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Why is it that outcome is not the opposite of income?

I mean really, it seems logical that those two words should be opposites.
 
moevillini said:
Why is it that outcome is not the opposite of income?

I mean really, it seems logical that those two words should be opposites.
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One man's outcome is another man's income.

Has a nice ring to it. I'll see if I can pull some strings.
 
LazyD said:
One man's outcome is another man's income.

Has a nice ring to it. I'll see if I can pull some strings.
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A few more conundrums about the ins and outs of coming and going...

You can have an outcome and an income and you can be outgoing or incoming. So why isn't there any outcoming? And yet there is "coming out." Does this seem a little strange?
 
moevillini said:
A few more conundrums about the ins and outs of coming and going...

You can have an outcome and an income and you can be outgoing or incoming. So why isn't there any outcoming? And yet there is "coming out." Does this seem a little strange?
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For the sake of all humanity, I hope your brain is studied after you die. It is a fountain of eternal enlightenment.
 
LazyD said:
For the sake of all humanity, I hope your brain is studied after you die. It is a fountain of eternal enlightenment.
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I know what you mean, so don't ask if I "know what you mean".

well, logically, I guess I know what you say, so if you can say what you mean, how many people will understand what you say to mean what you mean?

zero. Nobody else has your brain, or Moe's.

After a lifetime of philosophical musings and midnight ramblings, I'm not sure what any of it means, objectively speaking. I mean, does the universe record meanings any more concretely than it absorbs and disperses sound waves?

So what if nobody hears what you say? Does that mean it meant nothing?

So, at any rate, I imagine that opening up a skull and doing some kind of gross analysis after a person has died might be like studying a wilderness to divine the meaning of a bear's ramblings in the woods.

I say I know where the bears poop in the woods, but it's an idle boast I could not really prove.

even if you apply electrodes and record the "live" responses of that brain, how could we really know anything about the thought processes. . . . .

I'd guess I'm looking at it from the viewpoint that when a person's spirit or "intelligence" is gone, like when a driver is gone from a vehicle, we could not really recover the scenes of the deceased person's memories, any more than those from a car's windshield. . . ..

all this, spawned at 4 am, from a simple wishful musing of your own, said in jest. . . . .

the storm and fury of the universe from a simple electron jolted out of ground state by a photon. . . .
 
LogGrad98 said:
Outgo and income.
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Eureka!!! Glad someone understands
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babe said:
LazyD said:
For the sake of all humanity, I hope your brain is studied after you die. It is a fountain of eternal enlightenment.
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I know what you mean, so don't ask if I "know what you mean".

well, logically, I guess I know what you say, so if you can say what you mean, how many people will understand what you say to mean what you mean?

zero. Nobody else has your brain, or Moe's....

all this, spawned at 4 am, from a simple wishful musing of your own, said in jest. . . . .

the storm and fury of the universe from a simple electron jolted out of ground state by a photon. . . .
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A greatly entertaining book - STIFF by Mary Roach - anybody read it?

Here's one of the chapters:
Chapter 9: Just a Head: Decapitation, reanimation, and the human head transplant

https://www.maryroach.net/stiffTOC.html
 
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