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Yep, same here

I think CNN said it was an accident. They thought the plane was an incoming missile. To all the grieving families: :heart:

Eh. There's a crowd I won't bother with anymore. There's no profit in it.

So we dont have any frame of reference for concentration camps so they don't seem real to us? I'll buy that. But why do Trump's bad words penetrate th...

Question: why do we talk about Trump, but not Putin's persecution of homosexuals or Chinese concentration camps?

I think the tax cut for the wealthy was a bad idea. It was hidden in a short term tax cut for everybody, which may be where the boost to your business...

Cool!! :up: :up: :up:

Because you're afraid you're in a dream and you wanted to wake yourself up. For the Thomist, Aristotle provides a nice solution to the old problem of ...

You may be right.

Pacifism. I'd join you on that higher moral ground, but that hill isn't in this world.

Sometimes.

And I understand why they feel that way. I think allies of human potential would love to see them evolve out of theocracy into something a little more...

I dont see why Iran's ability to deploy weapons of mass destruction is a problem. It would create balance between Israel and Iran.

Yep. You have to give them a blow that kills no Americans. It's the price of doing business.

It's not about will, it's about how Aristotle defined good and evil. Strip your concept of goodness down to something mundane, mechanical, and natural...

Aristotle and Aquinas don't accept that a person can sin intentionally. When faced with multiple possible actions, you pick the one that you think wil...

I'm assuming it's going to be swim.

With this statement: You seemed to be suggesting that science as we know it evolved independently of the Christian world, which invented the universit...

Interesting hypothesis. Where does modernity come from in your view?

I think Europe in general has lost the capacity for self-determination. I don't think Boris can alter that.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but science doesn't preclude divine intervention either. It just goes about creating explanations for events as if ...

I don't think there are any Thomists anymore, but their ethical outlook is actually kind of refreshing to me. The Thomist God set the world in motion ...

Not at all. Thomism launched us toward the scientific worldview we have today, and so is worth examining.

I feel things gearing up toward a conflict about "what Kant really meant." I'll just leave it at this; what Xtrix has been saying is a common interpre...

I was explaining Thomism on ethics.

No thanks.

I'm pretty sure you're interpreting Kant as an indirect realist.

Which section? Schopenhauer believed Kant intentionally obscured his message to avoid being harassed by christians. I know Schopenhauer much more thor...

I'm not sure what you mean. Could you say more? Per Kant, we don't represent black holes with an image of black holes. The black hole part is a repres...

Unless I'm mistaking you, I think this viewpoint is more indirect realism than it is Kant. Specifically, it's John Locke. For Kant, we need to give up...

When you modify "object" with "physical" aren't you talking about a thing that is known apriori to have spacial extension? And if not, how do you dist...

Iranian troops will be marching on Washington anytime now. Pray for us. Or maybe they'll just smuggle in a suitcase bomb to NYC. That would suck.

Imagine that you and I are assessing a table. Would Kant say there are two tables (one for each of us)?

The provocation here wasn't coming from the US, it was coming from Iran. I think it's likely Iran's recent boldness is a consequence of America's erra...

I don't look at pro-Trump content, so I don't know how deluded they are. But all of the left-wing news outlets produce a steady drizzle of little dist...

True.

Cool. So you understand why Sulimani had been a high value target for years, why the recent uptick in Iranian backed violence directed at Americans wa...

What I'm realizing is that you don't understand what's been happening in the middle east since the invasion of Iraq. You don't understand where ISIS c...

All you had to do was ask why I kept mentioning Shiites. How was I supposed to know that you're clueless? Oh wait.

I explained it to you this morning (my morning). It just doesnt compute for you. Weird.

Exactly

There isn't going to be a war. Its more like mafia conflict.

I think they would do what they've been doing: killing Amerucans here and there. IOW, they're already at war with the US. On the US side, war would me...

So somebody explain this to me: Iran declares war on the US. What does it do next? What are your thoughts @"god must be atheist" ?

I just misread your post. Moving on...

Your point was that Israel wouldn't take on Iran without both Netanyahu and Trump in power, so this would be the best time for a war that would likely...

You said Vegas odds, which is -120 right now.

Trump is favored to win.

Sigh

I think that's what killing the American and protesting around the embassy was: checking to see if trump would respond by abandoning Iraq. The assassi...