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Applicable to everyone… Mental configurations comprise past and future. The brain is the medium for memory (the past) and conjecture (the future). Real reality really exists in the eternal present. The eternal present is the medium for phenomena. Phenomena are the external world. Past and future ar...

Words can be daggers that enforce a hierarchy. But we live in America "the land of opportunity". There's not supposed to be a hierarchy here, at least in theory. Hierarchy requires a 'pecking order'. Where mockery is the weapon of the privileged, solemnity becomes the defense of the less ...

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2026 12:52 am I need to slow down.

Just showing a method to "slow down."

Glad to help.

rape = body autonomy usurpation.

Lacewing wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2026 10:04 pm

Your question (used to answer a question) amplifies the point that constitution usurpation is objectively a wrongful purpose of the commies even before the blush fades from the red-rose uprising.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2026 12:52 am Is … is … is … am … be … is … are … is … are …

Write the OP again, but this time …

1. Do not use any form of “to be,” in your rewrite.
2. Exorcise the me-monster words from your rewrite.

That will take the lead foot off the SOC (stream of consciousness).

Well, you obviously have no choice about not understanding, or anything else that follows from that. :D When you think about it, does the judge ever ask, What were you doing in that part of town, and dressed like that? Where is your covering? If the constitution is usurped, that will likely be a leg...

Lacewing wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2026 3:15 pm Neither is there any compelling reason (as I've said) ...

You'll really like last one (Shirley) and how the rest of that story relates to all that you say.
I think the rest of the story may still be available on youtube.

Lacewing wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2026 3:15 pm

The mundane remains of a lost paradise would be a tragic fate for us.

In regards to the topic, are you trying to say that men would be okay with being raped? Exactly the opposite is the point: it is not logical for mankind to be so easily dismissive or ignorant about the systemic rape of children and women. As if on cue, you step forward to demonstrate how your own s...

Turtle Blues

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Now, you might think that Walker's wry, ironic observations about patriarchal society themselves have little to do with the problem of rape. However, you'd be wrong, and I'll be happy to mansplain it to you. The biological imperative felt by most men (including myself) to prioritise our own needs o...

Never heard of Heather. Because rationality is not exclusive to any one form, rational mind perceptions can independently exist in multiple host forms, once easily detectable patterns become apparent. This is the way of things for thinkers, as you would know if not named just aspirationally. Fauci c...

Dark matter, dark energy, and principles are intangibles. All three could be what prevents the universe and everyone in it from becoming unglued. Dark matter simply matter we haven't yet discovered how to see? Might I remind you that the neutrino was a similar "ghost substance" for about ...

I am -- I think this is obvious to all by now -- the only really normal person on the forum, and for this reason a great deal of responsibility falls to me and weighs on my shoulders. I don't complain and I do not whimper!) :lol: Certainly entertaining! Speaking of literally … In a universe created...