This is an irrelevant aside. Surely you're not suggesting that there is not a single priest who is both celibate and who wants there to be more childr...
You shift gears here. Your first sentence is an argument for not living life, arguing that all pursuits are useless, so you should just sit on the fro...
There seemed to be such hype surrounding Dennett when I read that book that I felt I must not understand it and that I was missing something. I felt v...
I enjoyed a hamburger so fresh today that I could taste the sadness of the cow's only partially departed soul. As the sadness dissipated, the aftertas...
I did point out the logical problems with the association of celibacy and the anti-natalist position, indicating that there is simply no way to correl...
I'd also add that if the celibacy is the result of social inability to find a partner or simple lack of interest in pursuing sexual relationships, the...
You might already be in the Matrix. As far as the guy in the Matrix knows, he wasn't in the Matrix until he was being told he was being removed from t...
As I recall, John Henry competed valiantly against the steam driven hammer only to die at the end. Such folklore began during the industrial revolutio...
If he only thought that people ought to be concerned about the public good, but recognized they wouldn't be, then that would suggest he fully intended...
If Marx were correct and we all were motivated out of a sense to promote the common good, we wouldn't need check out operators. We could each just tak...
The Suppressive Slave and Vengeful Tariff Act of 1745 as submitted by Lord Alfredrick of Shropershire and subsequently accepted and decreed by His Maj...
The problem with most women (likely all, but my sample size is slightly less than all) is their objection to post-marital sex. You therefore proceed a...
An excellent idea. You can first have sex with your date and then make her your dinner. Of course, you should avoid eating certain portions in the eve...
Uh, yeah. Sure. Just like going on a cool boat ride. So it's not a date until you have sex? What was it before the moment of penetration? Just a frien...
Do you think they could make cultured meatballs composed of human cells that don't require the slaughter of a human? We could finally have ethical can...
The gift of being able to channel other people's experiences and declaring them inadequate is quite a talent of yours. I can only imagine the surprise...
You just sort of announce things, as if they're self-evident. Relationships rise and fall for all sorts of reasons: stresses, incompatibility, boredom...
Marriage leads to longer lives for men. http://healthresearchfunding.org/married-men-live-longer-single-men/ This strikes me as utter nonsense, to sug...
Priests don't assent to anti-natalism, but very specifically believe in being fruitful and multiplying, so much so that they object to any form of sex...
Who needs all these gadgets to entertain us anyway? When I was a kid, all we needed were a few jacks and a rubber ball. I'm going to go stand on my po...
There needs to be a specific system for rating priority that removes the subjective judgment element so that it can be carried out the same by everyon...
The concern is that many of the newer immigrants don't wish to assimilate like the old ones. That's really less a matter of opinion than an empirical ...
Or, better yet, how do the residents get the city to build higher levees before they predictably overflow and flood the entire city? It's sort of like...
Your laments are the focus of the right, who point to the inherent inefficiencies and incompetence of government. Government workers don't get fired b...
The word emotion itself is derived from the same root as "motion." We are "moved" by passion. Without emotion, we'd have no motivation to do anything,...
Although it is cold here in Atlanta, we have no snow, so we resort to playfully throwing rocks, bringing out our inner child, laughing with joy. A you...
I generally agree, and I think this whole deterrence argument is a red herring. It's simply not the real basis provided by conservatives for the death...
And despite the myriad of ways that society has demolished creative philosophical thought, the author of that article has been able to transcend it al...
No doubt that pragmatics play a role in every political ideology and there are few true ideologues anywhere, but to the general proposition that the r...
If you understand logic, you will rule the world. You don't understand logic, do you rule the world? Maybe, nobody ever said the only way for you to r...
I've considered forming the That/What Organization that (what) will be committed to eliminating the word "that" and having it replaced with "what" in ...
This summarizes my belief really in a nutshell. In fact, it's my belief that any attempt to attribute substance to God in terms of what he is, how he ...
We are living parallel lives I tell you. My diagnosis was in my 30s, though. It's fully controlled for me, but I do enjoy the more frequent colonoscop...
If humility were an illness, I'd be dead and gone, leaving the world an empty, useless place. And, for the record, it was extremely difficult for me n...
My objective here isn't to argue that the right's position is accurate, only that it is much more principled than the left wants to recognize. The rig...
The object of the discussion wasn't at all to convince you of the validity of the conservative position, but it was too offer the underlying principle...
I've not dismissed the myriad of problems an assertion of God brings and mine isn't an argument for why he should be accepted. I do think the other si...
Push harder I always say. The payoff is worth the effort. I can only say how I use and understand terms. I take the person who simply does not know wh...
Lemme fill you godless heathens in on the reasons behind conservative ideology: The death penalty -- just desserts, reaping what you have sowed Opposi...
I did a quick Google search and found that Mars Man/Oliver Carter was active in a number of forums. One of his close friends provided a good bit of de...
"Know" here is being used in a confusing way. Knowledge generally requires that the object of the knowledge be true, else it's not knowledge. If I am ...
If someone asked me how I dealt with very smart people that disagreed with me, I would respond by asking if they meant how I dealt with very smart peo...
I wasn't around when PF first began, but I must assume it began with less than what we have here. We at least have a base of good posters. These thing...
If the concern is that the level of discussion is too high and that makes some uncomfortable, I would be willing to bring the level of discussion to a...
Your epiphany was that truth was an object of knowledge, and my response was that your epiphany was what was already traditionally accepted. Unless I ...
If your argument is epistemological, setting out what knowledge is, it's generally (although certainly not universally) accepted that knowledge is a j...
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