Can you keep it going asking ONLY QUESTIONS?

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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,102 Member
    Since "disappearing" is by definition stopping to exist, would a more accurate word choice be "moving to where?"
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 14,061 Member
    Are you related to Bishop Berkeley? 😄
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,102 Member
    Who?
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,464 Member
    Frank are you really expecting us to know all about Irish clergy from the 1700's???
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 14,061 Member
    Are you familiar with Berkeley's philosophy that objects do not have a real existence apart from being perceived? Isn't his famous principle: "esse is percipi" -- "to be is to be perceived"?
    Didn't "disappearing" remind me of the expression "out of sight, out of mind", bringing to mind Berkeley's idea that something doesn't exist apart from being perceived?
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,464 Member
    are'nt I indeed familiar with it?

    don't I have google search to thank for that? ;)
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 14,061 Member
    Isn't how you learned it immaterial, ideally? 😄
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,102 Member
    Isn't the more famous philosophical principle "cogito ergo sum," "I think therefore I am?"
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 14,061 Member
    What would a conversation between Berkeley and Descartes sound like?
    With my affinity for mathematics and logic, didn't I embrace Descartes' "cogito ergo sum" upon first hearing it? But didn't I find Berkeley's idea of immaterialism a bit crazy?
    “One person's craziness is another person's reality.” ― Tim Burton
  • MagicalC13
    MagicalC13 Posts: 388 Member
    How can I get to the end of this thread?
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,464 Member
    isn't this the thread that never ends?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,102 Member
    Isn't it amazing how much mathematics and philosophy overlap? Is this not best exemplified by how my astrophysics major needed only a single additional class for a math minor, and only two more classes for a philosophy minor?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,238 Member
    Why did my friend laugh so hard after criticizing a philosophy major, and I reminded her that maybe with a philosophy major the guy will be able to live well with less money? Isn't that true!?:D
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,102 Member
    Didn't the lead bouncer from the movie "Road House" have a philosophy degree while kicking butt of the bad guys?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,102 Member
    Whoa...did my question actually post within a single second of clicking "Post" rather than the customary 30 seconds?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,650 Member
    MagicalC13 wrote: »
    How can I get to the end of this thread?

    How can it be that you’ve just begun and you’re already looking to end it, @MagicalC13 ?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,238 Member
    Wouldn't one way be to read all 3453 pages?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,650 Member
    How long do you think that would take?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,102 Member
    How fast can you read?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,650 Member
    Are you trying to trick me into doing a math problem, @nossmf ?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,102 Member
    Do you think my daughter was annoyed when I asked her to perform math outside of school by figuring out how many cookies each person received from our completed batch?
  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 20,206 Member
    What kind of cookies? Do you have any to share?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,238 Member
    Would it be easier to give us the recipe than to mail us a cookie?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,650 Member
    edited November 2024
    nossmf wrote: »
    Do you think my daughter was annoyed when I asked her to perform math outside of school by figuring out how many cookies each person received from our completed batch?

    Isn’t learning so much more fun when done outside of the classroom though?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,650 Member
    cmsienk wrote: »
    What kind of cookies? Do you have any to share?

    Should we have a rule here not to bring up any delicious food or beverages unless the person posting has enough to share with the whole thread?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,650 Member
    AdahPotatah2024 wrote: »
    Would it be easier to give us the recipe than to mail us a cookie?

    Isn’t it easier to eat a cookie that’s already been made than to save a cookie recipe to my bookmarks that will collect dust and fall into the abyss of all my other pins and saved items?

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,102 Member
    srazamora wrote: »
    Should we have a rule here not to bring up any delicious food or beverages unless the person posting has enough to share with the whole thread?

    So are you saying no more discussion about coffee unless you have an entire pot brewed and ready to distribute?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 14,061 Member
    srazamora wrote: »
    AdahPotatah2024 wrote: »
    Would it be easier to give us the recipe than to mail us a cookie?

    Isn’t it easier to eat a cookie that’s already been made than to save a cookie recipe to my bookmarks that will collect dust and fall into the abyss of all my other pins and saved items?

    So then, it's a question of whether it's easier for the baker -- mailing cookies vs posting the recipe -- or easier for the rest of us -- receiving a baked cookie vs following the recipe?
    Is there no way for it to be easier for everybody?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,650 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    srazamora wrote: »
    Should we have a rule here not to bring up any delicious food or beverages unless the person posting has enough to share with the whole thread?

    So are you saying no more discussion about coffee unless you have an entire pot brewed and ready to distribute?

    Does that not seem fair to you, @nossmf , because you would refuse if offered coffee?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,238 Member
    How would I mail someone hot coffee? Wouldn't coffee grounds (and a tea bag) and cookies in a jar with the recipe attached be equally easier for both the sender and the recipients?

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