To say "Language is no good" is gibberish as language has, by that statement, been blackballed by the skeptic (sawing off branches one sits on, suicid...
From an intelligent design, à la William Paley's clock, perspective what can something do that nothing can't? From all the data we've collected, from ...
In one video the late Randi makes an interesting remark. He says that one self-proclaimed psychic's hit rates were no better than chance. To llustrate...
When there's disagreement, it's best to err on the side of caution. A simple example should get the point across. If you're unsure whether the rustlin...
While Feynman's comment suggests any theory/idea based on Quantum Mechanics is a case of obscurum per obscuris, I find it quite fascinating that anyon...
The issue boils down to a simple fact: people want tools that can enhance (their abilities) and not replace (them entirely). It's the difference betwe...
:up: Question: Is everything funny? If there's such a thing as black humor (one can make a joke about children dying of starvation and disease) and th...
Excelente! That's a plausible explanation for the Buddha's Noble Silence and yet, despite his unwillingness to do so, he had to turn the Dharma Chakra...
My guess would be that it's a bit of both. There's a moral instinct in every species; I say this because cannibalism isn't exactly popular in the anim...
Well true, communication, despite my, what is to me an interesting, argument (not in any way to be construed as tooting my own horn), seems to work. H...
We need to study :zip: There are many possibilities to consider; as a novice skeptic, I believe one needs to explore the possibility space on every is...
I detect a fallacy in Randi's Challenge. The late Randi's position 1. Psychic P's powers are inexplicable by science \to P's a true psychic. A psychic...
Superb! Rituals, looks like, hold a personal meaning - it usually involves a meme-plex that imbues it with significance that's usually an accompanimen...
How do we make sense of this apparent contradiction? Is it a question of ethics, being pragmatic, calling it as you see it, being honest, perhaps genn...
We'll need to work on it mon ami! Clearly anatta translates in English as no self. Do you think this is a mistransaltion of a more nuanced concept of ...
Looks like a neo-Luddite is simply opposed to technology, the reason for doing so is irrelevant although having a good one would make the movement tha...
My argument speaks for itself, no? The agreement we sometimes encounter has to be a fluke e.g. when we accidentally see the same meaning in words. As ...
Please reread my post. The "difference" you said we'll notice is, to my reckoning, covered by inconsistency/consistency, something I said would be one...
Is my red the same as your red? We can never know, oui? Of course, if my red is A and your red is B in a consistent way i.e. when we see red, I always...
All this Sturm und Drang about mind-body dualism, if that is what we're talking about, in my humble opinion, can be chalked up to a simple fact: We mu...
Idealism & solipsism together is a chicken-and-egg situation. Everything depends on the mind to exist + I alone exist. This raises the following conun...
Not that I'm a psychologist, but methinks the brain blocks out the pain & evil in the world, locks it all up in a special place, deep in our subconsci...
Too bad, eh? Many great thinkers were of ambiguous gender/sex. I just read the Wikipedia entry on Joan D'Arc, patron saint of France; she had to cross...
An interesting tale of a medical blunder! Mirrors how trans men feel and how they experience life, but I'm sure all we need to do is swap sex and gend...
So, in short, there doesn't seem to be a pattern except what, after reading you, seems to be the misleading one viz. men liking men and women liking w...
Those solutions are true for parabolas and yet the line this object traces is a straight line. Can you explain? Please. P. S. I fear I've forgotten th...
A man, last I checked, is a set of physical (strong) and mental (dominating) attributes. I've simplified the attributes as they don't seem to matter t...
The brain is very complex mon ami! Don't, no, not even for a single moment, assume you know what's going on. Plus, you've committed the divine fallacy...
The Real Meaning of the Gospels: Don't mess with the Romans! :snicker: Jokes aside, people seem to have converged on one word as the nub of Christiani...
Perhaps the notion of sacredness precedes that of god. The former makes sense even without the latter. What do you make of the comedians' stance that ...
Yet, in line with the Buddha's thoughts, we're all alone. The relations we build are, some say, fragile to the point of being mere illusions (the imag...
As @"javi2541997" seems to be aware of, pantheism is probably a both selection - get the best of both worlds - by merging God with the universe. Throu...
:rofl: To be fair she could've been talking about our interplanetary ambitions, moon landing and all that jazz. Frankly speaking, she has a point - al...
To me monogamy is about division of responsibility. If it so happens that one person can take care of many, polygamy, polyandry will find a social nic...
Why? Well, given how math is supposedly an axiomatized system, there can be no issues with the conclusions that follow among which number the irration...
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