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An appeal to greater problems is actually a logical fallacy, and it's emotionally unhealthy as far as I know: it prevents you from dealing with your problems by distracting you with larger ones that you can't do much to solve. The greater takeaway from your grandmother's experience would be...

My condolences for your Great-Aunt, Wolf. -Duxwing

As grave as I might seem in our debate, I enjoy it, too; I've learned much from it, and you're quite the sharp opponent. But your head will split like a log beneath the ax if you don't rest, so sleep tight, friend. :) *tucks Etheri in* -Duxwing P.S. I've finished editing my response...

Politeness and manners are the means by which communication is refined; right now, we're looking communicate at all. So don't be afraid to ruffle a few feathers (have an awkward conversation) to prevent the entire chicken from being plucked (a meltdown). How it would hurt to...? Right...

First, a question: Why does your upbringing lead you to rarely talk back to people? Next, my advice: Your tendency to bottle up your feelings is responsible for your rows with your mother, for like you said, she prods and prods and prods and you bottle it up until you explode. To avoid the...

Well then, it seems that we need to get that woman some intestinal fortitude. -Duxwing

I think that an even better celebration would be a day dedicated to the thinkers who made the modern republic possible. It would certainly avoid the strangeness of being annually entertained by mock warfare. -Duxwing

Perhaps May would do best to divorce her husband entirely. -Duxwing

Hehehe indeed. :) -Duxwing

I don't mean to ad-hom, but you seem upset. A thing in itself is an entity as it exists outside our perception. Your sass-level is over 9,000! :D They make infinite recursions. Nope. It only goes one layer down. OK. This will be much more complicated. Do you mean to say...

These messages are becoming quite long. Look for a PM in your box. :) -Duxwing

I like my iPhone 5. It's tough, light, and has a solid internet connection wherever I go, not to mention having an all-day battery life, a charging speed that lives up to the name of its cable, and included washing-machine-proof earbuds. The suite of available accessories is also formidable...

Aww. Thanks! See the works of Emmanuel Kant. We can infinite regress our way to oblivion, here, but I'll add another layer: A pattern is a shared quality or repeating arrangement of things-in-themselves. Let's not. The form is in something already, and I don't like the prospect...

Sounds like somebody was little bit displeased with the old order. :) -Duxwing

Actually, he was pretty much bang on given what you'd said: The implication in the statement above is that he is stupid because he dropped out. Solitaire jumped on that hole in your logic like a bear on a hiker, and you got mauled. You really changed your tune after that mauling...

After a few minutes of thought, I've come up with some definitions: Content: The set of all things-in-themselves that comprise something. Form: The set of all patterns in the content of something. -Duxwing

Not at all. -Duxwing

Wow! You really blew Monty's argument apart! :) -Duxwing

I can attest to that as well. Proxy and I think so differently while having the same goals in mind. -Duxwing

ESFJ's, both young and old, make thunder-chat so annoying that I want to effect brutal violence on someone nearby, preferably with an ice-pick. -Duxwing

Eh? -Duxwing

What scam? :confused: Considering that the accusation (of May) is fundamentally a call for skepticism, I'm unsettled that it's gone unchallenged. Also, have you guys not noticed all the red flags in the relationship that Oedipus has described? -Duxwing

My reaction to stupidity is much like that of a turbojet engine to its ignition switch. At first it's just a quiet whine, then builds into a loud whoosh, and finally a howling roar that sucks people in and chops them up. Alternatively: Level 0: All systems normal, proceed on task. Level 1...

The payoff from a typology forum DoS seems such a tiny bang for so much work. Also, I've tried researching them, but nothing's come up. Do you anything more about them? -Duxwing

Lay it on us! :) Such as? To our credit, the human mind is complex. -Duxwing

Three cheers for the sysadmins! -Duxwing

I went to another site called "Redwall Abbey" and debated literary criticism, much to the joy of an English major therein. -Duxwing

Indeed. What a strange event. I wonder what they wanted with us. -Duxwing

Hehehehe! :) -Duxwing

Chill. I said "If you're feeling up to it". I never suggested that he ought to. -Duxwing

From what you've stated here, I'm almost certain that May is stuck under the thumb of her controlling husband and doesn't know how to--or doesn't 'want'--to either fix their marriage through counseling or get a divorce. Since she wants you to return, I have suspect that she sees you as a sort...

You're lying through your teeth, just like you did later on in the discussion when you said that you were merely exploring possibilities. -Duxwing

What are you talking about? Are you stoned? -Duxwing

Oh yes it does. Practical experience is much more beneficial when received under the guidance of a mentor. If they were working alone and failed because they'd made a tiny error but thought that they'd committed a far larger one, then who would tell them that they hadn't? You. The...

He's a teacher. :) -Duxwing

Solitaire U. The floor is yours, maestro. -Duxwing

Hmmm? -Duxwing

Awwww, thanks. :) -Duxwing

*reads thread title* *snicker, snicker* Apparently, you cannot English, either. :D -Duxwing Go on, go on. I'm just teasing. :)

I'm already well into puberty, and I haven't noticed much change except for a greater sense of self-awareness, increased intelligence, and the addition of a sex drive. I used to be somewhat more judgmental and closed-minded in my early teens, but I've (hopefully) lost much of those two vices...

To nitpick: Weed is more harmless to smoke than cigarettes. Permanently, oftentimes erasing long term memories of the time during which it was consumed. I'd say that neither ought to be consumed in the first place. -Duxwing

Maintain tense throughout a sentence. :D -Duxwing

Could you go into more detail? (Let's see if I understand your theory. I'll put it in my own words below) All teens (T1) are worried about the negative social consequences of trying and failing in front of their peers and therefore this worry causes a subset of all teens (T2) to avoid...

How does the Goliath rate on price-to-utility? Although it provides no portability, its very powerful without being very expensive, and it takes up very little space while freeing up all the room that is currently occupied by lesser computers and provides a nice home for any rescued AI...

Awww. :( At least you found beauty in what I wrote. :) -Duxwing

That doesn't sound good: skepticism is the basis for good reasoning. How do they get that way? :confused: -Duxwing

:) Yay! Will you do it? -Duxwing

You can always lean on me. :) -Duxwing

:) Rules are derived from axioms: in this case, any statement about what is and any statement about what ought to be. A criteria is a very specific kind of axiom that defines value-- in fact, it is exactly what the Is-Ought rule demonstrates to be necessary to make normative or prescriptive...

The problem isn't one of practice, but of theory. The elements in the sets "The Weak" and "The Strong" change after the application of Walfin's Rule (The Weak must revolt) making the sets themselves inadequately defined because Walfin's rule presumably presumes that the elements in "The Weak"...