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@ebuc
Let's bury the hatchet Ebuc. I want to know a little about your way of thinking. You are obviously all about numbers and shapes. What makes you think like this?
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@DavidAZ
Let's bury the hatchet Ebuc. I want to know a little about your way of thinking. You are obviously all about numbers and shapes. What makes you think like this?
Hatchets are too valuable a tool to bury. Trumpet is not much value to humanity. This logical common sense critical thinking that, I and some others been using for years now.
Again, you have have poor reading comprehension skills if you think i'm "obviosly all about numbers and shapes " and understanding is you like to create false narratives also. Time will tell us more ergo we will know more in the future. At least some of us that pay attention and not a walking talking brain dead zombie.
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@ebuc
Woah! Cease fire!
Your posts would have hurt my feelings, if I had any. LOL!
C'mon, really. I noticed you have a mind to see things in numbers and shapes. Just curious. Why do you see things like this?
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@DavidAZ
Ive owned hatchets and they great tool for trimmng branches and splitting small wood for kindling.
Trumpet has no value to offer humanity that I can see.
Every post Ive ever made at DDO and at DArt express the way I think. You have a whole lot of reading to do. Hope your reading comprehension improves.
Hope my grammar improves. Ha ha! :--D
Why do sponges keep soap in them, regardless of how often you rinse and squish them?
@jamgiller
Personally I'd vote for banning Catch 22 and Grendel from public school,
Though I am very fond of Catch 22,
And Grendel had a significant impact on my life.
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To my memory,
As a High Schooler, I was still pretty undeveloped in thought,
Perhaps less so than others,
But I don't think so myself.
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I'm of the view though,
That such books are harmful,
Better left to personal choice to read at a later age in life.
Better to have a more positive, more solid, tested framework in life,
Than to undermine one's frameworks with despair and ugliness.
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Of course you instead mention LGBT,
Rather than the themes I spoke earlier in this post.
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But I maintain my shrug,
Children are the wards of their guardians,
Guardians ought do as they think is right towards the kids,
And if that includes removing LGBT themes, so be it.
Though I admit it a gray blurry line,
There 'are gay, bisexual kids,
'Lot's of gays and bisexuals in history,
'Are kids with 'biological transgender conditions (Though not that many I'd think),
Eunuchs in history,
Transhumanism 'is a concern of the future, (Or even past and current, if you count cyborgs)
Returning to the blurry line though,
LGBT themes, is a 'broad stroke,
Would a history book fall into this, such as describes some life choices of the ancient world?
Sci Fi The Animorphs?
Well, even if they did, Guardians Rights, is my view.
. . .
Being Liberal can be a nice view,
Some parents don't mind their kids roughing themselves up a bit on tiny dangers,
But,
If one thinks something a larger danger,
Say for example one knows a cougar has been seen nearby,
Might be better not to let one's little kids play in the nearby woods.
. .
Books are an experience,
Experiences effect us,
Parents want experiences they see as positive, or building their kids strong.
LGBT parent might have different view than the Conservative,
. . .
But I do not see why I must automatically agree with the LGBT parent, rather than the conservative,
Though I 'hope they are rarities,
One hears odd stories, of parents saying their child, even before they speak, isn't a boy or a girl,
Or claim that they are the opposite of their sex,
'Absurdism, seems to me.
How 'far, does the right of a Guardian 'go?
This 'has been on my mind, a few times this week,
Now having posted this, I suppose I'll Google this some, leave a tab open, eventually get around to thinking on it.
. . .
Course this question can also go in the other direction,
Suppose a parent fed their kid Nazi conspiracy theories,
Seems pretty wrong to me,
. .
Though then,
I start to question 'anyone, I disagree with,
'Anyone with conclusions different from my own.,
Just rambling,
There is a reason this is in random thoughts,
Rather than added to the debate comments,
Though it 'was the debate that has had me musing this past week, some moments.
Well, my thoughts a bit jumbled, so random thoughts.
Could one call a liar, an illusionist?
Or a flint striker, a pyromancer?
An organ transplanting doctor, a necromancer?
