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I bought 2 tables with a ceiling lamp. 4 tier table, drawer, USB charger, each on a separate tier.

Well, I assembled it. and, the last thing to do was screw in the light bulb.
Then I pulled the chain, and NOTHING. no power to the bulb.

So, I traced the line, saw the good quality of Amazon Products when I found the ground wire was switched with the hot wire at the USB charger. no real problem as it is 2 wire, and the next leg was to the lamp.

It turned out the pull chain socket was bad. It was one of those with push in connectors, and one did not, and would not grab.

So, we asked for a replacement socket, manufactures defect. Took a picture, etc. And Amazon replaced it in a most unusual way. They sent out a complete unopened new table. So I bought a new socket on Ebay, and repaired it myself, but now, I have 3 of these, instead of 2 which actually works out. I simply put them from end to end of the 2 Lazy Boy Rocker Recliners. One on the outside of each, and one in the middle.

But, that is a consequence of Online shopping and large distributions, a small defect, they just send you the whole package to replace it.

Imagine how lonely you would have to be to come into a 'philosophy forum' of all places to just talk about what you have bought.

That dude just got roasted by Ken

How so? It was Ken doll who made the original similar comment as a criticism of people posting 'mundane' (unlike his own stunning intellectualism) posts in the lounge.
I think you are confusing him with Chauncey Gardiner

Wtf. Yeah I didn't see that comin' at all. It means Age IS a normal person. You saw that right? Autists can't do what he just did. That complex inference from forum participation to must be loneliness and the rude jab at Phil. We todds can't do any of that.

Imagine what a **** you would need to be to mock someone for alleged 'loneliness' as if being lonely is a crime or something to be ashamed of.

accelafine wrote: ↑Wed Sep 10, 2025 6:46 pm Imagine what a **** you would need to be to mock someone for alleged 'loneliness' as if being lonely is a crime or something to be ashamed of.

As no mind is accessible to any other, everyone factually is alone. It is those who demand to keep their illusions, are actually the pathetic ones.
Everyone is alone, if they cannot accept that, than they cannot cope with reality.

Being alone isn't the same as being lonely.

accelafine wrote: ↑Wed Sep 10, 2025 9:58 pm Being alone isn't the same as being lonely.

Oh! now why didn't I think of that. maybe you want to reread what I said, or have someone explain it to you.

I did. You didn't use the word 'lonely' once. Hope this helps. You're welcome. Or perhaps you just want to fight, little man.

accelafine wrote: ↑Wed Sep 10, 2025 6:46 pm Imagine what a **** you would need to be to mock someone for alleged 'loneliness' as if being lonely is a crime or something to be ashamed of.

Why are you assuming any one was, what you call, 'mocked', here?

accelafine wrote: ↑Wed Sep 10, 2025 11:25 pm I did. You didn't use the word 'lonely' once. Hope this helps. You're welcome. Or perhaps you just want to fight, little man.

A person, who actually thinks, defers the a whole class of synonyms before they demonstrate that they are one one dimensionally thin. Perhaps you should think about this,

Every member of a class is an example of the class of which it is a member, therefore, if one uses the definition of a class, every member of that class, included all synonyms, is what is meant, not any particular example.
As Plato noted, the one in the many, and the many in the one. Simple class mechanics.

Phil8659 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 10, 2025 9:56 pm

As no mind is accessible to any other, everyone factually is alone. It is those who demand to keep their illusions, are actually the pathetic ones.
Everyone is alone, if they cannot accept that, than they cannot cope with reality.

Ooooh! now why didn’t I think of that.

I didn’t think of that because I AM before I thunked.

That’s how ALONE I AM.

One without an imposter secondary overlay.

Fairy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 11, 2025 10:01 am I didn’t think of that because I AM before I thunked.

That’s how ALONE I AM.

One without an imposter secondary overlay.

A mind is designed to regulate behavior such that that behavior maintains and promotes life, therefore, a feeling of loneliness only means you have either chosen to do something with your life nobody cares to share in with you, or you are too stupid to make a dedicate choice of what you want to accomplish. What you have chosen is either good or bad or indifferent. You can only share in goals, feelings cannot be shared. So, I put out my goal and have demonstrated my ability in achieving them. My goals take a great deal of intelligence to achieve and understand.
Soul mate is all one can ever find, someone to work with, by definition, as the mind's product is only behavior.
Most people can look around themselves, expanded by social media, and whine that they do not know what to do, or that there is nothing to do. How blind and stupid does one have to be to do that? Get a hobby.

If you can not productively regulate your own behavior, do you really think anyone wants to tie themselves to a rock while trying to swim? When I was very small, I dedicated myself to learning, how to take things apart and put them together, how to make things, so that I did not have to depend on idiots.

When you actually believe that it is someone else's job to make you happy, you are nothing more than a psychotic fool, you actually think it is someone else's job to live to please your fantasies. People who use people, and people who want others to use them, are simply mad. We are designed to use the environment, until it comes to the idea that other people are to be treated as you treat yourself.

I tell myself what to do, not others. Most people wish to dominate or be dominated. fuck them all. If you are behaving rationally, it is not possible to be at odds with another rational person.

Love is not something you fall into or climb out of, like the blind, you either or cannot build it. So far, I have not met another builder in my life. Most people still have too much stupid animal in them. We build environments from which we reap feelings from. You can either master or be mastered by, your own feelings.
You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free.

The above statement is something they have yet to understand about human psychology. Since the mind has one job to do, all mental problems resolve to its ability to do that job. Today, it is customary to, like children, to point to environmental factors or to construct wholly ridiculous verbal garbage, which is absurd since the mind is designed to master the environment through its own competence. Sanity is achieved through a correct and truthful education, not the garbage they teach today. Just like any other computer, GI Joe, Garbage In, garbage out. You have to have a drive to find the truth, or you never do find it. In short, a drive to do your own biologically given job.