greyfoot

@jakelafort. If you have a problem with a poster, please take it up in private message.  Leave the chastising to the mods.  We are much more effective.

I sent a message to the Hemmingway Cat Hotel just before the hurricanes hit them, to ask if there was anything I could do to help.  They responded “include us in your prayers”

WTF?  If I was a prayerette, I’d already have done that, but the automatic assumption that I had a direct line to god was jaw dropping.  I politely replied, “not really re…[Read more]

I think the prime directive applied to other races or entities, not humans in a different culture.  On the tribe front, that’s a whole separate debate. That is humans making decisions over other humans.  Their way of life is going to have to catch up some day – it would be wrong to try to trap them like flies in amber.

I’d do it because I’d never know the outcome.  If “I” died instantly believing I was fine, so what?  I’d never know.  The new “me” could trundle along until the next transportation when I/We would be replaced again.  Even the aging process would continue.  Sort of like a relay race with a Strega baton.

edited to add:- it’s the same thing real…[Read more]

@bellerose I’ve globe trotted a fair bit in my life and have spent time with indigenous tribes around the planet.  They are indeed very grounded, and in touch with ‘mother earth’ having practically no carbon footprint.

They live in the moment- they don’t plan ahead further than the next meal.  Life is very fragile, there is little to no m…[Read more]

Not yet, my friend, we are working on it!

Hey hey @greyfoot long time, my friend 🙂

“The conversation came to an end shortly after I asked him why the hell he was wasting his time working, when he could join the welfare recipients and have a better life.”

That made me laugh out loud!

I’d say it was abusing the system for personal gain.

@davis Hedonism has always appealed

Ha Unseen!  What is the minimum number of cats I must have to make my above post grammatically and logically correct?

I’m favoring “Don’t worry, be happy” now, even if it’s necessary to get a bit bigger a pebble.

Murder carries by definition a wrongness. You cannot use the word without its embedded negative judgement.  It would be like having a commandment that said “Do no wrong”.  Those Christians who think the correct interpretation should be ‘murder’ rather than ‘kill’ completely miss that point.

Just think of all the time and resources that could h…[Read more]

Half my cats are at war with each other.  A good thought experiment enabled me to work out where to put the cranky ones so they never meet yet still have access to all the house.  I worked out how to inspire each of them to go into the room designated when the time came to revolve their presence without them encountering each other, and without h…[Read more]

Hey Dang, that sounds horrific – both deaths you experienced.  I’m not sure I’d have responded as delicately as you did to the nurse, mind you.

i always found it bizarre that there needed to be a commandment not to kill.  It’s as if the Jews wandered about happily stabbing anyone that irritated them – until this majestic revelation occurred to stop them.

Wow Robert that was a brilliant description of how it feels to be in a hurricane!  I almost feel I can cross it off my bucket list now!

Seriously mate, that sounds horrendous. I hope you and your family can get repaired and up and running as quickly as possible.  And yeah, this is where god comes in – it’s the fear factor that amplifies the b…[Read more]

Harris uses the tumor as an extreme example because he has less argument for fates inevitability – some of us here do subscribe to the position that everything that happens, happens inevitably due to previous events, and that humans may have no true say in how they behave.  The position that Harris is trying to start from is the same – a person…[Read more]

The person committing the crime is not responsible because fate made him do it?  Maybe.

It doesn’t matter, because in the vilification of the criminal behaviour, the collective of people benefits in reinforcing the sense of what is and is not acceptable behaviour in the group.

Punishing the hapless criminal is a useful tool for moral cognizance.