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I could use the earlier example of the topic of the strengths and weaknesses of faith, as opposed to asking what faith is. That's at least better phil...

I think it's good to start with what we know. So, instead of asking, "What is faith?", first consider that we already bloody know.

Anyway, just to clarify, I'm not railing against philosophy: just a certain side to it, or a certain approach to it. I'm not saying, "Don't question",...

I offer you my condolences.

I ate words wot make ya sand impressive.

It's a bloody good book, that. One of the best.

You don't watch Vikings? :gasp:

Kookaburra.

You say that it's always deeper than you think, but I disagree. I don't think that it's right to rule out exceptions. What if, in some particular case...

Oh. It's just that it looked to me like you were trying to turn the tables and make it about me.

Your original version, from the little I saw of it through my notification, was more interesting. Shame you deleted it.

How could you know that every question already has an answer? Not sure I understand. I understand the asking of a question like, "What are the strengt...

Interested in agreement or disagreement, and why. You appear to have mistaken a question for an assertion, and you haven't attempted to answer it, or ...

It's called disillusionment.

I have some interest in finding things out, but I lack interest in allowing you to set the agenda if that's the best you can come up with. More specif...

I could give an example of each. What does that suggest?

There's, "What am I assuming?", and, "What do I know?". What are you assuming?

I haven't claimed or implied that all questions of the form, "What is X", are not worth asking. What assumption do you think I'm making about reality?...

By snapping out of a state which clouds your vision. I do try to shake some sense into those who seem to be lost and struggling to find their way back...

Oh there's a reality, alright. But in a forum designed for raising questions with very few restrictions on what kind of questions can be raised, it's ...

Too easy. I prefer a less orthodox approach when asked a question which suggests something I find peculiar and hard to believe. Not one for a challeng...

Hmm... when was it that I purchased a subscription to this forum? :chin: :lol:

I am being serial. :sad:

https://youtu.be/U1mlCPMYtPk

Yeah, "creating a more peaceful world", pffft! What we need is war. Trade war, cold war, nuclear war... war! Now that he's hired John Bolton, hopefull...

Please clap. https://youtu.be/DdCYMvaUcrA

Riiight...

It's Banno's discussion, so I was going by his definition, which is also the one that Sam26 mentioned: a statement which can be true or false.

Doubtful. This part in particular seems of greater relevance to Trump supporters: Example, climate change denial.

God bless Australia.

The meaning, rather than the proposition. What we both believe can be expressed or represented with a proposition, but is not the proposition itself.

A cognitive action, and depends what you mean by "object of belief".

And I responded by indicating to you what my stance is, enabling you to answer that question yourself. Since you refuse to do so, my conclusion is tha...

Hey, you're the one who jumped on my partly tongue-in-cheek comment that I purposefully posted here in the Shoutbox. I didn't ask you why the topic wa...

Drawing attention to what has been left implicit is not the same thing as exposing a large hole.

Probably not, knowingly. But that's only because I think about ugly black cats differently, and because, in any case, I don't think that I'd like the ...

That's a good example of why issues like this are not just about morality, but significance, which is relative, in a sense. Moral error or not, I woul...

Anyway, on to the main topic, which I'll address by way of the quote above. I agree with the gist of that - in short, that it's not problematic - but ...

Ah, poor things. Glad you stopped. I'd much rather have groundhogs coming and going in my garden than a pristine garden.

Is smoking just a habit? It actually can be accurately described in such lesser terms as more of a habit or an inclination for me, but I think that I'...

:grin:

I once adopted a little boy called Baden, but social services took him away from me because I used to push him down the stairs for fun.

Finally. Someone who gets it. :grin:

Gasp! Fake news! I knew it was too good to be true.

Rhamphorhynchoidea. @"T Clark", your turn.

Okay, then why don't you start by telling me how your understanding differs from the norm, instead of dragging this out?

It's quite simple, really. The charade is that you were ever truly ignorant, to any significant degree, of my meaning to begin with; and that, even af...

Am I to take that as a tacit admission that you're not up to the task? Or a signal that you wish to carry on the charade? If I'm avoiding giving you a...

I am the embodiment of wisdom. Then you think wrong. Not really. You just noted that words have several meanings, and you told me that you'd like to k...

I'll be the judge of that. Why make it personal? What's wrong with an impersonal answer derived from the standard meaning that you can find in a dicti...