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@RemyBrown
The ladder is a non starter.
Sometimes things make one chuckle.
I'm guessing that the ladder didn't reach it's objective.
Need to get a longer ladder.
Sorry.
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@TheGreatSunGod
A tad stupid to think that wordplay can prove GOD.
Anselm, Descartes...They've all had a go.
Though this depends upon ones interpretation of GOD, of course.
If the evolution of matter and it's purpose, is the GOD principle, then GOD is certainly everywhere.
But if you want to pull a MANGOD from the box, you will need to be a magician .
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@n8nrgim
I've said this before.
Living for ever would only be any good if one could stop the aging clock in ones prime.
At 25 - 30 years perhaps.
Not much good at 100.
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@fauxlaw
Hey
Some older people fear and dislike change.
Whereas I try to run with it...No choice really.
So things either happen for a reason or not...Fact is we don't know.
So, we have become dependent upon electricity.
We endured the industrial revolution with it's coal burning smog and it's polluted rivers.
And also have become dependent on powered transport, and have endured it's undeniable pollution.
To deny the known effects of pollution is to bury ones head in the sand, as some older folk prefer to do.
So what.
None of us are here for more than a nanosecond of universal time.
Just do what you think is good and sensible, and in a hundred years from now new old folk will be doing the same.
And you and I will have disappeared, either into a hole in the ground, or in a puff of smoke.
Along with Al, your personal whipping boy.
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@Greyparrot
True.
I think that the majority of people, would prefer a peaceful existence at home
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@Shila
Well I'm not sure that wandering about the desert yabbering to a handful of similar itinerants can be rightly referred to as public ministry.
As for Joseph...Read the tales, interpret as necessary.
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@Shila
We may never know how deprived you are.
For sure.
Or we may never know how misinformed you are.
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@Shila
I'm sure that he does.
But such things have a habit of biting one in the backside in later years.
But then, we are all eventually bitten in the backside by something, I suppose.
Such are our tenuous existences.
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@WyIted
Well in terms of survival, our world is the only non-hostile place we know...Though the existence of organic structures is never guaranteed here.
A billion years from now, I'm guessing that we will need to be somewhere else...And by "we" I'm referring to intelligence only, rather than the vehicle used to transport intelligence.
Some might argue that AI (another/alternative intelligence) will be an ongoing merger of ideas and will not necessarily rely upon a hybridisation of structure, wherein the data processing unit is the necessity and any organic component would be far too fragile.
Perhaps in the future, super-intelligent, dextrous robots in human form, will pay homage to their Organic forbears...And will be referred to as We.
I have a tendency to think that the term Artificial Intelligence is now a tad arrogant.
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@WyIted
People have notoriously taken actions that have bit them in the ass later...It's known as learning the hard way...But as I see it, also an essential part of an evolutionary process.
So you get caught up in your current limited understanding of computing, and I ask you quite a simple question about the future role of people as fragile limited organisms in a hostile but technologically evolving Universe.
Not tomorrow...But let's say, a billion years from now.
WTF's so difficult about that.
You and n8nrgim presented your box, and I questioned what might be outside of that box.
All comes under the general heading of science and nature, albeit somewhat hypothetically and philosophically.
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@FLRW
These days, is a quickie in the vestry with the altar boy, still classified as a non-relationship?
Certainly was back in the day for a lot of Priests and Popes.
What about hookers?...Just a business deal, right?
What about if they get a sore dick, and get a nun to rub some cream in for 5 or 10 minutes...Essential healthcare right?
There's always Loopholes to be explored.
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@n8nrgim
@WyIted
The issue of people.
Hmmmmmm.
Considering the fragility and limitations of organic systems, do you think that people will continue to be an issue, once that the evolutionary task becomes Universal?
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@Shila
Did his Stepdad daft Joe go to the trial?
Never hear much of daft Joe these days.
Are there any reliable eyewitness accounts?
Probably had to move away for a big carpentry job.
Maybe daft when it comes to women, but does a damn fine mortice and tenon.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
Well Deb.
According to her profile, Shila is a Canadian female.
Also a Roman Catholic, so probably not Trans.
Maybe a Nun.
Two Nuns in the bath.
One says where's the soap Sister.
The other says, certainly does Mother Superior.
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@TheGreatSunGod
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
If everything was that simple BK.
Like I said...When has war ever been a jolly decent spiffing friendly affair, between best mates.
Perhaps an area of Eastern Russia or Mongolia or somewhere else vast and empty, could be set aside for Battles, wherein both sides are made up with only willing participants. Therein, no collateral damage, save for a few antelopes and other small critters. Leaving only dead idiots.
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@Mharman
HaHa.
Just seen the Whales joke.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
@Shila
We want to see what we pull out of your pant.
Deb meet Shila.
Shila meet Deb.
I'm sensing chemistry.
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@TheGreatSunGod
As if war isn't crime enough.
When has war ever been a jolly decent spiffing friendly affair, between best mates?
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@Shila
And leaves a gap in others.
What I've never had, I've never missed.
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@sadolite
Take care.
Silica is found in both marble and granite.
Silicosis is a serious disease, associated with stone working.
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@sadolite
@TheGreatSunGod
Stone cutting, very bad for the lungs.
