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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    win·dow
    ˈwindō/Submit
    noun
    noun: window; plural noun: windows
    1.
    an opening in the wall or roof of a building or vehicle that is fitted with glass or other transparent material in a frame to admit light or air and allow people to see out.

    2.
    a thing resembling a window in form or function, in particular.

    See clearly it is literally a window in the sense of the definition of the word window that is a metaphor for an actual literal window

    this is a stretch, even for your specious late night drug logic

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    See clearly it is literally a window in the sense of the definition of the word window that is a metaphor for an actual literal window
    Winky I am going to hunt you down.

  • RonaldoTheGypsyRonaldoTheGypsy Yes, yes Registered User regular
    FroThulhu wrote: »
    Before she stormed to her room she threw a dagger about how she makes more money than me.


    Literally everyone who makes money makes more than me. insult is weak.

    This is one of the stranger threads of conversation I've seen here.

    Wait, not really, but I feel like... I feel like I've done this one?

    I want to know -all- about this shit.

    Are you me?

    Well I'm black. So. . .

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MlaIe1ljs

  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    win·dow
    ˈwindō/Submit
    noun
    noun: window; plural noun: windows
    1.
    an opening in the wall or roof of a building or vehicle that is fitted with glass or other transparent material in a frame to admit light or air and allow people to see out.

    2.
    a thing resembling a window in form or function, in particular.

    See clearly it is literally a window in the sense of the definition of the word window that is a metaphor for an actual literal window

    this is a stretch, even for your specious late night drug logic

    You need to work with me here

  • Regina FongRegina Fong Allons-y, Alonso Registered User regular
    milski wrote: »
    I fucked up because I caught feels when the girl I'll never have sex with sent pictures of her vagina to the girl I am having sex with.

    Ruined both. bleh.

    *sips wine in a strange place*

    You are to sex problems what SKFM is to money problems.

    My high school crush just stole my fuck buddy. that's like. Baffling. Not opulent.

    Like I spent years trying to see your private bits and then you showed them to the girl I was having sex with and both spontaneously became bisexual.

    That is the exact opposite of SKFM privilege.

    Lesbianization is almost the worst superpower that a bro can possess.

    The only worse superpower is prehensile butt tentacles.

  • NecoNeco Worthless Garbage Registered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    Could God make a burrito so hot even he could not eat it?

    Burritos arent burritos unless they can burn deities.

  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    Could God make a burrito so hot even he could not eat it?

    there is a legitimate smart-ass dilemma that is much better to try and skewer the Christians with.

    When Jesus announced he was going to be crucified in the Garden the apostles (and Peter in particular) were horrified and objected. But Jesus said "No, this is what I have come to do". However, prior to this, they were wandering around preaching to the masses. What were they preaching? If it was the ostensibly message of the Gospels "Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins, accept him and be saved" then they would not have been remotely surprised and accepted the need. On the other hand, if it wasn't that then what in the hell were they doing?

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    milski wrote: »
    I fucked up because I caught feels when the girl I'll never have sex with sent pictures of her vagina to the girl I am having sex with.

    Ruined both. bleh.

    *sips wine in a strange place*

    You are to sex problems what SKFM is to money problems.

    My high school crush just stole my fuck buddy. that's like. Baffling. Not opulent.

    Like I spent years trying to see your private bits and then you showed them to the girl I was having sex with and both spontaneously became bisexual.

    That is the exact opposite of SKFM privilege.

    Lesbianization is almost the worst superpower that a bro can possess.

    The only worse superpower is prehensile butt tentacles.

    what, no way, you'd get so much work in porn

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    The only worse superpower is prehensile butt tentacles.

    But naked housework is thrice as fast!

  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    what if every time you pressed the button you killed baby hitler

  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited June 2015
    milski wrote: »
    I fucked up because I caught feels when the girl I'll never have sex with sent pictures of her vagina to the girl I am having sex with.

    Ruined both. bleh.

    *sips wine in a strange place*

    You are to sex problems what SKFM is to money problems.

    My high school crush just stole my fuck buddy. that's like. Baffling. Not opulent.

    Like I spent years trying to see your private bits and then you showed them to the girl I was having sex with and both spontaneously became bisexual.

    That is the exact opposite of SKFM privilege.

    Lesbianization is almost the worst superpower that a bro can possess.

    The only worse superpower is prehensile butt tentacles.

    I ain't lamenting the sex of the individuals involved.

    don't paint a picture with those shit stained pastels.

    DasUberEdward on
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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    edited June 2015
    Apothe0sis wrote: »
    Coinage wrote: »
    Could God make a burrito so hot even he could not eat it?

    there is a legitimate smart-ass dilemma that is much better to try and skewer the Christians with.

