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I think I can conceive of such an experience and might well have had it, but I just reach a different conclusion. And no, unlike some people, I certai...

None of what I mentioned was in what you said, and if you think otherwise, then you need to be a lot clearer and more explicit. What?? I don't know wh...

How do you know that? What do you count as religious phenomena, and what religious phenomena were there around the time of the earliest known humans s...

So, anecdotal evidence coupled with the fallacies of appealing to the masses and appealing to tradition.

And how many testimonies of ghosts and fairies and Big Foot and extraterrestrials and the Lock Ness Monster and lizard people and the illuminati and m...

You didn't mention an eternal being, a creator, the omni-attributes, the trinity, oneness... I find that odd for someone who claims to be 100% Christi...

Yes, these things are possible, as evidenced by people who have gained that amount of money and by people who have become like Arnold Schwarzenegger. ...

It's not the belief that's the problem, it's how you wear it. It's the pretence and the equivocation. It's like if I claimed to be a Communist, and th...

Why must you keep mistaking my input or criticism of what you're talking about for a misunderstanding of what you're talking about? In the last paragr...

£100,001? And a packet of Fruit Pastilles!

£100,000. :D

Okay, then please give a clear example of what you meant with regards to toddlers transcendening language. What I meant by lacking linguistic ability ...

It's one of the initial ideas of the British Empiricists.

The tabula rasa is an idea more commonly associated with John Locke.

I expect not to find what's not there. Didn't I make that clear? How about we make a deal? If you work real hard at getting in touch with Big Foot, th...

You can't find what's not there, no matter how much you want it. I really want to find £100,000 cash underneath my sofa, but wanting it won't make it ...

How is American Pie relevant to the topic? This is a discussion about atheism, is it not? What's the connection? Perhaps you're the kind of person tha...

No, you STOP! And READ MORE CAREFULLY! :D I made an important qualification by using the word "necessarily", which allowed for such possibilities. If ...

I'm after a specific example that is relevant to the topic which you think illustrates what you were talking about in that part of your original comme...

I know that it was about that, but that in no way makes it any less vague. For example, in the part that I quoted, you vaguely referred to an expressi...

Well, let's lose the "if". Can they or can't they? Can you? Because it wasn't clear to me from your original comment what you were suggesting. Like Ag...

I don't think he'd put it quite so simply. I was watching him talk about this just the other day, and he was very careful with his wording.

You shouldn't be too hard on them, given what they're up against. It's not untypical for a believer to reason fallaciously in an attempt to support th...

The obvious thing to do would be to get the person to tell us of this supposed truth which is "pointed at" by X, and demonstrate how the one does inde...

When it comes to questions such as whether or not God created the world in this way or that, then the obvious question which ought to precede it is wh...

Yes. Or, the annoyance could be at the tendency of those who do philosophy to lose sight of common sense and overlook conventional wisdom, evidenced b...

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My previous cat when he was just a kitten: /uploads/resized/files/eb/y7d5txzvwn5dr3bk.jpg

Cute! Love that big nose. :D

She's currently occupied by a daddy longlegs that has flown in through the window.

A few photos I just took: /uploads/resized/files/zi/oqb7muazdw1p5j5a.jpg /uploads/resized/files/9r/wk20ilo6qk1r2tjl.jpg

Your cat looks quite like my cat, but not as adorable.

Hume, Camus, Dawkins, and Hitchens (to name those I know more about) have all made good points on this topic, and my thinking on the topic is a combin...

I couldn't get that far as I found the first couple of episodes unbearably bad. The worst part is the lame observational stand-up comedy at the end.

Come to think of it, one of the worst comedies I think I've ever seen was quite recent, and it was Seinfeld. What a steaming pile of shit that was. Bu...

No he wasn't. He was as shit as Jim Carey, Steve Martin, Rick Mayall in things like Bottom and Drop Dead Fred, Rowen Atkinson in things like Mr. Bean....

Yes, I agree.

Ah. I stopped watching it partway through last night, so the reference went over my head. He had a good opening statement. I liked how, when they were...

It is a matter of what you expect me to believe. Presumably, you expect me to believe what you're saying - and what you're saying has implications. Yo...

You should watch it, it's quite entertaining. There were some funny moments - particularly in the middle of the interview and near the end - when Andr...

Yes, and, believe it or not, some people are capable of looking past that kind of thing. Right. So you expect me to believe the two can be isolated ju...

Yes. Children learn that anger is an emotion, as well as the key differences between actions and feelings, from a young age.

You're simply wrong on that one. I've explained how my criticism is constructive, and I can explain why your reply above is not. Criticism doesn't hav...

Your first, second and third options each form part of my answer. And there is an obvious, widely understood meaning to the word "anger" and many othe...

Tim Farron was awful in the Andrew Neil interview.

That was a good one. :D

For the many, not the few. Jez we can! Jez we can! Jez we can! Sorry, just had to let that out.

Life is neither a pain in the ass nor a breeze in the park, it's a bit of both.

I did wonder, as I remember you saying that, but I wouldn't put it past you. :D

No, and fortunately the vast majority of us recognise that.