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@ADreamOfLiberty
@Savant
The people.
Who exactly are the people in question?
A. Are we talking decent, reasonable law abiding citizens.
B. Or wannabee anarchists with chips on their shoulders and their underachieving foot soldiers.
So B. fuelled by hormones and whatever else, take to the streets and burn cars.
And A, stop at home and watch TV.
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@Sir.Lancelot
My first impression of religion was being compelled against my will into a cold church and listening to a bloke in a long frock rabbiting on about who knows what.
I am not currently impressed by religious shenanigans.
Though the old architecture is nice and I marvel at the skill of the builders...Thanks in the main to the theocratic abuse of the masses and the theft of their chattels.
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@AdaptableRatman
The nature of conditioning is such, that in the main we all are taught the collective notion of what is right and wrong.
The concept of Mangod or Gods is also instilled in us to a certain degree.
And further down the line, we sometimes revise established concepts.
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@21Pilots
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
I'm guessing that this twaddle is aimed at the 13 to 16 hormonally challenged age group.
No offence.
Just an observation.
Nighty Night.
Have fun.
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@AdaptableRatman
You value money over security and morality.
Nope, I'm just a pragmatist who sees the issue for what it is.
And it will be the same next year, as it is this year...And so on.
Though in this case money neither ensures security nor affects morality, so perhaps money is best spent elsewhere.
Not forgetting that money is the one true global GOD that we all bow to...So cannot be dismissed as readily, as you do.
And right bends right, and left bends left, until they eventually meet.
Where freedom without restrictions eventually becomes freedom with dire consequences.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Love is a fluffy conceptual misrepresentation of instinctive physiological processes.
Though said processes, should take no working out and inevitably comes with inbuilt conditions.
Reasoning, as in the conscious interpretation or misinterpretation of inherent processes is where it gets fluffy...Overthink as it were.
This is a generalisation, based upon what one might consider to be standard human physiology.
Aberrations will undoubtedly occur.
Though physiological aberrations should not be confused with acquired overthink.
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@FLRW
I refuse to identify as a banana during fruit debates.
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@AdaptableRatman
I thought the discussion was about the benefits and consequences of a wall in relation to the supply of narcotics from south and central America.
Anyone can grow a bit of weed in the attic or the glasshouse.
I doubt that the wall has scratched the surface of the US's drug addiction problem.
Or that either the legalisation or criminalisation of weed has made any difference to the numbers of weed users.
It's a losing battle that costs the US upwards of 40 billion dollars per annum.
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@Lashwnda
Sounds like a squeaky balloon slowly lettin air out.
LOL... He sure doe whine.
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@AdaptableRatman
As I stated previously.
Legalise drug use.
But refuse to pay for the consequences.
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@Castin
If there is a GOD it will be omni-sensible, and not a fiery lake of sulphur numb-nut.
Though me thinks that all that biblical baloney was made up by a load of human numb-nuts.
Just a hunch like.
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@AdaptableRatman
Events occur because they are able to do so.
Events require space and time.
Space and time have infinite potential.
It's matter that baffles us.
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@LucyStarfire
True.
And formative conditioning is their primary influence.
But children are also subject to other influences.
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@LucyStarfire
Hmmm.
I would agree that love is multifarious arrangements of electro chemical impulses and responses.
Though I would suggest, that some parents can be truly horrible.
Some children can be horrible too, of course.
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@Lemming
Yep, Zeno was a guy who stoically survived a shipwreck.
Which is something to brag about.
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@Lemming
Take a couple of old Greeks and stick an ism on the end.
Et voila.
Another load of philosophical bollocks that means nothing to 99% of humanity.
Although.
Epicurus was an atomist.
And it has to be said that Democritus was perhaps on to something.
This was a Zedism.
Have a nice day.
Lemming for moderator, gets my vote.
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@n8nrgim
At the end of the day, and after years of hitting heads against brick walls.
We have to conclude that some people are just fucking stupid.
And others will just take advantage of a stupid persons stupidity.
And in order to maintain some sort of social stability, others commit themselves to a battle that will never be won.
A wall just has to got around, over or through.
And it's not as if all U.S. Nationals are not stupid enough to not take advantage of the illegal drugs trade.
Might as well just make it legal and leave the stupid fuckers to get on with it.
And stop molly coddling them with help and sympathy when their lives go tits up.
Doing so will make drugs cheap and available, render the illegal traders redundant, and dramatically cut social services spending.
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@LucyStarfire
Very true.
We create associations.
And some are better than others.
But people will always criticize you behind your back.
Love is a nonsense word that we apply liberally and randomly, and generally represents a short term desire.
I would say that the strongest emotional bond we feel is the parent child association.
Partners are unrelated, and as such we have no physical connection to them, though familiarity will sometimes result in a lifetimes loyalty and dependency, but sometimes, discontent and contempt, wherein "LOVE" and loyalty simply fly out of the window.
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@LucyStarfire
Nighty Night.
Sleep tight.