    When Jesus announced he was going to be crucified in the Garden the apostles (and Peter in particular) were horrified and objected. But Jesus said "No, this is what I have come to do". However, prior to this, they were wandering around preaching to the masses. What were they preaching? If it was the ostensibly message of the Gospels "Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins, accept him and be saved" then they would not have been remotely surprised and accepted the need. On the other hand, if it wasn't that then what in the hell were they doing?
    Um, wat? He was preaching all the stuff he was quoted saying, which included only hints of his death, the message of Christianity was figured out later.

    Coinage on
  • NecoNeco Worthless Garbage Registered User regular
    I miss Christmas sale commercials

  • milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    edited June 2015
    Apothe0sis wrote: »
    Coinage wrote: »
    Could God make a burrito so hot even he could not eat it?

    there is a legitimate smart-ass dilemma that is much better to try and skewer the Christians with.

    When Jesus announced he was going to be crucified in the Garden the apostles (and Peter in particular) were horrified and objected. But Jesus said "No, this is what I have come to do". However, prior to this, they were wandering around preaching to the masses. What were they preaching? If it was the ostensibly message of the Gospels "Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins, accept him and be saved" then they would not have been remotely surprised and accepted the need. On the other hand, if it wasn't that then what in the hell were they doing?

    I think the Catholic doctrine, paraphrasing from disuse, is that he went around preaching to people in order to give the sermons he gives in the gospel, and was crucified in order to take up the sins of the world/let souls back into heaven. I don't see a giant contradiction there unless I'm missing something obvious.

    milski on
    I ate an engineer
  • RonaldoTheGypsyRonaldoTheGypsy Yes, yes Registered User regular
    martin harris dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb

  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    Apothe0sis wrote: »
    what if every time you pressed the button you killed baby hitler

    The same baby Hitler over and over or a different baby Hitler each time?

  • milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    Coinage, on occasion when I see one of your posts I think it's my avatar but color inverted.

    I ate an engineer
  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    Apothe0sis wrote: »
    Coinage wrote: »
    Could God make a burrito so hot even he could not eat it?

    there is a legitimate smart-ass dilemma that is much better to try and skewer the Christians with.

    When Jesus announced he was going to be crucified in the Garden the apostles (and Peter in particular) were horrified and objected. But Jesus said "No, this is what I have come to do". However, prior to this, they were wandering around preaching to the masses. What were they preaching? If it was the ostensibly message of the Gospels "Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins, accept him and be saved" then they would not have been remotely surprised and accepted the need. On the other hand, if it wasn't that then what in the hell were they doing?
    Um, wat? He was preaching all the stuff he was quoted saying, which included only hints of his death, the message of Christianity was figured out later.

    This is considered a deep problem by apologists, so it is not quite so easily solved.

  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
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  • OrphaneOrphane rivers of red that run to seaRegistered User regular
    what

  • OrphaneOrphane rivers of red that run to seaRegistered User regular
    if

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    Orphane wrote: »
    what
    time is a flat circle

  • OrphaneOrphane rivers of red that run to seaRegistered User regular
    what if the what if was a what if-then recursive loop

  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    god was one of us?

  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    I'm sorry I just want some meatballs and white wine. Idgaf about the other woes

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  • NecoNeco Worthless Garbage Registered User regular
    What if when you press the button god is just a slob like one of us?

  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    edited June 2015
    What if life is nothing but a bunch of strangers on the bus just trying to make their way home?

    Gim on
  • ZampanovZampanov You May Not Go Home Until Tonight Has Been MagicalRegistered User regular
    this is stupid

    everyone knows when you press the button the pressure is released and the electromagnetic rift in the island is kept in check

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  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    I'm sorry I just want some meatballs and white wine. Idgaf about the other woes

    White wine? With meatballs!?

    Prison

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    milski wrote: »
    Apothe0sis wrote: »
    Coinage wrote: »
    Could God make a burrito so hot even he could not eat it?

    there is a legitimate smart-ass dilemma that is much better to try and skewer the Christians with.

    When Jesus announced he was going to be crucified in the Garden the apostles (and Peter in particular) were horrified and objected. But Jesus said "No, this is what I have come to do". However, prior to this, they were wandering around preaching to the masses. What were they preaching? If it was the ostensibly message of the Gospels "Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins, accept him and be saved" then they would not have been remotely surprised and accepted the need. On the other hand, if it wasn't that then what in the hell were they doing?

    I think the Catholic doctrine, paraphrasing from disuse, is that he went around preaching to people in order to give the sermons he gives in the gospel, and was crucified in order to take up the sins of the world/let souls back into heaven. I don't see a giant contradiction there unless I'm missing something obvious.

    Well, whatever was being preached was not about substitional atonement, or universal sin but plenty was spoken about the kingdom of heaven. There's more about how the text doesn't actually support the harmonised story that modern christianity suggests.

    There's also good reason for all of this - the apostles are mostly there for rheotical reasons to ask dumb question and the reader can be addressed directly. But that then undermines claims of historicity.

  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    Zampanov wrote: »
    this is stupid

    everyone knows when you press the button the pressure is released and the electromagnetic rift in the island is kept in check

    Czar'd!

