Frankly speaking, I haven't the foggiest! Those files are not in my database as of now!

Perhaps it was bittersweet, like reality itself. :wink:

Bittersweet :
1 : being at once bitter and sweet especially : pleasant but including or marked by elements of suffering or regret a bittersweet ballad bittersweet memories. — Gnomon

BothAnd?

Nice!

Tears of Joy (Never, unfortunately, experienced that!).

Paradoxical laughter (Just a normal day in my life).

Extrema (of pleasure & pain) are singularities where the known laws of nature fall apart. Sancta Trinita, Unus Deus (ecstacy/rapture/euphoria) and, at the other end, the :cry: ... :chin:

How can I account for your life? It's quite simple. We live in two different worlds. Who says there is only one? My world is one with gods, yours one without. Now who is right? Both! — Hillary

:fire:

The way I see it, the subject matter of science is such that consciounsness, hence pain & joy, is irrelevant. You don't get special treatment from gravity because you can suffer.

Zoom down now to the quantum world (Martin Reese) and consciousness becomes important or so they say.

A Theory of Everything (a union of the micro & macro world) is when subjectivity and objectivity are reconciled!

The Queen for all l care is an old decrepit whore — Wittgenstein

You maybe related to her! :snicker:

servants — unenlightened

People say "I'm a servant of god" with great joy and immense pride!

@180 Proof

Non serviam!

The seeds of a revolution in there somewhere. Lather, rinse, repeat!

...And stay skeptical. — Carneades.org

If it's not a sinusoidal function what is it then?

God can not do what is logically impossible, such as making 1 + 1 = 3 — SpaceDweller

:snicker:

From the heart, I hope. — Janus

I hope too.

The heart of reason or reason of the heart. — Janus

It's just a thought!

(Some) plants don't want to be eaten. Roses have thorns! Other plants produce toxins. Plants also have a healing mechanism when they get injured. Is this an indication that plants have feelings? They hurt?

Then there's the issue of sweet and tasty fruits. Plants want us to eat them. Well it's actually fellatio/cunnilingus (fruits grow from flowers which are, truth be told, plant dicks & pussies), but hey, nobody's complaining. Think about it the next time you chow down on an apple in front of your kids! :grin: And they make such a hue and cry about bestiality!

The Afortiori Paradox of Omnipotence

Miracles are invariably attributed to god(s). Mircales are, as per Hume, improbable events. Surely (?), if god(s) are as great as we think they are, they should be able to do the impossible!!!

The paradox: The argument is backwards in terms of the concept of a fortiori. It should've been if god(s) can do the impossible, for certain they can work miracles (improbabilities).

Anyone have any idea how to resolve this for me!

You're on the right track!

creates justifies a power structure — Paulm12

:scream: :grimace:

That's why instead of logos, I advocate xin!

Good luck!

Whatever you eat must be "killed" either before or during eating it. "Ethical problem"? :roll: — 180 Proof

Ok, ok!

We have to be very careful with words!

I don't knoww what "ethical problem" you're alluding to? — 180 Proof

Abort(ion) = End (prematurely) = Kill! :chin:

Jains should be up in arms against abortion! Why I don't hear a peep out of them puzzles me deeply.

Did you know?

Jains avoid farming because then they'd kill what? trillions of microbes and creepy crawlies. Jain priests cover their mouths with a cloth to avoid breathing in and offing, again, microbes.

By that token, for a Jain even the zygote can't/shouldn't be terminated. It is life and it has the right to live!

"World Population by Religion

About 85% of the world's people identify with a religion."

Which means: woowoo accepted! — Hillary

You know what, this clearly shows that people don't know themselves all too well. Being religious isn't just a matter of being brought up in a faith, following its traditions, celebrating the relevant festivals, etc. If I were to ever claim to be a believer, I'd need to act/behave in ways that, at the very least, indicate I endorse the truth of an afterlife. I shouldn't be :cry: at a funeral, nor should I express any sympathy for wars, genocide, and so on unless...deep down we know we're all going to hell! :chin:

Lovely query!

Toxic Femininity. :chin:

It appears that no qualities regarded as exclusively womanly can be weaponized if you catch my drift. If a woman is to become a royal pain in the ass, she must masculinize herself. Examples: Dominatrix, Virago, and so on.

Perhaps I'm mistaken; some feature overlap betwixt men and women seem to be dual-use tech. How cool is that, oui?

Statistically, there are fewer women in jail than men. This, however, is an argument from degree and not from type (women can be murderers, thieves, pirates, whathaveyou).

I wonder what this means? :chin:

A digression, nevertheless an interesting digression.

