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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is water wet?

    Actually, with our current understanding of chemistry, the hydrogen would be bonded to an oxygen, and that oxygen would be bonded to the second oxygen, with a negative charge overall ...

    Mar 21, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: A reading challenge.

    So, I laugh at the primordial soup idea because it neglects other sciences which can be just as key as biology to determine what may have happened. The second line ...

    Mar 21, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: A reading challenge.

    Nietzsche is pretentious, self-absorbed, overwrought garbage. the only reason I got through it was so I could better make fun of the emos that thought they were so "deep." Well ...

    Mar 21, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is water wet?

    When Hydrogen dioxide *Dihydrogen monoxide. Hydrogen dioxide would mean there are two oxygen atoms bonded to one hydrogen atom, which is impossible with our current understanding of chemistry.

    Mar 18, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Selflessness?

    You characterise Audy's approach as advocating for "emotional bias getting in the way"; in contrast, Audy's arguing that emotionality is a large (and not illegitimately so) factor in how we ...

    Feb 28, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Selflessness?

    Sure, in that you mischaracterise a sympathetic hermeneutic as emotional bias. You're going to need to explain what you're trying to say, because it sounds like you think Audy agrees ...

    Feb 28, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Jung Personality Types

    It's been around for 50 years, which is plenty of time for successful corporations to thrive and unsuccessful ones to fold. The fact that they're still around says a lot ...

    Feb 27, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Selflessness?

    And is there really anything wrong with that? Is there anything wrong in observing the world, without emotional bias getting in the way?

    Feb 27, 2013
  • Lounge, The Re: Psychopathy Test

    For anyone interested, 30 is the cut off between criminal tendencies and psychopathy.

    Feb 27, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Jung Personality Types

    It may not be the same result every time, because your personality is not definite. If your personality isn't definite, then trying to categorize it, and fit it into a ...

    Feb 27, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Selflessness?

    Is the "self" concerned with continuing its genetic line? I am not convinced. Biologically speaking, continuing its genetic line is the "self's" sole reason for existence.

    Feb 26, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Selflessness?

    a) Anonymous to people though! Only God knows. This is acceptable. It may be acceptable, but it doesn't fulfill the definition of "selflessness" that I put forth. This reminds me ...

    Feb 26, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Selflessness?

    I was reading a very confusing, and poorly written essay on helping others, when I had a thought: Are humans capable of a truly selfless action? Meaning, do we ever ...

    Feb 26, 2013
  • Lounge, The Re: The First Words You See Describe You

    Passionate, charismatic, outgoing, outspoken. I disagree with two of those. I'm also going to be interested in seeing if the Forer effect come into play here.

    Feb 25, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Jung Personality Types

    They're horoscopes for people that don't believe in horoscopes, also, the online tests diagnose "NT" at a much higher rate than the actual test.

    Feb 25, 2013


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