It's comparing apples and oranges.

Well, if you imagine viewing them from some distance, both are spherical... — ahmad bilal

Perspective matters. :up:

It's comparing apples and oranges.

Well, if you imagine viewing them from some distance, both are spherical...
— ahmad bilal

Perspective matters. :up: — ArguingWAristotleTiff

So does the actual meaning of the idiom, which is not so literal. :eyes:

Not sure if this will help - I don't have a lot of friends, but I have found friends here. If you hang around a little while, you will too. Maybe that's not enough, but this could be a place where you feel at home. — T Clark

What a beautiful perspective on The Philosophy Forum~ Thank you~

We're all technically idiots, when we hypothetically compare ourselves with a more advanced civilization. You never know, they might just be idiots like us. In that case, we are not the only idiots in the universe. There is something comforting in that statement alone. Otherwise, we are bound to be the lonesome idiots floating through space, until the day we discover another civilization that is more or less idiotic than our own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_affairs_(philosophy).

Given as a source in an exiting thread. I think I need help in understanding what it says. :rofl:

This goes to the question of how things are grounded. I want a rational ground; someone else wants emotion/feeling; a third wants utility; a fourth, care. A fifth shrugs and say it's all relative; a sixth says nothing matters - do what you want. — tim wood

@tim wood You tagged each of the personalities in my group of friends!

The challenge is to see the common among them. And are you one, or a seventh?

Wait a sec: when a dude's been being studied by scholars for a thousand years or two, he might be wrong, but he's obviously not obviously wrong, right? — unenlightened

Right! :lol:

The challenge is to see the common among them. And are you one, or a seventh? — tim wood

I do believe I am a two. :wink: Married to a 6 or 7.
Opposites attract right?

A religion of one is a religion of none.
— Thorongil

That's not at all logical. A religion of one would be a religion of one. — Hanover

:grin:

Opposites attract right? — ArguingWAristotleTiff

My experience is that the opposites in question are found in needs. I need this and don't have it; you have it. Or, I have what you need. Clearly we all have needs, for companionship, friendship, someone to communicate with, and intimacy. By definition, these require an other. Equally clearly (imo) a relationship based in need can become pathological and can and usually does fail, and perhaps arguably should fail, in some cases.

Two reasons, it seems to me. First, an imbalance in needs - manifested in lots of ways. Second, healthy relationships are partnerships in the creative business of living this life. Not everyone understands this; not everyone can understand this.

I think women underestimate how much men are afraid of them, of their scorn. — T Clark

@Hanover seems a page of the "How to handle a Woman" Playbook fell out! :love:

seems a page of the "How to handle a Woman" Playbook fell out! — ArguingWAristotleTiff

I know how to handle women. Just pretend they're human and everything will work out ok. :meh:

Lol fuck Nazis and fuck anything they do and fuck any shitcunt who supports a Nazi. — StreetlightX

Choice is the resolution of conflict. — unenlightened

Ah ha! :up:

Excuse me for probably twisting your words there btw. It seemed convenient... — Baden

:rofl: :lol: Such rich words coming straight from the administration!
:heart: :cheer: :party:

To be honest to thyself and to keep an open mind to actually, dare I say, being wrong. — Posty McPostface

A person's opinions are formed through their way of thinking and the information that they have. Most people don't see the opposing arguments as valid because their mind deals with the information differently and it is difficult to see from someone else's point of view. — Sir2u

:heart:

This place is as special we make it. You are sacred. Subjective value versus objective. If we all agree this place is useless, it is. If we all agree you are useless, we're wrong. — Hanover

(May have got jumbled in the box of shouting... but :up: )

I must endure the idiocy of my peers, but equally they must endure mine. — Marcus de Brun

Yes, we are all intellectual superheros. — T Clark

:100:

It's no wonder you're getting lost, you're inverting what I said. What I meant is that we speak of the unintelligible as an unknown. This implies that the unintelligible is an instance of the unknown, it does not mean that all unknowns are unintelligible. Therefore, that you provide an example of an unknown which is not an unintelligible, is really irrelevant, it just means that you misunderstood what I said. — Metaphysician Undercover

This feels very circular. :sweat:

If I say that a poodle is a dog, and you give me an example of a dog which is not a poodle, as evidence that my claim is false, all this means is that you have misunderstood what I said.

How about the sex difference in IQ? — tom

I don't know. — T Clark

Golden words that I have rarely heard from a male. :heart:

Golden words that I have rarely heard from a male. — ArguingWAristotleTiff

Hey! I resemble that remark.

Hey! I resemble that remark. — T Clark

:wink:

What is the origin of reasonableness?
— Isaac Shmukler

A reasonable bedtime.
- Noble Dust
:up:

He also noted that "Tyranny is always better organized than freedom." sounds like a job for the goverment :)

Give me a link to Jesus' writing, as opposed to the more popular commentaries. — Banno

:grin:

The sentence as written is meaningless but cross-pollinates meaningful sentences in a misleading way. — Baden

Hey! No cross-pollinating in here! :smirk: