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I was once misdiagnosed with asthma. I now think that it was more likely a panic attack, although I'm not an expert. Also, turns out I'm an owl. I don...
July 28, 2017 at 12:22
I don't know about that. To establish that I'll first have to conduct a few tests. Meet me at the stairs. Bring your children. (Too far? >:O )
July 28, 2017 at 12:07
Yes, I think so. The rest of what you say in the reply partly quoted above is much less controversial and disagreeable. I am similarly sceptical - who...
July 28, 2017 at 12:01
But you've changed your tune quite a bit now. Urging caution is quite different from the inflammatory language you used at first. Compare "All doctors...
July 28, 2017 at 11:51
Oh, so just more anecdotal evidence from yourself. You know, having a few bad experiences can make one biased.
July 28, 2017 at 11:49
I followed the link, and I don't see where it supposedly shows that one of the "best" doctors, or that those at the very top, or even that any doctors...
July 28, 2017 at 11:37
It would be if it was a deductive argument. Of course. As it's you, I'd expect you to judge them. Just don't expect me to believe your little anecdote...
July 28, 2017 at 11:19
I rest my case. :D
July 28, 2017 at 11:13
Are you a doctor?
July 28, 2017 at 11:09
How do we know whether any of these thoughts are random?
July 28, 2017 at 11:04
Smoke weed. Become a cliff.
July 28, 2017 at 10:59
Agustino knows better than the expert, yet again. Who needs an expert when you've got an Agustino?
July 28, 2017 at 10:57
I have actually. Several times now I have referred to the dictionary definition and specifically to various other statements of yours, and I explained...
July 27, 2017 at 15:01
The way that I use "atheism" is as per that dictionary definition, so what the heck are you talking about?
July 26, 2017 at 21:23
Clearly you're going to carry on insisting that that's what you've said all along, even though you evidently have not. That means that you're being un...
July 26, 2017 at 21:22
That's funny. It was actually Lone Wolf who provided that definition, and it came from a dictionary. It isn't "wrong". I find it acceptable, and I don...
July 26, 2017 at 21:17
No, not at all. I don't really care about agnosticism. Define it how you like. The focus here is on atheism. Primarily, I self-identify as an atheist....
July 26, 2017 at 21:13
Yes, I suppose it might seem that way to someone less perceptive, but that's their problem, not mine. You're basically just echoing my own point back ...
July 26, 2017 at 20:58
No, you haven't been saying that all along. The evidence is right here in this discussion for anyone to see. I'll charitably grant that that might be ...
July 26, 2017 at 19:22
I don't have a trunk. I'm not an elephant or a tree.
July 26, 2017 at 18:16
Average in East Beleriand, Middle Earth, in the First Age. Ah yes, my apologies, I remember now. I denied it by saying "Yes... that's what I was telli...
July 26, 2017 at 17:31
Pedantry. I meant the typical or average person. I don't think it necessary to go into specifics. No, they're circular definitions. An atheist, as I t...
July 26, 2017 at 13:44
American English is the historical equivalent of trying to sound like a hip 5 year old.
July 26, 2017 at 01:02
Oh gosh, you've caught me out. How quick you are. And there was I thinking that'd I'd done that intentionally for comedic effect. A bit of the old Bri...
July 26, 2017 at 00:50
More like a pup. A lone pup, surrounded by other lone pups, feebly crawling around and bumping into things, whilst an owl looks down on them, perched ...
July 25, 2017 at 20:37
Truck? I think you mean trunk. Trunk? I think you mean boot.
July 25, 2017 at 20:08
Half-kidding. I was pointing out the mismatch between: 1. All men are fools 2. All fools are men & 1. All humans kill for sport. 2. Only humans kill f...
July 25, 2017 at 19:58
Well, I could try to explain it to you, but an inferior being such as yourself couldn't possibly understand. No, atheism in general is a rejection of ...
July 25, 2017 at 19:42
Congratulations. You've passed the test. X-) Well, if you look at the table, you should be able to see that the latter is simply not there. You could ...
July 25, 2017 at 19:24
That you and I exist is proof that a superior being does exist. (I am that superior being). No, not atheism, atheism of the strongest sort. Just as th...
July 25, 2017 at 19:05
Yes, I know. Yes, but they are just unknown possibilities, so why should I care? The opposite could be true for all we know. We must decide based on t...
July 25, 2017 at 18:45
Why aren't you quoting in the proper way? I find that annoying. You at least know how to use quotation marks, as you've just demonstrated.
July 25, 2017 at 18:18
What makes something beautiful is a bit of a mystery, but that beauty is in the eye of the beholder is not the right answer - that's just a related in...
July 25, 2017 at 17:37
No, it does not explicitly state that, and it does not logically follow that women can't be fools. Look again. It states that all fools are men, from ...
July 25, 2017 at 16:53
Your opening post reminds me of the Emperor's new clothes. Ordinary clothes are relatively weak, so what we need is some powerful new clothes which do...
July 25, 2017 at 15:59
I did reply. I dispute that statement 2 is about all men, and I've been consistent in that regard. It's about all fools, not all men. You're taking ad...
July 24, 2017 at 21:52
I get that to some extent, but when it comes to secondary literature, some is more impartial and some is less so. Some books approach it with an angle...
July 24, 2017 at 20:51
I disagree with that part about having to read a majority of a work before considering it significant. What do you think my motive is for continuing t...
July 24, 2017 at 20:40
Your opinion isn't worth that much to me. It's not a competition, and I don't need to prove myself to you or to anyone. Think what you want. I know wh...
July 24, 2017 at 20:11
Yes, that's not so absurd. I've never read the Bible either, yet funnily enough I know quite a bit about it. I've attempted it a couple of times from ...
July 24, 2017 at 20:03
You can trust me, I'm an owl.
July 23, 2017 at 23:49
No, I didn't have twins, I had two offspring produced by the same pregnancy. I'll tell you one by one if you form an orderly queue on the cliff edge.
July 23, 2017 at 23:34
You know, 4 was the name of my first child. My other first child, that is. My first first child wasn't too pleased about my other first child. They ne...
July 23, 2017 at 23:18
Yes, that's chapter 7: commodity fetishism and ideology. And I think that that's probably covered by the chapter on value. It's coming back to me a bi...
July 23, 2017 at 22:36
Yeah, the book I referred to probably makes it a lot easier to grasp the ideas. Each chapter is based on them: commodity, the exchange of commodities,...
July 23, 2017 at 22:25
A book of such significance, but I have yet to go anywhere near it directly, and have decided instead to approach it indirectly through secondary lite...
July 23, 2017 at 22:12
For me, it'd have to be below Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. They're the top three. Oh, and Human, All Too Human - how...
July 23, 2017 at 21:43
It is.
July 23, 2017 at 21:36
Oh, is he now? Saving the US economy? I haven't really been following. Interesting. How exactly? By implementing the plan that would add trillions of ...
July 23, 2017 at 19:19
Right. He's a knight in shining armour, and he's on a noble quest to eradicate fake news by producing so much of it that it'll make your head spin. An...
July 23, 2017 at 18:59