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@IlDiavolo
Well, it's an acquired reaction, which is undoubtedly a natural reaction.
Though to be fair, a lot of people are more considerate than we give them credit for.
In discussions such as this we tend to focus on the inconsiderate.
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@Best.Korea
Well, my wife has never watched a moment of porn in her entire life and she still managed two miscarriages.
Porn has got f**k all to do with it.
Sometimes you say the most stupid things.
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@Kaitlyn
If only physiological complexity were the be all and end all of it.
As I suggested, the rapid analysis of incoming data is a base survival strategy, doesn't matter who is analysing who.
Extended analysis and secondary conceptualisation is where the thoughtful discrimination arises from.
You are not a threat, but hang on we are black and you are white and so 400 years ago etc.
Everything and nothing to do with genetic differences.
Overthink is the human condition, it can seemingly be problematic, but of course it might actually be essential.
Time will tell.
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@Best.Korea
Would you sacrifice yourself to save 5 random people.
And math is relative to the mathematician, moral or immoral.
Whereas abortion issues tend to get over-blown with emotion by the over-conditioned over-emotional.
So will you happily give up your life to save a zygote BK.
And abortionists (whatsoever they maybe) might suggest that a woman's life choice is more important than a bundle of zygotic matter.
Whereas no reasonable person would down play the importance of a child's potential.
Children are not aborted, because they were not aborted.
Hence they are children.
And more zygotic material gets pissed down the pan everyday than will be surgically aborted in a lifetime.
Sorry, being a tad over conditioned, over emotional and not statistically accurate there.
But you get my drift.
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@Kaitlyn
The past is history.
Either forget it.
Or keep raking s**t.
Probably depends upon which is the most lucrative.
That and the human propensity for raking s**t.
For the want of something to occupy their limited minds with in response to their own short lived insecurities and universal worth or worthlessness.
And then there are cleverer people who probably need to get on with doing clever stuff.
Their minds occupied with the necessity of getting on with clever stuff.
In the meantime give the masses smartphones.
Head down and drool at the digital wonder captured on that little screen.
Tarts and trannies alike in their glorious underwear and marvellous tattoos.
What it is to be human, hey Kaitlyn.
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@Kaitlyn
No more than one would expect.
Everyone discriminates in response to perceived differences.
It's a basic survival strategy.
Do "Black" people think that Chinese are Chinese coloured. Did anyone ask them how they discriminate in this instance.
Not that anyone is either black or white.
Just visibly distinguishable.
At what point does very swarthy become black.
Probably never, because skin tone would have nothing to do with the discrimination criteria in this instance.
Interestingly, a lot of very swarthy people are in fact much darker than a lot of very light black people.
People are BRILLIANT.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
Chess certainly isn't woke Deb.
Something needs to done about it.
Drag Queens: Frockers.
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@TWS1405_2
Interesting how you missed my point entirely, and in doing so emphasised my point entirely.
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Was she Greek or Egyptian.
Do we have any photographic records of her.
What does this Egyptian guy base his case upon.
Can we sue any actor for not being who they are portraying.
I think the clue is in the word ACTOR.
Someone have a quiet word with the Egyptian please.
Are there any Macedonians suing?
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@Deb-8-a-bull
Was the step sister gender neutral, queen or king ?
Or in fact her own trans-sexual self-copulating step half brother.
Fiddling about with bits to the point of orgasm or fake orgasm is sooo complicated these days.
I blame the mainstream acceptance of buggery.
And why do rooks always look like castles.
And therefore is the strategic move known as castling also referred to as rooking.
And then there are Bishops, and we all know what Bishops get up to.
Especially Roman Catholic ones.
You're right Deb,
Chess and porn are easily confused.
And in really expensive sets I expect that there are actually Knights on the horses.
Well, not actual Knights on real horses.
Then there are the sexually ambiguous little Porn Folk.
Or is it Pawn.
It's probably a metaphor anyway.
Good day Bruce.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
@Lemming
Wales has loads of castles.
