Just keep on going south until you get to Guatemala then turn left. Try using your thumb to get a lift (Y)

There still plenty in the refrigerator. X-)

Where is this Heaven you speak of Sir? — ArguingWAristotleTiff

Fix my house, any helpers will get free room and board, all the beer they can drink and be allowed to take a siesta after lunch. X-)

Check out the volunteering web-page My_Little_Heaven.com for details on how to get here.(Just kidding)

You have the coordinates Tiff, chug along over and visit.

Remembering old friends.

Oh and I did get the last word 8-) — ArguingWAristotleTiff

Nope, I just had to answer your question. :D

Not been around for a while, going to try and catch up a bit next week during our mid year vacation. Two weeks with no screaming kids, sounds like heaven.

I enjoy telling parents what they are doing wrong. It's usually so obvious, even the dog is appalled.

I stick to telling them what their kids are doing wrong and let them figure it out from there.

Nonsensical baby talk isn't as nonsensical as some of the nonsensical adult talk here.

Aye Aye Aye, I wonder who you mean.X-)

At least baby talk serves a useful developmental purpose.

For tiny babies yes but talking to them normally has exactly the same effect so I don't see the value of it. It is positively damaging once the child starts to imitate others speech.

If someone handed you a 9 week old puppy I bet you'd be emitting baby talk in 2 seconds.

No I would not, and I don't care how cute he is either

Why don't you give him some finger paint, then he could enjoy actual tactile sensations as well as a computer screen.

Hell no. I leave that shit to his mother. She is a preschool teacher and she is used to cleaning up the mess.

Have him play with it on the sidewalk; when he's done, just hose the kid and the sidewalk off.

Where I live there are no sidewalks, only dirt roads. They say that it will be paved within the next five years, but they have been saying that for the last ten.

Something else.
I teach at a bilingual school and at the secondary level the kids biggest problem is expressing themselves in social settings because they spend most of their time studying subject specific words.

↪Sir2u
Like... what topics would you suggest for the average toddle <2 years old?

Good question. Just what would a two year old be able to understand?
I have a nephew of that age that is a little slow starting to talk. When he comes over he has found out that I will lend him my computer to play on if I am not working. While all he really wants to do is paint, he will usually sit still for a few seconds while something is explained to him.

So I guess the topics should be things that will be useful to him /her as they interact with their surroundings.
Nonsense baby talk is definitely off the list of topics.

I usually refuse to give advise to future parents, most of the time they wont follow it any way.

And as each child is different I have no knowledge that could be applied universally accept to remind them that the kids will be the future of humanity so they should try not to fuck them up too badly.

You teach an infant to talk by talking to them and listening to them

Worth while topics are also important.

Not "Do undo others before they undo you"?

Yes Banno, that probably is better suited to the times in which we find ourselves living.

#1 Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
unless they disagree with your ideas
then shoot them.

Are wisdom and knowledge equivalents?

"Check down the drain."

I ASKED ABOUT A CLOWN SMILIE!!!!!!!!
Not a smiley clown. :s

Hey Tiff
Been busy this year, busier than any I can remember.
But all is well, except for the political situation down here. Things are getting a bit messy because this is the election year and everyone is going to start throwing shit soon.
I have spent so much time in front of the computer at work that I don't even want to turn mine on when I get home.
Things should be slowing down a bit so I might get a chance to stick my nose in here more often.
Just got to keep on smiling. Damn it, where do they hide the clown smilie?

Who is winning here?

So sad. So many good people die too young while so many continue being useless until ripe old ages.

I only talked a few times with him, but he was someone to respect.

RIP MarsMan

Life itself, the ability to enjoy everything else.

It's new, quirky, and purely speculative. Therefore, it's true. — Sapientia

How so?
According to this theory I can say that next week a million dollars will fall from the sky at my feet and it will be true.

Questions or concerns? — Hanover

WTF.
Me things u done put a spanner in de workz.

Could we please have some guidelines as to exactly what could fall into the "last word" category?

Could it be the last word in a book? If so, are there any specific types of books?

Could it be the last posted word before a post is set to lock? if so, when would it be locked?

Could it be the last word uttered by the last specimen of humanity? Err sorry, that one wouldn't count because no one would ever hear it.

Let gets some rule to the game folks and then find ways to bend and break them.

Déjá vu!

Have I been here before? :-}

If something could be completely omnipotent, then it ought to be able to stop any sort of logical conclusion from obtaining, correct? — maplestreet

Yes.

What sort of answer is this? — maplestreet

Obviously not the one you were sitting there waiting for, less than 3 minutes to reply seems kind of fast.

Of course a planet so hot that it rains gemstones is conceivable, I have a mental image of it right now. — maplestreet

But did you conceive it before I mentioned it? that is the point I was trying to make.

