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Must we really start this discussion from the simplistic strawmen or can we fast forward to a place of higher sophistication? Modern fundamentalist re...

No.

Well, they created the basket, and I entered my bid. My sons and I used to eat at Waffle House often. It was our thing. We'd play "Ring of Fire" on th...

It's always people who do the slayings, whether in the name of God or, more topically, Putin. At least we can define God as the good and deny unholy a...

I went to a silent auction last night and refused to accept defeat, vastly over-paying for some Waffle House swag, which included a beach towel, coffe...

I eat salad with the small fork, I curtsy, and I blow a trumpet to announce her arrival. Basic nobility protocol.

Kant was responsive to Hume's extreme empiricism and his denial of knowledge of causation, a claim Kant claims is synthetic a priori and necessary for...

Generally I behave as if in the presence of the Queen.

No, people tend to respect the corpses of the respected, but the disrespected are often unceremoniously thrown into mass graves.

That's not correct. Empirical knowledge is known a posteriori, not a priori.. The roots of those words, prior and post, reference how the knowledge is...

How's that a downside?

The cheese was scrambled in with the eggs and the nuts put in the yogurt. I was concerned with my growing pig intake, so I substituted bacon for the s...

Scrambled eggs with Swiss cheese, Greek yogurt, Irish breakfast tea, and mixed nuts (including Brazil nuts) for breakfast. Complex international fusio...

I disagree with the empirical claim of a generally universal underlying moral consensus. Great atrocities have been and continue to be committed with ...

Well, this is what got me thinking about all this; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concluding_Unscientific_Postscript_to_Philosophical_Fragments

"Subjectivity is truth." Discuss.

:clap: :fire: Strawman. Non-sequitur. :roll:

In Hebrew school we were taught it stood for "before the common error."

That's an example of an analytic truth, not synthetic. The value is that it is definitional. It tells you what a bachelor is. Geometrical truths are s...

God damnit! Every time I turn my back.

You're going to have to go back and re-contextualize this whole alcohol discussion. I have no personal opposition to drinking alcohol and your pointin...

If the question is "Does alcohol give you cirrhosis?," the answer is yes no matter what you believe. If the question is "Does alcohol give your life m...

GET MY SISTER IN LAW OUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH! And stop interfering with me learning about Jesus. He's a fascinating being. I learned that @"frank" is t...

That I agree with. I would place the evil on the actions, not the intent, so it's not the faith that is doing the harm, but the attempted imposition o...

Wiki says he was born between 4 and 6 BCE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_birth_of_Jesus Somebody explain that to me.

The critical distinction between your analogizing faith to alcoholism is that alcohol is being used in the analogy as an intoxicant, making it definit...

Yet you do explain: And I accept your reason for you. There's no basis here except that "it seems" an enriching way to live your life. This really isn...

If that's your belief, then the altar of philosophy is where you should kneel. Like I said, I'm not an evangelical. You do you. My point is simply tha...

Such is our point of contention. You deny the significance of the subjective commitment to faith and I hold it primary. The basis for my position is t...

But that is my point as well.

I'm not proposing an either/or (ala Kierkergaard) and can as much enjoy the intellectual pursuits as Socrates and recognize the importance of science ...

Of all the things nymphomaniacs suffer from, is monogamy one of them?

When you see Pops, tell him the flood was a total dick move.

Nice.

You've got to question whether there is a God. What kind of entity would have you born on Christmas so you only get one day of gifts?

You have offered an opinion as to what "seems to you," which is how you think things must seem to me, namely that I derive the same sort of benefit an...

I trust you in your statement that you would not find any value to holding to religious faith and that it would not enhance your life in any way. I fi...

It's obvious that our personal comfort in believing something has no bearing on the truth of it. To the extent one can choose to believe or not when t...

How can you speak for @"Haglund"? If you tell me that you are not comforted by knowing there was a motive for creating the universe when you cannot kn...

If your mother was Jesus and you're Jesus, then that means that God impregnated you and you gave birth to yourself. There's a gender fluidity issue at...

You're telling me that you wouldn't talk to your mom about the night our Creator found his way into her inner sanctum? As the messiah, I'm wondering w...

If you are, you would be able to answer a few questions for me: How did your mom describe her divine pounding from our Heavenly Father? Did the crucif...

Delusions of grandeur and messiah complexes abound.

I was born on year zero, which is common among Messiahs. It's year 55 AD by the way. Anno Domini, the year of your Lord.

Mustard doesn't go on my brisket. Mine is a Jewish brisket that slow cooks in the oven with carrots and onions. You describe a smoked Texas brisket, a...

Leftover brisket for every meal.

We're the peculiar breed of us that doesn't count. We philosophize for its own sake like we matter. CRT articles might sway the 5 or 6 people who actu...

If you're acknowledging it isn't going to change anything other than making for interesting academic discussion, then we're in agreement. T Clark said...

That an intellectual movement will not change the nation's political direction.