I bet there aren't as many in the U.S. or Oz.
Check mate in one.
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@Lemming
Personally speaking.
Although I am patently aware that I am 63 years of age and not 23....(Bodily decline).
From a thinking point of view I still regard my self as exactly the same person.
Sensory awareness in a state of advanced brain dementia is hard to comprehend.
Being aware or ones environment, but having forgotten what everything is.
In a base scenario, we would long since have been singled out buy predators and eaten.
Though in a base scenario it would have been unlikely that we made it beyond 25 or so.
I had an Aunt who was so demented that she even lost the instinctive ability to eat or drink.
She eventually just curled up into a foetal position and withered away.
I'm not sure that keeping people alive well into decrepitude is of any benefit to anyone.
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@Best.Korea
And for sure.
He exists today as a stored sequence of electro-chemical data, inside Best Koreas head.
As does everyone that Best Korea can remember.
Until such times, when internal systems break down or cease to function.
Just as every person fictional or non-fictional that Zed can remember is stored within his organic database....Until such times.
None of which proves the existence of an actual GOD type super-intelligence.
Just show your face GODDO and tell us what you think of transgenderism and the Russo-Ukrainian dispute, and then we can all relax.
Though I feel reasonably relaxed anyway, not needing divine guidance.
Though I suppose that it's fair to say that reasonably relaxed is as reasonably relaxed does.
Are you reasonably relaxed BK?
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@Lemming
Come to the UK.
You cannot avoid diversity.
The "English" PM is named Rishi Sunak and the "Scottish" First Minister is named Humza Yousaf.
And the soon to be crowned King is named Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor. Of Germanic descent though it was thought prudent to drop German associations, given all the 19th and 20th century grief the wider family caused.
Though to be fair, my surname is indicative of a European heredity and my features perhaps indicate Roman and Mediterranean influences. Such was the nature of European social development I suppose.
And then they all sailed to the "New World".
And out popped Lemming.
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@Tradesecret
So we agree that spirituality is simply internal physiology and everything to do with internally created fantasy.
And therefore nothing to do with assumed external fantasies.
And religion as a concept is religion as a concept, this is a truism.
And adherence to an established modus operandi can be interpreted as religious behaviour.
Though I would interpret spiritual responses as special moments of brain activity, rather than as every day religious normality.
Interpretation is always the name of the game Trade.
And interestingly, just as you see everyone as religious.
I see a whole lot of undevout Christians who's atheistic conditioning often manifests in their comments. You included Trade.
Which if you consider how our databases become established is probably only to be expected.
There's doubt in most Christians.
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@Lemming
Well.
Mr Ethan was change fearing and GOD fearing.
And quite conservative as a result, I guess.
We were a similar age and also probably racially similar, so when we were not arguing the GOD principle, we had a certain friendly rapport.
Though I hasten to add, that I am friendly with anyone who is happy being friendly with me.
Britain is too small and too racially diverse now, to be an isolationist.
And Golden Rule....Never discuss religion with someone you don't know.
Except over the internet, from a distance. Where people are generally keen to discuss religion anyway.
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@Elliott
Maybe heaven is a coping strategy, thought up by people who couldn't comprehend not being alive.
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@TraumaTango
I'm a Satanists.
I bet you've got a red cap too.
Does it have horns on it?
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@Tradesecret
Spirituality is an internal electro chemical response to an external stimulus.
Incoming data signals cause the brain to react in varying ways, relative to our established databases.
We already possess data which was previously established as being either spiritual or non-spiritual.
Some people have religion stored under spiritual, and others have religion stored in the non-sense section.
So we react accordingly.
I too find that specific incoming data occasionally flicks a sort of internal spiritual switch.
Nothing to do with magical floaty about Middle Easterners though.
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@YouFound_Lxam
People think all the time.
It's the nature of the beast.
LGBT is just people obsessing about recreational sexuality.
Which it seems, is also the nature of the beast.