Hope you use appropriate dust filtering apparatus.
And if one does something regularly, one will inevitably get more proficient.
Such as pulling up.
Or eating 20 burgers and fries per day. (In between meals)
So exercising legs will inevitably make one more proficient at moving in a bipedal fashion.
Whereas cellulitis, ulcers and surgical stockings are not a sexy look.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
@TheGreatSunGod
I prefer triangles.
Cheese triangles.
Which come in a circular box.
So one side is curved.
Magic.
Magic tucker down by the billabong.
You ever waltzed with Matilda Deb?
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@Shila
You can't hide from old age.
Very true.
But there is camouflage.
And Bravado.
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@TheGreatSunGod
Yep, religion fills a gap for some.
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@Dr.Franklin
@ebuc
Over here, we're not big corn on the cob fans.
We like our corn cooked, dried, rolled and boxed, with cold milk and perhaps a sweet additive.
Thanks to Mr Kellogg, from Tyrone Michigan.
Though I prefer oats.
Not sure what Jorge Mario Bergoglio prefers.
Eggs Benedict perhaps.
Do you think that the Cardinals will go all out on equality and inclusivity this time.
Will we see the first ever Black Lesbian Transsexual Pope.
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@Shila
Maybe.
But I think that Vance was expecting it to be green.
He probably thought that Iceland was the icy one.
Just like he thinks that Turkey is for Thanksgiving.
And China is fragile.
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@Shila
Let the past remain in the past.
Inevitably.
Though some might argue that stored data remains current and available for as long as the storage device remains operational.
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@Shila
It remains an eyewitness account.
In so much as, what went down was witnessed by Jesus's boyfriend, who told someone else, who told someone else, who told someone else, who jotted it down and gave it to someone else, who translated it and jotted it down and gave it to someone else, who translated it again and jotted it down and gave it to someone else.
Eventually it ended up being jotted down and included in a best seller, that was translated and transcribed into many languages many times.
Such is an eyewitness account.
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@Shila
Mature for my age.
Mature in thought, or comparatively more mature in terms of physiological development?
Though some might argue, that we are all as mature as our age dictates.
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@Shila
Not so much these days.
Though I do rest more.
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@TheGreatSunGod
Do you think that we invent and play games just for something to do.
Or is there a deeper physiological necessity?
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@ebuc
Perhaps edited out these days.
Like Guy Gibson's Dog.
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@Dr.Franklin
Analogically speaking, I do.
Though we issue words for dramatic effect, such as "finding joy in the beauty".
Nonetheless, GOD principle is sound, but of course we could always refer to it as something else...But GOD has become sort of standardised.
Though when hypothesising creation and existence, I sometimes use the acronym ISI, which refers to an Interventionist Super-Intelligence.
Though ISI doesn't stand on a balcony in Rome going blah de blah de blah.
There's more than one way to skin the unknown Cat, Doc.
Begorrah.
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Snakes and Ladders.
Tiddlywinks.
Marbles.
Though I always wanted to win.
Don't all games stimulate an element of competitiveness?
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@TheGreatSunGod
Japanese animated porn is certainly affective and explorative without being exploitative.
Perfect porn for sexually unstable geeks.
Does it come with free tissues?
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@Shila
So John wrote John in the courtroom?
Funny thing is, when one researches such matters there is no conclusive data available.
Though it is generally agreed that The Book of John was compiled sometime after Jesus's execution, and not necessarily written by John.
In fact, it's all a bit sketchy and hotchpotch.
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You are showing appropriate behaviour for your kind.
I appreciate your tolerance and understanding.
I'm guessing that you have older male relatives.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
@Shila
Yep, for sure Deb.
Evil is like rotten cheese.
Whereas bad cheese is just cheese that doesn't taste particularly nice.
So in the middle of the cheese spectrum, there is generally good cheese...Sort of, everyday sandwich cheese.
And then at the ultra-violet end, is superb cheese...Maybe to be enjoyed upon a light cracker, with a glass of fine wine.
Similarly there is fine wine at one spectral end...And Gnat's piss at the other...In the middle is cheap but palatable.
Of course the more pissed one becomes, the more palatable Gnat's piss becomes.
I speak from past experiences.
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@Shila
There's a time for rest and a time to hiss.
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@ebuc
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Never heard children referred to as pussies, over here in the UK.
But yes, it's become a very provocative word.
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@Shila
That would imply a woman as well.
More tautology required then.
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@Dr.Franklin
Atheist Doc.
Atheist.
Protestants are as daft as Catholics....Just servants of two competing multinational business empires.
Top of the morning to ya.
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@WyIted
Only if critics are allowed to criticise and the criticised are prepared to listen.
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@Savant
Hmmmmmm.
A single rate of any social tax, is relative to income, so it doesn't matter who earns what and how much they earn.
I don't see why a sensible lower earner would necessarily spend more relative to their income.
In fact, I'm guessing that a higher earner will spend more on higher value goods.
Tax is only regressive because there are a higher proportion of low earners to higher earners.
Of course there are always a few dorks who will waste their money on widgets.
And also high earning misers, Mr Scrooge.
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@TheGreatSunGod
If one just said,
She's A Cat,
And left it at that..
One might require,
For reference
A tautological inference.
Like Pussy.
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