bradley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Okay, but I draw the line at furries humping on my > leg. EOD will be heartbroken.
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> Disgraceful!!!  She is Dorothy L. Sayers! Not to those of us who were her friends.
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I know you prefer The Most Interesting Man in the World, but at some point Our Mister of Aches and Pains may be more apt.
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"A rather flaccid response, one might think." --Dorothy Sayers, shaking her head in disappointment
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> . . . apparently I have no osseous tissues!!! You, Bloomer, make this far easier than it needs to be.
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"Oh, THAT kind of coke. . ." --Nuestra Señor de los Dolores
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Soft Machine Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes. I've always found it strange that England's > patron saint had nothing to do with the country > and never went there because, if he existed, it > was probably in Turkey... Actually, it goes back to at least 3,000 BCE. Virtually all of the Indo-European peoples share the myth of a supreme go
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Jesus, we missed you! But I guess you have to go underground from time to time when you're in the Witless Protection Program. Welcome back!
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> Except that what you are referring to is an > interpretation of reality, not reality itself. Really? Can you give us examples of where a determinist like Sapolsky substitutes "interpretation" for scientific observation? Exactly which argument in which chapter in which book is wrong and why? Or can't you be bothered to get up from your armchair? -------------------
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Dennett was a great thinker. I've been critical of him because 1) he was misrepresented as opposing determinism, which was untrue; and 2) he believes free will and determinism are compatible, which strikes me as nonsensical. On other topics, however, he has been revolutionarily clear and insightful. The world is poorer without him.
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No matter how many he eats, EOD is not that gullible.
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+1
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The Utah Mother Puckers.
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> The trouble with viewing people as mere machines > is that . . . it undermines notions of free > will, choice and personal responsibility. See? Your epistemology is utilitarian. You judge reality by whether it comports with your preferred world view.
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> If one views humans as mere automata then any > notion of free will shall quickly be undermined, > whatever Dennett himself believed. This line of > thinking has become far too dominant of late. You know what is missing from your posts here and immediately below? Any concern for what the truth is. As you do with Malthus, Orwell, Tocqueville, and all manner of historical
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Dennett was much more complex--not in a good way--than you present. Henry cited him several times as a believer not in determinism but in free will. What you have done is to reiterate my point from a few weeks ago: Dennett was a fully committed determinist. Henry's denying that fact was disingenuous, to put it gently. But what made Dennett so bizarre was that although he was a determinis
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"The Mormon leadership . . . has even incorporated anti-conspiracy rhetoric into the handbook." Only a person of profoundly limited rationality would consider that a bad thing. Enjoy the Kool-Aid.
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LLCs are taxed but at a much lower rate, I believe subject to correction, than individuals or regular corporations. Young could also pay all his business-related expenses through the LLC, which would be more advantageous from a tithing perspective than paying them personally. My broader point, though, is that the tax code is written to give rich people many more options and loopholes than are
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If he is intelligent, Young will do what rich Mormons like Romney and Huntsman do: set up an LLC. An LLC is a limited liability company that can be as small as a one-person entity. He could call it something like Young Coaching Enterprises, have BYU deposit his salary into it, and then pay himself, say, 100,000 per year from that company. He'd pay tax and tithing on that 100,000 but the
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You should have borne that lesson in mind when asked about the alien.
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It's sad how many people insist on having "their" truth irrespective of facts. Can you guess, for instance, who today spoke in a social media post of "my TRUTH " when attacking Jimmy Kimmel? Pathetic, isn't it, when non-murderers do the same thing as Kohberger?
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That may be true, but your ponytail and wide smile make you seem bright and welcoming. Like a garden gnome.
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Thank you for your countervailing efforts with the aliens.
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"I didn't do it!" --The Most Interesting Man in the World
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Brother Of Jerry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Reporters have been known to wear a > jacket and tie/blouse and jeans. "That's nothing! The stories I could tell. . ." --Jeffrey Toobin
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Isn't Baltimore where Pol Pot went after putting China in its place? The reason, I read in Tocqueville or Mathus--I forget which--was that neither Beijing nor Phnom Penh have extradition treaties with the Shah of Maryland. But you would know better than I.
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I knew you could do it, Dad!!!
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Have I ever told you how much you remind me of a man from E/C^2 . (-1)^(1/2) . PV/nR ? Probably not.
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TL;DR Wut?
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I fear, good friend, that with logic like that no one will ever accuse you of having graduated from . . . E/C^2 . (-1)^(1/2) . PV/nR . . . although some may think the PV/nR is relevant to your personal behavior.
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