Fair enough, A direct answer from me, is a resounding no, religion has no upside. My foundational reason for saying this is consolidated quite well, i...
Based on this: I'm reading Political Philosphy in China, I do support socialism, however I'm skeptical of Marxism. I would find it very interesting to...
I think you have stretched the intended meaning behind this HH quote too far, and the elastic snapped a while ago. Let me be very clear, that I do not...
I combined the two words to express that what seems intuitive to us today is different from what seemed intuitive to folks during the days of Newton a...
Fair enough mu! Woooshhhhh! that is just the sound of some of your points of view, rushing right past me! Would you at least agree that many of your p...
I know @"BC" has already responded to the above sentence, but was this just an unintended claim or are you really saying that you think plants 'decide...
:up: But that's just an argument from classical intuition. Superposition does not contradict reality! Superposition has been experimentally, and there...
Its the 'and its properties change' bit, that I have an issue with. Mass is a property and the mass of an electron is a constant, so it does not chang...
@"Vera Mont" @"Athena" This is a really promising group as well guys: Citizens Network Maybe they would particularly help support the work you do Athe...
:lol: I had to look up 'punim,' but absafragginlootly, what a girl! what a visage! Even today, she is aging well with no attempts at plastic surgery: ...
I have not read Rovelli's books but I have watched his youtube offerings. I think he proposes that each of us, experiences our existence, as a localis...
She has spent most of her life in a celebrity bubble, so her politics are rather right wing. Either that or she just has no sense of politics. This ex...
I have been a fan of the Bush, since my youth and I still am. As a teenager I used to kiss her poster every night. :blush: Relatively recently, I hear...
I am quite willing to accept your words above, in the context you use them, but I don't think it's as significant as you do. Peterson simply redirecte...
What do you think of Carlo Rovelli's proposal that wave function collapse is very localised. The entire waveform does not collapse, only a local secti...
Yeah, I appreciate your interpretation and think that it's one that the theist side would more readily accept than my own interpretation. If you take ...
:lol: :rofl: :lol: Sorry, just a reaction to your measurement of what constitutes 'everyone,' :lol: :rofl: Sure, we can clean it out, remove the woo w...
Well, it was only 17 mins, and was a guy commenting on the clipped exchange between Peterson and Maher. I assume it's the person who is commenting on ...
Thank you for your kind words. My knowledge of cosmology and physics is also quite surface. My quals and experience is mainly in Computing Science. I ...
If you think I am a moron based on what I have recently posted in your shoutbox then you would need to study for the rest of your life to achieve the ...
:lol: Sure, protect your floundering friend, just because you can, rather than because you have any justification for doing so. I will let you and you...
Such comments from you, reveal to me, that my little arrows found their mark. As a teacher, I encountered many a minority of bored pupils. But I found...
Yeah, so you can in fact fool some of the people some of the time and perhaps even some of the people all of the time, but ........ By emphasis of the...
To reduce significantly or preferably, permanently remove, the pernicious affects/influences of religion, imposed on human communities/individual huma...
You are getting mixed up with evanHELLicals and anti-theists. I wear my anti-theist badge proudly and I consider your annoyance with my oft raising of...
:lol: My current exchange here with @"Hanover" and the fact that Matt Dillahunty often exclaims 'no, no, no, no, no,' when he gets particularly annoye...
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You're welcome. I think when the John Sheridan character used it in B5, there was an intended aspect of humour, which does seem 'present' in the term....
Absa fraggin lootly! It's just an emotive merging of 'absolutely' with an emotive 'fraggin' thrown in, to attempt to add a little force of conviction....
You have a god notion that contradicts your critical faculties, you have visited 'fish and chip' shops in Scotland, you constantly post about what you...
I never suggested he in particular was homeless. I merely claimed that you continue to fail to recognise your god, even when it bumps into you. Perhap...
What a shame you didn't recognise your own god, even when it bumped into you in a Scottish chippy. Go visit Kensington in Philadelphia. Those folks wi...
Well, that's at least better than the complete apathy and lack of interest/concern for the plight of others, that many here on the TPF shoutbox, imo, ...
Well, rest assured, I personally, have no 'little Scotlander' persona, other than harmless romantic dalliances/indulgencies. I do advocate for Scottis...
Do you find it difficult to simply state 'I agree with you,' when it comes to me Jamal? Do you feel a need to be hesitant, when faced with such a pred...
I think that's just down to your particular interpretation of what I am posting. Genetic purity is a notion put forward by many 'we arra people!' prop...
Can you influence anything? Can you reason and can that reason manifest in cause and purpose? If you can answer yes to these questions then your life ...
'Hell is other people.' I think it's only other people that can help confirm or refute any impression an individual might have about how 'special' you...
So, I assume then you were referring to culturally distinct. If so, then yes, I agree, that a group of genetic mongrels can develop their own distinct...
I think it's easier to be 100% certain of what is not, rather than what is. From that position, I am 100% sure of many 'is not's.' I am 100% sure that...
Yeah, some individual family lineages may be less diluted than others but so called 'genetic drift,' seems to be very dominant and can only increase a...
@"Jamal" You might enjoy this: https://youtu.be/4XDS957HCIw I think the main conclusion it arrives at, is that the Picts, were as mongrel a grouping a...
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