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You must not have read what I said about what the evidence was for, or you just thought that it would be entertaining to attack a straw man. Perhaps y...

The absence of evidence in favour of the existence of God is absence of evidence in favour of reasonable grounds for belief, and that is evidence for ...

I still do not understood. What are "feelings"?

I do not understood? :chin:

Does not compute.

Understood, my lady.

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My atheist church is known colloquially as the pub. Instead of the body and blood of Christ, they have beer and crisps. Actually, come to think of it,...

That's right. He's NOT a theist. He's a WEAK ATHEIST.

Don't mind him. He wants to draw a false equivalence and pretend that it's 50/50. If he bothers you, you should call him an atheist or challenge his a...

Sorry, all I could concentrate on was the word "crack", and I found myself overcome by an insatiable desire for it, so I ran and grabbed my Bible, and...

There's too much good cheer in here. Can you guys keep the noise down? Some of us are trying to lovingly gaze at their own reflection in a puddle. But...

Thanks, I needed a good laugh. High vibrational energy to everything and everyone, all the time! :victory:

This is an even bigger aside, but I once wrote a post so long that I would fall asleep whilst writing it, and I would continue to write it whilst I wa...

That is probably not an intolerance for ambiguity, but is probably an intolerance for asking for a definition, because it is very annoying when people...

And all that is to say that he doesn't actually offer up an argument in support of his claim which contradicts that of Hume. Not even yet another regu...

If you're having obsession problems I feel bad for you, son. I got 99 problems but a Devans ain't one.

Talking to you is like talking to a brick wall.

How do you know that there can be no explanation, given that your answer only works if we abide by your narrow interpretation, which we needn't do? Th...

It's not right to say that there can't be an explanation for why things are as they are, in the sense that there's something rather than nothing, just...

It can be interpreted in a number of ways. I just gave you a plausible alternative interpretation where "reason" means "explanation".

Well that's dumb, because there is if you go by a different interpretation.

All that really says is: "So the answer to ‘why is there something rather than nothing?’ is ‘no reason’, so long as you abide by my very narrow interp...

Well you didn't. I understand what you're doing. You just affirmed my analysis. The problem is that what you mean isn't always or necessarily what oth...

Exactly, that was my analysis. Now address the problem I raised.

You mean cause.

So you basically conflate "cause" and "reason"? The problem is that it still seems to make sense to ask why there is something rather than nothing if ...

Are we supposed to be talking about actual do-gooders or just 'do-gooders': those who get mislabeled as such? There's the same problem here as in the ...

Yes they will, because look, what's that over there?

A generator. When Maybot is leaning on it, she's recharging. It sits next to the plans to retake the colonies.

:grin: With steel-capped boots! :grin::up: Agreed. But you better not make me any more sceptical than I already am! I'm trying to build something, lol...

:scream: I'm slightly less aghast. But only slightly. Ah, okay. I get that. :scream: No, that's perfectly fine, in a sense. It is just that it is fund...

I've argued that that's trivial in a strict sense, not generally speaking. I see it as trivial because we could agree or disagree over what we ought t...

That book I referenced earlier, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans And The Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.

First of all, thank you for engaging. :up: I think that there's a massive problem with logical relevance here. The first part of what you say, that "w...

Dude, you don't even need to be getting into details like that, and I think that it's counterproductive. What that does is to play into his hand by sh...

That doesn't even begin to engage the challenge. Meta-ethics isn't about asserting normative judgements or the normative framework you use. And proper...

No, no, no. That's impossible. He's a genius. It is Hume and the rest of Western philosophy who is wrong. They have utterly and miserably failed to di...

Yeah, it's gone down hill, unfortunately. I think this is actually far worse than when we were getting frustrated with people who were presenting crit...

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I get very angry over false accusations regarding the things I care a lot about. I don't think I've ever resorted to such extreme flaming in my ten ye...

What an offensive and idiotic thing to say. It was emotional whether she's a she or he. I'm not going to withhold that assessment just because she hap...

It's definitely an extremely important issue, and it definitely seems to have been neglected. It's only a risk at this stage, although that in itself ...

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It's definitely a pattern. It's like your thinking changes with your mood, @"ArguingWAristotleTiff". I much prefer the sympathetic Tiff to the angry r...

This objection is a slight variation in wording from your earlier objection, and it has been dealt with. But I will generously remind you of the answe...

Yes, I agree that that would have been a considerably better response: bite the bullet, stick to your guns. That's better than handwaving and ignoring...

I consider it a very minor difference, if it is even a real difference at all, whether we say erroneous appeal to the masses or fallacious appeal to t...

It was clear to me from the start that Janus would put forward a position with more going for it than that of Tim, creativesoul, or Rank Amateur. I th...