As a thinking species we've never quite come to terms with the penis vagina thing.
And studies are fine, if you're prepared to listen to both studies.
But if you are only interested in one study, they studies become pointless.
Though World population is increasing, so a lot of people have still got the hang of the procreational thing.
No worries.
Just leave the gender benders to fiddle with their bits.
And stop obsessing about gender benders fiddling with their bits.
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@Stephen
@Tradesecret
For sure, all down to interpretation again Trade.
Pagan: Beliefs other than those of the main World religions.
Interpret that how you will.
But bear in mind that the biblical interpretation of "creation" is pretty much debunked.
And the Christian interpretation of Pre-Christian regional tales is pretty much a 1st to 3rd century adaptation of the regions long pagan past.
In my opinion.
And I not exactly sure why an omni-entity would need a rest.
But probably because it is a GOD created in Man's image.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Someone
Someone who?
Societal change is gradual.
And the bit that affects us the most is this bit.
And affect in this context, means that which challenges ideas that were established previously.
And ideas that became established, were instilled by others who were affected by even earlier stages of social development.
So we are sort of always playing data catch up. And therefore we are always somewhat out of date in terms of our established data bases relative to current trends.
You either run with the new, or stress over what inevitably happened but does not correspond with your established way of thinking.
Better to live your short life as you so choose and let others do the same.
And in a few years time everything will be the same, but always slightly different.
Though penis, vagina and endocrinal hang ups will probably still be topical, just as they always have been.
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@Tradesecret
Not sure that Saturday and Sunday were pre-Christian Jewish concepts.
Therefore Sabbath was really just another tradition adopted from previous Jewish paganism.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Just another ideology centred around the innate necessity of sexual reproduction.
Just more over thinking about penises and vaginas and the endocrinal itch.
It's always been a human mental fascination, for obvious reasons.
And of course, there will be money to be made.
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@Best.Korea
Yep. But there are alternatives, that perhaps some people find more relevant to their way of thinking.
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@WindowsUser34
US casted atom bombs twice, it is faster.
You say some interesting things.
Or say things interestingly.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Definitely an inefficient method of whole body disposal.
Firstly needs breaking down and dehydrating to create a more combustible material.
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@WindowsUser34
I picture you stood defiant on a mound looking majestically skyward.
Or majestically on a mound looking defiantly skyward.
Why I ask again, why not...
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@Best.Korea
The reality is that GODS Law was made up by men.
Same as ever.
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@Best.Korea
The reality is, that marriage is a concept and anyone can have sex with anyone else if they so choose.....And they do.
And GODs never actually say anything.
Men make up what GODS say.....Always have done.
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@Joejoe582
Being rich comes with all the stresses of being rich
Just as being poor comes with all the stresses of being poor.
Just as being anything in between, comes with all the stresses of that too.
Survival takes mental and physical effort.
And it will kill you in the end.
Doesn't matter how much cash you have.
A niche, common sense and contentment are three coping strategies.
But even these take effort.
Perhaps the best one can hope for is a good contentment to effort ratio.
25% effort to 75% contentment, or something like that.
Sweet dreams.
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@Stephen
Does a game like golf need gender specific segregation?
I suppose it all depends upon,
A hole in one..
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@Lemming
EVIL
Is anagrams of.
LIVE VILE VEIL.
I wonder how Mr Ethan is getting on.
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@Lemming
Is it possible to spam ones own thread before it has become a thread?
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@Best.Korea
Pious Misogynists command.
GOD's say f**k all.
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@Slainte
A Zedku for Slainte.
Under normal circumstances.
Females produce eggs
And males produce sperm.
Though:
If one f**ks about surgically, medically and psychologically,
Then Bob's your Aunty,
And Fanny's your Uncle,
So to speak.
Currently,
All the rage.
But:
Don't forget that,
Normal is as normal does,
At any given moment.
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@Math_Enthusiast
Does stuff conform to math, or does math conform to stuff?
Math is an internal assessment of an internally assessed externality.
