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Gripweed posted:Now yes, every culture in human history has believed in ghosts. But I read this really great Dick Dawkins quote on Reddit that explains how everyone is wrong except for me. Cultural universals aren't special. Storytelling, marriage, etiquette, laws. There are some things humans all just seem to do for whatever reason.
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Gripweed posted:Now yes, every culture in human history has believed in ghosts. But I read this really great Dick Dawkins quote on Reddit that explains how everyone is wrong except for me. Actually that isn't strictly true. There are a fair old number that just do not believe in "ghosts" but do believe in the undead. https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/12476/shakespeare-in-the-bush This is a great, if a little long, story about one such group and their interactions with someone telling them the story of Hamlet.
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Ragnar34 posted:Cultural universals aren't special. Storytelling, marriage, etiquette, laws. There are some things humans all just seem to do for whatever reason. Are you arguing that marriage and laws aren’t real either?
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Gripweed posted:Are you arguing that marriage and laws aren’t real either? They’re social customs, not physical phenomena
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Shibawanko posted:i call bullshit on ghosts being real. theyre not A fart is a lunch ghost
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The last few years I've subscribed to the idea that ghosts (specifically) and possibly other cryptids (generally) are just brief encounters with other dimensions or universes. I don't feel like it is outside the realm of possibility, but it is still just outside of our scientific understandings. I like to hold on to there being a little mystery left in the world though.
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Ommin posted:The last few years I've subscribed to the idea that ghosts (specifically) and possibly other cryptids (generally) are just brief encounters with other dimensions or universes. I don't feel like it is outside the realm of possibility, but it is still just outside of our scientific understandings. I like to hold on to there being a little mystery left in the world though. Man multiple times over the past few years the government has released footage of UFOs and said "yeah we have no idea what the gently caress this is but we've ruled out weather phenomena, hoax, and all known forms of technology." It's loving insane that alien conspiracy stuff hasn't come back like it was in the 90s. I guess too much of that energy was captured by Qanon
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Gripweed posted:It's loving insane that alien conspiracy stuff hasn't come back like it was in the 90s. I guess too much of that energy was captured by Qanon I don't think it had to come back because it never went away. It became so normalized that it's an entire industry now. The government releasing weird videos just became white noise to everyone else. But I also think a lot of energy behind any conspiracy theory eventually cools because anyone that would still care is either dead or isolated.
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Oct 3, 2022 03:21
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Ommin posted:The last few years I've subscribed to the idea that ghosts (specifically) and possibly other cryptids (generally) are just brief encounters with other dimensions or universes. I don't feel like it is outside the realm of possibility, but it is still just outside of our scientific understandings. I like to hold on to there being a little mystery left in the world though. My general philosophy is to try to see the world as it is, without being blinded by cynicism or sentiment. I don’t really like wishful thinking and try not to do it—this is counterbalanced by me thinking that cynics are just as naive as romantics
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UFOlogists have been very vocal at the recent spate of declassification. People are just to blinded by dumb fake poo poo like politics to pay attention to the things that matter
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thetoughestbean posted:If we can find ruins of ancient mega cities we can find a single bigfoot skeleton. But we haven’t You can't really judge stuff based on fossil records because the fact that we ever find anything at all is a stroke of luck. There are giant gaps in the fossil records of animals we see everyday. Like you can spend an evening reading up on the history of trying to prove the horse existed.
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christmas boots posted:"Green" is merely a social construct that we collectively agree upon as a society to reflect that particular band of the visible spectrum. Being real generous here, are you saying that "green" as a concept postdates Newton's reification of the visible spectrum? Less generous but more in line with the thrust of your argument as i understand it: did green come into existence when we defined it as a range of light within a specific range? "Green" predating your definition of "green" presents a pretty obvious problem 2nd Amendment has a new favorite as of 05:11 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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Oct 3, 2022 05:08
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The Mario games peaked more than 30 years ago with Super Mario World. The Mario Kart series branched off and became its own thing, but even the best of those (Mario Kart 64) didn't quite reach the heights of SMW.
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Rick posted:You can't really judge stuff based on fossil records because the fact that we ever find anything at all is a stroke of luck. There are giant gaps in the fossil records of animals we see everyday. Like you can spend an evening reading up on the history of trying to prove the horse existed. The what?
