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Right, that's the last straw. In protest, this will be the last comment I ever make. Not just on the forum, but outside of the forum as well. Which me...

At least for the man on the street. But the man on the street probably isn't as philosophical as we are. Nevertheless, in practice, yes, I doubt we're...

If Searle said "Jump of a cliff"... So the man on the street believes that the pineal gland is the principal seat of the soul? And that material objec...

Some combo of the two. There certainly seems to be idea-like stuff and material-like stuff, and I would say that that's a common sense metaphysical vi...

Then, can you be more specific? I suppose I could describe it in a number of ways, but where to begin?

Eh? That's not very specific. If you want me to categorise it as either monist, dualist or pluralist, then I won't do that as I'm undecided. I would d...

Maybe. But common sense saying that ideas and physical stuff is real doesn't go far enough to imply dualism.

Realistic. To be dualistic, like aletheist said, you'd have to consider them to be fundamentally different and, in some ways, mutually exclusive.

I object to what you seem to be insinuating there. In my role as a moderator, I don't defend anything that I don't agree with. I defended Baden's acti...

All of those and more. It was misleasing, outrageous, and disgraceful. And, given that he seemed to willfully ignore the criticism of what he was doin...

What he did was more serious than silliness. You should use a more suitable term.

You can't even get his name right. You keep calling him Emptyheaded, but his name was Emptyheady.

In what sense? I'm not sure what you're asking. Bit vague.

Yes. I tend to behave as though our common sense beliefs are true, and my metaphysics largely coincides with our common sense beliefs: the world exist...

That might be what you would have done. That might be your preferred course of action. But you are not a moderator or an administrator. Again, see the...

See the guidelines. The guidelines are just guidelines, meaning we have some leeway. He cherry picked statistics and used them in a misleading and out...

That's fine with me. What he did was wrong and was grounds for being banned. Like it says in the guidelines: He flew too close to the sun.

No, that wasn't the point of your original argument, since there is no mention at all of "physical" in this argument. Colours, shapes, smells and soun...

I didn't ban him, Baden did. And I doubt that any member of the site staff would say that that's an impossibility. So yes, perhaps (in my sense, not y...

It is used to express uncertainty or possibility, but perhaps he meant it in the way you describe.

No, he said "perhaps". :-}

Most employers have a zero tolerance approach to racism. I reckon if higher ups found out about that, he could get fired.

Well, with many companies, by working for them, you have to be seen to accept and represent their values, and it is my understanding that extreme view...

Couldn't that get him fired? Inform the company that he is a self-professed national socialist and fascist. Get him fired. Problem solved. X-)

I'll ask God for a selfie, and if he agrees, then I'll share it online.

Ooh, awesome! Exciting, isn't it?

Damn. And he told me on the phone that he only wanted to pop over for a cuppa. There was no mention from him of spanking. Yeah, I don't know why he wa...

Yes, 1930 hours GMT (Green Mandrake Time), 2017-03-03.

All they'd have to do is look inside themselves. It's filed under "P".

GMT.

Then what's the problem? You'll be a millionaire! Stop complaining and start planning. What are going to buy? A yacht? A mansion? A sports car?

Yes, I suppose so, except where staff should step in. Like I said, the readership are important too. They will expect a discussion to relate to the ti...

No. If that's all you meant, then I misunderstood. You asked, "Why not leave the judgement of what is acceptable discussion, to the discretion of that...

Yes, I was aware of that exception. Setting that aside then - all else being equal.

Here's to fruitless threads! /uploads/resized/files/nc/5gkiiq5s1xcdbjua.jpg

In a sense and to some extent, yes. But then, so do you, and so does Benkei. (As well as others. Hopefully I have one too (Who am I kidding? Of course...

He kind of has a point, you know. If you had've ignored his original comment, then it might've stopped there. But you replied, and then he replied, an...

Yeah, I pretty much agree with everything you just said. (And yeah, that was a very big "if"). One point, though, regarding what you've said about eph...

Thorongil likes simple solutions, so here's a simple solution: don't leave it until a moderator comes along and takes moderator action, but instead ta...

In the case of God, it means, for example, that he is able to pop over for a quick cuppa. He couldn't do that if he didn't exist. My expectation is th...

We may well agree, but I have been raising possible objections. Lets assume that I accept that without any objections. So what?

Hmm. You'll have to wait until some time next month, I think - 9:45am, Wednesday 29th, to be precise.

Not if you're a moderator, which he is. A moderator who doesn't read what he doesn't like wouldn't be a very good moderator, since what you don't like...

From a staff perspective, that's just hypothetical. It's down to the staff to make that judgement, notify members, and take any action deemed necessar...

Okay. I understand now, and, going by that definition, I agree. Okay, yes, that makes sense. But my replies were addressed to those who didn't seem to...

@"Michael", contrary to my view in that other discussion, I don't think that a semantic approach gets to the heart of the issue. I'd want to see scien...

Yes, that's how it is normally categorised. I get that. But that definition you gave would not rule out paedophilia, would it? Since it doesn't contai...

Okay, so then, if you identified in that way but exclusively about children, then wouldn't what we call paedophilia count as a sexual orientation (by ...

Well, I'm not really going to dispute that. I'm not going to claim that it's not a paraphillia or that it is a sexual orientation. It would certainly ...

In that sense, I think that they are analogous to homosexuality. If this avoidance is what is meant by control, then sure, that can be done. But when ...