (by substance I mean that it exists and has some property) that allows changes. The thing with any claim that time is a substance is that, even if it is true, we currently have no direct means of detecting it. Every method we have of measuring time is based on a physical event, ...

Harbal wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 7:50 pmThat's excellent, uwot, I wish I'd thought of it.

Thank you.

Harbal wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 7:06 pmA fly inside your house will tend to be drawn towards a window, but if you open the window, the fly will invariably shun it...
What is it with fucking flies?

Well, it's a bit like vampires, but exactly opposite. They can only go through a door you don't invite them to use.

I am the author of "Against Atheism and its scientific and rational pretensions" and would like to state that God is a rational and scientific deduction - here is why... Note : The definition of God used below is from Oxford Dictionary : A Creator. Oh goody! Another creationist. I think, ...

Just been reminded by my daughter that it's Mercury Prize time again. She sent me this from the shortlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcFD2b9NYrk

Astro Cat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 1:22 pmMosquitos are vectors of disease.

Ah.

Astro Cat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 1:22 pmI dunno lol, not sure what else would constitute a vector pun

Yeah. Needs work.
Here's one I made earlier: What do you call a 65 million year old pig? Jurassic Pork.

I'll get my coat.

Astro Cat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 1:08 pmWell I was just over here tryna tell dumb math jokes and bad pickup lines when I noticed all the fuck you’s flying around lol.

Gotta say that Wanker did say one thing that is coherent, and that is that you shouldn't have to explain jokes. But er, re that maths joke, why mosquito/vector?

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I am not only offended by the behavior implicit in the statement, but I am also offended on behalf of the owners of the forum whose decorum representative (AMod) has asked us (more than once) not to use strong expletives in our posts. We could end up going round in circles. I said at the outset tha...

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