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Powered Descent posted:The Mario games peaked more than 30 years ago with Super Mario World. The Mario Kart series branched off and became its own thing, but even the best of those (Mario Kart 64) didn't quite reach the heights of SMW. I share this opinion.
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Oct 3, 2022 05:43
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Powered Descent posted:The Mario games peaked more than 30 years ago with Super Mario World. The Mario Kart series branched off and became its own thing, but even the best of those (Mario Kart 64) didn't quite reach the heights of SMW. Galaxy was fun too. I’m not familiar enough with all iterations to make a formal judgement though.
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Oct 3, 2022 05:48
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Powered Descent posted:The Mario games peaked more than 30 years ago with Super Mario World. The Mario Kart series branched off and became its own thing, but even the best of those (Mario Kart 64) didn't quite reach the heights of SMW. Actually Mario world is the most hyper over exaggerated game in the history of the internet. Its great sure but all Mario games are great, yes even sunshine. No, not paper Mario. Yes, especially Mario land 3: wario land.
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2nd Amendment posted:Being real generous here, are you saying that "green" as a concept postdates Newton's reification of the visible spectrum? It’s a physical phenomenon ya dumbass. You can easily verify if something is green. It’s replicable. No amount of mucking about in pseudo-philosophy is going to make it not exist.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Actually Mario world is the most hyper over exaggerated game in the history of the internet. Its great sure but all Mario games are great, yes even sunshine. No, not paper Mario. Yes, especially Mario land 3: wario land. Paper Mario and it's single, solitary sequel, The Thousand Year Door, rule.
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Ghosts are 100% real, I had sex with one and even made it pregnant
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I'm watching Breaking Bad just now for the first time, its good, a decent distraction from the downtime while working from home but every single scene that isn't Walter White/Jesse is just boring shite
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2nd Amendment posted:Less generous but more in line with the thrust of your argument as i understand it: did green come into existence when we defined it as a range of light within a specific range? You're just hitting all the first philosophy class classics. Have you ever wondered if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around does it make a noise?
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Oct 3, 2022 11:47
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Atticus_1354 posted:You're just hitting all the first philosophy class classics. Have you ever wondered if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around does it make a noise? If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it become a ghost?
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Atticus_1354 posted:You're just hitting all the first philosophy class classics. Have you ever wondered if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around does it make a noise? If it's such a simple question you should be able to provide a simple answer
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thetoughestbean posted:It’s a physical phenomenon ya dumbass. You can easily verify if something is green. It’s replicable. No amount of mucking about in pseudo-philosophy is going to make it not exist. Your babbling about colors just brings The Dress to mind. Especially since David Duchovny thought it was a shade of green.  Atticus_1354 posted:You're just hitting all the first philosophy class classics. Have you ever wondered if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around does it make a noise? A tree coming down can be eerily silent. Sometimes you feel rather than hear it.
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I think posters ITT are exaggerating the ambiguity of 'green' for rhetorical effect.
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If green isn't real, explain the prevalence of ghosts with names like "the green lady".
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Anne of ?????? Gables
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green is an abstract consequence of a concrete physical phenomenon (specific wavelengths)
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Green is a quale.
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Man, goons'll believe anything, "ghosts are real", "trees make noise", "bluish-yellow is a distinct color"
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Actually Mario world is the most hyper over exaggerated game in the history of the internet. Its great sure but all Mario games are great, yes even sunshine. No, not paper Mario. Yes, especially Mario land 3: wario land. i think smw is great and sunshine was not
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blue and green are the same thing
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Ohtori Akio posted:blue and green are the same thing Luigi just over here in a single shade jumpsuit
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Argh, I can't read the blue font on the green background of my own posts (a net positive)
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orange and brown are the same thing tho
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Atticus_1354 posted:You're just hitting all the first philosophy class classics. Have you ever wondered if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around does it make a noise? I agree these are pretty basic concepts, which is also why people dismissing them is so shocking. Is a white horse a horse? 2nd Amendment has a new favorite as of 19:59 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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A horse is a horse, of course of course.
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Fun fact a white horse and a gray horse can both have the same white hair but the latter has darker skin under the fur and the former has pink skin.
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