We're so busy with shit that we forget that life is full of opportunities. — gikehef947

Yep, but maybe some of that shit are the opportunities we don't recognize. :wink:

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So you are talking about neurons, but they do not function like transistors, they are just the wiring.

The synapses would be the transistors, filtering the data, and they do get created and changed according to the use of the brain.

"Comitting to memory" and "Remembering" and other process some of which I might describe as: "learning" — Ken Edwards

Are these conscious activities then that create fatty transistors?

Bricks and stones or mountains and valleys and fatty conductors exist in the real word and and are frequently millions of years old and obviously could not have been created by " consciousness" or by any other human or animal mental activity. — Ken Edwards

But it is a fact that brains do create themselves up to a certain point. That is why all brains are different. The connections between neurons are created as necessary.

And maybe we shouldn't give advice if we are someone who posts more than twice a day on social media. — Yohan

There you go, you are learning.

Perhaps I shouldn't have shared my own thoughts on advice until I have been living them consistently. — Yohan

See, I do give good advice even if I do post more than one post a day.

what the hell should I do with my life? — John McMannis

The simplest answer is just live it. That is not the same as existing through it.

You have only one life so you need to enjoy it. Make that your objective.

The first thing you need to do is figure out exactly what would make you happy. Making the missus content, having your own place, having kids, keeping up with the classmates seem to be the list you have created.

What does the missus REALLY want?

Have you examined the pro's and con's of your and her "needs/wishes"

Having your own house is not cheap nor always convenient. Apart from mortgage payments there is also maintenance to take into account. If you are not a DIY'er then it can be expensive getting simple things done. The housing markets fluctuate, what you pay today might not be anyway near its value in 10 years. And a house can also act as an anchor. If you need to move to a better job sight, it can get complicated doing it in a hurry with a house that no one wants to pay your asking price for.

The same thing can basically be said about kids. They are high maintenance objects. You cannot just pick up and move them to a new school without causing them difficulties. I know because I went to 13 different schools in 3 countries.

Keeping up with the friends sucks. Just because they are doing something with their life does not mean that the same type of life is right for you. Hell it might not even be right for them and they will be divorcing sooner or later.

Work out a compromise, a plan with your wife, something that you both agree on and that, taking into consideration the fucked up world in which we live, would be possible.

Something like this;
This year, sort out the job/financial situation.
Find a way to make a better wage. Some places pay better for doing the same work if you are good at what you do.
Look for a cheaper place to live. Making a sacrifice for a couple of years might put enough money in the bank to help finding a house.
Maybe looking in another town would give the two of a better chance at both and she might not need to work so hard.

Next year, ................

Enough, I am not going to lay out a life plan for you.

Or you could buy an old school bus and take her on a world tour by working for gas and food.

"Only when the last tree has been cut down, and the last fish caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money" (proverb).

Well, strictly speaking you can eat money, it is just not very pleasant tasting and has minimal nutritional value. But anyway, most of us are well aware that money is not much good as a foodstuff regardless of how many trees there are or fish there are. I mean, there's really no relationship between how many trees one has cut down and how many fish one has caught and one's knowledge of the inedibility of money, so far as I can see. — Bartricks

When the trees are cut down and the fish caught as is done today, it produces money. The idea is that we try to keep the trees and fish because we cannot eat the money we get from them.

I think that it might not be applicable to every situation, but it is not meant to anyway. But it is true.

Would it be possible to complain about people wasting my time with their petty complaints?

But I have some to add anyway.

It is getting cold tonight, down to 26 centigrade.

El bloody electric bill is going up again next month. I have not had time to finish installing the solar power system.

Asshole neighbor's stupid dogs will not shut up.

I think I will go over to the Thank You! thread now. To give thanks to the gods that I only have to get to the end of November to start my vacation.

I think that most of Europe will probably laugh their arses off. Most of think that the gringos are dumbasses anyway and that would be the proof of it. :lol:

The duck will not want to do something for the men, but for the ducks, just as the penguin will want to do something for the penguins. — gikehef947

So what it says in the bible is wrong, because it definitely says men in there, not ducks.

Think about it carefully. Why are the chosen people not ducks? — gikehef947

OK, you win. The grand prize for dumb-ass question of the year goes to gikehef947.

I have never seen any evidence to indicate that something like that might be true and I doubt that you have either.
If you think about it though, the chosen people made in the image of god it might be true. But it might not be a good idea to think about it to much, it might be blaspheme to do so. Waddle, waddle, quack quack.

You already answered your own question in your own quotes of the bible.

- Colossians 3:23-24. Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men, because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. — gikehef947

Why would a duck want to do anything for men?

Maybe they are, according to them. Who the hell knows, or even cares.

I'll get back to you with that, if I can stop laughing long enough. — Sir2u

OK, so where do I start? Let me read your post again.

