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On Mon, 23 Sep 2024, oldernow wrote:
> On 2024-09-22, D wrote:
>
>>>> Reproductive? Another child on the way then? ;)
>>>
>>> Well, were it a few biological decades ago....
>>
>> Well, I don't know about her lover, but in the bible,
>> wasn't the woman 99 years old? ;)
>
> Well, you know, those biblical people were a lot more
> robust than us modern day pussies....
They were just better in those days, just better!
>>> Familiar. While I've enjoyed talking to him, I have to hold
>>> on tight as he goes on too long, ever mindful his politics
>>> are the opposite of mine, and thus might a meltdown ensue
>>> should I forget - *or* become sufficiently frustrated to
>>> "accidentally" mention The Evil One.... :-)
>>
>> This is dangerous. My favourite is climate change. It
>> seems to be the single best way to get europeans jumping
>> up and down and screaming. Much more potent in europe than,
>> say, Trump.
>
> It hit me the other day that leftists are the throng
> that favor not reproducing (e.g. abortion), as well as
> containing the most who are openly describe themselves as
> candidates for offing themselves.
>
> I'm *almost* (not really..) embarrassed to admit enjoying
> the thought of a Trump win possibly constituting a "nudge"
> of sorts....
Ahhh... yes, brings back good memories! I must have written a lot of
emails to the mainstream journalists during Trumps last reign,
ridiculing them and telling them how happy I was at their hand wringing.
Those were the days!
A Trump win would give me 4 years of excellent schadenfreude! =D Due to
his age, we'd better make those 4 years count!
>> Scott Adams is a brilliant man! Sadly he makes too long
>> shows for me. I simply don't have time to listen to all of
>> it, but sometimes, when the spirit moves me, I do listen
>> to bits and pieces.
>
> Yeah. We're not with the show every day, but as often as
> we can fit him in. It's so refreshing to listen to someone
> making an honest effort to be objective.
Really?!?! Gasp!
> Not that I'm acquiescing to the notion of there being an
> objective reality, mind you.... ;-)
Ahh... You discovered your mistake! ;)
>> I wish! He is notoriously difficult to get through. I
>> mean, his book "on certainty" (released post humously,
>> and is just a compilation of numbered notes on the subject
>> and comments on G.E. Moores "here's a hand" which I have
>> referred to in the past) is just 96 pages, and yet I cannot
>> read more than a few pages at a time.
>
> Yeah, but you're married, so of *course* your attention is
> being perpetually torpedoed.... :-)
Oh yes... and note that if I ignore it, I'm scolded. But if I dare to
come up with a tiny little comment when the wife is studying, fury will
be released and it is of course all my fault! ;) Listen, alt.philosophy
brothers! Such is the married life!!
>> For instance, one interesting thought about skepticism that
>> he has, is that skepticism always has to be done from the
>> basis of something, and that due to this, ultimate doubt
>> is self refuting, since it doubts itself.
>>
>> No you tell me what that means, and if that made you not
>> doubt the external world. ;)
>
> Well, for me any sliver of examining examining (not a
> typo), redirecting attention to attention itself, etc.,
> "get's me there", so to speak. I consider ex-perience
> delusion for it being the result of attention leaving
> itself - the only reality - as it were.
>
> (The "ex-" being hyphenated to emphasize the direction of
> attention being "outward".)
Oh dear. We are here again! I'm afraid you lost me, but maybe that is by
design? Maybe your texts are like zen koans? Yet, I'm afraid I have not
yet reached enlightenment reading them. ;)
>> He also speaks of degrees of knowledge from the observable
>> to the inferred.
>
> That sounds rather Kamala Harris to me. :-)
I'm sure Wittgenstein rotates in his grave right now!
>>> Huh. Interesting to read there's still a Europe. I keep
>>> hearing it's become a mere remote extension of Muslim
>>> countries....
>>
>> That is certainly the trend. That is why it is very
>> refreshing to read history, when there still was a
>> europe. ;)
>>
>> And also it does remind usu that the spanish managed to
>> drive the arabians out of spain. So who knows? Europeans
>> did drive out the arabians once, about 1000 years ago so
>> maybe it will happen again?
>>
>> One can always hope!
>
> Reminds me of McCartney's wisdom a la "get(ting) back to
> where you once belonged"....
Those beatles guys sure had a song for every occasion!
> I'm off to a heck of a start of a day. I almost
> never remember dreams, but still remember three
> mega-nightmares. And it's been three nights since
> any THC. Did down a goodly quantity of my cherished
THC? Not for me. I have madness in the family and I don't want to wake
up any demons. But my brain and philosophy usually gives me the highest
highs without such aids. ;)
I do have to say though, that I am enormously curious about psylocybin
induced experiences and the effects and potential of them.
> "Ketel One", though. But I'm suspecting it's mostly a
> combination of age, and my wife riding me hard In All The
> Ways .
Wow! Keep at it, and the child will come! ;)
> I had some kind of an "episode" a few years ago that had
> my wife calling for an ambulance, and I had a telltale
> aspect of that in the middle of the night, namely awakening
> to a mouth full of sore teeth for grinding them. I'm also
> constantly smelling something "burning", even though others
> smell nothing of the sort. I playfully told my wife it's
> because I'm going to hell, and possibly already have a
> couple toes descending slowing thereto.... :-)
>
>
Brilliant! Applause! =) Which circle are you aiming for? ;)
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