amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
If life really does begin at conception I’m going to file for full social security benefits at 64¼.
I should have been a lawyer.
I should have been a lawyer.
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If life really does begin at conception I’m going to file for full social security benefits at 64¼.
I should have been a lawyer.
Benefits only apply for time spent fully outside Wombworld ^_^
We would miss you if you left.
I used to read those. I might still have a couple of them lying around (I got a pile of miscellaneous comics in a Freecycle pass-a-long box some years ago).
warpus
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My sperm takes issue with the idea that life begins at conception. What moron came up with that one?
Every sperm is alive. Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is alive. Every sperm is sacred.
BenitoChavez
What business is it of yours?
Then almost every man commits mass murder on a daily basis.
tjs282
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C–. Must try harder, citation needed.
Should have included the appropriate clip from Monty Python's Meaning of Life
Spoiler Probably NSFW, definitely in poor taste :
warpus
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Is eating a carrot murder too?
Carrots are usually alive up until your stomach acids start breaking them down.
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
We must act now to stop the carrot genocide!
BenitoChavez
What business is it of yours?
Oh, it gets worse. Every time you take a step you squish millions of bacteria.
Clearly the only way to morally stay alive is to stick yourself in cryogenic stasis.
warpus
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Clearly not all life is sacred.
BenitoChavez
What business is it of yours?
Heathen!
Especially if you are on death row.
Wouldn't that kill off your gut bacteria?
warpus
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Is a thought ever truly random, if only the quantum realm is capable of producing truly random data? From what I understand thoughts are probably synaptic patterns in your brain that connect various neurons.. or something like that. That seems to be larger in scope than something the quantum world could affect.. but is that wrong? Could thoughts be truly random? Or are they just the products of some sort of stimuli and natural response, incredibly complex, but deterministic nevertheless..?
One should also keep in mind that apparently only a small part of the possible elements of connections get to become conscious, so ultimately it is possible to have the sense that something "random" got into play. Put another way: you always have the potential to think something very notably different to before, without that having the meaning it was not in the sum of elements which are arranged in the first place - just wasn't in the observable by you sum.
And according to experience and studies, most people tend to stabilize most traits of what they are thinking, after an age. In children, on the other hand, this is the complete opposite and differences can be readily observable (usually attributed only to personal increase of intelligence while you are growing, but another important parameter is internal acceptance to new ways of thinking).
Also one would need to define what "new" really means. Imo it isn't new to just discover a new type of thinking, eg with a new subject. What is more important is if the new thinking is actually formed on old/existent bases for identifying the most elemental parts of the new thinking. To give an example: while a kid may well bring into their consciousness for the first time some element, in order to organize how they think of something mathematical, in older people it is far more likely they will re-call into consciousness older bases formed for similar or even quite different mental objects. So imo the latter isn't new in this respect, despite it's different use.
In practice it won't matter that much, cause it is like if you were living in a house with 1 million rooms, or one with >1 million. In practice you won't be visiting most of the rooms often to notice the difference, but you may revisit some rooms you hadn't been to for ages, and use stuff first seen there for things you do elsewhere.
Finally, all that is just the rooms. Below them are elements you aren't going to bring into consciousness anyway, despite that they still affect you and are part of the equation of thinking.
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amadeus
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What if my tile floor is just a flat surface that’s being censored?
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I can't decide whether I think the requirement that military officers be retired for 7 years before being nominated for Secretary of Defense is reasonable or not, and whether it should be adhered to or should be regarded as just a suggestion. It seems clear that 7 years isn't meant to be some kind of significant number, but is just a compromise between people who didn't want veterans in that office at all and those who did. I suppose I come down on the side of the principle of maintaining unquestioned civilian control of the military. In which case, I'm not sure putting any number of years on it makes sense. Either they're a military veteran or they aren't, aren't they?
I am not sure what "censored" means in this context ^_^
I mean in my metaphor you have no issue noticing the actual floor.
If you don't even have a floor, you must be non-sentient.
tjs282
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Maybe the 7-year rule is intended to provide more time/ opportunity for any still-enlisted peers of the SecDef-nominee to also move up/ muster out, thus reducing the potential for nepotism/ cronyism/ score-settling between the (new) civilian controller and the (existing) military command-staff...?
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