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  1. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    … i managed to get my mm card for a ingrown toe nail that i had surgery on.

    Is this true?

    I've thought about trying to apply for a medical card before, but I don't really know how the process works here in Canada. I believe they only prescribe you medical marijuana for very specific issues and then only if you have already tried more conventional medications and had poor results. I don't really have any medical issues apart form the occasional kidney stone, and I don't believe they would prescribe it for that.

    Oh well. Apparently they will start the legislation for the legalization of the sale and use of marijuana for recreation next year, or so the government currently claims, but I don't really trust Trudeau. Guess we'll see what happens. I would really prefer to buy my buds in a store without having to deal with the hassle of calling some strange dude and meeting him at some random location and feeling all sketchy about it.
  2. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Where does a persons freedom of religion end and another persons freedom from religion begin?

    Should people be free to practice and express their religious beliefs? At what point does a persons freedom to express their religion begin to infringe on another persons freedom from religion?

    I don't believe anti-abortionists should show/mail people pictures of mutilated fetuses. That's disgusting, rude, disrespectful behavior. And I think people who cover their faces with veils should have to show their face and prove their identity when getting a picture taken for their government issued identification cards/books, or when being detained by police.

    Ideally, people should be able to practice their religious beliefs without breaking laws or common decency, and their religious practices should be personal and should not affect the general population. However, some people truly believe they have a duty to change the world and make the world accept their religious beliefs. At what point does speaking about religious topics become harassment or bullying?

    Is it even possible to resolve issues like this in a way that both religious people and non-religious people are happy and satisfied, or is conflict inevitable?
  3. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    The world is ending one day at a time.

    Latest events, September 13, 2016:

  4. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    thats a dope cat bro.


    Yeah man. She's a hybrid.
  5. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Sometimes I see fruit flies in the summer. I believe they get in through open doors, holes in window screens, and live in the houseplants. Sometimes I see gigantic hairy spiders that run very quickly. I wonder what they are eating. Outside in the yard I find all sort of insects. Ants, mosquitoes, things I don't know own the names of, daddy long legs, centipedes, silverfish, one time I found a dead mouse floating in a bucket of water after a heavy rainfall. One time I found a baby bird in my garage so I picked him up and put him on a bush.
  6. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    This is Nutmeg:



    She's like 3 or 4 months old.
  7. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Go here: http://hornbyisland.com/
  8. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Climate
  9. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Isn't that normal?
  10. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    no

    Are you genetically a male who identifies with the female gender?
  11. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    What time zone do you live in?
  12. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory)
  13. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Something I've thought of is dropping something to the ground and asking "What meaning does this have?" in response to what may be my most hated question, "What is the meaning of life?"

    Very zen.
  14. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    What you guys do is just a hobby. A hobby that will lead to nothing. Your ideas are lost.

    It's a hobby that has led to insights that have improved my life. I consider that a win.

  15. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Yes i am saying she would be wrong. And saying: "Oh no, but you see, it's a philosophical question". Is a slippery slope, because we could just as easily extend this to everything. Before long we'd call everything something else than what it actually is.

    Ok, but consider this:

    There's nothing in the "definition of cat" (itself biologically somewhat ambiguous) that you'll find in a biology textbook that precludes a cat from being a person. Not that I think cats are people, but I'm not sure why personhood would even be a prerequisite for inclusion in a family anyway or why non-personhood would mean you have total inalienable property rights over a thing.

    It might be a good idea to show some sort of reason as to why you believe she would be wrong. What makes a person a person? Is it possible for non-persons to become persons and vice versa? It wasn't very long ago that some of your fellow human beings were actually considered to not be persons. Now they are. And sometimes things like large corporations are considered to be persons. So why shouldn't a girl consider her cat to be a person?

    I can consider you a dumbass and you could consider me an idiot but that doesn't fundamentally impact our individual intelligence. And if calling X, Y doesn't change anything about X then what is the point? We should just call things by their names.

    Calling a cat a person or a member of the family is an expression of the way the speaker experiences and interacts with that cat. It represents a difference in the way the speaker perceives and thus interacts with the person in comparison to non-persons. Isn't that sort of obvious? We do call things by their names as we experience them - some people experience their pet cat as a member of their family, or as a sort of cat-person.

    I would but i wouldn't consider it being me.

