Now, imagine that you are a nail and you have a thread going from you to everything natural that you associate with. You have different threads going to your family friends, pets, the Earth, trees, etc. Each of those things also have threads going to other people and things.
I love the ontological argument for the existence of god.
If you read it as is, it's not uncommon to get a major "It's valid!!!!" response (some really reputable philosophers have had this reaction for a moment...it wasn't just a pleb like me.)
Only...it's really hard to get it online without the crtique of its validity coming first/used as a basic assumption.
Since you mention acid -- Daniel Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea should be to your liking. It isn't a radical argument as much as it is an exposition of how radical the implications of Darwinism really are once you really understand them and really think them through. (He compares Darwinism to a Universal acid that dissolves and transforms everything it touches.)
Brilliant stuff! Dennet is one of my philosophical heroes.
I think you seem just as smart Osso - really - I'm not just saying that. You observe and think a lot - that's being smart.
There's intelligence and then there's intellectualism.
I detect real intelligence in a lot of your postings- not to mention some real intellectualism in the areas in which you have interest.
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life is not about smart, So I go into my worry mode
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She seems to have a good head on her shoulders and gets a lot of support- she's exploring what's interesting to her - there could be worse things for her to explore -we both know that.
thanks, aidan. I'll revel in that for a bit. But..
I'm a laggard in many ways re any kind of back up re my accumulated opinions.. I've always read in swaths and rarely memorized.
So, I enjoy your take. I can be decimated quickly by the data prone.
And, I don't always agree with you, but so it goes.
Yeah- me too. But I have a friend who has memorized everything - so I'll say stuff like , 'What's that book by so and so that's about such and such...' and because I remember the basic themes - we can talk pretty in depth about it - he just has to supply the title first...
From 2nd Queenie's post, and we have to take it as it is, it seems as if she is a bit like a pressurised vessel that the foreman has screwed the safety valve down to the bottom to make the hams cook faster because the Chopped Ham canning line is stopped.
I think a spell in a convent might be best. That's what they used to do in the good old days with feral young women.
Assuming she is an inchoate alpha female, which I'm inclined to do, it is hardly possible to take her metaphor any other way. A future Kay Burley or Anna Botting.
From 2nd Queenie's post, and we have to take it as it is, it seems as if she is a bit like a pressurised vessel that the foreman has screwed the safety valve down to the bottom to make the hams cook faster because the Chopped Ham canning line is stopped.
I think a spell in a convent might be best. That's what they used to do in the good old days with feral young women.
Assuming she is an inchoate alpha female, which I'm inclined to do, it is hardly possible to take her metaphor any other way. A future Kay Burley or Anna Botting.
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