universeness

Right back at you, as we don't know the limits of 'natural,' so we think We don't know such is impossible because we can even clearly define what such...

No, it's not my statement that's a performative contradiction, it is a statement such as 'nothing is something' or the concept 'nothing' exists. Just ...

Sounds like a valid version of the scientific method as applied in the legal profession, to me. But this is the kind of definition/application of the ...

I would suggest that the term 'supernatural,' is a useless term when it is used as a reference to gods/devils/the undead(from ghosts, to zombies and v...

Do you also have this benevolent infection or do you really consider yourself as your 'handle' suggests, unenlightened? What a bizarre and somewhat il...

My sister has lived in France for 30 years and she can convert many a good Scottish put down phrase into various French/Scots fusions. She particularl...

:smile: Ken Ham would love you and welcome you into his group who are currently trying to build a replica of the tower of babel. :lol: The poor man wi...

I agree with you that my descriptions of how humans learn from the moment they are born, are not as rigorous and formalised as the application of the ...

Well, they say you can take the Scot out of Scotland but you can't take Scotland out of the Scot.

Many of us natives who hail from the east end of Glasgow refer to the glorious Irn Bru as 'Babu,' (Barrs Irn Bru) as this is the name we used when we ...

Did you finish it or throw it away after one smell/lick/small bite/substantial manly bite as you had a watching audience who dared you to? Are you a t...

Looks like you took the hit for me and all others who may be tempted to try such an evil-looking fusion. You have emancipated me from that particular ...

Yet your struggle with the issue continues and you will make a decision. This will show your brain is up to the task. Mainly because it sounds like th...

Never tried one of them, have you? They look disgusting.

Good advice, but on the other hand, what's the point in leaving a beautiful corpse?

Then she has already achieved one of my secret ambitions. My father died at 65. For some Freudian reason, I have to at least beat that!

At 57, I think that for me, It's now more about male and female friends than it is about marriage and kids. I do have inner conflicts at times but I a...

I think they have been looking to me, to marry one of those nationalities but I only get engaged, as I only seem to choose crazy women. So we have alw...

Yeah, same with loddie/laddie/lad. Language like people will eventually merge into one great big melting pot, big enough to take the world and all its...

Well, who am I to judge. Her mother married an American of German descent and my other sister married a Frenchman. Family gatherings are like a meetin...

There are some great but simple doric phrases. I have picked up more of this stuff recently as my American niece is currently dating an Aberdonian. I ...

Had to look that one up. His last name was Quine based on what I found but they are probably pronounced differently. Quine in doric is pronounced q-w-...

'Quine' is doric for young (mostly unmarried) woman. 'Besom' for a woman in general but mostly older and married, I think. 'min' in general for a man,...

Yi dinae ken fit yer missin, A doric quine wid lern yi fit ye need tae unnerstaun aboot this life!

:lol: I think a doric toned Aberdonian would respond with something like. Fit d'ye mean? am no a stupit quine, yi know, wis yer da a bit saft in the h...

I prefer John Peel the DJ whose favourite song was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg

Whit huv Italian mammies goat ti dae wi ra scots?

For such a small place it has a myriad of dialects and strange language fusions. The common ones of 'auld scots,' 'doric,' and gaelic only scratches t...

I have cousins who live in the Lothians ( a strange eccentric land) between Glasgow people (the Weegies) and Edinburgh folk (the Burghers, who think t...

I will try to maintain my faith in your honorable intentions Tom. :grin:

There is the more nuanced observation that the capital of France is 'F,' personal interpretation can always offer a different perspective.

Not individually no but as a collective, yes. The full detailed neuroactivity that happens in your brain when you make a decision/ruling based on earl...

Why do you think this is so? Each human gathers empirical evidence from birth. I think even human instincts, are based on empirical evidence gained by...

'Faith,' is another word which is currently 'claimed,' almost exclusively by theism. @"Clarky" made the valid point: It follows then that a word like ...

I don't much like it either but I feel more and more compulsion to combat the use of metaphysical and supernatural synonymously, whenever people try t...

Legal knowledge is a product of human endeavours. It what way is legal knowledge not part of the physical world? All human thoughts are products of ph...

The scientific method can be applied by anyone seeking new knowledge of any kind. It has been honed since the moment a human first started to try to m...

I don't advocate for restricting how others choose to use language but based on the OP, I do want to assess the 'shakiness' of the ground I will be on...

Well, you agreed with 'overburdened,' which was the extent I was suggesting. The quotes just demonstrated a ' wideness of range,' which I thought was ...

I cant see a lot of value in unreliable truths.It's true that the Earth orbits the Sun. If such truths are not reliable then I would think that scienc...

I didn't come to TPF with that particular goal in mind, nor am I suggesting that the scientific method is the only way to gain new knowledge. I stated...

So why combine them? Is that not like saying metadata has nothing to do with data or metacognition has nothing to do with cognition? I think the scien...

But does energy actually move? A human 'Mexican wave' looks like movement in the horizontal but its actually each individual human moving up and down ...

I think your post above contains a very good level of clarity and reason. I think too many terms like metaphysical, supernatural, spiritual etc can be...

An immortal transhuman (or close to it), with an optional built-in 'termination' facility. An honest politician. A god that can make public appearence...

I accept your opinion, as your opinion and I am sure you return that accommodation. But that which manifests in reality and that which are mere manife...

I see little value in the term supernatural but I also think too many people get 'overexcited' about such terms. Humans love drama and we love mystery...

This to me is a crucial prerequisite to all beliefs. Believing is not the problem. Even belief held with such fervor that it might even be labeled obs...

It seems to me that the term 'metaphysics,' is, to say the least, 'overburdened.' In Computing the term metadata means data about data. So for a websi...

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