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And that is, in itself, meaningless unless you have a better alternative system, which you do not.

Your question actually makes no sense. You ask, before a religion came about, did that religion have a God. But obviously there was no such religion. ...

No, as a matter of fact, the exact opposite is true. You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. There's hardly a better example making the case for doxa...

I disagree. I would think it is any language one does not understand. In which case the paradigm speaker of gobbledygook is the parrot.

By writing more like me and less like someone like @"Mww". Except when I'm doing a parody of someone like @"Mww". Famous masters of the arts of gobble...

I for one would never dream of doing that, because apricot.

But what the chair means in general, when analysed, is found to require a specific set of circumstances, otherwise it wouldn't mean what it does at al...

Hmm... :chin: Needs more chair.

Yes, the implied circumstance. Did you think he was just saying what he said in absolute terms, context free? :brow: No. By applying the principle of ...

When Heidegger was thrown into the world, I think he must have hit his head.

Right, so we should both stop complaining and do something about it. Thanks for inadvertently bringing me back to reality. Only I can't really do anyt...

He'll never take my crown. :lol:

No, I'll respond if I feel like it.

That you're even addressing it as "an assumption" is telling. So, I haven't really thought it through, and you're full of valuable insight with the po...

Yeah, well, seeing the same old shit over and again can sort of make that happen. Sorry, but you've long since worn away most of my patience.

You interpreted it a bit differently? No shit.

Idiots and psychopaths? Yeah right. It's just a common reproach to people who complain too much instead of trying to help themselves.

You posted this on a public forum, with an audience, knowingly. Who else are you complaining to, if not to us? Yourself?

Images of people standing in a circle with angry faces and torches... from the word "us"? You're always so full of skewed hyperbole. It's a joke.

Where are you getting that information from? It's false. The Director-General of the BBC is appointed by the BBC Board, not the Secretary of State for...

Ok. It's just that it seemed as though you were suggesting something more than that: perhaps that I should be more sceptical about the casino thing. N...

That's simply not true, it's merely biased speculation on your part. It's illogical to jump from the fact that a transgender woman - or someone who ha...

The level of my scepticism depends on the source. I can't remember where I heard the casino thing, to be honest. Why? Do you dispute it? Do you have a...

I'm not blaming you for the fact that I don't care enough to explore in depth the business career of Donald Trump. But it is your fault if you're not ...

Well, that makes no sense, unless you disregard the implied circumstance he had in mind and insert your own, but then your criticism wouldn't apply to...

He is.

First off, I notice that you quoted me out of context. But yes it is (if expressed), and yes they are. Doesn't even matter. Like I said, the original ...

You expressed yourself just fine, and far from coming across as defensive, you conceded too readily in my opinion. Those who are jumping in to critici...

Nothing, and I take that to be a true analogy, given the implicit context of what you're saying about correct meaning. But why would it even be a prob...

So what? There's nothing wrong with that. As you said to me last night, that's your problem. It isn't a problem for the rest of us. The rest of us do ...

Or that it's the correct meaning in the appropriate circumstance, that being the typical circumstance of referring to the familiar item of furniture w...

And I'd take issue with your interpretation of what he meant. I don't think that he meant that it's the only one in current use at all. I think he mea...

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Goofy kludges. Interesting choice of words. I like it. :grin:

I wish.

This looks like it would be good to watch on acid.

I don't care whether it was rhetorical. I answered it anyway, because I'm bored. And I never suggested that you have any obligation to cater to me. Th...

Pah! Then why even ask me that in the first place? I don't care whether you actually take on board my suggestions, but you asked me what you're suppos...

Well, obviously, I would suggest a different approach, for starters. I think that any account of ethics which is so radical as to be unreflective of h...

And I of course see that as a problem in itself, in addition to all of your other problems.

Yes, and look where that's gotten you: a position that is counterintuitive. A position that myself and others find unacceptable. An implausible minori...

I'm saying that that's a sensible starting place, so my understanding of ethics takes into consideration norms.

No, certainly not, as I'm from a modern, secular, liberal nation, not a draconian, religious, authoritarian nation, and that's exactly how it should b...

Because that's just how ethics functions. Neither of us are extraterrestrials recently landed on this planet. We both know what ethical discourse look...

And you're mistaken about that, as well. Your personal impression of what seems to be my motivate in that regard is entirely irrelevant. And let's be ...

Fine, don't agree, but you've been shown extensively and definitively to be wrong on that point.

Which is an extreme position which I, along with the vast majority, would reject. But whether you talk about it as an utterance or as a behaviour (it'...

What next? Tables?

Didn't he create us, in his own image no less? Or... which God are you even talking about? The made up one, right? Ah, but which made up one? Your own...