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Did you have a bad experience with a marshmallow at some point?

She wasn't at odds with the Church, so she serves as an example of how isn't always true.

Obviously you guys have no taste.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Dorothy_Day%2C_1916_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Dorothy_Day%2C_1916_%28cropped%29.jpg Dorothy Da...

Why would you have a normal couch when you could have this couch? https://www.deplain.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d...

That's not always true.

I couldn't care less.

With your magic wand. Awesome.

You have two choices: 1. You can accept that this is a question that will have to be answered at local levels. 2. You can work to establish that a tra...

Then in a society that requires people who have XX chromosomes to use the women's toilet, yes he can use the women's toilet.

In a society that doesn't allow people with XY chromosomes to use the women's toilet, yes, he'd have to pee somewhere else. :up:

For the life of me, I can't discern your point.

I think Russell claimed that philosophy started as a counterpoint to mystery religions and snake oil salesmen. But that kind of reaction has to be roo...

I don't think anybody's really being gaslighted. We live in a diverse society. There are going to be people who can't accept trans and non-binary peop...

OK. Although it wasn't at all passive aggressive. It was all entirely genuine.

Yea, fdrake said that.

I guess. It's just that after you've been assured you're about to be banned, you might be more inclined to say fuck you.

Don't worry about it. There are plenty of people in the world who are able to listen to you without bias. If you can't find that here, just say "fuck ...

It really appears to me that you're misreading him. He's saying that there are angry people on both sides. He has a very personal stake in the issue, ...

So let's look at the opening lines one more time. Anthony, what would you conclude the object of his project is? Is it to withhold assigning truth to ...

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But that would be a violation of the first amendment. I don't think any government agencies are actually advising people to become trans, are they? Pr...

Some of the people on this website disgust me.

Affirming your right to be a Muslim is tantamount to forcing people to be Muslims? :chin: Maybe it would help to know that Native Americans had transe...

That's an amazing insight. You're saying conservatives aren't just being assholes, but they have a legitimate concern. But when it comes to minors, I ...

A lot of states have patient advocates for minors. I would leave the question with them and psychologists. Like with abortion, there may be cases wher...

I would strongly defend your right to express this view even though I basically disagree with it. It would be incredibly cowardly of me to try to sile...

I know a trans man who was trans for a good decade before all the hype. She's a prominent surgeon, and surgeons are huge money makers for hospitals, s...

An example was on the coronavirus thread where the bailey was "people don't need to take the vaccine" and the motte was "drug companies are making a p...

I'll posit that most of the time, we're all foundationalist. We only back off of it when it gets problematic for us.

Yes, but that happens at the end of the story. The meat of the story has to be about adversity and horrific shit for the reasons Schopenhauer explaine...

So how is he going to demolish his opinions? "My reason tells me that as well as withholding assent from propositions that are obviously false, I shou...

It's my fish blessing upon you. The movie version was going for insane/horrific. Didn't quite achieve either one.

https://i.imgur.com/IRj8k7q.jpg I recently saw the Island of Dr Moreau with Marlon Brando. A for effort. C for being too old Hollywood.

He seemed to be optimistic that he could win them over and bring reforms to the Church. I was never too interested in his proof of God until I read th...

Absolutely. Descartes wasn't a solipsist. Notice his reasons for starting this project: He's saying he feels he's been bamboozled and wants to start f...

I particularly like the last line: "I am here quite alone, and at last I will devote myself, sincerely and without holding back, to demolishing my opi...

These are the opening words of the first section: FIRST MEDITATION: On what can be called into doubt "Some years ago I was struck by how many false th...

Exactly. Richard O'Brian, who is non-binary, says trans women aren't real women. I know what he means. He's not suggesting their rights should be viol...

@"BC" Horses evolved in North America.

What if we did a reading of the Meditations? That way we could have Descartes resolve the question. Would you be up for that?

I think the prompt was just "astronaut.". Wonder lets you pick a picture to use as a sort of template? So I started with "St. Francis on fire with sun...

You could start an etsy shop and sell them. Donut Place Home of the plain donut 20% gratuity added Mexican Place Home of the plain Mexican 20% gratuit...

Isn't it what we call "moving the goal posts"? I don't think the trans issue mentioned is actually a case of it, though. Oh, someone already pointed t...

This is my latest t-shirt, got it in the mail today from Amazon. You can get custom shirts from them for about 20 bucks. This is St. Francis setting h...

You've pretty thoroughly mischaracterized Descartes here. Whatever you may think of Descartes, there's no doubt (ha!) that the Meditations are one of ...

That's pretty much what the NY Times is saying, that if this coming offensive doesn't work, Ukraine will be under a lot of pressure to end the conflic...

I think so. I was reading a biography of Hayek at the same time I read Globalists. I started on The Road to Serfdom when my interest fizzled. Hayek be...

:up: Per Slobodian: "If we place too much emphasis on the category of market fundamentalism, we will fail to notice that the real focus of neoliberal ...

Sounds like a Ship of Theseus problem. If states slowly disappeared, maybe due to global warming, but the global coffee market survived so that Frank ...