  • OrphaneOrphane rivers of red that run to seaRegistered User regular
    What if there is instead of a button, only a space where a button is not

  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    The person I went on a date with tonight had a secret compartment in her dashboard into which she put a snake skin and a particularly attractive pinecone. She was pretty neat, pretty danged neat.

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  • MrMisterMrMister Jesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered User regular
    edited June 2015
    ronya wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Apothe0sis wrote: »
    MrMister wrote: »
    @ronya @Apothe0sis

    as usual

    comments are pretty on point.

    Singer is, if nothing else, a consistent shining example of why academic freedom is important.

    @MrMister
    It feels strange to want to read and respond positively to comments on the internet.

    I went and read the Barnes article as recommended and found no obvious link beyond the very general "disability is discussed".
    I'm v opposed to shit that Tim Hunt said on a scientific basis because as a scientist he should present evidence for his claims other than the experiential. That being said, the attack on philosophers of late for doing philosophy is the dumbest goddamn shit and highlights why tenure is really damn important.

    Read a good article by an anonymous author who was identified only as an adjunct professor at a large U.S. university (adjunct means no tenure for those not up on academia employment). He said that all his lectures are now prepared for the current environment where offending a student risks dismissal. This is a thing he agonizes over and loses sleep over because he needs his job. He also said other adjuncts he knows have the same fears.

    Some people will find that great, as of course being offended is amongst the worst possible things. But consider that the line between being offended and being challenged is razor thin, varies from student to student, and for some students anything that challenges them is perceived as offensive. It is of course your right to take to the internet and attempt to get a mob going, which can cause not only dismissal of an unprotected professor but unemployability if a large enough stink is made.

    And of course this offended student can be anyone. It needn't be a black, gay, or trans student. It can be a religious student (of any religion) a conservative student etc. None of these viewpoints can be safely challenged by an unprotected professor. It only takes one student to be super offended, take to the internet and get a dogpile going, and the university will drop you on your ass because you're an adjunct and they hired you into that position because you are pretty expendable.

    So yes, tenure is super fucking important because we are quickly reaching the point where only tenured professors can say things that challenge students.

    I think I read the same article. Was it on Vox?

    The one I read went to great lengths to pin the blame on oversensitive students, even though it was obvious from the text that the crux of the issue is that adjunct professors are expendable.

    It was on Vox: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid

    I want to point out that "clearly the answer is that someone should spend more on all of us; see, we have no competing interests whatsoever" is facile, bullshit, and not prone to a glorious history of political success in the neoliberal era. Rather, the budget is just cut, and then it's up to the vigorous exercise of faculty democracy and administration maneuvers to distribute the short straw and lend a democratic veneer to the proceedings. At that point the pamphlets admonishing you to stand with the faculty against Scott Walker are a very poor sort of severance pay.

    I actually think Singer is pretty safe; his political credentials are too well-entrenched, he has too many of the wrong pre-existing enemies (pro-lifers), and he's not an attractive target for opportunists. There's nothing you can say about purging disabled infants that can possibly be said louder than the conservative pro-lifer can say it, and if you ally with them then it is your respectability that is on thin ice. Barnes may have the "clearly our mutual enemy is Privilege; see, we have no competing interests whatsoever" treatment in her future.

    @ronya @Apothe0sis to be clear, I don't think Singer is in any danger. He's too famous, important, and well-respected. And, additionally, very few philosophers aren't committed in some way to academic freedom--it's a tiny minority within his actual field that would censor him even given they think he's wrong (and, as noted, there is a significant minority that greatly admire him as right...). So the worst thing that happens to him is occasionally being disinvited to talks.

    What it illustrates is not so much the danger of censorship happening (since it won't, here), but rather why it would be bad if it did--among other things, how stupid censorship can be. I thought this comment put it nicely:
    Just a quick personal reflection. I have used Singer *Practical ethics* for more than two decades now. One reason I use it is that students respond so positively to it. Students often come into the class already in anti-Singer mode. (I even had one student complain–before taking the class–that the book was on the syllabus. They suggested I balance it with a book by Ann Coulter… I didn’t do that.)

    Once they immerse themselves in the actual arguments, the students are (a) impressed with Singer’s intellectual fairness, and (b) nonplussed or even angry at the brainless criticism that Singer is subjected to on a regular basis.

    It is a wonderful object lesson in the joys and pitfalls of doing philosophy.

    MrMister on
  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    I am so curious to understand the apparent equivalence between Singer and Coulter. I don't know how they correspond!

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    I wish I could find my old photoshop comic edits. I mean I found a bunch of old stuff I'd forgotten I'd done but not the thing I was actually looking for. Curse my past self for not sorting his files more easily.

  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    Who was the guy who did PA edits way back when?

    Was it boddah?

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    'twere Sabermau

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    How to get an Economics degree: Explain the ending of Trading Places.

  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    Whoa, I don't even remember Sabermau.

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