Foghorn

All true. But not proof reason is qualified to meaningfully comment on the very largest of questions.

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Thank you for the kind greeting. I will strive to shout something suitably clever asap.

Please prove that human reason is qualified to meaningfully address the very largest of questions. Thank you.

I may be an annoying person, but I'm just one annoying person. Don't know what the situation of the others mentioned is.

What's a shoutbox? A random collection of stream of consciousness whatever pops in to our heads in the moment?

Ya think?

I've asked a mod to lock this thread, but I doubt that will work. What do you say the two of us run up the white flag of surrender and bail on the thr...

There are good discussions to be found here. Maybe not on this topic, but many others. It's possible this topic could be addressed constructively some...

I'm not justifying Israel's actions. I'm revealing that you don't care about them. Philosophy. A search for clarity.

Hamas is small potatoes compared to Assad, and they have no interest in him, so why would they be interested in Hamas? Hamas is small potatoes compare...

You're right. Unless you wish to have credibility. Otherwise, doesn't matter a bit.

The folks you're referring to are in lock down mode. There is no evidence or reasoning which will have the slightest impact on their point of view. In...

I do believe that would be the rational choice. Maybe we'll get lucky and a mod will lock the thread, save us from ourselves. :-) Well, if you did wis...

Say they did change your mind. Or you changed theirs. Then what? Nothing. That's what. We're all beating our tiny brains against a brick wall, and eve...

They don't either. And what am I doing here? No idea. We, all of us, united in cluelessness.

Given that there is exactly no chance of that happening.... Now what?

But why? None of us give a shit about what's happening in Syria, or there would be plenty of such threads already. If we cared about innocents in Gaza...

That's what the other thread is about. You won't find answers there though, just lots of questions and speculations.

Sadly, I am a veteran button pusher myself, with a regrettable degree of talent for such a pointless endeavor. I call it philosophy to dress it up and...

Right. We understand. You wish to chant the same propaganda over and over and over again. Ok, go for it. Nobody can stop you. They're your posts to do...

Sorry to pop your bubble again, and I know it's foolish to try. But you don't actually care about repressive regimes. You don't. You sincerely think y...

Almost all of your posts on every topic make this same point. You are smart, they are stupid. The fact that you can't let go of this endlessly repetit...

Imho, you're the sanest and most serious person in the thread. You got sucked in to the shit storm a bit here and there, but overall you kept your coo...

Except, if you are an atheist, your life is not based on logic and reason. At least not that part of it. Atheism is not reason. Atheism is an ideology...

Most of the critiques of religion arise right out of a moralism which was given to western culture by the Jews. The Christians then became the leading...

If you haven't noticed, we've begun to discuss this endless cycle business more generically in another thread. Would welcome your participation should...

Well said Jack. Yea, we all have a story about ourselves that we're always working on. This story business seems to be the source of a huge amount of ...

This sounds pretty insightful and accurate to me. And I just want to add here that my peacock feathers are FAR SUPERIOR to everyone else in the aforem...

First, atheists typically assume that theism is nothing but a pile of ideological assertions, thus revealing the ignorance which prevents them from be...

Except that it's not. In atheism the core (blind faith in reason) is very rarely touched. Most atheists don't even know it's there. There's typically ...

Any method which declines to challenge it's own fundamental assumptions is not philosophy, but instead merely ideology. It's not reason and logic to r...

In one interpretation, the Book Of Genesis predicted our current state of affairs and likely future some three thousand years ago. 1) We ate the fruit...

Yes, agreed. The debate is a choice of which authority to reference. The problem God thread philosophers on all sides face is that in centuries of suc...

One member may have, Israel at least. Doubt it for the rest of us. Not me. I've never been outside of the United States, because those other countries...

Yes, and yes. But why? Why does engaging in pointless conflict make us feel better?

It's true. I've never booed a goose. Not once. Definitely too scary. :-)

The user mentioned was not impartial, just mostly not hysterical. He lost it a time or two, just not routinely.

Hmm....

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He wasn't impartial, he definitely had a perspective. He was just less hysterical than the rest of us.

I saw only one member of that thread that seemed actually sincerely invested in the topic itself, due to his personal real world relationships with so...

Ok, that seems a reasonable theory. It's complex for sure. To counter, why do we so often deliberately seek out the experience of being driven crazy?

I hear what you're saying, some truth to it, but I just ain't going there. Doing so might interfere with my typoholic addiction. If this is unclear, o...

I'm not sure exactly the degree to which I suffer from conflict addiction. Maybe I'm just a typoholic?

I've inhabited both the blue collar and white collar worlds. Appearance is much more important in the white collar world. I'm using that word broadly ...

More likely Blowhardism. :-)

Ok, I can vote for this. I'm obsessed with the notion of a single unified reality (with apparent divisions being a distortion generated by how our min...

That's a good question, thanks. Yes, what makes political topics so much more prone to testosterone hysteria? Don't have a ready answer... Like oursel...

Ha, ha! Sir Foghorn applauds the eloquent artistry of your post Sir Crank! And there's likely some truth to it. What kind of trouble might I get sucke...