TimB

Pain is not verbally indescribable, I describe it to my doctor regularly (granted not seemingly all that well).  But a developing child has to learn that pain is pain, and then has to learn to name it. I say that one can have pain without being aware of experiencing it.  A person in a coma with a severe injury could be in pain without being c…[Read more]

So you’re saying there’s a chance (if he shoots a baby in the face).

How about Vikings Day?  They got to the new continent way ahead of Columbus.

Baby Humanist – cute.

Yes, he lies brazenly.  Also, he always accuses an adversary of something that he himself is actually guilty of so as to distract from his own guilt.  Also he lies repeatedly until the lie sticks with some. Also he lies a lot by using unbounded hyperbole.

• The worst thing about T rump’s impulsive Commander in Chief mode in this case is the Betrayal of the Kurds.  But they might survive extermination by the Turks, since they (the Kurds) have now sought alliance with Assad and the Russians.  That was however a humiliating decision in itself, for the Kurds, since they have been abused by Assad b…

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Can you tell some of your conscious experiences from when you were 2 yrs of age? (I imagine the answer is “no”.)

We could come up with ways to teach a 2 yr old to discriminate red, but the neural pathways for some of the consciousness/awareness behaviors take longer to develop.  Especially the development of complex verbal behavior is important,…[Read more]

He is a prolific liar.  And no matter how pathetically constructed or how obviously inconsistent with reality, over 30% of voters BELIEVE or otherwise accept his lies. If he were not such a liar, he would not be POTUS now.

He is not a person of quality.  His compulsive lying is only one of his many manifestations of poor character.

I was considering donating my body to science, so it matters to me if someone will be trying to re-animate my brain.  If they can make organs alive on a cellular level, it may just be one more step to re-ignite electrical neuro chemical functioning.  (Although a supply of brains for sustenance may be necessary to maintain it.)

Haven’t you seen F…[Read more]

W4U:  “Nor do I, but could there be something “superhuman”?”

Ancient Tulpa Tibetan researchers say,    “Yes”.

ATM, they changed it to all US forces out of Notheast Syria. I don’t think T rump cares if there are troops in Syria, as long as he can claim that he took them all out.

The more I look at it, the worse the betrayal seems.  In August the US agreed with Turkey to get the Kurds to pull back from their Turkey-border fortifications.  The US got the K…[Read more]

I do think it is important to consider how some ppl might take it, e.g., people who have survived or have relatives who were in mass murder in churches.

And of course, we should never let anything like that occur in real life.

And who would set Bernie’s hair on fire like that, anyway?  It’s just not right.

It may be that in the right conditions (e.g., density of and well functioning towns/cities) we are naturally prone to develop a cultural proclivity for science. And more so, over time as it tends to build upon itself, and to add to the success of the group as a whole.

Buddhism is the cat’s meow.  But it does seem to have some supernatural aspects with some of its teachings.  I don’t believe in the supernatural.

Wasn’t there an episode in which the Enterprise, along with the holodeck as a critical component, became sentient?  There was a train ride going on holograpically, and members of the crew would go into it to try to figure out what was going on. I don’t recall for sure if it was a TNG episode or one of the other series incarnations.

Advo, You’re not one of those Trekky people are you?

Anyway, the holodeck is obviously a very powerful AI  devoted to its tasks of entertainment, education, training, etc.  (and perhaps, also, psychologically therapeutic interventions).  So here’s what could have happened.  You as an audience member were shown enough for you to detect that asp…[Read more]

You are probably right about that.  But I have been getting the feeling lately that there might be a chance in hell.  Metaphorically speaking, that is. (We don’t believe in hell, unless you are referring to the dimensional plane of existence in which T rump is POTUS.)

However, our current dimension is not the mythical “hell” because not all who a…[Read more]

Oh W!  you released all the spoilers of the unfolding plot.   Well, we might as well end it here with this final question:                                                                     Should we Believe?

Ancient Alien Researchers say                     “Yes”

C’mon lefty, that was not SO bizarre of a thought, was it?

There are professionals who work with folks using psilocybin.  I don’t know how you would go about finding one who is credible (not a nut job).  I suppose you would need to do a lot of due diligence on the person’s qualifications and history working with the process.

I have tried LSD a couple of times.  And I have tried psilocybin a couple of ti…[Read more]