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That which is known, for example: a thing known, is known through it’s label, which is a word. Otherwise there’s no knowledge of what any thing is. Yes, pain or pleasure is a sensation and would be recognised as such, but without the label ‘my pain or my pleasure’ there would only be sensation witho...

The good news about life and death is that you only have to do them once.

Impenitent wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2026 8:00 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2026 4:17 pm
Please don't bother to contribute your irrelevant stupidity to this discussion, Walker. There's no need. It's counterproductive.

I didn't know Walker made kitchen parts

-Imp

He is the creator of numbers.

Impenitent wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2026 8:19 pm life is but a joke...

-Imp

Why was the skeleton lonely, because it had no body to hang out with, so it hung out with its mind, what mind, oh yeah, that mind, don’t mind me. Lol

This too will pass. You know you are dreaming, and you also know nothing ever happened in a dream. Words do not know they are words. This entire mental construction is one humongous unwritten story in the form of symbols with associated meaning. Once upon a time in the beginning was the Word, and th...

Walker wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 4:32 pm The Shadow knows

Isn’t a shadow an hallucination?

Walker wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 5:58 pm

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 5:46 pm
Space is filled with intense radiation that would eventually destroy any biological organism. So humans could never colonise space.

Spores could, burrowed in asteroids, and you know what they say about evolution.

Sounds like alien consciousness. But that’s just another story.

Walker wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 5:57 pm On a galactic scale in an open universe

God is the organizing intelligence that keeps entropy at bay

In a seemingly uncompromising, unfair way.

Yes, however, we cannot know this, because we are this.

Assuming that colonizing space is both necessary for survival (and therefore has some temporal expedience) and is also realistically possible for human beings, could a successful program to colonize space be carried out entirely by an "anarchist" commune? And if there were no "anarch...

I was originally diagnosed as "schizophrenic" before my diagnosis was downgraded to "bipolar with psychotic features". But mental health isn't a concrete science, strictly speaking. It's just guesswork and inference. So who knows. When you say “who knows” are you questioning the...

If I can't touch it, then how can I know what it "feels" like? My belief is that I can’t ever touch or meet the beliefs i believe . That feels like nothing. But then we must ask ourselves what does "nothing" feel like. Have either of us ever felt "nothing"? And if so, ...

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:26 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:25 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:21 am

Apparently.

So what does belief in apparent fantasy feel like?

If I can't touch it, then how can I know what it "feels" like?

My belief is that I can’t ever touch or meet the beliefs i believe . That feels like nothing.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:21 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:19 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:06 am

No. It's just the fantasy of a mentally ill person.

You believe in fantasy?

Apparently.

So what does belief in apparent fantasy feel like?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 9:06 am

Fairy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 8:23 am Do you believe in Gary’s world?

No. It's just the fantasy of a mentally ill person.

You believe in fantasy?

Another lonely, pointless day in God's world. Maybe if I were an atheist, I wouldn't be miserable? Maybe if you stopped believing in a lonely pointless God’s world. You wouldn’t be miserable anymore. That’s obvious. Nothing in your world, Gary’s world, is forcing you to believe in anything you don’...