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I shall be ducking out now. I really appreciate your commitment and exchanging with me in great spirits :)

I'm Irish - but you should be so lucky. Hehe. However, that does explain your comportment :sweat: Aiming to piss people off sits well with it.

Banno is uniquely immune to caring about anything but destructive (in the literary sense) critique "hereabouts" (not sure he knows "here" is adequate)...

https://amnesty.org.nz/unlawful-israeli-strikes-kill-civilians Just going to leave this here to stoke discussion. I don't take either side's claims (a...

That's not what im saying. What I'm saying is that raising the potential of not killing five people from 0% to 10% seems worthy of of ethical consider...

If i missed this in my responses, that changes my position to 'yes, they do' and i retract all previous objections.

That would be a very strictly consequentialist bit of calculation. I think the correct assessment is that you're increasing the potential survival rat...

You're repeating the same untrue claims you've repeated the entire time. Suffice to say I think your position is devoid of anything resembling evidenc...

Then what is capable of knowing things our minds are not able to know? It seems to me this is a bit backwards - If we can't know it, how can it be kno...

I am fairly sure understand your position and am not missing it(that is obviously possibly wrong)... But, my position is still no, it isn't, and that ...

I thought this was a decent book - I believe he was a researcher for Graham Hancock, who is a friend of mine. The stuff about the naming of the weekda...

Dealt with.

That's a good point, but as mentioned, people are very finicky and likely dishonest in such a culturally tense arena. I have two female friends who ha...

There's no confusion here my friend. Anecdote just simply isn't very good evidence for much, unless it aligns with the empirical data. The empirical d...

If not doing it has a 0% chance, surely the ethical thinking remains the same?

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I'm really sorry - this is becoming farcical. You are not responding to any objections put to you, and you refuse to move on from citing superstitious...

I agree, that evolution has done an incredibly good job of making us think this is the case... maybe that's a distinction I'm making that you're not. ...

That has absolutely nothing to do with what I've said. Is it possible there are language barrier issues here? I would really hate to devolve into irri...

I know. And I have answered, many times, my friend: I have experience, and I cannot understand that I have experience, other than as a result of sense...

And I'm fine with that. Stands to reason, given the thread :smirk:

Ahhhhhhh. That wraps it all up in a neat little package.

I'm still finding the OP and attempts to justify it totally nonsensical. I'm really trying here...

FWIW, I think he's attempting to make 'consciousness' and 'mind' two different things. I guess I don't flatly reject that, but i have a feeling he doe...

Ah Banno - level with me - do you have a really hard time making friends?

The problem is that this is a transphobic thing to do. No one is allowed to speak about the experience, place, or social impact of trans women except ...

I'm unsure this makes it any better... The idea that 50 year old male is given unfettered (in context) access to vulnerable young females undressing a...

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Unless the solution is something other than exercise..

This seems a very North-Whitehead type line. The idea of Actual Entities being foundational to reality even. All of the Lego blocks exist in a nexus w...

Why? Why not deal with the one he presented, and either help him work out the defects, or understand what he's trying to say (you can't be sure, regar...

Then I think you are taking a misguided, and ultimately dangerous position. Given that you live in Seattle (iirc) that is probably not a great positio...

Huh. this doesn't make much sense to me, and my understanding of the use of Ironic. It's only defined as an expected result of something which has an ...

This is the correct use of 'ironic' though, right? Irony is an expected result. It can be imbued with humour, too, though. Doesn't seem to require any...

Ok Gotcha. Makes the wait a little more exciting :)

I shall await. In the meantime, while I appreciate the game you're playing, I'm specifically asking - do you feel that inconclusive evidence is incohe...

I think perhaps my version of Dark Humour is a little beyond what's being discussed here, but i tend to find understanding and parsing dark humour in ...

I thought this was given - it's just also assumed that Netanyahu is representative of a religious right-wing, and not Israel in general. Apparently, t...

I think that's a little misleading from Mr. Watchel. It is true that the majority of 'illegal' gun crime isn't committed with guns stolen by that crim...

Hmm. Only in a situation where determining premises is difficult, I think. Moving from shaky premises is acceptable (read: reasonable) when we can't b...

Can you be a little clearer about what appears to be a bit of a corner you're drawing up.... What's the relevance of inconclusive evidence, and why do...

I guess I shouldn't be surprised - But i am. I wouldn't think someone like yourself would put stock in a culturally, geographically biased outlet with...

This may explain quite a lot. For some reason, you are rejecting all Western medical notions, by the sound of it. I, as noted, have no problem being a...

Cheers, I actually found the document pretty quickly here That is wild my dude. Absolutely wild. Quite wild also, that its nearly double the number of...

Not trying to be facetious - but do you have a source for this? My children are gen Z and this seems laughable to me... Would like to know if somethin...

Can’t be serious can you?

:ok: I feel this is accurate. Though, it doesn't really go to my rejection of Physicalism per se as my point is that i accept the evidence, and its no...

Fair enough. You've not presented anything to justify that position ... on my position. I can't even see you understanding what i'm saying in this exc...

I know the evidence and disagree its particularly convincing. As do millions of others. If you're partial to/leaning to/prefer physicalism as an expla...

What does this have to do with the previous conflict in our views? Most of the listings you've put out are just tenets of TCM. They are not 'facts' to...