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At the moment pizza, but on a day to day basis, the fact that the sun is in the sky, the world is for the most part a decsent place to be and I am alive.
What have you done today?
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I cleaned my bedroom, vacuumed the house, folded the laundry, ran the dishwasher and unloaded and reloaded it, watched my younger sister for several hours, ordered her bookshelf (by size, largest to smallest), made her lunch, made me lunch, ate my lunch, ate three shish kebabs and a double helping of Watergate salad and one helping of potato salad for dinner, found one of my books in with my younger sister's, attempted to pick out various Simon and Garfunkel songs on the guitar, wanted to take a nap, and messed around on the computer.
What question do you wish someone on this thread asked you, and what would you answer if they did?
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This is too easy : Question: "What question do you wish someone on this thread asked you, and what would you answer if they did?" Answer: "What question do you wish someone on this thread asked you, and what would you answer if they did?"
What's your favorite paradox?
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Yes, because I looked up paradoxes on Wikipedia in order to try to answer Eduardo's question, but I gave up finding my least favorite. I hate them all! All of them! Stupid cats in boxes and people travelling back in time to either kill their grandfather or impregnate their grandmother (sounds Oedipean, doesn't it?) and evil mathematical things like finite-volumed solids with infinite surface area (or is it the other way around?) and...evil. Just evil. Especially veridical ones.
Do you know of any good free software that blocks cookies from all websites except ones on an "Allow" list? McAfee hasn't worked right since the last major update, and technical support doesn't have a clue, and they're not going to call me back.
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I know Firefox can do that all by itself, and IE might have similar capabilities (I just don't know). Uncheck "Allow Sites to Set Cookies", then click Exceptions and set the sites you want to allow.
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The only caffinated beverage I drink is Dr. Pepper, thank you very much, and of course no ice. It just dilutes it, and fills up space that could better be taken up with soda.
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On the planet where all the lost pens go when they retire. I knew someone who wrote a book about it once, but they all said he was insane when he said he used to live there and worked as a chauffeur for a family of nice green retractables. There is still the matters of large amounts of money being secretly transferred to his bank account, and Zaphod Beeblebrox's thriving ballpoint pen company.
If you had to pick one flavor that everything you ate for a whole year would taste like, what flavor would you pick?
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What floats like wood, besides a duck? (I'm trying to come up with a good legal defense for a witchcraft accusation.)
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A guy from the 24th century, I'm told. We download stuff straight into the gray matter.
If Aircraft A leaves Los Angeles moving eastward 510 miles per hour, and Aircraft B leaves Milwaulkee, heading west, moving 430 miles per hour, what color pants are the pilots wearing?
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Free will, assuming it exists, is no baton to be passed on, like an exhausted runner does in a relay race. And if it doesn't exist, there's nothing to give up.
Who's your favorite philosopher and why?
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I'd have to go with myself. (forgive me my arrogance, but I like to think of myself as a freelance philosopher) Because I'm the only philosopher that I totally agree with. If you won't accept that answer; I'm going to go with Socrates. Although I'd be hard put to explain why.
Accepting that sin exists and that sin is a bad thing and that theft or the taking of someone else's something is sin, why or why not would it be a sin to take an item you found (you may insert the word 'crime' for the word 'sin' if you find the word 'sin' especially hard to deal with)?
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I don't consider theft to be just the taking of someone else's something; I'd define it to include things like the intent of the taker and the claim the someone else has on the something. For instance, someone picking up something that had clearly been abandoned would not be theft any more than taking in an abandoned child would be kidnapping; someone picking up something to take it to the Lost and Found wouldn't count either. Someone picking up something and making an honest effort to return it, then keeping it I wouldn't consider to be theft because the person who lost it was already deprived of their property--as would not be the case if someone left a purse on a seat to go to the restroom, for instance. And the original owner would have to have a legitimate claim on the item in question.
But with the full set of accepted items in your question (or just that the taking of someone else's something is a sin), it would have to be a sin to take an item you found if it were in fact "someone else's something."
If cats had the inclination, could they blatantly rule the world?
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Star Wars, shut up, I don't care what you say it's real, we just don't know about it because it happened in a Galaxy Far, Far, Away and Jane had to take Lucas there!
What do you think about that?
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