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Slide Special user 533 Posts 
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Aces, can I ask: would you opt for there to be unicorns or would you prefer them being just a fantasy? And why?
Or to put it another way: what is the point of these questions that can't be answered. Better question: would you like to believe in something that you know doesn't exist just because it made you feel better? Would you actively believe in unicorns even knowing that they don't exist because it made you feel better to believe in unicorns then to face the idea that there are no unicorns. |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On 2012-07-09 11:40, Slide wrote:...would you like to believe in something that you know doesn't exist just because it made you feel better? ... depends... does that come with sanctioned feelings of rightousness, smugness, and the feeling that it's okay to belittle others and they can't belittle my behavior - while any other such expressed patterns of claimed belief are actively belittled by the managment? Nobody is born as or with a religion. All have to be indoctrinated. Any thoughts on the recent 'created worlds' dramas in current fiction?
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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I would like for there to be unicorns.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On 2012-07-09 15:58, LobowolfXXX wrote: There are in fiction and paintings and toystores. What would you imagine happening if there were intelligent horselike animals around? Would you let them vote?
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2012-07-09 16:00, Jonathan Townsend wrote: There are intelligent, horselike animals around. They're called . . . horses. Many are a lot more intelligent than a lot of people. |
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts
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Let 'em vote--they've got good horse-sense.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On 2012-07-09 16:51, S2000magician wrote: Must be fun to believe Mr. Ed was real and a Houyhnhnm. I was under the impression that he was faking it with peanut butter and a thread. Why not also make Mr. Ed a ventriloquist with Wylbur Post dumb? Real question: How could you know if another creature is intelligent - and would you really want to know that? It's disengenious in this sort of discussion to pretend that "yes but less intelligent than me" is a useful criterion - as they might just be fooling you - and then what?
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Slide Special user 533 Posts
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I think there is a good case to be made that there are more intelligent creatures than us, or certainly close to us: the dolphin comes to mind.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On 2012-07-09 17:40, Slide wrote: How so? Do you have an answer to the question about how to know if a creature is intelligent? If so, care to share it? I don't see any news about dolphin votes swinging elections.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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On 2012-07-09 17:58, Jonathan Townsend wrote: Maybe that's the evidence 
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On 2012-07-09 18:11, critter wrote: hmmmm not according to The Mice or Elmer the tiny pink invisible flying elephant.
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts
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On 2012-07-09 11:40, Slide wrote: What are you talking about? why can't they be answered? I wish there were Unicorn. I really like the concept. Why can't you answer the question? Don't you understand it? It is a very noncomittal question. You really have issues if you can't answer this. Its not a belief, it is just a question. Even if you do not believe in a Supreme Being maybe you would prefer if there was one. Maybe you believe in a Supreme Being an you wish there wasn't one. It is not a trick question. No one is asking you to believe in anything. The question is which would you prefer to be true. Jeeez. Not asking you to believe in anythinig get that through your head. And I wil say again I wish there were unicorns. Not believe in them, I wish they were a reality.
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts
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I wish there were genies in the Barbara Eden mold.
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts
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On 2012-07-09 15:55, Jonathan Townsend wrote: It was a stupid question for slide to ask as it has nothing to do with the original post. He is talking about beliefs. Not what is. You have to understand slide. He is biased and wears blinders. Oh yes he is into unicorns. Of course I realy wish they existed. Slide really, if you don't care to answer the question, keep your mouth shut, or at lest keep your foot out of it.
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts
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On 2012-07-09 11:40, Slide wrote: Your posts just get dumber and dumber. Why do you keep bringiing up believe? It has nothing to do with the question. Or are you just talking to yourself?
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts
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On 2012-07-09 17:58, Jonathan Townsend wrote: That's what they'd like you to believe.
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R.S. Regular user CT one day I'll have 188 Posts
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On 2012-07-09 18:50, Steve_Mollett wrote: Amen. Ron
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." Thomas Paine
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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Some posts really crack me up. Moat often, their authors aren't kidding. As Ira Corn once said, "That's what makes it so great."
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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So tempting to quote a wiser Jonathan's poetic rhapsody in reference to magicians.
Landmark, we are writing in a venue where most have not read Swift's lines about fleas and of them fewer still have inverted the notion. Perhaps we can go with Johnson and ask: Who made my cheese?
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