.999 + .999 = 1.998
1 + 1 = 2

1.998 =/= 2

I guess it kind of makes sense now why the democrats don't support nuclear power. Just as the Republicans are in bed with oil companies, the democrats are in bed with green power companies. This is just speculation of course but I'm curious of any other possible hidden agendas and how they may supply a different reason for why they support a certain policy, but they're really after something else.

What would happen if you saw a ghost? Like a legitimate, no-way-it's-anything-else ghost. Wouldn't that mean that the Christians are right? Or would you still stubbornly deny all the evidence like you atheists usually do?

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Give me sympathy please

And no, I did not get a flu shot

I just really awful right now. I'm extremely weak, I have a headache, and my throat is sore. Aside from taking medicine which barely helped, what do you do when you feel really shitty?

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You are to follow my three demands or I will continue to DDoS the site

1. Reactivate anarchy permanently
2. Ban Noelle (for the lolz)
3. Unban Comms Officer

I'll give you some time to figure it out. But if you do not, I will launch another DDoS attack.

If you are asked by god to do something unethical, say kill a child, would you do it?

You must choose either ethics or faith in this scenario, you cannot say that god would never tell someone to do it, because he actually has made someone make that decision in the bible (there's a nice quick summary of the story here, and also a giveaway for where this question comes from).

So would you obey god and kill the child, or would you not?

I know there aren't a lot of Christians on the forum, but I'm curious what answer you'd make of this. I'm not making this to attack religious people, I'm legitimately just curious how you guys would respond. And if you're wondering what's up with all the philosophy today, it's because I've spent all day studying it.

You all know the difference between invention and discovery right? I've been thinking about this for a few minutes now and it looks to me that they're both human terms. It's not like the possibility of a machine assembled in a certain way hasn't existed before someone thinks of it. If you think about it this way, everything is really only discovered, not invented. In human language we make the distinction because one type of discovery involves much more trial and error as well as imagination than the other and it's practical for us to make the distinction, but in philosophic terms they seem to be one in the same.

This might seem like a relatively simple and negligible point to make, and if so you may as well let this threads sink and die, but if I'm wrong about anything please explain why. There are a lot of implications to be made if it's the case that every idea or possibility already exists outside our minds.

I didn't actually think about this topic all that deeply until earlier today when I was at the hospital, but there's really a whole lot of old people there. Like a lot of old people, far more than young people and they are spending millions of dollars, each, to extend their lives by mere months or years. So I was talking with my friend about it, and we both agreed that we shouldn't waste so many of our hospital resources towards old people when they don't have long to live anyway, especially when it's a miserable time. And it's not just hospital resources, it's social security, medicare, and all the other expensive holes we live with so that old people can extend their life by a small percentage.

Now I understand why we have all these expensive programs in the first place: because no one wants to be the one to say that we're not going to take care of old people anymore. And the ethical argument always precedes the logical expect in times of urgency. Well we're hitting an urgency now and we're going to have to recognize some truths. Sad it may be, but this diversion of our resources is crushing our kids' future and our present.

Capitalist or not, you have to recognize that such large government spending on something that gives little to none back to the economy is only taking away from everyone else. Not to mention that hospitals are crammed with patients as it is and they're only getting worse. At they very least we need to decide if the cost of a trip to the hospital is worth x amount of years of life that it adds (e.g. nothing worse than $10k to extend a life by one year) with the exception of kids considering they've only lived a short time and adding a year on for them is much more meaningful than for an elderly person.

Because I am a capitalist, I do believe it is okay and economically beneficial for old people to spend their personal earnings towards their health, but I disagree taking it from the government because that money could be better spent somewhere else, like on children or infrastructure.

Anyway I know a lot of you are going to come in with emotional arguments, but I'm just going to ignore you. If you have any logical arguments for me, please share them. I'm here to expand my knowledge not to cling onto an idea so if you can convince me that's actually more good for me than it is for you.

I've got finals next week and I have to learn this guy up so I may as well make a thread about him. Anyway, what are your thoughts on the guy's philosophies or on him in particular?

I admire his critique on Christianity and how he believes it got started. I'm still a bit confused about his main philosophical points, specifically the Will to Power idea. I got the sense that the guy seems to admire power, though he doesn't appreciate Christianity that much, even before its decline.

Also feel free to add your input on Kierkegaard, Marx, Kant, and Hegel.

Why should I, as a straight white male, support gay marriage when it does nothing for me?

Give your responses as to what you'd say, if anything, to someone who said this to you. If your responses don't suck I'll give try to continue the debate with you to its logical end.

Now I understand why cats are the symbol of loneliness: because you have to be that desperate to have one. This isn't the only shit he's done. I also have two really long scars on my body because of him, one on my chest and one on my arm (literally about four inches long). The fucker freaks out over the stupidest shit and if you're holding him when that happens you're completely fucked.

Enough of that rant though. I'm just pissed I could've slept an extra two hours (it's not like I have finals next week or anything /sarcasm). ITT: Discussion on cats, reasons why the fuck you have one, and other stories about how they've traumatized you.

Boy am I glad to be normal