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Could all of this be settled with a distinction between non-reflective action and subsequent reflection? Or does the concept of motive defy that schem...

Pepsi was the first to completely ignore advertisement of the product in favor of broadcasting the type of person who (supposedly) buys it. Does Trump...

I agree with that. Augustine is well-known for having struggled to find a doorway into Christianity. Instinct actually blocked his path: he loved wome...

Young friend has a dead-end job. I would like for him to know that he isn't growing more employable, but less as time goes by. On the other hand it's ...

You don't know what I know.

I'm all about eternally returning to awesome moments on the journey up the hill like being fine on a summer morning listening to Modest Mouse.

You can't go back and change it so who cares?

I don't know. I'm picturing Mr and Mrs Lopez teaching their kids how to navigate by the stars so they can get to the Mexican border by themselves. Mor...

Yes. While trying to find a link to that NPR story (glad you heard it), I saw that Americans adopted about 30,000 Guatemalan children in 2015. Step 1:...

How many? What is the point you're making? I'm curious. Did you hear the NPR story about the Guatemalan woman who was separated from her children due ...

The administration is holding up the hiring of immigration judges. They created this problem and it blew up in their faces. I'm wary of the "kill Trum...

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In other news, Trump will soon go insult a bunch of Europeans and then go have a private chat with Putin. I'm assuming Europeans will be footing the w...

"Dead" would be a tad more perverse I think.

I think it's supposed to be "diseased beaver."

The alternative to oblivion.

It's the unspoken backstory of the Terminator. Washington Post ranking of 15 Democrats who might challenge Trump does not include Clinton.

That's true, but Wall St was engineered by Dutch traders who were being manipulated by Russian freemasons who also secretly staged the American Revolu...

Yep.

it's a valuable idea. It's a key component to the idea of social mobility. You are not the role you're presently playing. You're something else. Its f...

Why China would be confused right now: In a variety of ways the Chinese had signalled that they were prepared to negotiate and offer concessions to th...

That suggests some self beyond any particular role. That's a well worn idea.

Here's an outlook that predicts smooth sailing without a trade war and China stepping up to act as an integrating force for the global economy. With t...

You'd only need inference if you washed up on a deserted island as a baby and were subsequently raised by pelicans.

Ok. Still, your post was a cool reminder if what the US is made of. I had the privilege to meet a concentration camp survivor today, also a believer.

Douglass had an abiding faith in American ideals and the potential of the US to do what's right, so it's fitting congratulations, two days late.

Except it turned out the Boss had been infected by an alien life form which had taken control of his motor cortex.

It's statistcult.gov, not org.

He should have known better than to wander out into the desert like that.

I'm pretty good at enjoying freedom without safety.

Which do you value more: freedom or safety?

Birds jab on Pence? I think that app might be left leaning.

Birds expect object permanency

Is religion's role as the focus of community something that could be taken over by a non-religious entity?

Romans clung to the old Roman religion for many years after it had become hollow and useless beyond a nod to tradition and a satisfaction to the super...

Descartes never doubted his own existence. If you realize that you have never doubted your own existence, then you have put aside whatever ax you're g...

I agree with what you're saying. It's just bypassing my point. As Searle commented, the odd thing about solipsism is that I can easily disprove yours....

Why are my zucchinis round like pumpkins instead of long like cucumbers?

I just meant there were churches that appear to be both. No need for Jesus to go anywhere. :)

True, but global skepticism does not positively assert that this is a dream, and so is not hypothesizing anything. That's an interesting challenge, bu...

Did you know that Christianity/Buddhism combos were once common in Central Asia?

Does Christianity demand that I put aside common sense?

I appreciate and honor that.

Per the gospel account he didn't really die. People saw him 3 days later. :roll:

Christians definitely attend to the fine art of suffering, embracing hair shirts and self flagellation in imitation of the Great Tortured One. Christi...

This just means global doubt couldn't be a baby's first thought. 1) We don't know enough about consciousness to know if there is such a thing as a "fi...

Between the indubitability of experience and the necessity of a cause, why does one have to take precedence?

To know a lack of confidence one must first know what it means to have confidence. This does nothing to undermine global skepticism.

Descartes was all about using geometry in the discovery of the laws of optics. He followed behind Kepler who was confronted by a mystery about shadow ...

I didn't read the guidelines. How stupid is that?