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Both are wrong. Both are issues that could easily be settled by referencing religion scholars and historians. I guess I don't understand why you need ...

Christian and Muslim eschatology both come from Jewish version. Apocalypticism exists in all three religions to this day, with Orthodox Jews manifesti...

I think it would follow from this that physicalism is essentially monism, since there's no clear distinction between it and idealism, or Thales' theor...

So it's just the grounding for your worldview, right? You don't need an argument for it.

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He would not feel so all alone When everybody must get stoned.

Yes, it's a matter of starting assumptions.

Right. And I agree with that. But when you went down the trail of motivation, you overlooked the fact that motivation is rooted in ideology. If you wa...

So there are ideological contexts in which that doesn't make any sense. What you can do is invite others to accept your context. You aren't presenting...

You have to have some sort of framework or context for the usage, otherwise there isn't any meaning to your expression. You could just be a hard defla...

If you were a Roman stoic, you would say the latter is tied up in the former. What is the cultural framework within which you're using the word "moral...

You might be concerned about whether your existence makes the world better or worse.

What did you make of that?

You kind of sound like you're on acid.

That's the quintessential truth, Ruth.

Let me explain this again. To complain about Hebrews from the Bronze Age, and then immediately bring up what the Israelis have done to the Palestinian...

Yes. Muslims tended to kick ass. But since the 2nd generation Muslims were Iranians, @"BitconnectCarlos" was spouting bullshit about how Arab Muslims ...

I'm mainly familiar with AI art generation. It opens up new doors for creativity. I haven't used the AI answer generator except I once asked it a ques...

I agree.

I was just answering Bitconnect's claim that Arabs were great colonizers. That's not true. The great Muslim colonizers were Persian.

If you keep reading you'll find that within about a generation after the Arabs came out of Arabia, the Iranians took back their own territory, as Musl...

This is mostly bullshit, though. For the most part, the geographical development of Islam was done by Persians, and it wasn't done violently. Islam wa...

I like it. What are your thoughts?

The IPCC talks about it quite a bit. Since it ended in the 1850s, it means North America has been warming up since then. It's yet another reason we us...

The Little Ice Age

The proximal vector in the multiplexed zone retraces the inferior Fibonacci levels to localize on the scale of dimensional applications.

Schopenhauer said the world is never going to be the way it ought to be because that's boring. Thus we have threads on every disaster of the day but n...

I'm guessing a lot of people are in this situation.

No, that came out of my attempt to explain my view that ethics is mostly about looking backward and judging actions that have already happened. There ...

Is this because you think we need a democratic initiative to find a solution, so skepticism diminishes our efforts? Or is it just that skepticism itse...

Ok. So maybe it's not happening around the clock the way I thought it was. What I wanted you to understand is that though you describe it as an advers...

Is the above giving incorrect information?

I understand what you're saying, and you've opened my eyes to what you have to contend with. But are you telling me it's not true that insurance compa...

Ok. Send us telegram if you need buckets. :cool:

Aren't the Netherlands already under water?

It is. I have a cousin who bought a condo in the 90s when the beach was about a 100 feet away. Now high tide comes right up to their back door, and th...

This is all fascinating to me. But the Granny I told you about didn't get any pain and suffering money. She just got the money to pay some of her medi...

The fact that there are people who want to scam the system does not make it ok for insurance companies to do the same thing. And they do. They try to ...

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That's cool. Did you do weather reports for the Vietnam war?

How many degrees do you have, if I may ask? The cloud problem is about modeling them for long term predictions. Clouds have a huge impact on the clima...

So true. :clap:

Granny was in a car accident. She hasn't been able to turn her head side to side since then. She hires a lawyer to sue because the other driver's insu...

My impression is that sometimes you hurt people who don't deserve to be hurt, and these people you've hurt don't have the resources your clients do. D...

Sure, there are people who want to play the system. You're there to stop them. That's great. And everyone you direct your skills against is a rascal. ...

That's not a thing.

What you're saying is in line with moral antirealism. Michael was asking about moral realism, specifically whether it makes any difference if it obtai...

I was talking about babies. They're innocent. They learn about morality through experiences of all sorts. It's a life long progression. When you first...

Well, you're a monster. What's your excuse?

I get the feeling you don't know what innocence and guilt are. All you know is that you ought to because you ought to? Hmm.