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Uh oh, flaming. I am not the owner or a moderator, although I have a pretty good understanding from a moderator's perspective, having been one myself ...

You're welcome, although your judgement on wisdom is less so. Touché. :grin:

That's a different meaning to what I meant. Obviously.

No, you don't have to assume that. That's being lazy and immoral. The alternative would be to do what's right and check properly, and it would be a bo...

You must have made that point about a hundred times now. Stop spamming.

I went on to explain the point. Well yes, obviously according to me, but obviously not just according to me. That is a clear example of wishful thinki...

No, it is an example of belief, but not all belief is like that. That particular kind of belief is belief based on wishful thinking. It is unreasonabl...

Oh God. But that just sounds very much like you're believing what you want to believe. The belief isn't reasonable, but it serves a purpose. It comfor...

Don't you agree that it's immoral to sit back and let someone else do that work, when it is your responsibility? Don't you think that it's immoral to ...

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The only problem is that you don't know there is one. You stubbornly cling to arguments previously shown to be faulty, and you want to act like an amn...

No, they're a good example of the exact opposite. Lying through your teeth, being fake, telling them what they want to hear, acting all pleasant, tigh...

Bullseye! :grin:

Haha. Alright, calm down, bruv. There's no need to shout. I probably got you mixed up with Devans99 because you both have light green avatars and ince...

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Ah sweet, you created another discussion about me. Or so says my ego. Yes, it can be a type of ad hominem or some other fallacy of irrelevance. But, n...

Sounds like it's Christianity as interpreted by an atheist with attachment issues.

If that's what you're calling enlightenment, given the full context of what I said (you quoted out of context), then I would much rather be unenlighte...

Well, I'm sure you don't mean to do so...

Okay, so long as we both acknowledge that a working assumption is not a justification. I will check out your argument when I have time. I'm about to s...

Hitchen's razor. You have yet to justify your starting point.

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You can't build on thin air.

I wouldn't predict any, because I don't have to, and because I am more sensible than that. I would say that a 50/50 result would most likely be closes...

Okay. And what's your argument for that? The last time we got this far, you refused to present one.

Ah, okay, so you've changed your stance. You've scrapped the 50/50 thing. :up: (By the way, I would strongly warn you against spamming the forum. If y...

Prévisible.

The fly doesn't need your sympathy, this is a cause for celebration. It has been liberated. Fly away, dear fly, fly away. Up, up, and away. Until I sh...

So we'll always need teachers and philosophers. Perhaps philosophy is useful after all, although it is a Monday, so I'll have to wait until tomorrow u...

It's a considerably better definition than knowledge as certainty, because under that definition we would know next to nothing, yet we know so much. W...

Is it the relationship between green eggs and ham?

That's a duplicate post. Is your circuit board overheating? Do we need to send you away for repair?

What are you talking about? We all need Aristotle, otherwise how can any of us ever know anything about happiness? Someone ought to act to rectify thi...

You are in no position to talk to me about wisdom when you deliberately miss the point like that and take a cheap shot instead. Go on then, you can sc...

Would you two kindly stop talking about me?

:rofl: Dr. Seuss utterly failed to distinguish between green eggs and the reporting of green eggs. Green eggs are distinct to and/or from that which i...

On the bright side, at least he has stopped going on about thought/belief, existential dependence, and that which is prior to language. I can now take...

You're both kind of right. But Terrapin wins in my assessment of this exchange. It does seem obvious, and calling it bullshit will likely seem agreeab...

It's a type of jellyfish.

Of course I know. I'm the Buddha.

When were you knighted? I must have missed that. I was probably off my tits on drugs or engaging in mental masturbation.

Of course it is. I'm the doctor.

Except you did, you just move the goalposts. Everything I listed was an example of a recreational experience. You questioned the "need" for recreation...

Haha. Right. Their lives are going so great and well that they have no "need" (it's about desire, not necessity!) for skiing or bowling or going to th...

Just don't wallow too much or too deeply. Don't wallow in excess. Find your balance. Or, fuck it, do whatever, because fuck it. The philosophy of fuck...

Yes. I don't see any supposed circularity.

I didn't tell you that drugs aren't bad. I've never told you that. I wouldn't say something so simplistic and misleading. And the potential utility is...

So then presumably you accept that you not getting any good out of it, and drugs being a dead end for you, is not necessarily true of others, in line ...