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Which means that it is not in our self-interest to just take our own needs into account. Further, most of us are social mammals with empathy. So to va...

Yes, it's a bit like asking where in the elephant is the elephant. Answer: everywhere.

It's location is here and around here for a long ways in all directions.

It's a good practical one. I use that conclusion all the time in interactions with others and it leads to expectations being met. This is of course fa...

But the truly sad thing is that even if these phenomena are real, they are merely assuming that it would go against current science. It could simply b...

It looked like bullshit then. The Neocons had openly suggested via the project for a new century that they find a way to get in that country. The terr...

I think there is a range of complicities as I argued a few posts up. There were assumptions made, for example, about Colin Powell's photos, that good ...

And when they did not effectively or at question the lies. When,for various conscious and unconscious motivations and fears, failed to do their job ad...

Connected to this is the assumption that phenomena, if correctly interpreted by those experiencing them, entail that all of science or some large area...

Well, being agnostic about it. There are all sorts of things that there was absolutely no evidence for that then turned out to be there or the process...

Oh, sure, show everyone how much more clear and concise you are than me.

If we look at Christian pacificism there are advocates from many branches of Christianity going way back. Yes, gnostics are included.

Don't leap regarding me. I am against war and I know the NYT is effectively pro-aggression whenever it suits the neo-cons. I can't remember why I orig...

This a category slip here. Fake news is the articles and reports. The NYT is a newspaper. If it later, after the primary goals of the fake news have t...

That complicity is complicated. It is not that everyone was rubbing their hands together like villains in a silent film while they played their parts ...

I am truly glad to see the defense of illegal drug use has gone in a such a creative and abstruse direction. And that wasn't me being facetious.

He has said here or in another thread that his is talking rather than warring with other religions and this talking comes from his hostility. So it is...

I hope that means you can't find the original post or the one it was replying to..... Here we go.... I was taking his as saying that our experience of...

I don't think you understood my post. Please read it again in full and the post I was responding to. I was using a quick reductio and to a large degre...

Why not try actually responding to my post instead of just stating something without connecting it to the points I made. What you wrote here does not ...

What is this a playground with clever comebacks?

And I just realized how rude this post of yours was. You did not interact in the slightest with the arguments I presented. You simply say one part is ...

t wYou are responding as if I am saying you cannot be confident that there is a cup on the table when you see what you decide is a cup on the table. T...

Once the model implicit in the question is on the table, one would be swimming uphill starting to respond. Once, say the subject object split is assum...

Sure. But my point is the usefulness of jtb. Is it a smart way to decide what is knowledge, given that we can only determine something like extremely ...

How do you know that? We have found all sorts of things we could not before. Scientific measurement is not static. If you want to argue that God must ...

And he will never grasp math without intuition. And the great mathematicians allow criteria like elegance lead them to examine certain lines. I am usi...

Stalking is a set of unwelcome behaviors. Feeling love for someone is, well, a feeling. Feeling like this is a person to be with. And some people are ...

So is love. Though later facts may back up the original love. So is our faith in memory. Which seems justified, but by memory. So, we wake up in bed, ...

Yes, but these support my assertion. We do not now know what justified beliefs we have now will turn out to later be considered false. I am not arguin...

You basically just agreed with me. Science does not disagree with what he said. Nor does it agree. It remains agnostic. Actually we can have somewhat ...

the conduit metaphor is a folkmetaphor for language, so it's not literal. Things like 'I put my ideas in words and sent off the letter. He read the le...

Yes, I am trying to come at it from a number of angles because it is tricky to get people out of a bird's eye view - where they know which are the ver...

Without emotions, there can only be behavior, not ethics. Technically of course one could generate some 'logical' set of behaviors, but it would eithe...

The NYT is considered liberal. Conservative papers and liberal ones in general supported the WMB disinformation campaign and together helped the Bush ...

Language elicits experiences. At least that's one way of looking at language. I think in a way you are in the areas of Reddy's conduit metaphor for la...

I suppose some looks from my wife are propositionless but they convey meaning. I now know something I did not before the look. Because the look is not...

And those who believed them would have said they were true. And any belief we have now that we consider extremely well justified in science may turn o...

Sure, in a naive realism. Not if this is a simulation or you are in a coma dreaming. And look I am not arguing that we can never take something as kno...

Sure, see my post above to Janus.

Of course. And that will always be the case. That's how we work in science. This is what the evidence suggests. Nothing seems to contradict it. It fit...

I think the statement I exist is true. Even if I could not convince others it is the case. To me knowledge formulations like jtb are about communal be...

OK, well good. It seems like the options were science or guessing.

I hope you understood that I was supporting your position. Animals to improve things they learn, certainly many of the social mammals do. This is cult...

There's nothing wrong with discussing jtb. I am discussing jtb. My problem with jtb I explained in an earlier post. If we look at a statement/conclusi...

I am not sure humanism is an ethical system, but it does certainly value humans. However the main point is you are not taking my comment in context. W...

So you opted to ignore the bulk of my post. Comforting and facile; I suppose, for you.

In most cases it probably is. Though certainly some humanists work to protect other life forms and it is utterly clear that man secular people do. Fro...

I didn't say that evolutionary processes are moral. You seem to be saying that since humanists believe in evolution they must base their values on evo...

They often believe that humans are smarter than other animals and capable of more things. I am not sure if 'human dignity' is one of their beliefs. Th...