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I'll take your reference to ubiquitous video surveillance to really be just one representative example of how technology is now overseeing our every m...

Actually, the only time the word "troll" appeared in this thread was when you used the term, meaning your position does not really appear to be the co...

I'm not unsympathetic to your position here because I have seen pointless injections of generally "religion sucks, religious people are stupid" sorts ...

I don't interpret this thread as you, which is to proclaim many of the anti-religious on this board as trolls. If there are instances of trolling, the...

Why do you find religious intolerance more offensive than say free will intolerance or capitalism intolerance or the various other intolerances pervas...

Location is an element of identity. If two objects occupy the same place at the same time, they are the same object. It's definitional.

I'm thinking about moving out to your gradma's house soon as well. Will you be able to watch my dogs when I'm looking for an acting gig? I'm looking f...

I don't see how your variation changes the odds. The issue isn't the foreknowledge of the host, but of the knowledge of the contestant as revealed by ...

@"Michael" has his own holiday, so I've created my own. It's called Hanoverhannukah. For eight days we sit in silence starving ourselves, then we danc...

You advocated a rule that the state should dictate right and wrong. I've asked to chair the committee so that I can pack it full of those who follow m...

I say break fast, not brek-fest. If you don't, you suck.

I always have. I skip the first g though.

The number of discussions on a given topic is based upon the number of people who start discussions on a particular topic.

Because that's how it's spelled. Also, the reason an egg is called an egg is because it looks like an egg. E.g. means for example. That's not an egg a...

@"Michael" Were you aware of the the festival of Michaelmas held every year on September 29th? Have you put your Michaelmas tree up yet? https://en.wi...

I couldn't get past the first word of that article. Fukushima. I mean that's an unfortunate name for a city, radioactive dumping or not. My thoughts a...

I was being sarcastic. But, should it have been for real, I get to be the decider of right and wrong.

I think the state should lay out in a book what is right and what is wrong and make it required reading regardless of the views of the student and his...

Not to overly simplify, but it seems obvious that conflicts arise over disputed beliefs about something, not necessarily religion, but something. It m...

I will buy it only if it comes with your mother in law and brother in law. They sound delightful.

We needn't do our own micro-study because this has all been previously done for us. E.g. http://www.unz.com/anepigone/correlation-between-iq-and-educa...

My take on the whole thing is: (1) society has elevated irrelevance to the point that the irrelevant have become objects of worship (all he does is ca...

This morning I ran a 5k, followed by 1 hour of kickboxing, then 30 minutes of outdoor circuit training, and then painted my shutters, all before noon....

Animal suicide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_suicide

Computers, unlike typewriters, auto format, with some fonts having letters of differing sizes, and some fully justify the words on both margins. This ...

It's an interesting question because it points out this isn't exclusively a US thing. In the UK, Scotland was given certain home rule powers, for exam...

The war between one spacers and double spacers: https://lifehacker.com/no-you-still-shouldnt-put-two-spaces-after-a-period-1825662114 You show your ag...

My reading of the article was not as suggested by many of the posters, that the US is in a tail spin. I read it as emphasizing the incompetence of the...

Your hero :wink: https://youtu.be/CQI0E1WCLMU

Even joy is miserable in the pessimist's view of the universe.

Under any scenario there will be no satisfactory explanation for the origin of it all, meaning explaining the first cause is likely impossible and not...

And here lies perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the universe, which is your conscious experience of it and your ethical evaluation of it. From th...

I'm reading a book about the curious religion of Mormonism, where they describe a corporeal anthropomorphic God, fully endowed with all human attribut...

Right, and the inverse is true, which is that clear evidence of evolution does not disprove ID. ID isn't a specifically defined ideology, and many the...

I read Dawkins' book (The Blind Watchmaker), which purportedly disproved Paley's teleological argument. I found it unpersuasive as to the philosophica...

If you arrived at a method for transforming a most basic primordial substance into the world we currently have, I'd think you pretty clever. Not infin...

The latter dispute (whether the ultimate purpose of the intelligent designer were to design humans) seems largely a straw man. I say largely because I...

At its base, intelligent design is a failed argument for sure, but I don't think pointing out that there are more efficient designs does anything othe...

These are like Readers Digest/dad jokes.

Unmerging is always messy. Always.

I think we should name it The Philosophy Forum. It's not a big difference, but I think the extra space after the word Philosophy adds a certain class....

I think that's an overly literal interpretation of the OP. Where you say "have children," I'd substitute it with X, where the question is why anyone i...

I agree that this discussion merger didn't pay close attention to what the OP was asking. I took this more recent discussion as asking what the bases ...

There isn't a universal cross-cultural moral sentiment. The Saudi Arabian government, for example, does not acknowledge their immorality, but it inste...

If we are to begin with the assumption that there are certain rights that every person has just by virtue of their existence, then I would argue that ...

I shall certainly try in earnest and see if that works. If that does not work, I will try in Ernest and see if that works.

I like most have the same question about where the mermaid vagina is. Beauty only gets you so far.

We all know what needs to be done, but no one will do it. We're just all too soft these days and no one is willing to throw a virgin in the eye of the...

Some friends and I did some disaster relief a few years ago when a hurricane hit NC. It was a lot of fun, so I'm hoping for another opportunity this y...

I'm a mere 250 miles from the coast, so I'm expecting to be completely submerged.