Jim

Only people who get recorded into popular history before they died have meaning, LOL.

Simon Paynton wrote:
The meaning of life?  What does that mean?

I have a kind of dismissive opinion on these questions, although like wrt free will, I just go with my instinct to act in life as though I have it. I definitely feel I have a purpose, and that life has meaning. If those feeling are just delusions or illusions, then they’ve emerged “…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Philosophy was once alive.

This article is super-interesting.  If I had to spend my life doing that kind of philosophy, I don’t think I would do it.  It would make me feel like shooting myself.

Their whole problem is, with their meaning of life theories, is that they don’t have any idea what they’re talking a…[Read more]

unapologetic wrote:
Rethinking Atheism Problem 1: we’re Arrogant Me: So what. You can’t shame me, or gilt trip me out of my position. Problem 2: Myopia. I don’t see the good in ‘faith’. It builds community, promotes pacifism. Me: I see the bad outweighs the good. ‘Faith’ pits believers against other ‘faiths’. Makes them ‘sheep’, subjects…

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Thanks Reg!!!

Rethinking Atheism
Problem 1: we’re Arrogant
Me: So what. You can’t shame me, or gilt trip me out of my position.

Problem 2: Myopia.
I don’t see the good in ‘faith’. It builds community, promotes pacifism.
Me: I see the bad outweighs the good.
‘Faith’ pits believers against other ‘faiths’. Makes them ‘sheep’, subjects of an anti-human despot.…[Read more]

In the clip of the Oklahoma Schools superintendent. His first mention of the bible, he said “… the (pause) bible …” You could tell he was about to call it ‘The Holy Bible’ and caught himself.  🙂

Have a great week!

@ Robert

It’s not like I never considered or explored the solution you offered.

You still use the window which has to be closed shut. That loses the window as far as I’m concerned. A further complication is that units in my building have windows that swing on side hinges. They don’t slide up and down. So a normal in-window installation is…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:
Just search portable air conditioner in Amazon to see them because links don’t work.

I have a small apartment with two windows. One I don’t want to give up to an A/C unit for practical reasons and I feed birds at the other one.

They don’t mount to a window. Just roll it near a window when you need them. The vent jus…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Just search portable air conditioner in Amazon to see them because links don’t work.

I have a small apartment with two windows. One I don’t want to give up to an A/C unit for practical reasons and I feed birds at the other one.

Just search portable air conditioner in Amazon to see them because links don’t work.

When the main house AC goes out or when we are on generator power, I use those portable AC’s that sell for less than $300, sit on your floor and use a dryer vent hose and an adjustable window bracket to get the hot air out. I set them on blocks of wood and put a drain tray under the drip sprocket. Otherwise, I’d have to fly to Ireland.

_Robert_ wrote:
Yeah, old folks in urban apartments are particularly at risk for heat stroke as all that concrete absorbs and reradiates the heat in the evenings. Many don’t have air conditioning. Miserable.

I’m 77, live downtown in a brick apartment building, and like many in Portland don’t have A/C because (at least in the past) you’d only r…[Read more]

My brother has gone to Long Island for the week as it is only 86f with a breeze rather than 98f in Atlanta and very humid.  At the moment in Dublin (7PM) it is a cool 51f after a very windy day. Perfect for an evening run.

Yeah, old folks in urban apartments are particularly at risk for heat stroke as all that concrete absorbs and reradiates the heat in the evenings. Many don’t have air conditioning. Miserable.

As for the world getting too hot for people to survive, Portland, OR, where I live is expecting three record-breaking days Fri-Sun with temps in the 100-103 range, breaking the old records by several degrees each day. I think it was two summers ago when Portland registered a 116f degree temperature, more than 10 degrees higher than Phoenix and Las…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Moral progress is annoying.

The article seems to say that we find new norms odd, and therefore stupid, and therefore wrong, like the norms of foreigners (those swine).  That sounds very plausible.

Our norms coordinate our group.  A person from a distant area can know how to do things with me.  If we change norms, we…[Read more]

@ Robert

Speaking of “going under,” when someone wonders aloud what death is like I tell them that if they’ve had general anesthesia, then they do know what death is like. “You know that period between when you go under and when you wake up? That period of lost time? That is death.”