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No, I am known to be honest. However, I am often accused of being a chameleon. People think I am sometimes not entirely genuine when they witness my behavior in different social contexts. But the truth is I don't "act", I just blend nicely because, while I don't necessarily like people, I am...

The problem is illustrated in language. Nothing= no thing. We perceive things only as they are. Thus we can conceive of things only as filled space or vacuum. Everything in our perception is centered around the concept of things, in relation to time and space. So we can not imagine things...

Ahh, sorry I assumed as much, just forgot to say it. Even if I did call them however, there is a low statistical chance that I would ever see my stuff again. Insurance is also probably going to do very little.

Clearly I do not dispute that. But why would one feel the need to call him a person, or to treat him as such? That goes beyond empathy, again a dog passes that same test. Or, if one was to suggest that he wasn't a person, would that cause offense and why? The answer is, generally speaking, that...

That seems to be the only stuff you really need. First thing, I cancel all of my stolen credit cards. I then knock on a friends door, and request some clothing. Then drive to the bank, and withdraw some savings, and buy some clothes. I assume, if I had been out of work, then this robbery would...

Fair point. Perhaps it would be easier to ask the question that way. The real question has to do with the definition of a person. I suppose I should do away with my habit of using the two words human and person interchangeably, for sake of clarity. You expressed that in far clearer terms...

Not at all. As I said, all living beings are deserving of empathy. But should is different from can. Many people try to save their pets, but that doesn't mean that they couldn't put them down if they are sick. I think it moves more down to the level of an animal rights question, rather than...

Yes, it is true that humans are mere animals. We eat, breath, reproduce, and then die. But one can not deny that we are exceptional in our ability to imagine differently, and to strive for more than what our genes have programmed us to do. We have the power to defy them. So, the judgement of...

Before I begin, may I say that this post will be controversial, and may bring some to tears and others to froth at mouth. If it does either, forgive me. May I also say, that it seems as if it could fit under multiple different forum sections, among which are philosophy, spirituality, and human...

I suppose so:D

I agree. How do you see the man with the guitar, and one leg? His death fascinates me. He taunts the preacher, and his flock, with the announcement that undertaker is coming. Then, when panic has reached its height, he dies in as much fear as anyone else, running away from the mob that seeks...

I found this video on YouTube recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PGzghUQRVk8 Please discuss. It seems a smart commentary on religion, and perhaps just fear in general.

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I think it is an adolescent thing. That, or it's stress induced.

Yes, I used to get them every once and a while. They carried an awful feeling of dread and malevolence with them, indeed it was almost a demonic level of such. They could last for a long time, but whether that was in reality or in my mind I do not know. You try to move, but you can't, and all...

I have considered busking before. It seems like it would be fun, however begging just seems disgraceful.

The game as I meant it was between competing frequency of personality types, and more essentially between those with different cognative organization and prioritization. Even between the personality types, I imagine that they are similar enough in terms of organization that thoughts and...

In game theory, there are stable sets. When enough of one thing propagate they form a norm. Regardless of what this norm is, if it is stable, anything that deviates from this norm will be penalized. Thus, in society anything that deviates from the norm is considered bad, if only because it is...

Won't we all just be extroverts? Real extraverts feed off of other's energy, thus giving them our thoughts will feed their thought processes even more so than when we merely speak. As for the introverts, we never stop thinking, so the hive chatter would be heavily broadcasted by us. So in...

Satan... he's awesome

I'm 50ish percent English and 50ish percent Sicilian, with touches of other things like Austrian. I'm your standard well blended American of European descent.

Re: Distill Your Crap Sadly I went through a growing up phase where I dispensed with my Legos. I do regret that decision.

Not by means of effort or necessity, I have realized I only need/use a few thing that I own, and can keep my list of things well under ten. Perhaps it is the simple external world of the INTP that allows this, I do not know. Anyways, how much of your crap do you actually use, and how much of...

This, while possible, due to the reactionary nature of men, I think highly unlikely. Most will only look for surface explanations, and end up blaming the system itself. How many people said capitalism failed in 2008? It wasn't the systems fault but rather bubbles caused by central interference...

