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Neoma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:52 PM Original message |
I had a debate over if inches exist. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. See Dennet's "Real Patterns". |
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Neoma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. What's that? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:02 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. An essay by a (justifiably) big-wig philosopher about essentially that topic.... |
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Neoma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:14 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Do beliefs exist? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:15 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. It's a short essay, but not that short. Those are just the opening words. |
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wildhorses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
6. you lost me at this phrase |
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Neoma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:20 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Whoops, I meant to say round. |
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wildhorses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:23 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. if there is a god -- |
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Neoma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:24 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Or maybe our universe is an egg. |
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wildhorses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:25 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. and the shell of the egg? |
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Neoma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:28 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Well, as I was saying about time travel up in the original post... |
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Ptah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:28 AM Response to Reply #10 |
19. Of course we can |
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wildhorses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:35 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. hells yeah |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:36 AM Response to Original message |
12. The key to it all, to me, is |
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Neoma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 12:50 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Doesn't mean he's god. |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:03 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Another word we use |
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Neoma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:07 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. To me it describes an invisible friend. |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 01:10 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Gravity describes an invisible friend too :) |
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wildhorses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:23 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. inches is inches and gravity is gravity |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:45 AM Response to Reply #16 |
22. but I can prove gravity exists... n/t |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
18. Maybe you should post this in the Weights and Measures Forum. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
21. Time really exists. |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
23. Deep... |
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TheFriendlyAnarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
24. I had a very similar thought when I was blitzed out of my skull |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
25. The sad thing is the impulse to label time, whatever it is |
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flying rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
26. Time is nature's way |
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Neoma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 04:22 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. How do we know everything doesn't happen all at once? |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
28. Inches may not exist but space does |
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Neoma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 04:41 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Time is just counting how many times earth turns around. |
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billyskank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 04:46 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. But if it were not for time the earth would not turn around |
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