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It's encroaching Marxism that is splitting the Democrats. The Republicans were unified behind Trump, but now slowly splintering. Just reporting the ne...
April 18, 2022 at 23:23
Generically I see it as a logical puzzle where an entity is defined as having an essential element that cannot ever vary and the paradoxical conclusio...
April 18, 2022 at 18:47
Reminds me of a song: https://youtu.be/JE-dqW4uBEE
April 18, 2022 at 15:38
I see CRT as an academic theory that if truly debated would be debated like any other social science theory. It's truth would lie in empirical data, i...
April 18, 2022 at 14:00
My thoughts on CRT. CRT is an abstract theory that argues that racial inequities are embedded into the fabric of American society such that white peop...
April 18, 2022 at 02:30
It's an interesting opinion and I think a correct one. The background on it was the trial court dismissed the professor's suit by stating the universi...
April 18, 2022 at 01:48
Since it's been a good couple of years since you asked the question, I'll revisit it. As to your examples, I don't agree they're all purely theologica...
April 18, 2022 at 01:08
My guess is that neither side is in good faith in trying to neutralize indoctrination over hot button issues.
April 17, 2022 at 01:34
Here's my street cred: married for 20 years, divorced for 5, married now for 1 1/2. My thought about today's dating is that the impediment is too much...
April 17, 2022 at 00:30
If his explanation makes no sense, it's probably not true. Dishonesty in relationships is actually a thing. So, don't look at the explanation. Look at...
April 16, 2022 at 22:18
It just seems the inevitable result that if you ban entry to certain people, that if they illegally enter, they're not going to be able to go to law e...
April 16, 2022 at 14:20
This doesn't follow. What follows is that if the trinity is true, polytheism is true. This means that the trinity is inconsistent with monotheism, but...
April 15, 2022 at 23:26
That's on my reading list. I've started it a few times, but I haven't been able to get completely through it yet.
April 14, 2022 at 18:49
Go Dog Go is a book I highly recommend for its life study and discussion of basic philosophical truths. Consider the following quotes: “The sun is up....
April 14, 2022 at 17:46
If you concede there is a (1) a reality and (2) there is what you'd like reality to be, and you choose to live in #2 while recognizing you're not trul...
April 14, 2022 at 14:24
I might not fully understand your position then. Your OP suggested that it was stupid to believe that consciousness was reducible to neuro-biology, bu...
April 14, 2022 at 13:39
What if she was like Oholibah of Ezekiel: " 18 When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgu...
April 13, 2022 at 16:40
As phrased, I take the OP as somewhat of a strawman because it asserts that the predominant view of consciousness studies is an extreme reductionism, ...
April 13, 2022 at 12:27
Then why the variation cross-culturally? How are you distinguishing a priori from "hardwired"? Some cultures have purity rules, dietary rules, sexual ...
April 12, 2022 at 02:48
This is based upon a false assumption of the universality of ethical norms. It is simply not the case that all cultures hold to the same moral rules, ...
April 12, 2022 at 02:02
Whether your beliefs comport with reality doesn’t affect your moral worth. I'm aware that's a religious belief held by some though.
April 11, 2022 at 23:06
I think they do good because they are good people. I'm not terribly concerned with motives. If they're feeding the hungry, the hungry are getting fed....
April 11, 2022 at 21:22
I understand that "morality" is defined based upon the context or game upon which it used in, thus making the term inherently ambiguous outside the ga...
April 11, 2022 at 21:12
The cure for all existential doubt and for all the distress that might befall the philosophically oriented is to not be philosophical, but to be super...
April 11, 2022 at 20:23
You can't conclude unsexy people have bad sex, but only that they have ugly sex. I mean it's enough you've called them ugly, but don't deny them the m...
April 11, 2022 at 18:33
Obviously only you are responsible for you own decision, but relying upon others to assist in figuring out moral questions only means your conscientio...
April 11, 2022 at 18:25
Those were characters from the Barney show. Barney is a big purple dinosaur and he loves you. https://youtu.be/LK3C9IytrLI
April 11, 2022 at 15:49
These are the affirmations of the secular humanist: https://secularhumanism.org/what-is-secular-humanism/affirmations-of-humanism/ I don't think these...
April 11, 2022 at 15:43
I would add to your list that your kid be raised to be respectful of those fearful, weak, and simple minded and who don't achieve to an impossible sta...
April 11, 2022 at 02:32
https://youtu.be/3quKZjv3wBo
April 11, 2022 at 01:33
The same way a theist demonstrates the existence of his diety. He doesn't. Such is a foundational faith statement, from which all sorts of conclusions...
April 10, 2022 at 18:18
Sounds like some projection perhaps on your part. Not everyone is braced for impact when the comedian comes on stage. I can think that might be the ca...
April 10, 2022 at 18:10
We can speak of absolutism in the generic or debate the nuances of the categorical imperative. I do think Kant's efforts are more successful than the ...
April 10, 2022 at 03:45
In thinking about this, if draw a further distinction. Consider "one ought not steal" versus "one ought eat one's vegetables." The first, I'd submit i...
April 10, 2022 at 03:09
Wiki knows all: "Moral absolutism is an ethical view that all actions are intrinsically right or wrong. Stealing, for instance, might be considered to...
April 10, 2022 at 02:56
And so those who aren't disgusted by rape, do we declare them evil? And they declare themselves not evil. So who's right? Don't miss my point here: I ...
April 10, 2022 at 02:27
If rape is wrong even if we disagree that it's wrong, then you're arguing moral absolutism, in which case we agree. I think we don't though, but you m...
April 10, 2022 at 02:20
If rape is wrong because we have agreed it is wrong, it is good when we change our mind.
April 10, 2022 at 02:01
My research reveals the Koala appendix is actually 6 feet (200 cm). https://www.savethekoala.com/about-koalas/koalas-diet-digestion/ I make it my aim ...
April 09, 2022 at 21:59
So I researched this and what was happening was that the young male was going up the tree to shack up with a honey, but the older male was protecting ...
April 09, 2022 at 21:15
It's sad, but folks get evicted everyday. Pay the rent or get put out.
April 09, 2022 at 21:06
I don't understand the joke. You were supposed to be backing away from my door slowly.
April 09, 2022 at 21:05
Yes, Google Chrome who?
April 09, 2022 at 19:04
Who's there?
April 09, 2022 at 13:23
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott?
April 09, 2022 at 13:17
I take the opposite approach and assume if you've gone a long time without dying in the past, it's less likely you will die in the future.
April 09, 2022 at 02:34
Speaking of goats, I crossed paths with this goat on a trail once in Montana. His name was Jeff. He was on holiday from the Alps, was an avid skier, e...
April 08, 2022 at 12:27
Catch a Serbian baseball game. The Belgrade Cabbage Rolls should be playing the Kraljevo Longstockings at Danube stadium. A real battle of the Balkans
April 08, 2022 at 12:12
Step back slowly away from the door where I can see your hands.
April 08, 2022 at 11:59
The reference to Ecclesiastes was to provide a counter to the idea that religion does not include existential doubting and to quell your whole enterpr...
April 08, 2022 at 01:03