I don't think that the person you hand the bill to is specifically harmed. The bills are in every way indistinguishable. This is a hypothetically perfect method we speak of. So by receiving their "legitimate" change, I am in effect not getting anything qualitatively different. The moral trouble...

Very true. Hence my watch the world burn suggestion. On a large scale, nothing could be more harmful to the establishment. It would be a weapon of mass destruction, greater than any nuclear bomb.

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Suppose you have a perfect method for making fake bills of your preferred denomination and type. (And I only mean money, not Prada Handbags!) It doesn't really matter what they are, for the sake of this thread. The only thing that does is that you are perfectly able to, and could do it at a...

Space elevator is the way to go. First begin with a rather large space station, resting in a geostationary orbit. Then, under the desired point on the equator build a massive base for the tether. At multiple intermediate areas, place smaller less significant space stations, at more intermediate...

She did have perception. She is therefore not a valid counter. But no object can be independently conceived of without an understanding of its properties. Knowledge is not inherent, but gathered through sense data. We are born as a blank slate. Without sense data, one can not conceive of...

What about the day when computers have rights?

All I mean to say I'd that cutting it out of my diet completely would seem unhealthy to me. Whether I maintain a western diet is another subject entirely.

I eat meat. I evolved to eat meat, and I am an omnivore. This is my place in nature as a human. It would be wrong, I think, to deprive my body of what it was built to eat. For health's sake I eat a balanced diet.

To bide time until they reach perfection, or until we can find a way to escape our bodies. Its all just a game of extension.

Can we draw a distinction between culture and culture. There is art and music, which I love and adore. These I can appreciate privately, and going to a concert hall doesn't involve anymore socializing than going to the movies. So I love it. Then there is culture, like public celebrations and...

True enough, unless of course the procedure is coupled with restorative treatments, stem cell assistance, and other equally extravagant things. If immortality is the goal, then surely all possible measures would be taken to ensure maximum longevity. It is just a fact that nothing can last...

:facepalm: Ahh, my mistake then. That makes much more sense. But I am also disappointed because I thought it would give us an active look at a living brain. Sad, but still cool.

What are the physiological consequences of purging the lipids in the brian, and replacing them with a gel matrix? Does the effect the longevity of the organ or its functioning, and does it significantly alter the chemistry of the brain? It is highly fascinating.

I am sure the procedure would not be wasted on people with degenerative disease, unless that was also cured

I hate stats, though I love pure math, like calc or geometry. I just cant take raw data processing, and have no attention to detail, so I always miscalculate. Yes, all I need to do is follow a formula, but god damn it is boring. The tedium is unmatched by anything else in my experience.

I doubt it is any different than temporary clinical death, experientially

Kaboom

something along these lines http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSNj3n10vO8

@TimeAsylums exactly

I've been trapped in WV and the surrounding tristate area of MD and PA for my whole life. It is really pretty, I like the far reaching green expanse of forests and hills. But the people are dull, and there is no such thing as civilization. Not one damn thing to do outside my house, and the...

Can we use the black death as an example of the principle that death makes life better for the rest of us? By the time the ordeal was over, labor was in hot demand, and wages went up because there was a shortage in the supply of workers (1/3 of europe died). Ultimately, people moved away from...

First, this system is an entirely passive thing. Nobody is engineering death, and this is not eugenics. It is operated by the passive hand of NATURAL SELECTION. The OP emphasizes the necessity of death in life, not the active irradiation of life. Second, with that in mind, natural selection...

@Thurlor The system that the OP describes is entirely undiscriminating. It has no bias, and is simply natural selection acting in a new manner. The OP does not claim to be exempt. Besides, humanity, like all other organic life, has an inherent drive to reproduce in order to pass on its genes...

Well, In most senses I wouldn't call myself a Kantian. I think he confused in some ways symbols of mathematics, and mathematics themselves. In math, the division between analytic and synthetic a priori reasoning gets destroyed if one were to think of numbers as tallies instead of numerals. In...

I thought about making a blog... But then I thought who the hell would read this but me?! So I just keep a journal instead.