to get them on a high enough cliff. — CasKev

Where did he say the cliffs were high, and what were the smoking?

Point for pondering.

What did Johnny Cash's Cadillac really look like?

But you must be as old as one, with all of those children you've raised. — CasKev

He has not raised any kids, he just gets them old enough to throw off cliffs.

I prefer this definition.

Entity: That which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

Everything goes that can be described as an individual object. Even abstracts.

Now, you might say "why come it's round like dat," assuming you talk like a hip 5 year old. — Hanover

But you would be giving the wrong answer.

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Why aren't you quoting in the proper way? I find that annoying. You at least know how to use quotation marks, as you've just demonstrated. — Sapientia

I seem to have a problem with the quote function, some days it works and some it does not. Today it is fine but tomorrow who knows. :s

Let's face it, the Good Samaritan was "good" because he was able to help some guy struggling in the gutter on the other side of the road.

No, because he was good, he stopped to help. He would still have been good even if there was no one in the gutter.

Eject sideways so that you don't lose velocity, just change course.

Calling it human does not change its wretchedness.

Never said it did, just that those things are what makes us human. I am not an eternal robot.

How could you choose to not believe if God fully revealed Himself?
When that happens I will even sing like the Beatles. I'm a believer.

Yes, I certainly think he was.

Unfortunately, what you think has very little value to me, for the same reason that what I think has little value to you.
Could you please supply some concrete evidence.

Now that I think about, he'll probably say that an emoji is worth a hundred words, or something like that.

The saying is " A picture is worth a thousand words"

So that's three thousand tries at the last word. :D X-) :-} I think.

Which is more evidence that everything is goat.

Yup. Bet Banno is happy about that.

You can trust me, I'm an owl. :-O :( :s

I'll tell you one by one if you form an orderly queue on the cliff edge. :-O

You know, 4 was the name of my first child. My other first child, that is.

Would it not have been easier just to say that you had twins?

As it happens, orange and fucky was the name of my first wife, but that's for another time.

Oh no, please tell us now, so that we can get it over and done with and get on with life again.

But no one is going to vote for you anyway so you might as well give up now.

My last two comments were meant to be funny... You get more votes for witty posts!

Hey, I'm not complaining. In fact I am still laughing about them.

You are. Any day you could become a bed-ridden person. ALS, a stroke, a car accident - who knows man, who knows. You can't control it.

None of that makes me weak, it just makes me human. You are going in circles with that.

If He proved that He exists, then you would have no free will, for you would be forced to believe.

So it doesn't reveal itself so that I will think I have free will, but because it exists and is hidden I don't have freewill? Or does my freewill expire when it reveals itself to me?

The whole point is that there should be enough light for those who want to believe and enough darkness for those who don't - that was Pascal's point.

But is Pascal's point correct? Does what he say actually apply to everyone?


And God can provide this infinite hope, for "nothing is impossible for God"

And there it is, man's need for HOPE. God willing everything will work out well, if it is not willing then it is god's fault.

A fool has to constantly live with the contradiction: friend AND foe to all. How does the poor guy make sense of his relationships?

Just ask any genius how they deal with the same problem. Most would say that they do the same as any fool would and stay away from people that don't like them.

What should a fool think when he meets someone? Friend/Foe?

Everyone has this problem.

Right, but what does this have to do with your weakness?

Who says I am weak?

You're weak, you don't want to be weak, therefore your only real hope is God - no other hope can even be conceived.

If my only hope is a god that refuses to even prove it exists, then I am more stupid than weak.
LUCKILY, I am not weak enough to need it. If I ever do need it, it will because my mind is too weak to fight off the stupidity and by then I won't even care.

But if he doesn't need to blame anyone, then he doesn't need God, so it seems that you're now contradicting what you first said.

I don't need to blame anyone for the problems in life, unless I know that someone actually caused them.
So I don't need a god, no contradiction at all.

In many cases that's absolutely true. I have no clue how some situations quickly and out of nowhere turned from hopeless to my favour. What am I supposed to say? It was due to me? I know it wasn't...

The wings of a butterfly.

Thank you. You created another paradox but you didn't solve the fool's predicament.

So now we have identical twin paradoxes. :P

I actually don't think either are paradoxes, just descriptions of interesting situations.

Why does he need to blame someone in the first place

He does not NEED to, but most people blame their screw ups on someone or something.
Bad luck, god's displeasure with them, allah's will, Murphy' law all get the blame.

They also seem quite willing to let them take the credit for the things that happen in their lives.
I was lucky, god has been good to me, it was allah's will.

This is paradoxical. A fool suits both as a friend and as an enemy.

How do you solve this paradox?

A fool might let you die because he doesn't realize that you are drowning until it is too late, so it would be better to have a smart person as a friend.

A smart person as an enemy would be a challenge, but you would never underestimate him as you might a fool.

A smart person suits both as a friend and as an enemy.
How do you solve this paradox?

That is why even the most powerful man is fundamentally weak - he doesn't control when he will lose his power. Thus relying on his power for his happiness is futile in the final analysis.

Because he has no control he needs someone to blame for everything. That is what he NEEDS god for, a scapegoat.

You're definitely one of the top 10 moderators!

There are only 4.

Morbid, but funny!

This is even weirder!

Or you could put it to the test with a poll. Then you could make me eat my Last Words.

But would anyone vote for your last words?

I was a student, so it was he that I learned my best "cheap tricks" from

Oh come on lady please, you are going to get me a bad reputation. >:)

Cheap tricks to get in the last word, shame on you all. X-)

And who says anyone would actually vote against my post being the last, either back up your words with concrete evidence or withdraw your claims.

THE END

Actually I think it would be sort of like real Banno and English Banno walking to the center of the earth from opposite directions. They would meet each other and each would raise his right hand in greeting.

I only find it troubling that you refer to your murdered child as an it.

I think that giving kids numbers is even weirder, especially when you reach that high a number.

I think we should add a rule to this game - you win if no one posts something meaningful after you within 24 hours.

It would be hard to find anything meaningful on this thread.

ee @Sir2u? We all win again! I'm beginning to think that's the point of this thread - so we can all feel like winners... X-)

Actually I think someone started the thread as a survey to find out how much free time we have to waste on philosophy forums.

Both, probably at the same time. X-)

I think everyone will be doing the same, on and on for all eternity.

This thread is illogical.

Or we all lose. :’(

Pleasure/happiness. — litewave

That's 2 words.

Missus

I just like asking why. :)