Turns out that when it comes to intelligence, those specific genes come from your mother. Intelligence genes are located on chromosome X. Since women carry two of the X chromosome, children are twice as likely to get their level of intelligence from mom. The study reports that even if the same gene is inherited from your father, it is deactivated. My mother was Valedictorian of her High School class. I guess that is why I got into MIT and Harvard. Another interesting fact is that my mother was related to Einstein's mother through the Koch family. It is also a reason why I never started a topic called: Biden is proud of boobs.
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@FLRW
Turns out that when it comes to intelligence, those specific genes come from your mother.
YES!!! My children have a chance in life!!
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@FLRW
Intelligence genes are located on chromosome X. Since women carry two of the X chromosome, children are twice as likely to get their level of intelligence from mom.
Does not surprise me. Woman has X x and the smaller/compacted x is the Barr body. In 90s, they discovered that 18 genes -- I dont know which ones or what they affect-- stay active on Barr body x By now they may have discoverd more than 18 that stay active on the Barr Body x.
Man X y ...Woman X x is a systemic fourness for the most complex biologic entities we know to exist in Universe.
4 = systemic
3 = structural
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@Lemming
One could call anyone anything.
I not sure that relevance is obligatory when it comes to name calling.
So one could refer to an electrician as a delta-cube and probably still avoid a global catastrophe.
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@zedvictor4
Oh I don't mean it as name calling 'negatively,
Just musing on realistic magic systems,
Some fiction uses magic same as science,
Some fiction uses magic as not explained but it does some things in the story.
@NoOneInParticular
1No Summons in 'Front of Stack
2Though, If we use full front. . .
1That 'still wouldn't allow behind stack to defend their summons,
1No,
1The only way to do it is to not allow summons to be X, by X I mean an effect
2Summons have to be Added to a battle?
2But then what happens 'after the engagement?
2If I create a skeleton, shouldn't it be mine 'after the fight too?
2If an enemy strong unit falls, shouldn't I be able to use it?
1'After the battle, 'Maybe,
1But then too many people would complain about people stealing characters
2War Room is 'supposed to be PVP
1If spirits are in the bones, then how do spirits appear outside of bones?
2Recent necromancy uses the body energy to overcome the spirit
2Old necromancy uses the body where the spirit has left?
1Doesnt work, the spirit is in the body in either case
1When does the spirit leave the body?
1 Incinerated brain?
1Body still around
1Location of death still around
1Is the spirit in the brain or in the body?
1Body was location of death?
I have noticed that people who are going bald typically wore a ball cap. Anybody else notice this?
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@DavidAZ
I remember hats for bald people being mentioned in a Seinfeld episode,
Ballcaps 'do seem to me most normal form of hat in America right now.
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@DavidAZ
Good point. Trump is going bald.
Well, 'just Reread Schlock Mercenary,
Now to reread it again, immediate after,
To better imprint, consider.
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@DavidAZ
Have you noticed that balding older men who don't cover are highly prone to skin damage
I'm 63 and always wear a cap when exposed to the elements. (Military style rather than baseball).
Method.
I have a brother who is a mechanic and everyone who works on the cars are also balding. I wonder if its the chemicals they constantly touch is making them bald. OR maybe it's a balding person that loves to work on cars?
If Fairies existed, wouldn't they overrun the Earth like ants?
Or if Giants existed, wouldn't they crush most everyone else?
I suppose the giants could be dumb,
The Fairies short lived or uninterested psychologically.
If five humans are a squad,
Would 1 giant be a squad?
Or 25 fairy a squad?
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@Lemming
What about Giant Fairies?
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@zedvictor4
Indeed, fantasy and sci fi make for a bit difficult strategy video game,
Well,
'If I insist on 'every individual being a character,
If I treat a squad as generic, it'd be easier.
Were I a citizen of X country at war with another country,
Even if I was against a regime or the war it was engaged in,
I'd be 'more against Civil War, I think.
Too dangerous,
One worries about one's country breaking up,
Or being at the mercy of one's neighbors,
Sure sometimes neighbors are nice or weak,
But many other times. . .
Take American Civil War,
I'd have been worried about Mexico,
But glancing at Google, looks that Mexico about one year after, was fighting the French, a year after the American Civil War had started.
, ,
Britain was also a concern for the Americans,
Though the Confederates 'wanted their intervention (On their side), I seem to recall reading,
But the British found alternate sources for cotton, than Southern cotton.