    Ok but consider this:

    What does it mean to be a "continuation of your consciousness"? Presumably a sufficiently complex simulation could execute all your same mental activities in the same sequence as you today, we could even imagine it doing this in parallel in advance of the physical "you". I actually agree that such a simulation would be a different thing, have a different although isomorphic consciousness, but I'll argue that precludes physicalism. If subjective experience is reducible to physical states (the physicalist premise) then identical physical systems should have identical consciousness properties. Like if we say acceleration is reducible to mass and net force of a system then two physical systems with same net force and mass must experience the same acceleration, and yet you seem to admit here that two systems with the same physical properties (a perfect clone or a perfect simulation and yourself) would have different consciousness. So something has to be wrong, maybe the idea that you wouldn't share an internal experience with a clone or simulation is the mistake but that seems even more out there than the idea that consciousness is nonphysical.

    From what I can tell you feel such a simulation would not be you because you would not be sharing the exact same subjective experience, or something like that, right? Like, the simulation and you could share the same memories, react the same way to events and questions, have the same thought patterns, but if you were sitting on the opposite side of the room as your simulation you would each be having a slightly different experience than the other. And of course, if we turned off the simulation, "you" would still exist.

    Let's imagine a slightly different scenario. Lets say you had contracted some sort of rapid, degenerative brain disease and if we did not act quickly we would lose you forever. Imagine we have advanced technology, so advanced we could record all of your information, all your memories and neural connections and your entire "essence" essentially, and we could use nano technology to replace your dying brain tissue with an artificial substitute that could precisely simulate your "essence". Imagine we have the technology to do this quickly, painlessly and you are able to remain conscious for the entire procedure. You would almost feel like a fog has been lifted from your mind. Would you still consider yourself to be the same person afterward? Would you still be "you", even though you have an artificial brain running a simulation of your old organic brain patterns?

    You can remove anything you like, my consciousness would be the essence of my being i'd say. And if you remove my consciousness i stop existing. As far as i am aware at least

    How would you define consciousness?

    When you have an operation and become temporarily unconscious, do you temporarily stop existing?
  16. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    I think it's somewhat human nature:

    Tiger got to hunt,
    Bird got to fly;
    Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?"

    Tiger got to sleep,
    Bird got to land;
    Man got to tell himself he understand.


    You see, artists have a vocation to express their perceptions of hyperspacial realities from every point of view that man can reach, at every different time that man can live in, to provide us with handles on universal truths. All the myths and all the religions present us with different pictures of the same hyperspacial entity, and that entity is ourselves. Artists, scientists, and mystics who glimpse spirits dimly through the Veils of Maja limn a projection of the eternal entities into the human dimensions of literature, theatre, music, dance, architecture, engineering, philosophy, mathematics, justice, politics, morality --- in a word, culture. Like pictorial art, all cultural artifacts compress hyperspacial structures into fewer dimensions so that ideas are represented in more or less tangible forms. The form is the specialized language of its poet and the meaning of the form is the essence of the myth.

    "Why are you guys doing this?"

    All those posing unanswerable questions, or declaring that their questions can't be answered are not in the business of creating science, nor do they have any intention of informing the public; their real purpose is obscuring knowledge and confusing you in order that they may gain and hold their advantage over you. Rhetorical questions take many forms, and none are so beguiling as the scientific poser. Rhetoric manipulates automatic psychological reflexes so as to make the audience believe that the authority who cannot answer his own questions knows something that his audience doesn't know.
  17. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Sex addiction?
  18. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Oh no, not you Lanny! The last of the last, the rock upon which the oceans of BS crashed, the unbowed, the unbroken. Hear that sound? It's my soul crying out in anguish!

    It's good to have an open mind, especially after being subjected to years to attacks (ie. hearing pascal's wager for the like 50th time…). I, too, know that hunger of spirituality, but I honestly can't cross the barrier. There's something sweet in accepting the truth, the minimal truth, and leaving everything in a constant state of painful uncertainty.

    Well isn't that kind of what having an open mind means? It doesn't mean accepting crazy pseudo spiritual nonsense for no reason. Having an open mind is more like staying afloat in the sea. You have to relax to float. If you stiffen up and try to cling to your ideas about the nature of life, yourself and this universe, whether those ideas are spiritual based or science based, you will sink. But if you have an open mind, if you can relax and float on the surface, the truth will come to you whatever it turns out to be.
  19. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    See? So needs to be sectioned

    If something about these posts actually bothers you don't read them.

    How much of a human can be replaced by artificial parts before personhood is lost, if ever? If the brain is the reason people are considered persons, then if the human brain and all its thought patterns, memories and other attributes could also in future be transposed faithfully into some form of artificial device (for example to avoid illness such as brain cancer) would the patient still be considered a person after the operation?
  20. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Get your hustle on:

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