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I agree. There isn't enough evidence to conclude that the Israelites were sea people. The Sea Peoples were diverse. The Peleset are among those that w...

The archeological record doesn't show that there was. They couldn't read or write, it was a chaotic time. One of the tidbits I mentioned was the appea...

You've probably read that there's no evidence that there was ever a community of enslaved Israelites in Egypt. If you're interested in what we know ab...

The end of the Bronze Age.

I like Heath Dewrell's view (partly because I think he's right) that child sacrifice probably wasn't part of the deep history of the Israelites. The l...

The realism you're referencing is really a type of idealism, right? It holds that platonic objects exist in some sense. Peirce is saying that a univer...

There's a growing number of detransitioners who say that transitioning was an attempt to cope with trauma. It's very common for detransitioners to cla...

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I don't see what's at stake here. Why would it make any difference?

Oh well. :grin:

All we have is the information that a 13th king is listed. It's unconfirmed.

If it's you claiming the kings list is correct, yes, it's a baseless assertion.

Maybe Finland could work on getting a Netanyahu for themselves.

I don't think a social construct has to have some "consistent base" other than community buy-in. If people require a person to have male biological se...

I think the problem is that for many, biological sex is a component of the social construct of gender, and I think it's pretty clear that this is true...

You don't care one way or the other? :up:

So you're saying it's a human right, not yet a civil right. My guess is that the issue will remain in flux for the next couple of generations. Where I...

Happens all the time.

Are we really concerned about where people relieve themselves? Or are we really discussing whether the process of transitioning actually changes a wom...

I think what the academic community does is build a collection of speculations that changes as new archeological data emerges. This article about the ...

People can become stuck in a hellish frame of mind, but it's not punishment. It's a self imposed prison. It comes down to the things a person is telli...

We were talking about why theists might develop a negative tone when arguing with atheists, thinking it might be because of afflicted faith. Tom sugge...

Really? Why?

I hadn't thought of that. That makes me feel sympathy.

I was thinking the same thing: will and counter will.

That would be a friendly sort of discussion though. I was responding to this: Why would a religious person enter into a discussion on a philosophy for...

Yep, I think I did.

that was pornography

Who in their right mind would want to be a plumber?

For the UK and the USA, the alternative to religious freedom was having communities tear themselves apart in sectarian violence, so it was a matter of...

Again, how do we sync our actions if time is a product of consciousness? Maybe we're telepathic?

I guess they overlap. Will:

Maybe religious people seek out environments where they can argue with atheists to help exorcise their own faithless demons?

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I think willing comes from a worldview where there's God's will. It's just an animating force that causes everything. If you have your own will, that'...

The Lathe of Heaven -- Ursula Le Guin

They sync because they're listening to the same music. They're experiencing time.

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Most attacks on women happen where there are no witnesses. In public places there are CCTV cameras everywhere.

Thanks, but I'm ignoring both you and @"Count Timothy von Icarus" from now on.

Aristotelian substance is about independence. Essence is about what makes a thing that thing.

That's in conflict with the little I've read about Aristotle, but ok.

Would you drink a steak flavored milkshake?

I don't know a lot about Aristotle, but I've gathered that talking to him would be more like talking to a scientist than a philosopher in the contempo...

Might be worth taking a long walk and contemplating why.

How would you describe that solution?

You seemed to think the conclusion of his argument is skepticism. In fact, it's just a question: if meaning doesn't come from rule following, where do...

We live in a very different world. They didn't even have the number zero.

None of this has anything to do with Wittgenstein or Kripke.

True, Kripkenstein doesn't say language isn't meaningful. They're just saying meaning can't come down to rule following.