You really need to think this stuff through. If you wish to discount all reports of subjective experience and rely entirely upon objectively measured ...
I don't know why people care about what other people do, like how someone can be so mad about men acting as women. I can understand why people may thi...
You presented an anecdote of a biological male raised as a female, and it seemed to indicate that transitioning at a very early age was enough for the...
But see: The NYT article quoting an APA committee member explaining his reason for the shift in views on homosexuality as follows: "The criteria I pro...
I actually would prefer individual dressing rooms for everyone. I go to the gym and some people just walk around naked, like they'll get around to put...
I would bring one universe the way it was 100 years before this Armageddon and live there. Oh, and a backpack big enough to carry it. And a girl to fl...
Speaking of Edison, sort of: I'm here at this hotel and they've put literally thousands of Christmas lights on the grounds, so much so that there's li...
It's like asking how much power a CEO should have. It's dependent upon the needs of the organization. It seems Catholics want some sense of divinity t...
Thanks for all the feedback. Some of it was really entertaining. This girl I really fell for told me she loved me one day and the next she wanted to k...
St. Augustine was also right next to a river, so there'd have been crawfish swarming in those muddy banks. Amazing coincidence that you nailed that. A...
A good Wiki article on the status of detransitioning studies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detransition#:~:text=Frequency%20estimates%20for%20detra...
So there's debate as to whether transexual surgeries are harmful. Who gets to decide? In a prior Covid vaccination thread you argued that due to uncer...
Why does the patient have the right to self ownership to do aa he wishes, but the doctor doesn't have the right to self-ownerhip to do as he wants as ...
There's a lot in your post, and it's clearly personal to you, which I do understand. The question of whether regret is a common response to sexual rea...
Reasoning by analogy is helpful in sorting things out, but it does provide great latitude in the conclusions we can reach by drawing upon distinctions...
I don't think being an Amazon driver would be such a miserable job, and if it were for Henry, he should probably work for someone else. I've also neve...
The problem with the space elevator is the kid who gets in and pushes every button and you have to wait forever to get to your floor. Parents shouldn'...
I trust they're beautiful, but do you swim there? I was in Oregon years ago, and there were dramatic beach views from the overlooking cliffs with pris...
I thought it well conveyed utter hate of those who have destroyed your home, life, family, and all you know. I even blamed his hatred and his act of k...
This is a story of a conscious water object whose geometric complexity increases in direct correlation to the spiritual advancement of the object, so ...
I don't get the end of this story. The best I could figure is that the unquoted "oh" and "Don't you remember..." are comments from dead Kevin, but the...
I flew to the moon, got the center seat in the center aisle, movie screen didn't work, sat next to a toddler, terrible turbulence, and my seat wouldn'...
Are the Scottish seas meant for swimming? From my recollection, they are murky icy bodies meant for dying. But, I could be wrong. Perhaps they make a ...
They're interesting in similar meanings in the sense to get the gist is to understand the spirit of the thing, yet the etymology of gist (French/Roman...
1. You stated you can't know T because it doesn't exist. 2. You stated you can't know T and it does exist. I asked under #2 how you knew T existed. Yo...
And yet you'd be found guilty because to argue that you didn't shoot the gun but if you did it was in self defense assumes both X and not X and that i...
No, you're arguing contradictory claims in the alternative simultaneously, and it's incoherent. Consider: (1) I am not guilty of murder because I did ...
I actually thought the last line was out of place. The story was about a talking mirror that validated everyone as normal by telling us what she (I fe...
This felt like a fragmented memory of the unpleasantness of boarding school with disjointed but significant recollections supporting the feeling of la...
You've got to pick a position and you can't toggle back and forth between them because the conversation won't be coherent. Either you believe there is...
Initially, you were arguing against the necessity of the T for a belief to be referred to as knowledge,. You didn't explicitly say there was no truth....
Knowledge is knowledge of something, and it necessarily implicates the metaphysical. As noted above, if your position disregards an independent anchor...
What you said earlier was: That is to say, you previously asserted your justification for your belief in what "True" means. Now you relent, and say yo...
What is your justification that there is a truth independent of personal justification? Why do you believe there is an ultimately correct view of the ...
Your argument here is that you can't "know" truth because you lack a justification you've arrived at truth, which is to acknowledge the significance o...
Then we need a new term. I say Ptolmey didn't know the earth to be in the center of the universe. You say he knew it. We both agree he was wrong. What...
That's exactly why I must insist upon at arriving at further justifications to substantiate my knowledge the election was stolen, else I'll have to su...
I've not suggested you must possess the truth to make decisions. I'm saying that Ptolmey didn't know the earth was in the center of the universe, rega...
That allows us to ignore any inconvenient truth. If the election were not stolen, then I must accept rule by my opponents, and I'd prefer not to, so I...
If I believe the sun rises based upon my observations, yet another knows that to be false based upon their greater knowledge of the solar system, if w...
A replica of me, but for being female, would still be a Hanover, I think. It's a ship of Theseus sort of question. Which board is essential to maintai...
I look at it more as if there are a handful of typically associated properties attached to the object and if a certain number are present, it's consid...
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