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I read this to mean that every person is a dinosaur. A) Some dinosaurs are people This is only true if there are any people because every person is a ...
July 17, 2019 at 18:48
Yeah, but when it's flowing like the mighty Mississippi, I must forego, regardless of how amorous I might be feeling. I didn't need to read Leviticus ...
July 17, 2019 at 15:37
The sacrificial laws of Leviticus which are set forth in very specific detail, even explaining which parts of the animal the priests can eat and how t...
July 17, 2019 at 15:28
I find this research intriguing and perhaps worthy of the Hanover award, not primarily because it references female bisexuality, but only because of t...
July 17, 2019 at 14:43
Let's go further and admit that the Nobel prize is bullshit, coming in a close second only to the Hanover Award. For someone to think it matters that ...
July 17, 2019 at 12:34
What's ruining college progressives is the optimism of the faithful.
July 16, 2019 at 20:57
How do you measure disorder other than subjectively, based upon intended purpose? I get that the shattered mirror looks patternless on a macro level t...
July 16, 2019 at 20:03
You claimed it was hypothetical, yet previously you stated it as fact. No one ever said God ran the jails. That was the clarification you offered. It ...
July 14, 2019 at 12:56
Are you saying feminists are fat and ugly? I kind of think you are.
July 14, 2019 at 03:38
Your thesis was that all humans lacked responsibility. You now restate it in the hypothetical. Why?Was there some dispute about who ran the jails that...
July 14, 2019 at 02:49
Free will is assumed in the Old Testament, and most (every?) society assumes it. Anyway, it's not a solution to the problem of evil because plenty of ...
July 13, 2019 at 12:53
The Christians invented free will?
July 13, 2019 at 11:57
July 12, 2019 at 20:51
You asked your question, which you insisted be answered, in the hypothetical, as my position has never been that I know my perception is representativ...
July 12, 2019 at 20:30
This is a different question, now asking me why I think the tree is the tree, although I said I could know nothing of the noumenal tree. But to answer...
July 12, 2019 at 20:11
I did answer your question, which is to say that since you cannot determine if a tree is accurately perceived as a goat or a hat, then you can't say y...
July 12, 2019 at 19:55
If I see a tree as a goat and you as a hat, which is correct? Are you committing to the idea that whatever I see is correct because it's just a partic...
July 12, 2019 at 19:27
Let's say not, but concede that the awareness is the consciousness. That still doesn't make the object and the perception the same thing, which appear...
July 12, 2019 at 18:24
My view is that I'm perceiving whatever has been transmitted from the tree to the eye to the brain to my consciousness. The light as it travels is not...
July 12, 2019 at 17:44
I like that the slightest hint of her shadow remains, so much so that it's indiscernible that it once represented a person . It's a cool concept that ...
July 12, 2019 at 17:39
To the extent that God has given humans free will, as many religions hold, not every person is doing God's work.
July 12, 2019 at 17:31
Communist nations are often non-democratic and iillegalize or otherwise highly regulate religious practice, whereas democratic nations take tolerant s...
July 12, 2019 at 17:30
Assuming you're a realist, there is a tree "out there" that somehow is perceived by you. That leaves two things (1) the tree and (2) the perception of...
July 12, 2019 at 17:21
Mishigas.
July 11, 2019 at 14:37
Ahh German. My bad.
July 11, 2019 at 14:27
You sure got you a mouthful of Gaelic don't you? Bless your heart.
July 11, 2019 at 14:15
A humor expert, yeah, that's a thing.. I'm a sadness expert and I help people understand what makes them cry. I used to be a meh expert. A funnier jok...
July 11, 2019 at 12:23
Cooperative and gentle humor would be if perhaps you were having a hard day, so I pushed your nose and said "Pookie is gonna be ok" in a baby voice. T...
July 11, 2019 at 03:05
All I perceive is a phenomenal state. How can I assert something about the noumena if all I'm aware of is my phenomenal state? What support do you hav...
July 10, 2019 at 13:03
All you can do is describe the sensations you have, and you can't even reliably say they are caused by the object. The incoherence is in speaking of t...
July 09, 2019 at 20:58
You can't explain what an object is like independent of looking at it because what it is like cannot be described in any terminology other than sensat...
July 09, 2019 at 19:35
Their choice was either caused by a prior event or it was not. If the former, it was determined and not free. If the latter, it was spontaneous and no...
July 09, 2019 at 14:07
Nope, it was the Atlanta City Council that first used that bird. They thought it up themselves.
July 08, 2019 at 21:53
The seal of the City of Atlanta actually includes the phoenix for that very reason. Maybe you knew that, or maybe you're just the smartest person in a...
July 08, 2019 at 15:07
Atlanta is much the same now as it was in the waning days of the Civil War. /uploads/resized/files/25/jo80d9pja3l2ghpr.jpg
July 08, 2019 at 12:42
When I decreed it publicly (my cat was present), I broke those few words into 55 deep south syllables and spoke with my distinctive drawl, taking a go...
July 08, 2019 at 03:55
Speaking of definitions, I must admit I'd never heard of a git until you mentioned it. It must be a British insult, probably used with the word bloody...
July 07, 2019 at 20:40
Can someone address the economic absurdity of this thread? If you increase pay for boring jobs, you'll just incentivize people to learn to endure bori...
July 07, 2019 at 17:33
The principle is sound? I'm not sure I'll be able to afford the $15m garbage pick-up service, but I guess I could get affordable weekly brain surgerie...
July 07, 2019 at 06:43
Perhaps having to pay adds some motivation, but as I noted in my other posts, it's the instruction that's most beneficial. Students on scholarship, wh...
July 06, 2019 at 23:10
An applicant should look at the credentials of the school when applying to be sure they're getting what they seek. I'm not suggesting you should go to...
July 06, 2019 at 22:55
Anything is possible, but it would take someone somewhat exceptional to study with the same rigor without supervision, imposed deadlines, required cur...
July 06, 2019 at 22:15
I agree with this, but this has less to do with the sometimes negatives of college specifically and more to do with the most often negatives of failur...
July 06, 2019 at 22:00
How does this conclusion follow? BC advocated going to college, just for different reasons (intellectual development instead of increased earning capa...
July 06, 2019 at 12:23
Anyway, look up the statistics for those interested. There's a direct correlation between level of degree obtained and earning capacity. Staying in sc...
July 06, 2019 at 03:41
The skill set is the same for lawyers and philosophers. It's a good undergraduate major if you plan to go to law school. Had I not gone to law school,...
July 06, 2019 at 03:37
Damn it! That's the only thing I got a degree in and I'm now to learn it's the only thing I shouldn't have gotten a degree in. Truth is there's only 2...
July 06, 2019 at 03:30
What career advice would you provide? And with your answer, you may heal thyself.
July 06, 2019 at 03:23
It's possible to self educate for some. For me, I greatly benefited by being taught, discussing, and asking questions.
July 06, 2019 at 03:15
I greatly value my philosophy degree. It was well worth it. An education makes you a better person.
July 06, 2019 at 02:58