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Hobbes' Choice wrote:Is anyone here going to post to defend the continued prohibition of so-called illegal drugs?
If so, on what grounds?

DUI, taxing, universal health care

-Imp

Nietzsche was right... "We have not god rid of God because we still have faith in grammar"

and our faith in grammar gives us "objective" certainty as well...

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The ET is about living an authentic honest life the FIRST TIME, as if you had to repeat it endlessly; as if would do it all again exactly the same. Surely you don't think Nietzsche meant it literally? I really don't know, as I understood it as the philosophical individualists response to Kant's uni...

Arising_uk wrote:

Impenitent wrote:Carousel made Logan run

-Imp

I thought it made Billy sing and dance?

different show

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except the conceptual abstraction of the mental state itself? must be a pineal gland... The pineal gland was certainly the theory of Descartes but it is an unloved hypothesis in modern biology. Cognitive neuroscience acknowledges no such concept as the physical "seat of consciousness" imp...

clear as ... If we're speaking of the notion of existence as that which is physically real then the answer is no. Although a mental state is of physical origin this doesn't mean that the conceptual abstraction which such a cognitive activity can bring forth is itself physical. except the conceptual ...

if it is in your mind, is it in a state of existence? If we're speaking of the notion of existence as that which is physically real then the answer is no. Although a mental state is of physical origin this doesn't mean that the conceptual abstraction which such a cognitive activity can bring forth ...

This question properly belongs in a language comprehension class for pre-schoolers rather than in a philosophy forum for grown-ups. Present: That which is in a state of existence. Future: That which is not yet in a state of existence. Past: That which is no longer in a state of existence. As always...

Carousel made Logan run

-Imp

Mr Impenitent: Do you assume that a past exists in a person´s memory ? So everybody who has heard of Henry VIII and in that way remembers him keeps a particular version of this past in his memory ? I assume similar things in other human minds, then again, I can not prove that other minds exist... b...

which past? the one in your memory? the one in his memory? the one in her memory?

and no, they are not the same...

-Imp

true, but can he do wha diddy?

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of course the distributer would never take more than their share...

trust your government master...

-Imp

Dionysian momentary creations ...

get ripped...

-Imp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1B_pZC8aWU Up here in space Im looking down on you My lasers trace Everything you do You think youve private lives Think nothing of the kind There is no true escape Im watching all the time Im made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean Im...