Trump's only known form of communication is lying

Zizek was right...

How dare you link breitbart here, you utter [mod censor]. (There's your insult culture)

What is the likelihood of Trump being out after the first term? The last week or so's events have been fucking awful to witness

thoughts?

Has anyone seen 'Annihilation' from February this year?

Funnily enough I was just talking about this to a work colleague tonight. She was interested and said she almost believes in a theory (similar to the premise of Brave New World) whereby there's a deliberate denial of the magical beginnings of science going on... I didn't know what to say.

the return of Magic....!

If in doubt, don't go out.

This is why I tried to steer you away from 'religion', as if we sophisticates can manage without such things. — unenlightened

Are you saying society is a religion?

The question is the heart of conversation

Phobos is necessary company in one's morality.

Shall we say then, that a relationship without fear is a relationship without investment or commitment - a complacent relationship? — unenlightened

Does this extend to all relationships?

Thanks. Look at this one:

If I could improve my sentence diagramming and knowledge of grammar, lexis and parts of speech it would be very useful for both my job and the qualification I am currently studying towards

Will try to find a sentence diagramming book, I have a few grammar books already

Thanks for your help, I want to learn to diagram sentences more effectively

this looks similar to your method: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/diagrams2/one_pager1.htm

I want practice exercises though as I'm not sure about all the component parts

Anyone know how to learn to diagram a sentence?

I is the subject and everything else after is the predicate

I'm not very good at this.

I do believe life is trying to tell us something.

First clause: subject + auxiliary verb + main verb + direct object

Second clause: auxiliary verb + main verb + infinitive with to + pronoun + pronoun

I think verbs like 'understand' 'remember' and 'figure out' fall into the same category

It's technically a transitive verb there, but what I don't understand is the fact it's also classed as an action verb. There's no action happening there in terms of tangible reality

Jeremy Paxman uses it just after 0:15:

This is an example of what I mean

I mean 'hazard a guess' not 'caution a guess'

hazard a guess is a collocation

you have the aptest name here.

increasing it globally but reversing it locally. — unenlightened

I'm not sure what you mean by this

I think we need to decide what is 'order' to be honest

It's not myself that brings order; that would be intelligence.

But the disorder is not in the "I", which is the self-determined "order", it surrounds the "I". — Metaphysician Undercover

The I being self-determined sounds like a contradiction..

But isn't this a kind of delusion, to apprehend oneself as the centre? — Metaphysician Undercover

Yeah it is, hence the inherent disorder

The centre of disorder is the I

I mean nexus as in the centre of something

No the I is the nexus of disorder, dreaming is the brain's attempt at rectification of this disorder

Now dreaming itself is not actually consciousness, but the inner activity which is responsible for dreaming may be prior to the sensory activity, only producing consciousness when the two are united. — Metaphysician Undercover

Most dreaming is the result of disorder in the brain, and disorder comes from the ego

Now it is fairly uncontroversial to say that the external world - the coffee, the armchair, etc is not conscious, not the location of awareness, but only the content, the provocation.

It is rather more radical though to claim that the internal world, memories, models, thoughts, are not conscious either, but are also only more contents and provocations. — unenlightened

The internal world prevents one from being awake, it is akin to dreaming.

so what you're basically saying is thought is time?

Creativity happens on the border between the internal and the external

'the model is not the world, the word is not the thing, I am not my post'. — unenlightened

So iff I say I don't think I fully understand your post; that's not accurate, because I'm not my post?