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Sunday School August 7th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 4 days, 18 hours agobut it still takes place within a context of living things living off of other living things. “Nature is red in tooth and claw.”
In response to a question on whether a vegan diet is healthier than a diet including meat and dairy, you characterized meat as concentrated vegetation and vegetation as reconstituted meat and…[Read more]
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Sunday School August 7th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 5 days, 3 hours ago😁 Animals eat vegetation and that produces their meat and milk, to varying degrees of leanness and fat, and vegetation gets it’s nutrition and grows in part from composting organic matter, which includes dead animals and their castings and waste.
This is like the Merrie Melodies version of metabolic processes and cell/ t…[Read more]
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Autumn replied to the topic Sometimes war crimes are okay, right? in the forum Small Talk 5 days, 5 hours ago
International law is not necessarily my threshold, but I’d rather my nation lose a war than engage in tactics which put involuntary participants in the cross hairs, especially children who cannot consent to the risk. I mean, given the option to flee and seek refuge, I might accept able bodied people of a certain age can decide for themselves if…[Read more]
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Sunday School August 7th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 5 days, 14 hours agoReg, Is a vegan diet healthier than eating meat and dairy? I don’t know if I’ve said it here before, but when you really think about it, meat and dairy are just concentrated vegetation and vegetation is just reconstituted meat and dairy.
Very much no.
And Omnivores are just taking a rodeo ride on the big Orobouro and enj…
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Sunday School August 7th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 5 days, 17 hours agoAn AI would be able to watch millions of movies, read billions of pages of history, scientific journals, books – and also religious documents.
My sympathies to the AI.
Our AI would understand all human emotions, and would get its motivation from where it saw it was needed.
AI would almost certainly be able to see the e…[Read more]
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Sunday School August 7th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 5 days, 17 hours agoHumans will be (and are being) displaced in the same sense that industrialization has reduced the need for human power over decades if not centuries. But the idea that AI would dominate humanity in general may be burdened with too many assumptions.
First, motive. How would AI motivate itself and toward what end? Humans begin from a place where…[Read more]
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Sunday School August 7th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 5 days, 19 hours agoSocial change happens when it is built upon sustainable and effective political movements.
That much borders on tautology, but the author doesn’t make a good case for his position. It reads more like a white man complaining about Black rights movements of today in the same vapid way the elderly huff, “Kids these…[Read more]
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Sunday School July 31st 2022 in the forum Sunday School 1 week, 5 days agoCoffee Break Video: This debate is between a creationist Liar for Jesus and a Professor. The evidence given is very good. You could skip the Kent Hovind parts but it might be entertaining.
I was skimming and landed very quickly on Hovind calling Professor Dave a child abuser because ‘ontogeny recapitulates…[Read more]
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Autumn replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 5 days ago
Sorry, but Wiktionary says that Your Majesty is a pronoun. Is Wiktionary wrong?
Likely. According to Wiktionary:
Wiktionary is not an arbiter of what is good English; correct English, acceptable English, suitable English, or even grammatical. This also applies to entries for non-English terms. Wik…
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Autumn replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 6 days ago
@autumn – Would anyone exist without them? I reckon somebody must know but not
meI.That’s kind of close to one of the quirks of English usage that really interests me. “He is taller than I” is correct, yet it sounds pretentious at best, incorrect at worst. Contrast that with, “He is taller than me,” which is p…[Read more]
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Autumn replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 6 days ago
Part of the flexibility of language is that two people can analyze an expression two different ways with no way for one person to prove definitively that the other person is wrong. Thanks for the example. I’m sure I can come up with an example of a verb becoming a noun by being used as a noun. It’s not like you have a list of nou…
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Autumn replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 6 days ago
Grammar is an emotional journey. Personally, an adverb or two has taken me down a peg.
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Autumn replied to the topic Trumpism minus the Trump? in the forum Politics 1 week, 6 days ago
Sometimes I think it’s a facet of human nature that something has to break before we can actually make meaningful strides toward change, not as an absolute rule, but as a rather significant pattern. We know things are wrong under the surface, but if they’re just manageable enough we can manage to not think overly much on it and get on with our…[Read more]
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Autumn replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 6 days ago
I wonder is anybody really likes indefinite pronouns?
Would anyone exist without them?
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Autumn replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 6 days ago
I’m wrong – majesty is a noun, somebody can be a majesty. But that doesn’t mean that a pronoun can’t have a noun in it.
It’s not about whether there is a noun in it. It’s about whether it functions grammatically as a noun or a pronoun. ‘Your Majesty’ functions as a noun.
These make it similar to the pronouns trans people…
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Autumn replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 6 days ago
Prince Charles is referred to as His Majesty, instead of “he”, which is a pronoun. We all know that Unseen was trying to wind you up, and play silly arses. But I’m not.
We could also refer to Charles as the heir apparent, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cornwall, or Charl…[Read more]
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Autumn replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 6 days ago
His Majesty is fit for purpose as a pronoun.
I’ve already gone over why it isn’t—points you’ve not addressed—And I could keep going. Are you really sure you want to get into this with me? Simply misunderstanding basic grammar is not going to be accepted as a reasonable argument,
I mean psychologically, not physically, tra…
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Autumn replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 6 days ago
Majesty takes me to august. Such a nice and underused word. Even you Autumn are not wont to use august.
I am loath to be august as well. Some of my 90s punk sensibilities never really left me.
It occurs to me I’ve taken my name from the time of year where the months are named after neither gods or Caesars, but rather the…[Read more]
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Autumn replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 6 days ago
it’s a noun used as a title:
You’re right, Unseen isn’t actually a member of the Royal Family, unless he wants to self-identify as one, which nobody else would accept, because it would be ludicrous, it would normally be grounds for a psychiatric diagnosis. If a trans person wants to self-identify as a perso…
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Autumn replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 6 days ago
According to Wiktionary, Your Majesty is a pronoun. From Google: pronoun a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this ). If Unseen wants to call himself His…
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