:lol: :lol: So you think :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: that the kind of animal :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: makes a difference.:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Maybe true but :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Hang on a minute! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Maybe true but polar bears live in Eskimo country, or do the Eskimos live in polar bear country? I'll figure that one out late, trying to be serious here. :lol: :lol: :lol:
So maybe they practice animism, that might make sense. But most of the Eskimos have quit that and become christians, so that cannot be good for the cause.

But back to reality, you still have not explained why the bible is accepted as true. And don't tell me that it is because some dudes centuries ago said so.
And changing the name of a thread does little to improve the intellectuality of the OP.

What about polar bears? — gikehef947

:lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl:

I'll get back to you with that, if I can stop laughing long enough.

:lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl:

The best advice I can offer is very simple, never take advice from anyone that post more than 2 posts per day on any social media. Including or especially philosophy forums.

You want me to fit into your schemes. — gikehef947

Truly pathetic. I am not trying to do anything at all, all I did was ask some questions. You apparently have no answers so you try to cover your ass by blathering stupidities.

You say that others are using hearsay when they say that animals have no gods, then you do the same thing after admitting that you have no first hand knowledge of the bible being true.

You base your judgement of the bible's truth on what a bunch of people hundreds of years ago said. They believed only certain parts of the many known books where actually god inspired. Do you have any knowledge of the criteria they used for their decisions?

The gator and the cheetahs are definitely somewhere in Africa, maybe they believe in uNkulunkulu. But if you insist they believe in your god, I think an explanation of how that came to be is needed.

I was not at the Council of Trent. Ask those who were there. If the telephone doesn't work, try psychophony. — gikehef947

You are then either guilty of hearsay, gossiping, scuttlebutting, rumor mongering or just plain bullshitting.
How do you plead?

It is ironic how the sarcastic spout such incongruities.

Nothing. All books were chosen as inspired words of God! — gikehef947

How can you make a statement like that? Do you have any proof that it is true?

How do you know that animals don't have souls? — gikehef947

How do you know that they do? Do you understand the reasoning behind Plato's and Aristotle's conclusions that they have souls?

You talk a lot from hearsay. — gikehef947

Can you prove that you are telling the truth?

Think about this.
- Colossians 3:23-24. Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men, because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward.
- Romans 2:6. God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
- Deuteronomy 5:33. You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess. — gikehef947

So, let me guess. You are reasoning that the crocodile spent all of his time praying and the cat did not. So the cat become lunch.

I am surprised that no one has ever noticed the logic of that before.

Then, see the video. — gikehef947

I did, poor little cat got ate up. Nature sucks sometimes, but what can we do about it.

I guess that the whole thing comes down to the fact that the wild cats move around quite a lot and therefore do not have bibles to read, no pockets to put them in. While the croc hangs around his home all of the time so he has a place to put his bible and time to read it.

Actually this conversation reminds me of all of the sports players who say thing like god helped us to win or god will make our team champions. If both teams are praying like hell to win, on what does god base his decision to let one side win over the other? Does he have some sort of counter like on facebook to see how many prayers have come in?

Personally I doubt that any god gives a flyingf**k about who wins a football game nor which animal eats which other in the jungle.

Maybe if you could explain the reasoning behind conclusion it might make the post more interesting.

Rule 67879777 On the Subject of Toilet Paper Etiquette — Nils Loc

Part 2
recycling of all paper product is highly recommended.

Rule 72
There shall be no discussion of philosophical topics in this thread.

Seventeen persons have lost their life because of the failed emergence (and utility) of this game.

The secret to giving the game life is to inspire the will to create it. — Nils Loc

Could that be paraphrased as "take the bloody game seriously or piss off"?

Yes indeed the purpose of the game is not the game itself but the journey we take in its creation, or some other bullshit like that.

But who has the will and strength to collaborate? Who has the passion? — Nils Loc

A better question would be, who has the total lack of morality needed to deny the creation of the game by not participating?

Especially my girlfriend and our dog! — Prishon

Me and my wife — Prishon

I hope they are one and the same, or that neither read your post.

How "far" have we come (or I). to know a place on Earth by the cars there are driving? — Prishon

You might have been lucky with that guess, but maybe the shop and street signs were recognized at a subconscious level as well. There are always more clues in a scene than we actually realize we see.

Would you have had the same luck if it had been a scene from some place in Asia?

That is one for the Mods.
Being a Rocker, I am not qualified to say. — Valentinus

That goes back a bit. Did you ever wear a drape suit?

I am probably wondering if some underlying purpose of the game is going to be revealed by Banno, — Jack Cummins

All Banno wants to do is set the rules before we play the game, or is it to make a game of setting the rules. :worry:

We have coconuts at the store. Come on back! :pray: — ArguingWAristotleTiff

I have about 20 coconut trees in the yard, a couple of almond trees a variety of fruit that is like a grape and several others. And I have some citrus plants ready to put in. There are also plantains and bananas.

Put a couple in the freezer for a few hours then open them and add run.

Happiness in a shell.

My rule is to go beyond the dictionary definitions of words and look at the subtext of written rules rather than the literal words individually. There may be hidden narratives and rhetoric behind what is being stated. — Jack Cummins

Yer think?