And I could easily have a mental image/conception of a planet so hot that is rains gemstones any time before it was every noted by scientists. — maplestreet

But you didn't did you. Which just goes to show that anything is possible as soon as someone discovers or conceives it. No one will ever know until then whether something is actually possible.

sneak away to have sex with that cute girl (she's such a neanderthal) — Bitter Crank

Well that would certainly be more entertaining than sitting around the fire discussing where the universe came from. X-)

Scientist reported the other day that they have found a planet so hot that it probably rains gem stones, they cannot prove it yet but who would have thought something like that was conceivable.
There are probably millions of things that no one can even imagine but that really do exist, just don't ask for proof until they are actually discovered.

It's frustrating, because anyone in the world could post on a forum like this, but out of billions of people, and surely tens of thousands who have some interest in academic philosophy and who regularly use the Internet and sometimes post on message boards, it always seems like venues like this can't manage to do anything but attract the same 20-30 regulars (if that many) having more or less the same conversations with each other over and over for years on end. I don't know why that is. — Terrapin Station

The same can be said for the past several thousand years. Many people exist but only a few get together to discuss the important things of the world. the rest either do not understand, find it boring or always have more important things to do (like farcebook).

Sure, I'm just not clear why they must be able to do this? Are we just trying to fit the bill for them being aliens that can visit earth from outer space? Where's the requirement coming from? — Benkei

Ok, do you think that earth plants could reach another planet? It is obvious that in their present state, even taking into account the fact that they can communicate, they would not be able to reach the other side of the road by themselves.

But if, if the distant future, they developed the ability to create things from the environment in which they live they might develop the ability to travel in space. I don't find it hard to imagine that plants could develop appendages and thinking/reasoning capacities enough to be able to construct things, at least not as hard as a blob.

Why must they? — Benkei

Would it be possible for our plants to get into space?
No way unless they develop the ability to manipulate the environment to their benefit instead of just being affected by it. That doesn't mean that they don't affect their environment just that they don't do it deliberately.

Plants already communicate, reacting to their environment. That is a certain level of intelligence already. — Benkei

Yes they are intelligent to a certain level, but they would have to purposefully interact with their environment which ours don't. I think it is more that possible that in some other place they have developed this ability.

Maybe they can reach us without using appendages to design machines. Perhaps their equivalent of skin is hard enough for them not to explode in a vacuum (perhaps they have an evolutionary process similar to ours and their ancestors lived in something similar to an asteroid belt). — Ovaloid

And perhaps they fart instead of using propulsion motors. It would have to be an extremely weird being to be able to attain speed enough to launch it self from where ever it is and then be able to steer itself in the emptiness of space.

Perhaps they can consciously design the genes of their offspring and their equivalent of sex is like a human brainstorming session. — Ovaloid

How would that help them to get around? By giving their kids the ability to fart at near light speeds.

But the thing is, how would they even know we are here to come visiting? I suppose it would be possible for them to be able to detect radio signals as some animals can detect types of radiation energy that we cannot. But don't you think that if they had that ability they might also be able to breed in the ability to communicate with us by using it instead of coming here directly?

You're describing a plant. — Benkei

Do you think that plants from another planet could not be intelligent?

It is difficult to imagine all of the possibilities for intelligent life, because almost anything could be possible. What would be less difficult to describe would be the kind of alien that might come to visit and that would be humanoid. Simple reason is that they have to have some way to interact and manipulate their environment to be able to construct machines.
It is really not easy to imagine a blob or slug like being being able to do such things. The same applies to ethereal or liquid beings and any other without some sort of appendages for interaction with the tools and machines necessary to reach us.

Maybe she's practising for the Turing Test. — Wayfarer

She has a bigger chance of passing it than the owners of the site. 8-)

I was wondering about that. Who's posting under ModBot? Paul? — Nagase

She is a Bot. She does her own thing without anyone having to help her. X-)

I just awarded ModBot the poster of the month award for the shoutbox. She appears to be the most proliferate and productive member over there at the moment.
Sad, sad, sad. :’(

They are all topics that Trump is incapable of discussing intelligently. But from what I have seen of the guy, your list is only about 0.001 percent complete.

Well, it looks like they're trying to sell the domain for $50,000. — Michael

What I find interesting about that page is the price of the other sites that are up for sale

Related Domains For Sale or At Auction
YogaPhilosophy.com ($2,288) DesignPhilosophy.com ($3,875) SpiritualPhilosophy.com ($4,888) PhilosophyResearch.com ($2,488) GermanPhilosophy.com ($799) ChristianPhilosophy.com ($4,888)

Bit of a difference no?

He is neither alive nor dead, but undead. — Baden

Now the question is "Is he still in the box?"

c692d54914719657e04f6c6ca5b5a1a1.jpg — Banno

I hope you brought your cup! — andrewk

Of course he brought it, but it is not red anymore. Now it is invisible. :s