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Joined April 2014
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A kind of question: Have '#films' as an artefact (as we have known them for the last ~75 years) lost their spark forever, for you personally, as a result of the distortion / transformation by the combined forces of streaming / on-demand / transmedia?
33%No
67%Yes
3 votes • Final results
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A kind of question: Must the government be a kind of: (a) parental institution (dad-like), and/or (b) parental institution (mom-like)?
0%No, No
67%No, Yes
0%Yes, No
33%Yes, Yes
3 votes • Final results
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A kind of question: 'What' is a central bank in a macroeconomic monetary system?
40%Bookkeeper
40%Firm
0%Refinery
20%Shaman
5 votes • Final results
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A kind of question: What do you find yourself 'watching' or 'reading' a lot more these last few years: (1) watching = movie or documentary, & (2) reading = fiction or non-fiction?
0%Documentary, Fiction
40%Documentary, Non-fiction
20%Movie, Fiction
40%Movie, Non-fiction
10 votes • Final results
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A kind of question: 'When' - agewise - is your own earliest 'non-false' (real life) memory from?
0%<1 years old
40%1-3 years old
20%3-5 years old
40%5+ years old
5 votes • Final results
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A kind of question: Do you sometimes seriously worry / think: (1) if 'you', or that (2) 'another' person, might be an idiot?
17%No, No
50%No, Yes
0%Yes, No
33%Yes, Yes
6 votes • Final results
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A kind of question: Do you often: (a) read books, &/or (b) listen to music, from the time before you were born?
13%No, No
40%No, Yes
20%Yes, No
27%Yes, Yes
15 votes • Final results
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Is there such a thing as an unreflective teacher? Is everything dangerous (...not bad)? (goo.gl/jTqNyt)
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Can biology be expected to bring the discovery of new laws? Is it reducible to physics...? (goo.gl/RQTLP2)
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How does one fall from the sky? Why does one fall from the sky? When does one fall from the sky? #freefall (youtu.be/vvbN-cWe0A0)
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If there are animals on other planets would they have bilateral symmetry? Why or why not? (goo.gl/44RVv9)
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Why do you like/dislike him/her? Do we often tell more than we 'can' know? Can we truly introspect? (goo.gl/f8wnE7)
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Russell / Yablo here: Do paradoxes have a fixed point structure? Can there be paradoxes without self-reference? (goo.gl/qGvbGa)
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'...not even when you go back to being a child. And it is sad to see a child who does not know what to do...'
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Lyotard here: Is the book an economic genre? Do you already know what's happening? Do you get the message before the...? Do you waste time?
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Schopenhauer / Fromm here: If you are happy, you don't really understand what is going on. (?)
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Can objects be vague? Which concepts can have numbers attached to them & not? Furniture? (goo.gl/dMGk62)
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A stale standoff b/w science & spirituality in #psychedelic experience? #Neuropsychedelia (goo.gl/FFbzwN)
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Simmel / Nietzsche here: Do you hate the intellectualism of the metropolis existence? Why? (goo.gl/LC4qa0)
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