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I can't match any of those wonderful adventures, but as for memorable, there was this one trip from Creemore ON to LA CA for a contract that could last six months or more. We drove down in an extended cab pickup with basic household goods, three dogs and a cat. Had to stop twice for every meal - our...

Between obesity and warmongers, CO2 and earthquakes, we're all working on it!

ALLOWED??? What kind of state are you running? How would it be if, instead of getting on the case of poor, anxious and ignorant people, government did its proper work: regulating industry to produce wholesome food; keeping false advertisements off the air, bulking up the public education system and ...

Magnolia5275 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 3:15 am It is not possible to know a world outside the mind

Fine. So why are you bothering other people with tedious repetitions of your same silly mantra?

Magnolia5275 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:55 am A
7. The world is my mind

Wrong!

9. The mind is God
10. God exists

Wrong!

Can't find a single problem.

Look harder.

I think it is perfect!

You're wrong.

Magnolia5275 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:14 am 1. It is not possible to know the unknowable

9. The mind is God
10. God exists

It is not possible to know that.

A: 1. It is not possible to know the unknowable 2. A world outside the knowing is unknowable 3. It is not possible to know a world outside the knowing 4. Mind is knowing 5. It is not possible to know a world outside the mind 6. It is not possible for me to know the world outside my mind 7. The worl...

1. If a mother cares for each distinct child equally she is not equally treating them given each child has specific needs that differ per child. Not at all. Yet again, you are confusing equality [in the context of the "connection of two or more distinct things through an underlying quality&quo...

Good grief! Yet another wall-o-text leafletter!

equality is the connection of two or more distinct things through an underlying quality both x and y share. That's it. There is no paradox in the statement x=y in the context of ----- A mother cares for all of her children equally. Oranges are $.50 a piece. All restaurants must abide by the same he...

And vegetables would be dreadful without the fertilizer that animals supply, and we would be forced to make more chemical fertilisers. Animals form part of a natural cycle which utilises grass into the food chain. If you are unwilling to reduce the earth's population then we are going to be forced ...

SKIP: " Many a factory worker has a better understanding of himself and fewer illusions than many a professor " You are making a lot of noises with that which is too general. Surely it has to depend on what are the issues involved. There is no "issue" involved. You understand yo...

First-hand experience is irreplaceable. But knowing facts and statistics comes a close second as a source of information. I prefer to make informed choices. I also have practical, ethical, personal and aesthetic preference.

To manage and modulate one's behavior there is no compromise for in depth knowledge of our what we are made up and the mechanisms involved internally, at least to the extent for processes that are pertinent and relevant to ordinary life. Nonsense! (pretentious nonsense) Many a factory worker has a ...

duplicate. Afterword: I'm not telling anyone what to do, or accusing the advocates of carnivorous lifestyle of anything, so why all the protestation? All I did answer the OP question and respond to follow-up discussion. If you are unwilling to reduce the earth's population then we are going to be fo...