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He's got some nerve to say that, and very little self-awareness. I recall mention of the words "disgusting" and "troll" from him not too far back into...
May 08, 2019 at 11:59
I've said as much a few times previously. He's still not getting the message, it seems.
May 08, 2019 at 11:53
No one here has dismissed Tim's argument out of hand. I disagree with Tim's argument because it's just a semantic confusion. It's counterproductive. I...
May 08, 2019 at 11:42
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How dare you ruin his narrative like that? It's not that it fails under the scientific method, it's that it's a strong cultural taboo which poses a ch...
May 06, 2019 at 16:27
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Yes, that's clearly a problem he has. It's most obvious in how he has replied to you, but he did it with me also, asking me irrelevant questions as th...
May 06, 2019 at 15:39
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Yes, and that sort of approach has wider implications in philosophy. It is deeply immoral, is it not? Intellectual honesty is right up there as a fund...
May 06, 2019 at 12:59
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The bigger problem here is that we are supposed to be a community of intellectuals, yet some people here struggle with something so basic. Philosophy ...
May 06, 2019 at 12:35
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I predicted such a dumbfounded response, so I went back and edited my reply: I literally gave the good reason in the first sentence: there isn't a shr...
May 06, 2019 at 12:29
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You genuinely believe that I did that with no good reason? I literally gave the good reason in the first sentence: there isn't a shred of credible evi...
May 06, 2019 at 12:19
It's their fault for providing me with so much material.
May 06, 2019 at 12:07
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No. I'm going to say this one last time. Do not attempt to paraphrase what I've said, because you are proving too incompetent to do so accurately.
May 06, 2019 at 12:01
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No one has claimed that it's all false. Why are you addressing claims that no one here has made? There's a basic and well-known standard for this. Ext...
May 06, 2019 at 11:56
I'll pass.
May 06, 2019 at 11:46
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Do not ask me loaded questions which do not accurately represent any claim that I have made. If you're too incompetent to accurately represent what I'...
May 06, 2019 at 11:42
:lol: :point:
May 06, 2019 at 11:35
Readable contemporary philosophy from the continental side? Good luck with that.
May 06, 2019 at 11:19
And where exactly does he state in the book that all that really is important is human happiness? What page number?
May 06, 2019 at 10:36
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Rhetorical question.
May 06, 2019 at 10:23
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It certainly looks like spin to me. What is your intent behind mentioning these irrelevancies, though? That's a rhetorical question, because I don't t...
May 06, 2019 at 10:05
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That's certainly not what I meant by due diligence. Which would be, for example, your choice of phrasing. You spin it as though he is a victim of a sc...
May 06, 2019 at 09:51
I said that I doubted your paraphrasing, not that I dislike your opinion, and I wasn't suggesting that you're completely off track. It is an issue of ...
May 06, 2019 at 09:41
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I reject more or less everything you just angrily spurted at me and stand by my prior claims. There is a wealth of scientific evidence that has been a...
May 06, 2019 at 09:30
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"Generally ignored or maligned" - or rightly discredited? To me, that rings of confirmation bias from you. I don't trust your spin, and I don't think ...
May 06, 2019 at 09:24
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Summarise the important parts of the article. Why should it be believed that they're "recalling" previous lives rather than making them up? Oh, okay, ...
May 06, 2019 at 09:22
Yes, I recall that he doesn't rule it out. It is very much still on the table.
May 06, 2019 at 09:11
I'm not going to be proposing any world wide religion or belief system because I strongly disagree with the idea. If all that really matters is happin...
May 06, 2019 at 09:03
Don't you think you're jumping the gun? You haven't explained why he supposedly states that, nor have you quoted from the book. And you seem unjustifi...
May 05, 2019 at 20:24
You don't do discussion, so you have some nerve to lecture others in this regard or to invite them to discuss matters, giving them false hope. Discuss...
May 05, 2019 at 19:18
Ha! That's funny, and it's even funnier that he doesn't see it.
May 05, 2019 at 17:55
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I will just continue to disregard what you mindlessly repeat, occasionally calling you out for it.
May 05, 2019 at 16:26
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It was a point based on a distinction which, if he was more consistent and cared to apply critical thinking skills, he would agree with, but he cares ...
May 05, 2019 at 16:17
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You should have done that to begin with. I don't know why people bother to quote other people if they don't address anything in the quote. It was crys...
May 05, 2019 at 16:06
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There are several obvious things wrong with what you just said. 1. It made no mention of what I was objecting to in the quote, perhaps because you wer...
May 05, 2019 at 15:57
No, only what seems to be little more than fiction on God and related mumbo-jumbo is accessible to everyone, the only real difference being that most ...
May 05, 2019 at 15:42
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Well it fails. It might convince a few idiots, but I'm certainly not one of them. Have a nice day.
May 05, 2019 at 15:32
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No, it's a judgement, but values have nothing to do with it. An example of credible evidence would be the science supporting the claim that Earth isn'...
May 05, 2019 at 15:27
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You think I'm going to just take your word for that? Of course there is such a thing, and establishment is irrelevant except in relation to a demonstr...
May 05, 2019 at 15:21
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Yes, because there isn't a shred of credible evidence in its favour. Only fools take seriously such presumed possibilities. It falls under the same gr...
May 05, 2019 at 11:43
I have. It goes like this. I point out a counterexample, acknowledged by Michael and others. You then dismiss it and ramble about some phantom harm, t...
May 01, 2019 at 22:27
There's that catch 22 again. :lol:
May 01, 2019 at 22:01
Einstein, that is. Just saying.
May 01, 2019 at 21:58
Not getting beaten with a stick.
May 01, 2019 at 21:43
For the record, he said he was wrong. We can close the discussion. Wait! Unless... he was being sarcastic? But I thought he was a serious-minded elite...
May 01, 2019 at 21:35
Not really. So long as you're talking about the same thing, then it doesn't really matter. It only matters if you make it matter, and it just isn't wo...
May 01, 2019 at 21:25
Oh, right. The coffee. Sometimes I forget the coffee. And the cup! That mischievous cup. Always running away from me by staying perfectly stationary i...
May 01, 2019 at 20:16
Duty to what? Or who? Anyway, I speak my mind and take joy in playing with mice. That's just the sort of gadfly I am. A catlike gadfly, I guess. A cat...
May 01, 2019 at 20:07
It's the exact opposite of an aid. It's a problematic assumption, a hindrance. I don't think anyone else sees it that way. You come across as ranting....
May 01, 2019 at 19:48
In the wise words of @"TimeLine": vat?
May 01, 2019 at 19:38
I'm not going to deny that, but I'll say that if you allow yourself to be startled by popped balloons, and if you allow your buttons to be pressed, th...
May 01, 2019 at 19:34
Exactamundo! Fat chance of that happening!
May 01, 2019 at 19:26