I'm glad I don't have kids myself, 'near all times I think on it.
Kids, to my view,
Are as fellows born blind, born crazed, feeling their way forward,
Yet 'slow 'gaining sight,
Slow gaining their minds.
. .
Or perhaps we're all blind. . .
Anyway, clumsy metaphor forward,
To my view,
If one views an 'obligation to other people, or at 'least one's progeny.
They 'must be helped forward,
Helped to avoid pitfalls, avoid broken glass, fire.
Decisions 'must be made for them.
Though arguments that some decisions 'might be delayed, are a fair view.
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Circumcision to my mind,
Matters more towards the questions of free will and bodily sovereignty,
Though there is argument we are born into beliefs and duties,
I prefer leaning a bit towards the final decision of acceptance, being at a later date,
Though back of my mind insists people can be 'led into decisions anyway, (Annoying Free Will denier in the back of my mind, I wave him away)
. . .
That was free will,
'Sovereignty though, , ,
Of body,
As technology advances and advances,
Might be we will see Designer Babies,
'Or might be babies will be modified 'after birth.
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'Ach, and then there's that nihilist in the back of my mind,
Pointless, all pointless,
We're not actually 'talking to each other,
All just falling rocks,
Mere sounds not heard, not meant,
Ach, how I hate tho-,
'Dislike those thoughts.
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But as tech improves,
The questions that circumcision debate relates,
Becomes seen with greater implications, impact upon individuals, societies.
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I also have a free will affirmer, and a whatever the opposite of nihilism is, in my head,
Well,
They're all just metaphors anyway.
Is it the concept or the real?
Though how can there 'be a concept, without the real?
I think on thought crimes sometimes,
Though there is the more regular argument of thought effecting action,
Thus an individual ought seek to regulate himself.
I sometimes think on. . . Sacrality. The 'Sacred aspect,
One should not think of hurting people, because the thought is wrong in itself,
. .
Even an 'image of people being for pleasure, ought not exist, being an afront to what is right.
. .
. .
This sounds a bit absurd,
And one more usual finds reason in 'consequence.
But I find myself not minding absurdism much sometimes,
Not finding an end reason in anything.
. . .
Course there are reasons for thoughts and images to exist,
Whether as teaching aids, or to allow freedom of speech, not allowing freedom of speech could lead to greater harm.
Yet a thought in me says, even 'if allowing of freedom of speech, 'still seems wrong,
But that is a bit of absurdity, yes, I'm sure.
Some item deigned a value to hold.
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The concept or the real, . .
People get offended by symbols, often in life, in gestures, ideas,
My logic says because of threats to this or that,
Dominance, for example, honor, respect,
Whether held by others towards an individual,
Or by the individual themself.
But a person might cut down a sign, with an offending message,
But it is just a concept,
. . Though perhaps it 'becomes an action, signs are pieces of wood. . .
Are we all just concepts, symbols?
Heh, random thoughts.
Why is everyone obsessed with Calvin Klein? It's so bland, over-priced and ugly.
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@Kaitlyn
Why is everyone obsessed with Calvin Klein? It's so bland, over-priced and ugly.
I agree. I almost never buy name brand.
Name brand and image. It has it's own way of elevating itself above the rest so now the people who demand to be "cool" or "posh" will have to buy Calvin Klein. It's the same as high school if you had a Walmart shirt, you were not cool, but to shop at anchor blue (or any other clothing store besides Wal-Mart) was cool.
On the flip side, is Calvin Klein a durable brand? Does it last longer?
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@DavidAZ
Why is everyone obsessed with Calvin Klein? It's so bland, over-priced and ugly.I agree. I almost never buy name brand.Name brand and image. It has it's own way of elevating itself above the rest so now the people who demand to be "cool" or "posh" will have to buy Calvin Klein. It's the same as high school if you had a Walmart shirt, you were not cool, but to shop at anchor blue (or any other clothing store besides Wal-Mart) was cool.
True.
It's also just ugly and bland. At least with over-priced brands like Gucci and Burberry, you get something interesting to look at. CK's trend towards monochromatic colors and minimalist designs is just dreadful, given the price. You're literally just paying for the brand, whereas other top end brands give you at least interesting clothes.
