So the law is the absolute, undeniable source of true definitions, got it.

SoulBiter wrote:Finished my taxes..... will be paying this year for the first time in a long time.

Oh and for anyone that thinks those that have significant income don't pay their fair share in taxes....

We might differ on our definition of "significant income"

No Same Waffle House this morning, was too damn cold! I did not want to deal with shaking scraping ice from my car or dealing with a difficult engine start.

Maybe tomorrow.

The internet should be age- restricted. No old folks! The Internet is for the young, not the foggies that can't comprehend this new-fangled technology and ways to communicate!

I had read Submission by Michel Houellebecq and am almost done with The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

I'm going to try and get some Waffle House tomorrow before Ohio turns into a blasted land of Wind and ice!

When the stars are right, the Great Old Ones will rise again!

Finished Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. Will update when I finish other books!

Happy New Year check-in! Last few months have been waaaay too eventful. but now, hopefully I can come by more regularly.

Avatar wrote:How can you break from Bakker?

--A

Just like I said! It's either that or end up reading 20 books and finishing none of them!

Lots of people go online and play multi-player games in which they immerse themselves for hours, days, weeks in alternate realities that, as they are playing, seem as real as the very lives they lead when not so engaged. Jump forward. The year is 2517. You are sitting in your student digs [probably...

I'd like to just post a quote from a book - Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harare - that I came across [by chance] last night that seems pertinent to this thread. Finally, some scientists conclude that consciousness is real and may actually have great moral and political value, but that it fulfils no biol...

I think I'll take a Bakker Break and read The Nine by a so-called Tracey Townshend

Lots of good points being made here. I only have about 10 minutes, so I can't address them all. If consciousness is largely illusory, then why did we evolve such an illusion? That was kind of my point on the OP. If it's illusion--if our brain has already made up its mind before we know it--then why...

I am eternally youthful!

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by a Mark Bray

I never use drive throughs, but that's because I believe they create the perception of convenience. It's almost always faster to get out and go inside and order, because everybody else is queuing in the drive through. :D --A It depends in the US. The tendency is either you wait the same time or lon...

Looking for a jumping in point, but do not have time, so GIRONOMO! Of course evolution contributes consciousness as we know it. If we want to simplify it to the point of saying falsehoods, we can view consciousness as running software and our brains as hardware. To run certain complex programs requi...

I will never order food or drinks like that via some smart device--I don't want the providers to know my eating/drinking habits. I can't prove that they track everything but you can't prove that they don't, either, so I err on the side of caution. Thus, I go in and order in person...but I also can'...