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LOL. Cheers for the content of the comment about yours response to me

if you read that as “blaming you” for anything but your own mistakes then, again, mate, far be it from me. But it certainly helps to contextualise you...

What's going on with this? literally no idea of hte context and no impetus to trawl sources.

Or, as is in fact the case, I've been very careless with my words and you have no interest whatsoever in anything but destructive commentary. Far be i...

I did. Your response was just an emotional reaction to either incorrect interpretations or outright nonsense, such as: I'm glad you don't care what I ...

Thank you for going through and finding the relevant passage. I cannot understand how you're getting there, though: Not at all. The inference (and, fr...

I don't think you're in touch with the facts on teh ground, in this case.

Yes, but I do not see any analogy between them, as noted, for the reason noted. I think your terming of the sides of the analogy is inaccurate to what...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68232883 "There is no other solution but a complete and final victory" It is very, very hard to have sympat...

Went to a random thread. Was not disappointed. First time i've felt like responding the way Banno does. Is the general consensus around here that soci...

Does this explain some of the cognitive dissonance required for specific religious claims counter to empirical evidence forr you?

Ah! Fair enough - well glad to have a cordial 'proper' intro. Welcome to the forum Dan :) I can see you're going to really contribute a lot here. Unfo...

I can't grok what you're getting here, but there's no bullshit to be found. Using analogies isn't bullshit, and neither is what im trying to get acros...

While we see eye-to-eye on a lot of this, it is patently hte case that there is no analogy whatsoever between Native Americans who were purposefully k...

I may need to ;) Corrections are intended to correct. I do not see that you've done this. Asking to be corrected is not asking to be either taken for ...

I assume you're taking it in good humour, but i am sorry. I should've been more cordial in a first comment! I suppose to me, that is true, but its not...

Not always going to be a good thing. But hte former is definitely true, and good (in the sense that its worse to have a Republican swaying reproductiv...

prima facie, I'd agree, thought intl law isn't my area. It seems quite clear that this would need to be 'heard'. I do have serious reservations above ...

Sure. That's not relevant though. It could have been purely a development in tactic, route-setting (int he sense of knowing other's attempts) or body ...

Thank you for the link. I will make comments as going through. I think the use of 'see' throughout this essay is misleading. It assumes direct percept...

Not to my mind, but a fair objection. Being influenced by someone's thinking or writing doesn't mean taking on their positions, whether philosophical ...

Is this quote to insinuate that I am somehow wrong to posit that Rawls didn't write about Hegel in his career generally? I want to be clear: It could ...

For sure. I estimate some 65% of Philosophers proper would. But I wouldn't shy from that.. I don't think it should. Rawls is obviously an absolute pow...

I repeat my first: It seems you haven't actually looked into these discussions past your fairly uninterested (meaning dispassionate) glancings. Your r...

Interesting turn in the last page or two. I see Dennett rearing his head in these discussions. I think it is, even after reading Dan's elucidative pos...

I would say that quotation (and what I take as implications of it, for your views) comports with what I had taken them to (very vaguely) be, so that's...

It is utterly insane to me that anyone takes seriously the concept of males crying victim because they're prevented from victimising females. I can't ...

Fair enough. We need not care about much :D Not at all. His mode of thinking is what I was stuck in for a decade or so. That's why i recognize how rid...

Thank you guys :) Just to preface, for you all, absolutely everything you've said is 'fair enough' and I don't mean to sound incredulous, if I do, bel...

Very wrong. A feel a cursory scan of Bart's work ensures one that the historicity, or not of the Bible is one of his central tensions. He takes elemen...

Very much so. It is an attempt at philosophy by a theosopher.

You seem to be entirely resistant to sense, empirical data and being confronted with the incredibly obvious failings in your writing. I do not mean to...

Im unsure that's true. Bart Erhmann is a prime example of someone who would rather Jesus didn't exist as it would be a smoking gun for his career succ...

My take on humour is that is essentially represents some degree of 'short cut'. This might only apply to certain types of humour - But i'll address ot...

Percy Jackson and The Olympians. Weirdly compelling watch, for what it is - pre-teen mythical drama.

Prior to any further search, it would depend what you mean. 'Dynamic movement' is pretty vague and could be thought to be involved in the initiation o...

:wink: *yet. We may be merely embarking on an arena for which we have no handbook. Definitely less likely though.

"Could care less" is both wrong and incorrect.

Very good call. I got my 'athletic start' with Rock Climbing. The explosive power there is absolutely immense (bouldering particularly). It has transl...

I've been told to use Discord, thus far. I've also been working 16 hr days :P

Uneven bars - different set of skills imo, rather than just two high bars. Very different, imo. Though, I would personally assume females would clean ...

Up top, let me point out, as i tend to do at roughly this point, I am new to figuring out 'what I think' as such. A lot of my language may be imprecis...

Very basically, a diletante. More complex-ly, a well-meaning moron with low filtering skills. Though, that last one is a virtue, in my mind.

I'm unsure why - this seems to define miracle as rare. As i understand, we could get a miracle per moment; as long as it's something which requires th...

We're fellow travelers. I just enjoy pressing people on their views here.

Suffice to say it isn't - But i also am entirely unsure how you got there, so I'll refrain from going further. It's not access at all. This is why I'm...

I'm not seeing any irony lol It is not particularly conceivable, imo, having done Gymnastics for some years and continue to do fairly high-level calis...

You're not really reading what i'm asking here, it seems. I have asked you, if something is unknowable, how could you possibly learn it? It is impossi...

Do not agree. If you replace 'assumption' with 'inference' then, yes, that is where i stand. I think this is where science actually stands. I do not t...

Yeah, good, very good question. Correlation, I suppose, would be the only way. Do the things we're experiencing correlate with the expectations Evolut...