Don't let your hens
Peck your todger overnight.
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@LucyStarfire
I am young. That is success.
I am young or younger, is probably a statement of fact, relative to how we rationalise our short lives.
Though "I am young" is not an achievement per se...Rather, just a statement.
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@LucyStarfire
I will be alive after 30 years from now.
Hopefully you will.
But hope is no guarantee of success.
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@LucyStarfire
See above.
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@LucyStarfire
More nonsense from you now.
Your inability to assimilate and understand, is simply indicative of a human computer lacking the appropriate processing skills.
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@LucyStarfire
That is just perception based discrimination, relative to acquired conditioning.
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@LucyStarfire
Nope, it is only ever now.
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@FLRW
Ha Ha.
Hidden messages.
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@LucyStarfire
Of course.
And I agree, things seem to work OK as they are.
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@LucyStarfire
Dress like an Arab.
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@LucyStarfire
The future is always hypothetical and never exists.
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@Mall
Are you angry with God?
Hypothetically speaking of course.
Hypothetically a GOD might dislike ham sandwiches and prefer cheese and chutney.
Hypothetically a GOD might be a super-computer or a giant carrot.
So let's try and keep our anger hypothetical too.
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@David
Might I make one suggestion.
Which is: That you think seriously and pragmatically about moderation and moderators.
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@Lashwnda
Need to stop those African Mutha's breeding like flies.
And eating like Hippos.
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@LucyStarfire
Same old story.
Too much is too much.
And too little is too little.
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@LucyStarfire
Some people are younger than you.
And some people are older than me.
It's the way it goes.
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@Lemming
The Earth's eco-system is entirely reliant upon the Sun.
And has evolved accordingly.
The Sun is our immediate GOD.
Or perhaps more so, our Universal Angel.
It is needed 24/7.
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@FLRW
@LucyStarfire
Chinese babes are cute and have a high IQ.
What's not to like.
And if you don't break the law, they won't shoot you in the back of the head.
And they're always looking for Chicken Farmers.
Plus, day trips to North Korea.
Sounds like Starfire Heaven.
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@fauxlaw
Therefore, AI lacks creativity but at an infantile level.
My point entirely.
If you had asked the same things of Og, 40000 thousand years ago, as he stretched upright for the first time, somewhere in Africa.
He would probably have replied Oo Oo Oo Oo.
Though I am still of the opinion, that currently an AI doesn't as yet, properly exist.
Just evolving, human controlled technology.
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@LucyStarfire
Older than some.
Younger than others.
Same as you.
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@LucyStarfire
You just, didn't ignore me again.
You can't, because I am essential to the process.
Nighty Night.
Seep tight.
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@fauxlaw
Artificial is old hat.
I replaced it with alternative long ago.
Because intelligence either is or isn't...So is neither artificial or otherwise.
It's simply a means of acquiring information and creating new ideas.
And as I continue to stress...Hominids have been doing it for 40000 years or so.
Whereas AI is just starting.
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@LucyStarfire
Your opinion is ignored now.
Yep, that is why you replied then.
You must have forgotten that you were ignoring me.
Oooops! Early onset dementia.
Lack of sunlight perhaps.
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@Stephen
Could be anything with BestKorea. AKA TheGreatSunGod. AKA Lucy Starfire.
You've popped over from the Island for a visit then?
Hope all is well in Bromsgrove.
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@Mharman
I doubt that he has a big one.
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@Mall
I enjoy the English language.
Plus, I am British and was educated at a time before any sort of computer or social media existed.
When English was taught seriously, and one wrote with a fountain pen.
Which isn't to say that I don't enjoy this medium.
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@LucyStarfire
Brain declines with your age.
Brain must incline with age initially, for it to be able to decline eventually.
Whereas wisdom doesn't develop until testosterone dependency diminishes.
Which is why Trump fails on all counts.
And some youngsters lie abed in a pool of spent ejaculate waiting for their Moms to come and change the bed linen.
Meow.
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@LucyStarfire
What happened to your mate Ratman and the Roman Catholic Church.
Though for sure, Catwoman can lap my milk anytime.
Did you know that Catwoman was created by Bill Finger.
Bill Finger's Catwoman.
Meow
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@RemyBrown
Nonbinary people suck because they are willing to be gender fluid, but not party fluid.
A statement so rife with comic potential.
Hasn't sucking gender fluids long since been de rigueur.
But may vary relative to the type of parties one frequents.
Though fluid transfer would in general, best represent human culture, in terms of ongoing binary betterness.
And nonbinary is as nonbinary does...Whereas fluid necessities do have a tendency to override the conceptual.
Which isn't to suggest that non binary fluid transfer cannot be mentally and physically rewarding.
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@Mall
@RemyBrown
Are you or were you some type of professor?
You could say that.
Though I prefer to think of myself as a pragmatist.
I'm guessing by his talking style, that he's a Jew.
Bad guess, based upon never hearing me speak.
I simply present narratives, based upon a lifetimes experiences.
As do you.
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