Stosh

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  1. Russian colony of the United States

    So If you stub your toe , the rocks transgressed upon your rights? If ants eat half the bananas , they should all be punished There's no possibility of dishonest effort , you do or don't do, so there is no 'honest effort' to satisfy the intellectual polemic. So stumbling on a windfall isn't honest or dishonest. Maybe some-day in far off galaxy.. but right now its a devil we need. Look at Haiti for ex. Ok fine , we are trapped by our own conceptry and if thats considered constraint then we dont have freedom from it... but if that conceptry is what we are,, then freedom would still exist as the ability to live according to it within the constraints of physical laws. No argument here. If you're implying the movie is real,, its not,, nor is the real unreal, it is real. But Ill consent that there is a lot of confusion about those things , and room for much greater clarity,and personal expression of self.
  2. Russian colony of the United States

    I had to look up 'flaming' ,, umm to me it looks like a term which would be useful only as a label to throw at someone to say that they were wrong for expressing what they do. Because anything anyone says with conviction can be construed as soliciting a response , and any response which isn't in accord with it could also be called 'flaming' as well. A forum like this has the basic paradigm of being contentious. I wasn't really addressing that however ,though I see such as a reasonable perspective, no I was just saying it because I feel that the idea that there are 'rights' to have and to lose, tend to situate folks defensive of these imagined rights, which is fine, I do think we're better off with the 'rights' bestowed by concensus.. but moment to moment getting worked up about them as opposed to the fact I can make a phone call to africa , or fly out to costa rica for thanksgiving.. its a headache one can usually defer.
  3. Russian colony of the United States

    Oh, well thats a leap I wouldnt have made in a million years , My sister has a lazy eye, and when we were little and tired , many of our home pix of her looked like that. I guess I was a bit defensive for her.
  4. Russian colony of the United States

    Family pix of yours? But If my post is so boring , I did keep it short, then its the sort of thing which brings no surprise, and that would indicate its a no brainer and I must be correct. If you mean something else, I dont know what that is and the ridicule is lost on me. I guess the point of my thing is lost on Karl, if he moves on to taxation being theft, I guess he is in a mood to rail against injustices.
  5. Fear is the root of All suffering

    Suffering is the root of all fear. The discriminating mind is an attempt to prevent or assuage suffering.
  6. Russian colony of the United States

    Yes , those things, which are social fabrications,, have always been a consequence of the social situation. Alone on an island, it becomes more obvious, Where are rights then? Recognizing this, one could decide that the complaint is really about the extent of impact ,of the larger social construct on the individual. We can travel, or interact with things from around the globe, or family members in other states. We can resource materials on almost anything, learn or do a thousand things. Capabilities have been expanding therefore as progress marches on. Yesterdays imagined and beloved rights have been traded for greater actual freedom. Whether one embraces this is up to them.
  7. Objective reality

    My question for anyone who does think it exists, is How would you explain or describe objective reality to a simple farmer 3000 years ago? ,, assuming you want to.
  8. Taoist Study Group

    Nevermind, Did research. It was Confusing that ownership permissions seem to have been granted before being offered.
  9. Objective reality

    Its a good standard. And perhaps not such a low bar as it might seem . What would anyone really hope to do ,, seriously , would we still expect to budge, or bludgeon anybody into a totally new word view so easily? I earlier said we were all ,to a degree stubborn , there's reasons for that.
  10. Objective reality

    It doesn't look like an embarrassment to me ,everyone had their say, considered some alternatives, maintained a bit of tolerance for views we don't or may not share. and nobody got banned. Though everyone pretty much ignored the 'being explanatory' part of speaking to a simple farmer I'd lock it somewhere here if I had that ability, and any side issues could be in a fresh thread. Thanks for everyones input.
  11. Objective reality

    We both write the definition ,and check to see that a particular thing is in conformance relative to, the rules we set forth. Its very clear to a taxonomist that things like species, populations, and races are somewhat arbitrarily defined. There's no logical flaw in this.
  12. Objective reality

    Would you say, or be OK with ' objective reality may be confidently inferred to exist based on inter-subjective data.' Or would you say or be more OK with , 'there are no things which we receive inter-subjective data about ,and so there is no objective reality'?
  13. Objective reality

    I look wiggly in a mirror.
  14. Objective reality

    Again agreed. This firms my point though, since there is no width to the perforation through which the light propagates , the diffraction pattern isn't created. If the light is absorbed then the backing would get hot unless there is some other effect which 'remembers' the inflow orientation of the photons and preferentially makes new ones of the correct wavelength to spit out .
  15. Objective reality

    Agreed, the glass is moot, the silver would be absorbing all the light in virtually no thickness, which would increase its thermal energy at the surface , then it would have to re-emit at specific wavelenths in a specific direction with no interference pattern. A laser would heat up the mirror.
  16. Objective reality

    I'm thinking The explanation about the mirror is seriously flawed , the 'reflection' isn't from the glass , its from the silvered back, if the light is all absorbed by the silvering , as if it were the source, then a mirror would be as dull as a non mirror and the basic direction of propagation wouldn't be preserved.
  17. Objective reality

    I was hoping youd say "No Im not! "