Thankfully, you are far more isolated in this than you realise. My responses to you on this exchange were not targeted at you. You are already fully c...
I think you constantly attempt to fog and obfuscate the main point I am making regarding your comment about not caring about what others think of your...
Where did the concept of the divine right of Kings to rule over masses of people come from? Where does the idea that theistic believers are moral are ...
Perhaps that is the most significant difference between us. What people are convinced of and what level of evidence is sufficient to convince individu...
Law is one method to help control human behaviour. Reasoned argument about the common good is another. There are many more methods available. The stru...
How do you know this? Are you familiar with the details involved via your career, past or current? Well, I took early retirement from teaching Computi...
I find that question more of a special plead, than a serious question. You will not be surprised that my answer as an atheist, is obviously going to b...
The above quote also has a theistic flavour. My point is not a strong criticism of you, its more just a 'heads up' that some of what you type, along w...
We always have more room for another sharp pitchfork wielder, in times of unacceptably high beer prices but @"Vera Mont" might stop us with shouts of ...
The most recent data shows that the universe contains 8 billion human faces, all on different heads! For a non-theist, you do seem to like and find em...
It seemed to me that what Tristan and Asa were warning about has little or no current legislation that would protect us from it's deployment by nefari...
Well, if they don't work very hard to 'conserve' affordable prices on beer, then I will sharpen my pitchfork even more, and persuade the rich people, ...
On the contrary, all hail to those who will speak truth to all manifestations of power, especially religious faith based power, regardless of their to...
Well, that would only be of any value, at all, to those who choose to label their life on Earth as a drudge. Divine hiddenness demonstrates that god(s...
Looks like we are equally biased. You seem to admire/see value in, a two faced god, whereas I prefer the 'ness' part I have (and you have,) of the uni...
Tracing that path back, I would say that the fact that abiogenesis happened, was not an act of optimism. All species that reproduce don't exclusively ...
:lol: Pessimism is akin to misery imo Vera, It loves company. I always liked the words of this song, in some strange way, it always seemed to make my ...
Are we still fighting for the same tribe today and for the same reasons, in your opinion? If you think we are, then is that wise? Is it not time to re...
I agree with your description of humanism's ultimate goal, but I think the goal will forever be an asymptotic approach, which I am very happy about, a...
Oh you so need to watch the rest Alkis! Tell me what you thought of the example of AI learning the language produced via FMRI (Functional magnetic res...
Yep, I share that 'immediate' concern. So how about an AI attached to a 3D printer, producing a 3D mask, the perp could paint and wear? :scream: Yep, ...
I would have helped Tony kick Rico's arse and gave his diamond to the poor! Dance Lola dance! I wonder if she was the same Lola that the kinks met? :c...
I have started singing the 'Internationale,' in my head. I wanted to post a youtube rendition of it below but I don't want some conservative to post '...
A fair question. My answer is YOU, I am typing to you, and anyone else who will listen/read, in the true 'soap box'/pamphlet tradition. Do you not thi...
It seems to me that even 'nice' conservatives, don't like to have their world reformatted, so that it becomes more inclusive of those they all often c...
It also promotes the unacceptable imagery (aesthetic) of the 'white knight' coming to help the poor underprivileged, unfortunate black people in Afric...
Absafragginlootly. Jordan Peterson is almost ad nauseam about the 'natural order' of hierarchy. Why does a behaviour learned under 'jungle rules,' and...
Thanks for the responses so far guys and for taking the time to watch the vid. What did you think about the opening point of 50% of all current AI exp...
I agree. I don't get that. What motivates you to 'reason' something, surely you must have been 'inspired' to? Yeah, as replacement terms, those would ...
This is a crucial landing zone/launch pad imo. Who are the true owners/inheritors of such stories? All humans? No particular human? This is the concep...
I am not that surprised by your response, as I am unsure whether the point I am trying to make is of significant importance. I will try again. Fideism...
Do you think reason and faith have nothing between them other than hostility? Is there any value in faith being the equivalent of a measured credence ...
Ok, thanks for painting me a clearer picture of the world according to Tom. 'Ace mate, hope you can sink more amber fluid, as long as you don't have t...
Would you consider a more democratic system of deciding SOME CASES of who gets banned? For example, If your membership has survived a 1 year probation...
Bonza Mate! (Sorry Tom but I have lot's of expat Scots friends in Perth Oz and some REAL Aussie friends, that they are married to, or are the offsprin...
I think I would broadly fit into the people variety, you describe above Tom but the aesthetics of the natural world, that I came from and the aestheti...
I think that's a pity. I had one or two early 'insult fests' with him, when I was 'newer' to the forum but I did find him very knowledgeable in topics...
Absolutely, atheism is honest, its adherents admit: 1. We don't yet know the full story of where we come from or why we are here. 2. We have no inhere...
Ya gotta keep a keen eye on dem crazy priesties mate, or else their backwards traditions and cultural norms will keep biting us all on the arse! Long ...
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