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DUMP LOG?

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7 and 9 are duplicates

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Send a war criminal to fix a war crime, as the old saying goes

You may think I just upvoted you…

Twats of a feather riot together

Now there’s a version of the Last Supper ready for the painting…

The real cheese was the fromage we made along the whey

Art of the Steal

Yes! They both have the same Greek root, katharos, meaning purified.

Party shark doo doo doo-doo doo-doo

One, two, skip some poo, ninety-nine, a hundred

Taco Belle

if he’s got no sense of humor he’s a fed

if he’s got no sense of humor he’s a fed

if someone posts a joke

and all that guy does is poke at it for not having perfect meter when the history of comedic music from Gilbert & Sullivan to Weird Al is rife with elongations and contractions to make a joke fit a melody

if he’s got no sense of humor he’s a fed

About 20 years ago, I was walking through a city centre with a friend, on the way to catch a train. A couple of Mormons tried to stop us, asking, “Have you ever thought about the purpose of life?”

Barely breaking stride, I shouted out, “Hot sweaty man sex!”

I don’t consider that to be the purpose of life¹, but remembering the look on their faces helps keep me grounded whenever I’m inclined to consider questions that cannot be answered.

That said, my resolution to the conflict between free will and determinism is to assume assume that ‘truth’ operates on a principle of equivalence. That’s to say, if two models generate the equivalent outcomes, they are equivalently ‘true’. The universe we observe could have deterministic rules that give rise to the same observable outcomes as one in which we have absolute free will, in which case the two models are equivalent. It would make no sense to endow one with a greater truth than the other.

That’s a slightly difference definition of ‘truth’ than is commonly accepted, but it works for me.

¹: It’s just a nice bonus.

Ah. Late ewening, then.