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@Davis,
The producers exercised artistic license and   were not true to the book, but nonetheless I thought it ironic that “Daenerys Targaryen the  unburnt” would be killed by “Snow”.

@Davis

Thanks for the advice and the unbiased assessment  of my delivery. Moving forward I will take heed to your advice. And thanks for vouching for my intent.

@Davis

Just because my sentence ended, does not mean my imagination did too. I imagine something like a scorpion tail…

I learned from the video, mostly because we didn’t go that deep into European systems in polysci class. Thanks in advance for enduring it @Davis, and I hope you have time to offer more of your expertise on it. (Although I’m mostly interested now in how various economic systems will play out, as a probably never-ending set of experiments. And I…[Read more]

@Davis – Only if your rabbit is called Harvey.

jakelafort wrote:
Pope, i interpreted BIG DEAL as follows.

Point taken. I guess I crossed the line a bit there. It might have raised some hair on me if someone said that to me, as I’m still trying to get over such sensitivities. Think I was mocking arbitrary lines, even if all we humans tend to have them. But look, we can’t constructively apply on…[Read more]

I feel like a virtual babe in the philosophical woods here, so let me get a couple of naive observations/questions out of the way. (Tongue in cheek.)

Is all sophistry specious?

Is it wrong to like the initials “UC” in this conversation because it fits so well with “UC Berkeley”?

Now, I hate name-calling, but calling one elitist here doesn’t…[Read more]

@Davis, good point. Some of the worst human atrocities, like during and after war, expanded the victor’s gene pool. One study claims that one man in 200 on earth has descended from Genghis Khan.

While looking for more recent studies, I ran across a couple more interesting ones discovering a significant loss of diversity of Y chromosomes, likely…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@davis – There simply cannot be a God. What kind of architect would locate the sewage works right beside the playground?

LOL

@Davis – There simply cannot be a God.

What kind of architect would locate the sewage works right beside the playground?

@Davis, I agree we have made it more complex. But it CAN and SHOULD be simple. Yet I can only speak for myself.

@Unseen, I’m sorry but that is funny shit. And for future reference,  girls who go down that fast, are likely going to require ghosting.

 @Davis

….. I love Christmas time……

Me too. Could not agree more. Christmas has largely lost the religious bent and is mostly just a good-will holiday. I particularly enjoy any music from “The Nutcracker” and I love the Dicken’s tale, which is really a secular message….don’t be an asshole !

@Davis

Yes because the function of this discussion was to get, maybe even just one person, to help you confirm your biases and to roll the eyes at all the rational comments coming in.

No, The function of this discussion was to see if there would be an alternative point of view that made sense to me. I did not find any that I could take seriously…[Read more]

@Davis

More anti-knowledge post-modernism. You have a real hangup on the difference between evidence and rationally based claims vs. intuitively based ones. As though there is no difference

Actually those words are not mine. I was listening to a minimalist podcast and they happened to be interviewing this…[Read more]

@Davis

As he only gets worse every month and since the only thing you can do is react with incredulity and outrage…all it does is raise my blood pressure.

I feel the exact same way. I’ve started to look at it like Karma is a bitch. And this bird has a long way to fall from the tree. He has it coming to him. He is going to pay eventually.