grabbalacious

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by grabbalacious 7y ago
With very severe pain I don't see why one couldn't adopt a dual strategy of alleviating it both with drugs and by focussing on it during its most intense moments.
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Yes. When stubbing a toe I've historically employed two strategies for dealing with it. In my youth I would shout and hop around the room, i.e. distract myself. Nowadays I pay as much attention to the pain as is possible and practical.
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Start by making a habit of just telling the truth, as gently as possible.
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
If we look at the reasons why people have historically colonised parts of the Earth, many of them would now seem pretty crazy. But craziness was apparently no barrier to entry. Perhaps colonists just are morons? (Myself I think we'll
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
>Recovering the working-class classicists of the past can also function as a rallying cry to modern Britain to support the case for the universal availability in schools of classical civilisation and ancient history This is somewhat be
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
No, I explained it, Lebowski! I myself have been involved in circles where this strange form of philosophical posturing or virtue-signalling has reigned. They are short-lived circles. It may or may not have something to do with the total an
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
>Every convention was dissected and every conventional form exposed as fraud. This kind of blanket criticism is counterproductive and harmful. Our conventions 'know' more than we do and should be criticised only where they th
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
'Feeling of responsibility' is a nice way of putting it but the fact is that creative geniuses are pretty irresponsible and unconscientious fellows. They abandon a lot of projects and can't force themselves to work on things
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Motivation is key here. It seems that von Neumann became too fond of prestige and spy stuff. So he was less creative. Smarter than Gödel, able to recognise the importance of Gödel's work, but unable to produce anything of similar momen
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
So much of sugar's attraction is contextual. Pure granulated sugar, straight from a packet, doesn't appeal -- not to me. Yet I suspect that cocaine does not have this property. A bowl of frozen raspberries, with cream and an addit
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Yes. To quote William Arkle, 'Purity is not goodness, it is having clear and undistorted communication with all our levels of experience.' 'The teaching of purity and simplicity is therefore not an attempt to narrow down our
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
>I hear you, a nuke is the ultimate tool for implementing widespread death. That's not my point. I agree that the barriers to entry for biotech are lower. My point is that whereas the only 'defence' against nuclear weapo
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
No, the creation of antidotes is feasible for government labs but there's no purely defensive countermeasure against nuclear weapons.