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Eulalia said:
Of course I don't know what will happen to whatever I'm referring to when I use the pronoun 'I' when I die, but recognising that 'I' only experiences being 'me' when the organism I call 'me' is (more or less) conscious, I can't see how 'I' can continue to exist, as an autonomous, self-conscious subject after 'me' has died.

Yet I do have some 'religious', or at any rate metaphysical belief - in the logical necessity of an ultimate reality/ truth of which the universe (including me) is an expression, though That is beyond the limits of human thought or language - Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen - all I can know is the universe and myself. Beyond that, I am content, with Keats, 'to accept uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason'.

But I also believe that 'worship' - in the sense of expressing wonder, awe, joy, gratitude for the experience of being human, acknowledging our own shortcomings and deficiencies, and entering into some state of mind away from the surface noise - is a natural, healthy activity that most humans have engaged in, one way or another, throughout the history of our species. And I respect those who follow a 'religious' way of life in a serious way as offering valuable alternatives to what are generally taken for granted as the purposes of life in our self-centred consumer society.

So, while my beliefs and ways of acting on them are hardly consistent with the teachings of any particular religion or sect, I certainly don't reject or scorn the central role that 'religion' has played in human history, nor do I imagine the world would be better off without it.
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/06/tech/ai-communicating-with-dead/index.html an ai version of you can exist in your place
 
Mikerytel said:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/06/tech/ai-communicating-with-dead/index.html an ai version of you can exist in your place
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Raise your hand if you watched the netflix series "Fall of the House of Usher" and know that one reveal!

captivecuties said:
I often wondered, being brought up in a Christian background but discovering the wonders of the outer realms of the universe and science with it…what will come of it all after our sun expands and renders the earth into a cinder and then just fuel?
All the graves, monuments,geology and haunted houses?
The history, poetry, hero’s and villain…all gone.
Do we continue in any way or are we truly just matter changing form?
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I'm worried all this French stuff I'm reading will make me insufferable, but Albert Camus say's that even though life is absurd and hostile to human desire for meaning, it is that desire itself that is beautiful and worth preserving. I personally belief that there must be something that exist outside of time and space, because the idea that both are infinite and we are just a speck on it doesn't make sense to me, and because of that I try to treat all other life with respect. Except my own, but I'm working on that.
 
Loinclothslave said:
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Indeed - I think you’ll be my first sadist? Hope you have a strong whipping arm, because you already know there’ll be plenty required if it’s one of my stories! You know what I’m like! :facepalm:

Of course, we need my favourite Newfoundlander, absolitely!

Then you shall be! Do you prefer sadist, slave, or crux girl? I’ll put you down as crux girl for now.

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Okay, now I’m committed really, aren’t I? I really have to do this, and not just start, but actually finish! Very well… I’ll need a couple of days but have ideas brewing.

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Mikerytel said:
@Eulalia
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His problem - and I widna be surprised gin ithers hae it tae - is the influence of southron English - when I'm speaking Scots, I'd say 'purrpul burrglar alarrum', but in English, 'pə: pull bə:glə əla:m', dropping all the 'rs' and reducing most of the vowels to a neutral [ə]. He's getting caught between the two versions.
 
I had occasion to call the Royal Mail because they wouldn't refresh my credit card details by mail or e-mail. Their main office is apparently in Edinburgh. I got a Scottish lady whom I couldn't understand, and apparently she couldn't understand me either. She switched me to an English "bloke".
"There are even some places where English completely disappears--in America they haven't used it for years."
 
Frank Petrexa said:
"There are even some places where English completely disappears--in America they haven't used it for years."
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Lerner/Lowe's "My Fair Lady" used to be my favorite musical as a kid.

I still love it.

But upon hearing an amateur production recently, I cringed at Henry Higgens saying:

"By all rights they should be taken out and hung,
for the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue"

WRONG!!!...they should be taken out and HANGED!

...which of course, doesn't rhyme.

I'm wondering if George Bernard Shaw is turning in his grave about his stickler for the English language character Henry Higgins committing such a language atrocity!
 
Sizzle said:
Lerner/Lowe's "My Fair Lady" used to be my favorite musical as a kid.

I still love it.

But upon hearing an amateur production recently, I cringed at Henry Higgens saying:

"By all rights they should be taken out and hung,
for the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue"

WRONG!!!...they should be taken out and HANGED!

...which of course, doesn't rhyme.

I'm wondering if George Bernard Shaw is turning in his grave about his stickler for the English language character Henry Higgins committing such a language atrocity!
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'This use is not erroneous, but just less customary in standard English' Fowler, Modern English Usage. But it's a distinction that has a long history, the Old English weak verb form 'hanged' being particularly reserved for executions since the 17th century, maybe because of its use by judges in pronouncing the death sentence, 'hanged by the neck until you are dead'.
 
Frank Petrexa said:
I had occasion to call the Royal Mail because they wouldn't refresh my credit card details by mail or e-mail. Their main office is apparently in Edinburgh. I got a Scottish lady whom I couldn't understand, and apparently she couldn't understand me either. She switched me to an English "bloke".
"There are even some places where English completely disappears--in America they haven't used it for years."
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Probably was @Eulalia on the other end :D
 
Eulalia said:
'This use is not erroneous, but just less customary in standard English' Fowler, Modern English Usage. But it's a distinction that has a long history, the Old English weak verb form 'hanged' being particularly reserved for executions since the 17th century, maybe because of its use by judges in pronouncing the death sentence, 'hanged by the neck until you are dead'.
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Mikerytel said:
Probably was @Eulalia on the other end :D
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Rarely covered in modern times... Oh for the days when the Scotswoman Eul was hanged by the British!!!
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Mikerytel said:
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/taylor-swift-concerts-trigger-earth-tremors @Eulalia the Swifties were in your neck of the woods. Also heard Edinburg is ruined by over tourism
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Quite a long way from Embro, actually, nearer to Glesca, so I if I felt any tremors, they were probably the effect of whiskies, not Swifties!

I wouldn't say Edinburgh is ruined by the tourists - it's certainly busy with them, but there's lots to do and see, they're not all heading for the same few places. Best to avoid the Festival time unless you're wanting to attend Festival events, that's when it's most crowded.
 
Mikerytel said:
Also heard Edinburg is ruined by over tourism
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Eulalia said:
Quite a long way from Embro, actually, nearer to Glesca, so I if I felt any tremors, they were probably the effect of whiskies, not Swifties!

I wouldn't say Edinburgh is ruined by the tourists - it's certainly busy with them, but there's lots to do and see, they're not all heading for the same few places. Best to avoid the Festival time unless you're wanting to attend Festival events, that's when it's most crowded.
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And those days, the majority of Scotts are overcrowding Munich and other German cities!:Saeufer::beer-toast1:

:ole:
 
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