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I completely agree. You cannot have the freedom to incite violence nor can you have the freedom to compromise the freedom of others! How can an indivi...

A rather misanthropic, defeatist viewpoint imo. You can surrender to the dictates of the oligarchs if you want to. Meantime, we socialists will try to...

It will succeed or the human race is doomed. I think the human race is not doomed. I think nefarious, narcissists are doomed.

No choice as many many more die due to the whims of the nefarious rich and powerful few. This has been true since we left the wilds and became infecte...

You demonstrate your misunderstanding of socialism. Under socialism you cannot get an all powerful government. They would need control over the milita...

If such happens and the system involved used the word socialism as it’s intent, then it did fail miserably but that was not down to socialism. The fai...

True democratic socialism is of, for and by the people. Very strong checks and balances must be in place. All authority must be removable by a majorit...

Lenin was as much of a nefarious narcissist as Stalin. Lenin had hundreds of thousands of innocent people killed as well. He was no socialist!

Many use the word ‘socialist,’ in their political doctrine even though, that doctrine fails the basic tenets involved. Even the fascist nazis used it....

I like it when you make the dividing lines so clear. To me, your words ‘bad ideas (like socialism),’ makes you easy to deal with. Us lefties can see y...

Antinatalists should give thanks for their existence because without it, they would be unable to complain to the rest of us about their and our existe...

Elementary my dear Watson!

I would just respond with. ‘A human being,’ I don’t think I would feel tense.

The concept of ‘nothing’ ends in paradox as nothing is the absence of something and you need something to refer to the concept of ‘nothing.’

Again, you misinterpret. It’s inconvenient to your position that what I stated was pointless. In my opinion, @"Ken Edwards" is mainly concerned about ...

Nah! Seems like another ‘compromised,’ word with all sorts of religious bs connotations. It started off ok and then fell away. I got: Metanoia, an Anc...

Ok, suffice to state then that I don’t find your reasoning convincing.

You should look up ‘metalogic,’ it may provide a good link with metaphysics.

We need to appeal to something with more global reach that the US congress. We could post it as a yes/no suggestion on the biggest discussion forum in...

Pointless to you perhaps but that in no way makes my point pointless, just inconvenient for your point. It’s like the exchange about the Sun rising or...

:smile: you created a flash image in my head of a heavily laden man, making a loud appreciative ‘phew’ sound as you lifted some weight from his burden...

I looked up the terms metalogic and metalogos, to compare with metaphysics. Metalogos offered little. Metalogic, offered: Metalogic is the study of th...

Well one thing is for sure, the very interesting exchange here between @"Clarky", @"Wayfarer", @"ZzzoneiroCosm" et al has exemplified my claim (perhap...

I think it could be a useful term in science if it was strictly defined as information about and the implications of current physics knowledge. I thin...

I am not concerned with new policy which the majority of the humans on the planet, label as an example of ‘good government.’ I am concerned with ensur...

There is your own moral law. I would refuse to kill myself or my friend and I would try my best to attack the b******, who was trying to force me to m...

Was this the quote you linked me to? Every word of God is tested; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. We make laws by electing politicians...

Well, the macro is made up of the subatomic, so something like an entangled particle maybe a part of you as well as being entangled to another particl...

Ok, but can a human judge what’s good or evil without god laws. Can we not make our own humanist laws?

Which god and which set of god laws are you referring to? The Abrahamic god certainly does not obey its own laws, it's just like Boris Johnstone in th...

If you insist! Let's make the Penrose bounce the cause. (much better than the god or supernatural (outside of space and time) posit imo.) So if you in...

But I am sure you also give cognisance to the possibility that quantum mechanics may not be fundamental, low level yes, but not necessarily fundamenta...

I agree that there is one 'world' but I don't see why some rules cannot differ for the macro compared to the subatomic. As I suggested, perhaps at som...

I know what you are suggesting and that's my point. You are giving too much universal priority to what human beings care about! Natural must have a ca...

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I agree that taking oaths or stating 'I do,' at weddings or in court is merely a 'promise' (to tell the truth) or as a way to give your consent to a p...

I agree. I think that quantum mechanics suggests that at some point, 'size really matters,' in that the 'rules' differ in many ways from the macro wor...

It's a shame you experience these bouts of sadness. Yes, you have the power to leave me to your 'nonsense,' at this point. Do you consider such power,...

Btw, for me, X= everything is synonymous with X=natural.

Why does your opinion that I am wrong in my main viewpoint on this thread make you sad? The opinion you are expressing does not make me sad. We were d...

The Pope is the inheritor of the residue of the Roman empire and represents a very rich, very sinister organisation. As for bears, they shit anywhere ...

Ok, so what's wrong with attempts to redefine/restrict the term supernatural as a reference to 'that which science cannot yet offer an answer to.' The...

I think you assign arrogant status to humans. I am not convinced 'nature' cares about the 'state' or dissatisfied status of the philosophical or even ...

To illustrate the point! Many people constantly reference nonexistents such as god or ghosts or winged horses. They are constructing or relaying a fab...

ok, thanks for illuminating me regarding your purpose in using the symbol.

Well, I am certainly not immune to misinterpreting the meaning of others. Clarification from the source is usually the road to solution of such misint...

Does your use of the fire image mean you agree or disagree with the quote you include?

I think Ken Ham uses that clarion call every time he inspires his followers in their daily toils on his tower of babel replica. 'C'mon ye glorious war...

I think it earlier systems such as 'scholasticism' and even stoicism etc are 'contributors' to the development of the scientific method. From wiki: Sc...

I agree with all you typed here Tom :up: