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Btw, the guy's undies aren't falling down so it's not balanced. :lol: Yeah, but it wouldn't be balanced if his booty was directly showing, either. The last thing I need is to be responsible for driving from their closets any sufferers in here of a lesser form of acrorectophobia , via their terrifie...

henry quirk wrote:And, I must say, your new non-sexist avatar is rather offensive (cuz it's non-sexist).

It's time to navigate these rocky waters with the solution of the movie / television industry.

That's a furry beaver, though. The dominant appearance for the last 25 years or so has been more like the sphynx. But indeed a trend / fixation I wouldn't mind see going into decline when it comes to spotting rodent / feline critters. Evolution gave them a hairy coat for a reason.

I must say that Hammocks sexist avatars are rather offensive. I'm not PC either. Heh. It was a somewhat politically active [bisexual] feminist who introduced me to retro pin-up art. She got a kick out of its vintage, innocent-rated "naughtiness" as compared to the "explicit vulgariti...

is there a scientific reason why a rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven As another possibility subsumed under "freedom" from the orderly system of outer experience, "heaven" (and any potential scarcity of the affluent) would have no presence or evidence in the phenomenal ...

jackles wrote:is you already dead

If someone is a spacetime realist, I reckon they should believe they are not only planted at the cemetery on the road ahead, but also a crib-confined baby in the back forty.

jackles wrote:ha ha even you brutus

If you're referring to me and my sudden rash of editing, that's to make you feel more comfortable about trying it yourself. I.e., "If that idiot bloke hammock can go back and correct a post then so can I!"

[Edit: One word added for slight clarification.]

bet he has iq of 178. and toys with us[the unlettered elite] Typical Mensa ruse. A strategy they probably adopted from those eccentric oil barons of old that dressed in overalls and drove dilapidated vehicles. One of my cousins is a medical doctor who sounds like he's up in that range. His patients...

will it ever be possible to discus a noninterlectual form of philosophy. Non-intellectual? You mean of an unregulated, casual, relaxed, and somewhat recreational ilk? Sure, there has always been that version of it. Most of the ideational exchanges taking place on the web are by those of "us&qu...

are feelings on things by an individual the identity of the individual.for example if someone was to say that they loved fishing.is it the love that loves the fishing. Emotional feelings, desires, and somatosensory dispositions were sort of like the internal pre-language of organisms. Hunger tells ...

arising i got to admit to not being very computer conversent.wheres the spell check button i cant see one any where.got that arising i cant see any spell check button.reckon your makin it up about a spell check button.ha ha. I use Firefox, but doesn't dinosaur Internet Explorer even have an inline ...

its as if certain happenings in the event are not random at all .but are a sort of programed entanglment of a common denominator.?if so what is this invisible common denominator that guides the event like a syncranising puppetier. In the course of staring over the years [when bored or waiting] at c...

Had we been "primitive" we would simply eat them. And SAVE billions! "I wouldn't eat it," Vincent Williams, 49, an unemployed former bank worker, said with a look of disgust on his face. < Source > Yes, there's a misconception that North Americans will eat anything from unseason...

Suicide - The ultimate frontier? New territory for whom? The Abrahamic-influenced culture of the West? It's long history of autothanatophobia and classic felo-de-se stigmatizations? "Zzzzzzzz...." sounds wafting from the Nipponese audience watching the "groundbreaking" Euro/Angl...

yes by my reckoning the vacuum is the unmoving source of consciousness.the vacuum is totaly indistinguishable to time and space and energy event.in other words it the vacuum is omni present and nonlocal in all localitys no matter at what scale. vacuum=consciousness.but how?and if its true then the ...