Magic Friends

[WaltzingMatilda]

Glad you liked it!

I found out about it from a friend. She uses it all the time, so I tried it and loved it! Glad I could pass on some curly headed wisdom!

It is indeed awesome. Thanks!Well, so far my date night is a wash...just called DH to find out why it was taking so long to drop Em off at my sisters (she lives ten minutes away) and turns out he stopped by a friends. Why...are...men...so...stupid (present company excepted, of course)?

 

[nibblesandbits]

Easy, pompous elitists like to glorify borings things common people don't care for to make themselves seem smart. It's like Emperor's new clothes... but with a movie!

:lol:

This is true. They like to take those stupid movies that are supposed to have meaning and herald them up to hugemongus status. Like that movie Garden State...I couldn't even get through half of that movie! But it was pretty critically aclaimed.

 

[MerHearted]

*steals Vince's castle and sells it on e-bay....*

Funny story. A couple months ago when I was deciding between Anaheim and Orlando, I went to sleep one night and decided to turn on both my light-up Cinderella Castle and my light-up rose from Disneyland. Blue light vs Red light. When I woke up, Disneyland's red light went out while WDW's blue light stayed on.

 

[Pongo]

Casablanca? or has that been mentioned?

Mentioned. Seen it.

So...not Chocolot? :lookaroun

:brick:

Cape Fear - get the original version if you get it

Hmm.

 

[PotteryGal]

OT: Abby got Joel to say 'I'm the King of the Woooorrrrllllddd!!! :ROFLOL: :ROFLOL:

 

[nibblesandbits]

It is indeed awesome. Thanks!Well, so far my date night is a wash...just called DH to find out why it was taking so long to drop Em off at my sisters (she lives ten minutes away) and turns out he stopped by a friends. Why...are...men...so...stupid (present company excepted, of course)?

oh Amy...that's awful!

I'd tell him to get his butt back home right now and take you out! :fork:

 

[Uponastar]

You're gonna make me fat!

No, no.
Our cookies, ice cream etc. are all fat and calorie free!

 

[Nemo14]

OT: Abby got Joel to say 'I'm the King of the Woooorrrrllllddd!!! :ROFLOL: :ROFLOL:

Yay!!!!!!!


was he standing on a sinking ship at the time?

 

[popsicletrees]

:lol:

This is true. They like to take those stupid movies that are supposed to have meaning and herald them up to hugemongus status. Like that movie Garden State...I couldn't even get through half of that movie! But it was pretty critically aclaimed.

I hated Garden State too! Natalie Portman was crazy. She wasn't eccentric in that cute way where it would seem logical that Zach Braff's character would fall in love with her. She was just plain weird.

 

[MerHearted]

No, no.
Our cookies, ice cream etc. are all fat and calorie free!

Oh ok... *eats them all*


Ohhh... *runs to the little princess's room* :lookaroun :hurl:

 

[PotteryGal]

Yay!!!!!!!


was he standing on a sinking ship at the time?

No :lol: , my living room couch, but he's killing it and every other piece of furniture we own, so does that count?

 

[popsicletrees]

Hmm.

It has Gregory Peck. That was enough reason for me to see it.

 

[Nemo14]

No :lol: , my living room couch, but he's killing it and every other piece of furniture we own, so does that count?

Certainly does!

We didn't have decent furniture 'til about 2 years ago.

 

[Uponastar]

Oh ok... *eats them all*


Ohhh... *runs to the little princess's room* :lookaroun :hurl:

:ROFLOL::ROFLOL::ROFLOL:

 

[nibblesandbits]

Oh ok... *eats them all*


Ohhh... *runs to the little princess's room* :lookaroun :hurl:

piggy! :lol:

 

[nibblesandbits]

Certainly does!

We didn't have decent furniture 'til about 2 years ago.

I think that happens when you have kids? Correct?

 

[joanna71985]

Just so you know, this is nothing to do with you. It's personal, myself and I. :lookaroun

Ooh, touchy.

Caddyshack was made in the 70's and had Chevy Chase and Bill Murray, about golf caddies at a country club. In one scene someone dropped a Baby Ruth candy bar into the pool and everyone thought it looked like something else. Bill Murray came upon it when they were cleaning the pool and took a bite. :ROFLOL: People were passing out when he did it.
Totally juvenile humor, but it's what I remember about that movie!

