Ok, I can admit when I am wrong. The portion of we, which is not you, is having fun. Delirious fun, in fact. As well, it seems the portion of we, which is you, is the part that has wandered off to do other things.
Philosophy is a lot harder than I thought it was. No wonder Nietschtcshtschtsche is dead.
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------------------ There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
–Cicero
Thank you, Libertarian, for yet another shining example that a membership in a profession does not imply the ability to use the tools of said profession appropriately.
Thank you also for demonstrating how ridiculous it is to carry a grudge from one thread into another. Most among us would have simply replied (however nonsensically) to an offending post in the place where it was made. You, however, have gone the extra mile just to deliver this lovely object lesson in the ethical principal of noncoersive posting. That was your point, right?
The best lack all conviction
The worst are full of passionate intensity.
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My only point was to have fun, Spiritus. I don’t really think you tear my posts up that bad. I’m really sorry I offended you. I think you’re a very sharp debator, and I probably shouldn’t have made the above post. Again, I apologize.
I am sorry to hear you are sad. Though we disagree on many particulars of how to get there, I have always felt that we shared a very similar view of life’s goal (for lack of a more concise expresion of the ineffale). Despite our sometimes heated exchanges, my view of our conflict is restricted entirely to the realms of idea and expression. I certainly bear you no ill will, and I would never wish sadness upon you. I hope whatever weight is pressing you down soon lifts.
The best lack all conviction
The worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Except if they’d called them Red, Blue, Green, and Orange, we’d have gotten all confused, because the terms “red”, “blue”, and “green” were already in use by subatomic physicists to refer to the three kinds of “charge” exhibited by the strong nuclear force.
And “orange” is a flavor of Jell-O[TM] brand gelatin dessert.
Serious question: “strangeness” was originally considered to be a quantum property like charge or spin, invoked to explain why certain particles behaved in a peculiar way. Now it’s known that those particles contain one or more strange quarks (or anti-strange quarks). Is strangeness still considered a fundamental property? If so, are “upness” and “downness” properties?