On the flip side, is Calvin Klein a durable brand? Does it last longer?
For my friends, it seems to last longer than the super cheap Amazon clothing brands, but not much longer than middle-of-the-road brands. It would almost be better if it wasn't durable so that you could get rid of it quicker.
It seems wise for a nation to encourage many factions inside it's colonies,
People of different values and properties,
Have a greater time uniting in revolution.
I'd think.
I suppose one might argue it is better to cause children into existence,
That the world is more good than bad,
Assuming they follow the person's teachings and ideas of what is good.
A world where many people steal,
Better that I steal and redistribute what I steal,
Kind of view.
Hm, still it assumes stealing an inevitability, the people that were stolen from yet stole not, might not agree.
There is an unfinished webcomic, a few of which's features I think on from time to time,
One of them was this brief spoken concept of some tortured individual,
'Seemingly kept in place, for the benefit of others. 'despite the individuals suffering.
"Cleric of the Tortured Child: Hi there!
Maxo: Gahh! A lands of sadness denizen!!
Cleric of the Tortured Child: Indeed. I have travelled far to seek council with you.
Maxo: You want me to become a Cleric of the Tortured Child, don't you?
Cleric of the Tortured Child: Oh dear, did that Priestess I saw, already convert you? Am I too late?
Maxo: Well no, I didn't join her religion.
Cleric of the Tortured Child: Well allow me to tell you a bit about the dogma of the Tortured Child, then. . .
Maxo: Okay, just allow me to get out of touching range. . .
Cleric of the Tortured Child: Our god was created by the other gods to act as. . . a sponge, if you will. The gods have siphoned excess pain their creatures endure to him, so they may function better.
Briefly possessed Maxo: Tloonal must always suffer for the benefit of everyone else.
Cleric of the Tortured Child: Sigh. . .
Maxo: Ugh. . . What in the three hells was that about. . .?
Cleric of the Tortured Child: That happens to any who think about the Tortured Child's fate. Even to the purest of Celestials. It unfortunately means you may not yet be ready for-"
Specific reference https://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0638.html
Start of webcomic https://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/first.html
Wiki of the god, https://danielscreations.com/ola/gods/tlodnal.html
It's not an uncommon idea,
It can be seen in other works of fiction,
Or viewed in ancient cultures past,
. . .
Though even if one walks away from Omelas,
How does one avoid walking into 'another Omelas?
Does walking away 'truly cease a situation?
I've never actually 'read Omelas, but I think on the concept at times.
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In 'society, it is hard to 'avoid Omelas, perhaps,
Even living alone in the wilderness,
All the land upon Earth seems claimed.
Even living alone,
One's safety is protected by the government, and all it's actions, moral and immoral,
Should they be destroyed, other governments, less kind may come.
Unless one should find some deep dark hole away from all,
How to avoid Omelas?
Yet 'knowledge follows us,
Knowledge 'gained by civilizations, their actions moral and immoral,
Unless one were to wipe clean their mind, how to avoid Omelas?
Yet even were one to wipe their mind. . .
There 'starting point, and thanks, was Omelas. . .
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Course there's something to be said for the present and future,
Not participating,
Even if one cannot avoid the past.
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I imagine the scapegoat be a common philosophy thought as well,
. . .
I'm more fond of voluntary self sacrifice,
Than involuntary sacrifice of another,
Though even self sacrifice, I might caution some against.
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The choice of being born,
For me it is that 'one moment,
Not all the risks after, that bother me so,
But that one moment,
Though why be it magnified in my mind, if 'not for the magnitude of possible risk, scope of 'life, after?
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Mm. . .
Coherent framework people make,
To inflict some suffering for self or clan interest.
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Raiding enemy tribes for life and safety of one's own clan,
Or forcing one's rule, to avoid worse rule,
Magnifying whatever one values. . .
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I suppose people who argue that everyone is one,
Might argue we can not harm another, only ourselves,
But I don't know much about such beliefs, I might be representing them,
Though it falls a bit into practical incoherence for me, , , well, 'my current 'coherence, set ideas of existence,
Chess rules I follow, though nihilist,
Humans have rules, frameworks, genetics, drives.
But this is as far as my random musing goes today, (Probably)
Perhaps tomorrow, new browser tabs to be opened.