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Obvious Leo wrote: I go to other people's funerals just to obligate them to come to mine.

...and hope it's not a HOT day when it's time to count your "friends"!

attofishpi wrote: 'seek and ye shall find'

...and you always will. It all depends on whether you're willing to accept gold or fools gold. There is much more of the latter to give you the false belief that you actually found something.

Obvious Leo wrote:Hex. I have many dictionaries in my house but couldn't find this word in any of them.

What is mastuabtion?

...that's when you keep on rubbing your eyeballs instead of the other ones reading things you can't believe.

Philosophy Now wrote:L.A. Rowland campaigns to instate Ernest Hemingway as a philosopher-hero.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/72/Hem ... d_the_Hero

That would be another notch in philosophy's demise. If he wouldn't have blown his brains out he would have blown his reputation long before now.

bobevenson wrote:

Dubious wrote:Man cannot live by Capitalism alone!

Free-market capitalism is the only proper economic system for everyone, everywhere, at any time in history, no ifs, ands or buts.

Don't quite agree. In any event "free market" Capitalism no-longer exists anywhere including the West.

tbieter wrote:What is a mlnd that is not normal, but is not properly considered as diseased?

Based on my experience with philosophy forums and many I've had the unfortunate pleasure to meet in life, it's the normal that ain't normal if "normal" means a state of balance.

Dalek Prime wrote:Or can't afford to go to the opera...

That's one of the differences between North American depression and European depression.

you're not sure of what you got. As a father of two adult children I'll agree with this. You're never sure of what you've got but the same could be said of their mother. Even after 37 years I'm still left scratching my head from time to time. They're likely "scratching their heads from time to...

Arising_uk wrote:With expensive help sure.

That's like spending money on a kid before he's born. When finally the prepaid version arrives, like a box of chocolates, you're not sure of what you got.

This guy would have made a greater contribution as a Hollywood opera singer. The only way he can REALLY prove his theory is to put himself in a blender and do the double slit to see where he ends up.

I don't think torturing a baby is ever justified, but torturing most participants in this forum is definitely justified. The only tortured participant is you Boob. Yes, I do understand that, and I believe it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment not permitted by the government under the U.S. Con...

There's obviously a major imbalance in the system as you pointed out. Since when hasn't there been when it comes down to the policies or lack thereof of in governments and corporations. But in this case, compared to having to pay taxes, fees, surcharges or whatever for which we have no choice, why b...

The internet is no help. I can say the doctor who did the surgery said it was the alcohol that was applied (presumably to an open wound) during the surgery that brought on the pain. PhilX Cut off a chunk of skin and you're definitely going to feel it. Applying a disinfectant like alcohol and that's...

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing. Macbeth (Act V Scene V). I don't buy it myself but Billy the Shake was convinced of it. He also had this to s...