Therefore math is subjective, and external stuff at best is probably real, but this is also based upon an internal and therefore subjective assessment.
As such, objectivity can only be an internal qualification of an internal assessment. Therefore Math can only be said to be internally objective.
Ultimately, objectivity, subjectivity and an awareness of existence are wholly reliant upon conscious appreciation.
No thinker, then nothing to think about.
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@Tradesecret
I would suggest that in modern protestant circles, baptism is largely about two things.
1.Tradition.
2. Co-opting new members into the club.
And sin is something that most protestants pay little heed to.
I suppose that it all depends upon how seriously one regards club membership.
The serious hierarchy take it seriously.
And the less serious masses, turn up on a Sunday morning when the mood takes them.
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@Best.Korea
One would hope that all Americans are Democratic Republicans.
One would further hope that the majority of Americans remain Moderate Democratic Republicans.
"The West" relies upon a rational U.S.
Don't let the nut jobs take over the asylum.
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@hey-yo
What would you say pinpoints what life is?
Well, I never claim to know.
Though Zeds regard to everything is:
The dichotomy is, chance or purpose.
Therefore life was either a Random coalescence of chemistry and energy and is therefore ultimately meaningless.
Or, the sequence of events that Zed regards as universal material evolution, dictates that life is an inevitable consequence of universal development, and therefore meaningful within that context. In so much as life is an essential phase and motivator of material development and progress. What I loosely refer to as the GOD principle.
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@Math_Enthusiast
But still can be analysed directly within our own minds.
Yes, I would agree that it is reasonable to have faith in such processes.
Though I would still contend that external reality is what it is.
Whereas logic and math require conscious effort.
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@Math_Enthusiast
Well,
External reality probably is, and therefore what is is.
And so this would be a truism.
Though truth as a concept is only the necessity of an internally dependant organism, and so an external reality can only be indirectly assessed.
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@hey-yo
Well, biology is a that which makes up a living structure, and processes and functions within a structure maintain the structure.
So that basically describes a living structure.
But doesn't pinpoint what life actually is.
So here's a different approach to the question.
What was it that initiated the very first living entity/ entities.
And what perpetuated them.
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@sadolite
Well that's the point.
Everything that I do own that is made from crude oil will not disappear immediately.
In fact, oil derived plastics will be about for years and years to come.
Though there are already alternatives available. Same with lubricants. Same with combustible compounds.
Though whatever the energy requirement, crude derivatives or green energy, demand will likely out strip supply as population grows.
And non-renewable crude will just not last for ever, and will certainly not be enough to supply demand for much longer.
Whether or not you accept that human influenced global climate change is something that should be taken seriously, is up to you and other conspiracy theorists.
I'm not so cynical.
More fool me perhaps.
Or more fool you.
We will just have to wait and see.
If we can last out till then.
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@Stephen
Antifa.
Sort of fascist anti-fascists then.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
People with guns, kill.
Remove the guns from the equation and people will still kill, but it won't be quite as sexy.
Just a sad facet of American social culture.
Ah, but we need to defend ourselves from a tyrannical government.
Bullsh*t.
Another day, another shooting, business as usual.
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@hey-yo
What is life?
As opposed to what is a life.
What fundamentally makes structures A and B work.
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@sadolite
Sorry Mr S.
But that really does sound like an I fear change and hate paying my taxes rant.
Do you honestly think that every bit of scientifically derived information regarding the global environment is BS, and some sort of conspiracy designed to keep the working man to heel.
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@Math_Enthusiast
Well.
The organic computer doesn't process numerically.
We acquire this ability, some better than others.
Whereas A.I. processes numerically and can convert readily.
And if you consider how we process and appreciate data, then simulation isn't really a hypothetical consideration.
Everything is an internal projection, derived from incoming sensory signals.
Therefore truth and reality are always an assumptive simulation of an assumed external reality.
So we can qualify to degree by agreement, but agreement is a still only a collection of assumed truths and realities.
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