Lovely.

Cool Runnings is the best. :sohappy: both are good though.

Chocolot?

I love those!

Citizen Kane?

Saw that in Films class.

Cinderella?

I was going to say that!

Boring movie, beautifully filmed.

:slurp:

You're gonna make me fat!

You need it.:lookaroun

 

[Nemo14]

Oh ok... *eats them all*


Ohhh... *runs to the little princess's room* :lookaroun :hurl:

 

[Pongo]

It has Gregory Peck. That was enough reason for me to see it.

:lol:

I like how I'm getting movie suggestions based on what guys you people like.

Actually, I'm lying. I don't like it.

 

[Connor002]

In that case, I need not worry.

Eh.

Okay, I just entered Glory in a photo contest...please vote for her, even if you think other people's pets are cuter...

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I'll have to think about this one...

17th century metaphysics, particularly George Berkeley, the Father of Empiricism. I'm working on my Thesis in his New Theory of Vision, Vindicated and Explained.

17th and some 18th century philosophy. (People like Locke, Hume, Berkeley, DesCartes, Malebrance..) And early study in the philosophy of reality and the philosophy of mind.

Well that's precisely why it generally works in some way with metaphysics. Is knowledge based in fact or simply in perceptions of reality? If our perception of reality is deceived by something outside ourselves, then can we really state anything perceived as being factual?
Also, is knowledge based at all on a thing perceived or in our ideas of the thing perceived external to us? Knowledge has to be an idea of something outside of ourselves, not the thing itself. Can our ideas thus be wrong? These are the base questions we have to get past with metaphysics. I'm personally working on a Thesis that supports the notion that human Vision does not support some sort of extensive world that we suppose we live in. Things that we perceive, such as length, are only a collection of the ideas of motion and figure.

Sound messed up? It is!

Well that's the only way we have any idea of the world, right? But, think about this! Perhaps the world's existence is totally contingent upon perception! If there's no perceiver of a thing, there's no thing at all!

Of course you exist! You're a perceiver, right? The question is, do I exist right now? How about now? Do you know? Do you perceive me? That's the thing for Berkeley. He thinks, "Well, I'm not really sure that Paul exists right now, so it's a good thing reality isn't contingent upon MY perception!". Bear in mind, Berkeley was a Bishop, so his philosophy seems to fall in line with some sort of meticulous theology as well. He thinks that when we open our eyes, it's obvious that we can't manipulate the things that we perceive, so reality is contingent upon a higher perceiver than ourselves. God.

Haha, strangely that's not a Berkeley conversation. He believes we are definitely here. That's more of a Descartes situation. Know the whole cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am) problem? That's based somewhat on whether we can reasonably be solipsists. Solipsism is a position that explains we cannot be sure of anyone else's true existence other than our own.

Perhaps. Or perhaps we are brains in vats. (yeah, very Matrixy, but it was written down in the 17th century, long before the movie) Perhaps there is some sort of evil demon controlling the way that you perceive reality. If you accept that as a possibility, there's a chance you might just be cast into some sort of hyperbolic doubt about everything. That's what Descartes is struggling with in the Meditations.

Really, there's 2 kinds of philosophy in the grand scheme of things. One is analytical (very dry and awfully boring) and historical, which is what I'm more interested in. The culture of the 17th and 18th centuries was completely diametrically opposite of our own. This is the kind of stuff that was being talked about in posts, on the street, at work! Studying this philosophy allows us to tap into the thinking of a not so distant past. And, as little as many people think this matters to a contemporary world, it is incredibly important to understanding our evolving culture. As little as we realize it, philosophy is still being fed to us every day, often forcibly. We are indoctrinated with the tenants of postmodern ethical thought daily and we spew it out like it's part of some sort of manifesto we've recited without giving much thought to it. Studying the way philosophy influenced the culture even 400 years ago allows us more than just a glimpse of how it's transforming our own culture.

What's fact other than someone transcribing in some medium what they've perceived? :animwink:

So then. . .
WHAT do we ever really know for sure???????

(Nothing!)

I just giggled like only a nerd/geek/dork would. :lookaroun

Then who would all these others be?
Figments of our imagination?

Of mine! :drevil:

Then do any of us really exist?

edit: except for Connor of course....

Nope.
None but me.