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09 Jun 22
@relentless-red saidI'd be more inclined to check out the ballistics of my .45 on an alien.
Might buy you a few minutes until they ask an aardvark what they are. For me this approach relies too heavily on alien's being unable to communicate with aardvarks. I'd be more inclined just to dodge the ray gun.
09 Jun 22
@liljo saidDepends on your alien. Hand held thermonuclear device could be required. Could be more effective just to arm the aardvarks. It's probably only when the alien hears them claim to be aardvarks too that's going to go off.
I'd be more inclined to check out the ballistics of my .45 on an alien.
09 Jun 22
@torunn saidI want to agree completely without pointing out we're one hour earlier in the UK, but I'm not going to manage. 😌
Back to basics: The BIG question is: isn't it just absolutely amazing that we live in this world at the same time - how about that?? 🙂
@very-rusty saidGood answer.
Mind is associated with the brain. The two terms are often used interchangeably. Brain is considered to be a physical thing, the mind is considered to be mental. The brain is composed of nerve cells and can be touched, whereas, the mind cannot be touched.
-VR
I knew a young woman from high school days, and she was taking birth control pills. I asked her how they work. She majored in chemistry so was able to explain exactly (a little too exactly) what the pills do.
The pills worked to fool the body into thinking it's already pregnant, so her body shuts down the production of eggs until she stops taking the pill. This makes sense, but the body and brain are inextricably linked to one another... if one is fooled then so is the other.
This is when I first began to wonder if brain and mind were the same thing. She knew she wasn't pregnant, but what part of her was able to know this? How could she be fooled into believing something and at the same time not be fooled.
09 Jun 22
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@relentless-red said🙂 It's just so amazing that we have met, all of us, thumbs up or down, who cares really? 🙂 We will miss each other when things change so let's enjoy the time we are here - together.
I want to agree completely without pointing out we're one hour earlier in the UK, but I'm not going to manage. 😌
09 Jun 22
@kilroy70 saidI have another explanation but this was a long time ago, mind you. The pill made you feel pregnant so any interest for sex disappeared. As I said - a long time ago, but it worked.
Good answer.
I knew a young woman from high school days, and she was taking birth control pills. I asked her how they work. She majored in chemistry so was able to explain exactly (a little too exactly) what the pills do.
The pills worked to fool the body into thinking it's already pregnant, so her body shuts down the production of eggs until she stops taking the pill. T ...[text shortened]... e to know this? How could she be fooled into believing something and at the same time not be fooled.
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09 Jun 22
@relentless-red saidEvery conversation we have ends in you trying to arm the aardvarks.
Depends on your alien. Hand held thermonuclear device could be required. Could be more effective just to arm the aardvarks. It's probably only when the alien hears them claim to be aardvarks too that's going to go off.
09 Jun 22
@ghost-of-a-duke saidHow can the little fellas truly feel safe if they can't bear arms?
Every conversation we have ends in you trying to arm the aardvarks.
09 Jun 22
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@torunn saidI can see how it might work to diminish interest. But in the culture I lived during the 60s and 70s "the pill" had one and only one purpose. And that was to make it physically impossible for a woman to become pregnant.
I have another explanation but this was a long time ago, mind you. The pill made you feel pregnant so any interest for sex disappeared. As I said - a long time ago, but it worked.
Having sex was so ridiculously important for men (and women) a guy could be dragging himself along with two broken legs, and arrows sticking in his back, and he could still be obsessed with having sex.
Okay, that MIGHT have been a wee bit of an exaggeration... just a wee bit.
@kilroy70 saidAren't men still like that? 🙂
I can see how it might work to diminish interest. But the culture I lived in during the 60s and 70s "the pill" had one and only one purpose. And that was to make it physically impossible for a woman to become pregnant.
Having sex was so ridiculously important for men (and women) a guy could be dragging himself along with two broken legs, and arrows sticking in his back, a ...[text shortened]... essed with having sex.
Okay, that MIGHT have been a wee bit of an exaggeration... just a wee bit.