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mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:27 pm
If an alien had different senses could we communicate?
nzilla
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by nzilla » Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:56 am
What are the chances that there would be no overlap of our senses?
Ever since I started equating correlation with causality, violent crime has fallen 58%.
clong
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by clong » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:40 pm
Wouldn't that be senseless?
mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:10 pm
Would we ever know?
nzilla
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by nzilla » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:01 pm
Can we ever know if we would know?
Ever since I started equating correlation with causality, violent crime has fallen 58%.
mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:14 pm
Can we start a new topic before we get into a mobius strip of questions?
nzilla
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by nzilla » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:32 pm
Are you afraid that such questions would be too one-sided?
Ever since I started equating correlation with causality, violent crime has fallen 58%.
mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:46 pm
Why do you fear that I am afraid?
nzilla
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by nzilla » Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:17 am
So, are you admitting that you are afraid?
Ever since I started equating correlation with causality, violent crime has fallen 58%.
mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:15 pm
Could we talk about the power of fantasy in generating new ideas?
I don't see how you could make the assumption that I had admitted anything!
nzilla
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by nzilla » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:50 pm
Isn't generating new ideas more or less the definition of fantasy?
Ever since I started equating correlation with causality, violent crime has fallen 58%.
clong
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by clong » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:00 pm
Can you please explain that to all of the authors out there who are writing recycled Tolkien?
mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:22 pm
Don't you know I have been trying to explain this for the last 37* years?
(*It would be 38, but Harlan Ellison didn't need this explanation.)
clong
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by clong » Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:22 pm
Wouldn't the world be a better place if everyone paid attention to mccormack44?
mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:07 pm
shouldn't the proper name be clong?
nzilla
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by nzilla » Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:55 am
e.e. cummings, what are you doing inhabiting mccormack44's form?!
Ever since I started equating correlation with causality, violent crime has fallen 58%.
mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:27 pm
Could it be that sometimes I get lazy?
Hunter B
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by Hunter B » Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:26 am
Too lazy to get out?
"Explanation is not an escape from suffering."
- Gravity Dreams, L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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by ausfi » Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:24 pm
Where's the place out there, by the way?
Prograstination is the grave of opportunity.
mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:29 pm
Isn't it the exact place you are not?
nzilla
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by nzilla » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:39 pm
Is it possible for such a place to be exact?
Ever since I started equating correlation with causality, violent crime has fallen 58%.
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by Hunter B » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:36 pm
Is it possible to pinpoint exactly where anything is?
"Explanation is not an escape from suffering."
- Gravity Dreams, L.E. Modesitt Jr.
mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:04 pm
Are you denying the existence of IDEAL conditions?
clong
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by clong » Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:16 pm
Are you getting platonic on us?
mccormack44
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by mccormack44 » Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:47 pm
Isn't platonic better than nihilist?