It's your turn to make the next rule. — Banno

I don't see much subtext there, maybe you could point it out for us.

Your words puzzle me. — Jack Cummins

Could I recommend a good dictionary, it might makes things clearer.

Perhaps we should have a rule of writing invisible words, words which are not spoken and images which vanish, leaving no marks. — Jack Cummins

The purpose of this thread is to write the rules, not propose that someone else should write them.
State your rule. If oth rs agr mayb it will be a epted. :wink:

This is a very strange thread but, perhaps, it meets the strangeness of the times in which we live. — Jack Cummins

Not descriptive? :chin:

OK. If you say so. :smirk:

That was a rule. — Banno

How can a descriptive sentence be a proscriptive rule?

we might need to go beyond the spectrum of human meanings entirely. — Jack Cummins

Well, errr. Maybe other people beings have a different way of thinking. :worry:

This is a very strange thread — Jack Cummins

:scream: In what way is it strange? Why did you not post a rule? :smile:

Don't post here. — Banno

Some very negative thinking going on there. :gasp: How can you expect this thread to prosper without posts?

Do not post rules that will have negative affects on the development of the thread.

bits of Knowledge unobtainable by the brain — 1 Brother James

How do you explain that? If the brain cannot obtain information it will never have it. Do you consider information and knowledge as equivalents? Is it possible for knowledge or information to exist without the use of language?

Unless you mean by "Intuition", the adding different pieces of information together to come to a conclusion about something. But that would not be knowledge, merely a supposition awaiting proof.

However, my question was, if it's not too much trouble or too close for comfort, about your problem solving app — TheMadFool

Well basically I have a lot of little problems that need solving on a daily basis, and a few bigger ones that take some time to solve.

An example of a little problem would probably have to do with work. Say for instance one of my students does not understand a part of the assignment.
The app starts running and goes through the process;
Define the problem - kid has failed to understand
Find cause of problem(ask questions) - kid does not know where the delete button is on the keyboard
Fix the problem - explain/show the kid where it is located

An example of a big problem would be something like my house. I built it 30 years ago and it has suffered earthquake and hurricane damage as well as adaptions to keep the missus happy and social changes in the area. I still have a lot of work to do and that is when the problems start to appear. Money, time, material all have to be coordinated.
The app starts running and goes through the process;
Define the problem for this week - finish the porch roof extension.
Just needs the roofing sheets lifted and fixed in place.
Preparations needed
Clear schedule from 1:30pm Saturday.
Find helper.
Check materials and tools.
Check weather.
Fix the problem - get up the bloody ladder and put the roof on.

You seem well-read on the psychology of social media and its accomplice, addictive personality. — TheMadFool

Job requirements. I teach teenagers and if I cannot keep ahead of them I am screwed. I do a lot of reading about these things and I have attended too many seminars and courses about them I could probably give lectures while asleep.

Don't mean to pry but how are you holding up against the constant bombardment of ideas, memes, beliefs, etc. the internet has made possible and that too at scales never before seen? — TheMadFool

I use the most simple method possible, I ignore all of it. The only social media I use is whatsapp, and that is only for work and close family communications. I have farcebook and twatter, but I only use them as a means to and end. It is easier to access some pages using one of those accounts than creating accounts on that site.

In short, do you see yourself as a normal person with a brain running only good software, well-protected by the best antivirus program available or are you infected, like I seem to be, and don't know it yet? — TheMadFool

What the hell is normal? I doubt that anyone has bad software, unless you count things like aggressive attitudes and risk taking as such. Most people have the same basic set and learn to use it differently or fail to activate it completely.
Malware would be external influences from unaccepted parts of society, peers or the media. Anyone can activate the ignore button if they want to.

I think it is time to change the question.

Why do so many have guys with glasses as their avatar?

Problem solving app. — TheMadFool

When you were a baby, you cried to get the attention you needed. Problem solved
When you were a little older, you learned to crawl. Now you could get the things you wanted. Problem solved

Who taught you to open a door you have never seen before? Most people figure out how to do it by themselves, basing their solution on previously learned information.

Most of your development as a human is based on solving the problems you meet in life.

Maybe yours is broken, or they never let you use it. :lol:

My concern is mainly, malware (viruses/worms/etc.) and how to protect my mind from them. Any anti-malware software you're familiar with that does it job well? — TheMadFool

Defective Serial Attention Blocker. This would be a great tool to add to your system. It blocks the Serial Attention syndrome caused by software such as farcebook and twatter. Defective Serial Attention, commonly know as "I can't fucking live without my mobile" addiction, has symptoms such as anti-socialness, apathy, and the dire "where is the goddamned outlet" effect that has people running around rooms bent over looking at the wall at knee level.

As for the worms, try a gardeners shop.

If my son hits his little brother, I will kick his ass for being a coward. — Primperan

Ironically that would make you worse than he is.

Details? Names? Purpose? — TheMadFool

Problem solving, built in software that is activated at birth.

Species continuity, activated at adolescence.