Diogenes arrived in Athens with a slave named Manes who escaped from him shortly thereafter. With characteristic humor, Diogenes dismissed his ill fortune by saying, "If Manes can live without Diogenes, why not Diogenes without Manes?"

According to a story which seems to have originated with Menippus of Gadara, Diogenes was captured by pirates while on voyage to Aegina and sold as a slave in Crete to a Corinthian named Xeniades. Being asked his trade, he replied that he knew no trade but that of governing men, and that he wished to be sold to a man who needed a master. — Wikipedia

Slavery, in my humble opinion, in the long term, dehumanizes...both slaves and their masters. Not advisable, trust me. Hence, I suspect, the need among slavers to treat slaves as subhuman. Quite unfortunate. The bright side to slavery, acknowledging the immense suffering involved, is that modern civilization would've been impossible without the sacrifice of millions upon millions (nothing boosts the economy better than free labor).

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned. — 180 Proof

:fire:

Not to worry, Smith. If you're not a fertile, post-pubescent female, then it's very unlkiely you will ever have to decide to terminate your pregnancy. :eyes: — 180 Proof

:grin: That doesn't, however, solve the ethical problem does it? We need to use our brains & heart (xin) and only then is any judgment whole and complete. Those who sanction third trimester abortions are not even using their heads properly, forget about their hearts.

What sayest thou?

Yuval Noah Harari, in his book (a pageturner) Sapiens talks about a government who hires a firm to predict the nation's future. One of the forecasts is a major riot in the capital. The government deploys the police and the army on the day the riot is supposed to take place. No riot. The government sues the firm for the false prognostication. The firm explains that because the nation knew about the prediction, not to mention the cops and soldiers patrolling the streets, the people acted differently and hence, there was no incident. This, it seems, is the opposite effect to self-fulfilling prophecy. Harari calls such fortunetelling second order predictions.

WW3: a self fulfilling prophecy, hence our inevitable fate. — Hillary

Most interesting! — Ms. Marple

extremist — 180 Proof

It is a bit too much to terminate a pregnancy in the third trimester. Reason? Both the terms fetus & infant apply at that stage. It's like the grey area between living and nonliving, an ethical nightmare scenario. I wouldn't want to be part of such decisions, not for all the tea in China!

Fate: If it's x that's your destiny then no matter what you do, it's gonna be x.

Self-fulfilling prophecy: A person predicts x, and x happens because, this is important, the person's belief (that x will happen) influences his actions which become the set of causes that has x as an effect.

I wonder if we could use this in planning at much larger scales (local, global). It seems to, in some sense, guarantee success, oui? :chin:

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade! :chin:

:lol:

Do you think the red pill that Mr. Anderson took was sour (or bitter)? It couldn't have been sweet, he didn't look like he was enjoying the experience all that much.

The movie also depicts how a person extracted from The Matrix (awakened) has to adjust to reality, an homage to Plato (re The Allegory of the Cave) who went into some detail on what the experience of being taken out of the cave into the light would be like (let's just say it's gonna be a rude awakening).

Yeah, I know but it makes sense at some level, oui? Stage-wise evolution (aka life cycle in biology), aligned to the Chinese concept of yin-yang (rise & fall, crest &trough, peak & valley, to and fro, zenith & nadir). Last I checked, there's a plethora of books on the rise & fall of empires.

You just killed yourself OP! Memetic suicide.

Oedipus Rex?

Don't lose heart, keep faith in the human race!!! — universeness

Kali Yuga! :chin:

When asked how he wished to be buried, he left instructions to be thrown outside the city wall so wild animals could feast on his body.  — Wikipedia (Diogenes)

The Vulture Solution: Don't kill yet have a meat diet. Simple!

Can we put a monetary value on the life of an individual? — Benj96

We can and it has been done! Google for more!

It began way back in history: People (outlaws) had what is called a bounty on their heads!

Sign outside a salon

BILLY THE KID
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
REWARD $1000

Thereabouts!

C'est la vie?! Shit happens?! :chin:

Most interesting! — Ms. Marple

You're on the right track! Keep going!

Agent Smith, in my humble opinion, is a wise person — Hillary

:snicker: :snicker:

All who offend thee may perish! Don't f*** with the replicants, that's what I say! — universeness

:grin:

What do you think of the very old story about the King who was much loved by his subjects?
An enemy poisoned the main water well the subjects drank from and they all went mad after they drank the water.
The people now saw their King in a new light. They hated him, overthrew him, and they kicked him out of the city.
In the dead of night, the deposed King reached the poisoned water well and drank deeply.
The next day, the people celebrated the return of their beloved King.
Misery loves company eh! — universeness

I didn't get it!

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