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Hey, Paradox. :) -Duxwing

I've been well and welcome you to Skype with me. :) -Duxwing

Happy Birthday! :) -Duxwing

I missed your message last night. Would you please not leave your "Online" marker on 24/7? It confuses people. -Duxwing

When do you want to chat again? -Duxwing

Hey! Want to Skype? :) -Duxwing

Yeah. Want to chat? -Duxwing

Do you want to talk? -Duxwing

You're welcome. :) -Duxwing

Yeah. >_< Yes. :) -Duxwing

Makes sense. Oh, good. :) Agreed. Alright. Excellent. Agreed. Agreed. -Duxwing

Delusional beliefs cause in humans what programmers call "arbitrary errors" in machines: behavior almost completely incomprehensible without extensive knowledge of the deterministic system causing it. Delusional beliefs have, for example, led to the ethnic cleansings throughout history by...

@Mods Whatever I may be doing in other threads, I created this thread thinking that its purpose of beginning a debate was obvious because of the thread's title and opening post; were it not, I apologize and ask how threads intended for debate should make their purpose obvious. Also, have I...

Would you please elaborate? -Duxwing

If it's so hard to discern, then how can you discern it? :confused: -Duxwing

My point is that radical acceptance is a bad idea because it would cause us to give up on life and therefore suffer terribly. -Duxwing

I have not spoken-up when I thought speaking-up would do more harm than good or when I was overwhelmed. I cannot remember a time when such disproportionate fear as you describe prevented my speaking-up. Yep. *hugs* I therefore am doubly-glad you stand-up and debate! :) Yep. Are we...

I accept your surrender and therefore declare victory. :) -Duxwing

:D :D Compositing AngelOne and my arguments, we all are psychotic! -Duxwing

D'oooooh! >_< A coincidental and interesting trivium: every adult dog can feel more emotions than can a baby. Ok. *hugs* :) :D I would ask the sink for its receipt or how it made the shoe. I thought you used children because they were mostly free of cultural artifacts and...

Perhaps the website I read misrepresented the philosophy. I have considered what you have said and dislike being insulted. Everyone's interpreting their perceptions and these interpretations' sometimes containing human errors is common knowledge. Whoever perceives absent things or cannot...

Radical acceptance would also apply to any other problem; e.g., having a broken-down car or being in a burning building. I am unsure of your point: is it that what I suggest is too frightening for some and therefore not applicable to all? Thanks. :) I understand Radical Acceptance to...

Social contracts are not owned but entered: the lovers would be parties thereto. They contract to mutual aid and enjoyment, and breach of contract results in arbitration. On television: pulling a Custer before kids today (no dehumanization of other races) would traumatize them. When did...

If it's highly contextual, then what's the point of reasoning about it? Radical acceptance has no context: it is absolute. Eh? Why would you think of grabbing it in the first place? You would have to be a lunatic to, like the scenario implies, be suddenly possessed by the urge to seize the...

@Cognisant - Your analogy to toys, whereupon your argument rests, is invalid because people are unlike toys: children will wail whether one breaks someone they know or someone they do not. Consequently, the rest of your argument falls. Furthermore, even if it were true, any owned thing is an...

Humans are not irreducibly irrational: they can reason and empathize and change their ways if shown good cause. Their ascent from the dark of ages past evinces this quality. And without abstraction, ethics, which are indubitably necessary, would become incomprehensibly particular because every...

Whom or what are you mocking? :confused: You just said that assertiveness would be better, and now you're saying that you can't say that anything would be better: which did you mean? :confused: Obviously, deontological codes cannot be complete, and if the person cares not about the...

Ok. But is that not merely the trivial maxim, "Remain sane"? I see nothing "radical" about that idea unless, beyond my awareness, people so regularly lose their minds that not losing them is novel. But this is banal to sane people because they already accept that they perceive reality...

The question is absurd because it speciously presupposes that "life" and "meaning" are well-defined in their context and that for "life" exists some "meaning". -Duxwing

@PhoenixRising Your definition should exclude such absurd ideas as loving prey. Prey is in my subconscious framework (humans are omnivorous) and fulfill a role associated with self-benefit (food). Therefore, by your definition, I love it and therefore would presumably not, like I do, have it...

My argument is not that the unacceptable should not be accepted but that radical acceptance leads to the absurd conclusion that it should be. Syllogistically: Radical Acceptance - Accept everything. Empirical - The unacceptable is some thing. Therefore - Accept the unacceptable...

Radical Acceptance is madness of the worst sort. Uncriticized, this beast ravages the world, twisting and breaking, ripping and tearing our feelings from us and burying them under denial without a shred of justification. It does the above not by asserting one thing and insinuating the...

One writes "manner" not "manor" of speculation. -Duxwing

I think you mean 22 caliber: a 22mm is an autocannon. :) -Duxwing

Awww! :) -Duxwing

Be authentic and find accepting people. :) -Duxwing

The dark, spiders, snakes, and things that go bump in the night. Also, whatever lurks in the seaweed just beyond the beach: I refuse to walk through it without a wetsuit and accompanying boots. -Duxwing

@Adaire I thought you already had children. Who was talking about having had them too early? Also, did I say I was judging the children who were not smart or intellectual? -Duxwing

Smart, intellectual children fascinate and inspire me. :) -Duxwing

One would have to be a lunatic in order to be so upset as he was; therefore, were one of us so upset as he was, that one would be a lunatic. -Duxwing

Why? :confused: Anyone filled with anger at any group might lash out. A clinical trivium: he was not far from his original, narcissistic mindset but rather quite close because he never emotionally developed like almost everyone does. Treatment would have been extremely difficult because he...

Type shmype, he's a narcissist who lost his narcissistic supply of female approval and became so enraged that he lashed out. This event is sad not only because his emotional problems were excruciating and their results worse, but because were any of us so upset as he was, we might do something...

My logic is not flawed because it describes not dynamic but static situations, and I apologize for not having declared that domain definition. -Duxwing

Why does your second sentence follow from your first? Also, you misunderstood my logic, which is: -If A understands B, and if B understands A, then A and B understand each other. -By the law of contraposition, if A does not understand B, or if B does not understand A, then A and B do not...

Your conclusion is false because you're confusing three different statements: 1 Sensor understands Intuitive 2 Intuitive understands Sensor 3 Sensor and Intuitive understand each other (i.e., "relate") If either 1 or 2 is false, then 3 is false because 3 is the union of 1 and 2. If 3 is...

Hardly. We iNtuitives simply take for granted what is geared for us; e.g., the humor, symbolism, and discourse pervading society. For example, consider a politician making a speech advocating a humanitarian invasion and the reactions of the four temperaments: SJ: Hrmph. Politicians these...

IQ tests... moral philosophy... political rant. Well, that escalated quickly! -Duxwing

I suspect that reviewers of Works Cited pages have instead of learning quick verification of sources learned quick estimation of paper mass. Perhaps I should therefore write Principia Essayica with the First Law of Essays being, "cum auctoritas, cum veritas," or "as sources, so truth." :D -Duxwing

Kerbal Space Program has made me somewhat literate in rocketry. I can talk about specific impulse vs. thrust-to-weight ratio in interplanetary transfer tugs and how these properties relate to delta-V budgets and transfer timetables, the necessity and requirements of launch escape systems on...

I seek not to prove whether Bud is intelligent or not but rather to disprove that he is perceived idiotic in all environments: this forum would be a good test environment because it, unlike his meatspace environment, would not misperceive his likely eccentricity as stupidity. Thanks. :)...