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So answer this. Does westerners hate Ukrainians?

I am a person "in the west" so yes, I matter here. Now answer... Do I therefore hate Ukraine?

So, answer the question. Do I therefore hate Ukraine?

Oh, no. You won't bullshit yourself around this one. You claim I hate Jews because I am worried about the war in Isreal. Do I therefore hate Ukraine?

So, now that you have unloaded some more nonsense... do I hate Ukraine?

I started to care about Israel when it became relevant in a conflict escalation that could lead to world war 3, before that I did not care. There are ...

If that is what you said, then you need to rewrite your argument, because it makes little sense.

What? Talking about 1 of the 2 wars that could bring about world war 3 makes us antisemetic? We need Lionino to come back here and tell you how dumb t...

Yes, I think I follow, except I think that "confused" is not the same as not bothering with fully knowing the meaning of a world before using it. Peop...

Oh, I am sorry if I seem personal here. I ment it more in general. I believe you can be successfully bullied for just about anything. E.g. A girl with...

A constant barrage from the same angle will wear anyone down. You will start to crack and it will become a weakness. Bullying tactics 101. I am guessi...

I don't think people need to be delusional because they don't share your grasp of the terminology. Confused seems better. Even so, saying you are an a...

Maybe, I am unsure. It all comes back to not being able to imagine a new color as I stated here From this exercise, I deduce that it is more likely th...

This is not defined anywhere, what if the scale goes like this: 1 is good, 3 is great, 5 is perfect. ? I do think that people who votes 1 are just bei...

Was the rating system ever defined? For you a 1 may mean something that can't be read, just random letters. Others may define a 1 as the text they lea...

:up: You guys crack me up.

I don't know if this has been said because I am lazy and have not read comments, but.. I think a 4th option would be that you follow the chain of caus...

Yes, the golden mountain is a combination of Gold + Mountain. I agree that it is original but the elements of it originate from nature. A randomizer o...

So what about those that are sure that our religious gods do not exist, but have no clue about anything supernatural beyond that? Are they just atheis...

Ye, you are right. I lack the prerequisite knowledge here.

Music to my ears. My standpoint is this: Humans are not capable of truly original thought. What we call original thinking is just small pieces of prio...

To define something you would need to know something about it, does Christians claim to know god? Maybe, I don't know. To me it seems like arguments t...

The argument comes to a dead halt with "Define "God"", why would we be able to define god? I am not a believer but if a god were to exist outside of o...

1) Define "God" as a mind which is not contingent on the existence of an underlying information processing substrate. 2) If minds are contingent on th...

WNA? Nvm, found it

Ye "in-built" may not be true. I do think toddlers do a calculation to determine what is more and what is less. It is a form of math.

I believe we already solved this. Hallucinogen is correct, in his claim of irrational, if "belief" is to be counted as absolute (true or false). The w...

Greed. Even a toddler have enough inbuilt math to enable them to be greedy and want what they think is "more".

Well, I mention this because you used bridge building as an example of mental concepts taking physical form. I am trying to add to that that the menta...

Ye, the belief basically stems from the low chance that everything we experience could ultimately just be one huge fever dream and none of it be true....

True, but I believe that no one is ever 100% sure, so when we say "certain" what we really mean is 99.9...% sure. And if everyone else if fine with eq...

I do not agree here either. When I say that I am "absolutely certain" about something what I really mean is that I believe it to be true with an error...

I also believe that most people that call themselves atheists are really agnostics. Atheism is just a more common term.

In my mind they are. To me, it is about the level of certainty.

This is true if you work with absolutes. If you 100% know something then there is no room for not knowing. But I think a person can be 85% sure that g...

I am not sure about this one. I think an agnostic can harbor a bit of belief, they just aren’t sure. An atheist is more sure about the lack of god.

With this I seek to claim that our concept of math did not build the bridge. It was a fallen tree over a creek a long time ago that did. The mental co...

All complicated math is derived from simpler math. The basics of math are taken straight from reality. More complicated math is simply us running away...

First off, I am lost in this entire conversation so this is just me clinging on to something I think may be worth mentioning, maybe. The issue I see i...

Most people will do research as soon as they find out that they are going to be parents. The ones that do not are also less likely to have taken any p...

Fair, I retract my statement. Edit. It seems I got it all confused with this: "One critique of the dictum, first suggested by Pierre Gassendi, is that...

I did not read your entire post because I don't care enough about the subject but -- This is a mistranslation of "cogito, ergo sum". A more proper tra...

Who are you asking? And what is the question? If you are asking me then you need to rephrase, because I understand nothing ^^

I don't understand how "physical" is defined here; does it not stand in opposition of "mental" anymore? Because it is true that even our thoughts are ...

This is not the part of his claim that sparks a debate. The part that I question is where he claims that the amount of figurative interpretations has ...

What is better: ”Spend some effort to find what misery you spread, then try to lessen it.” or ”Spend some effort to find what misery you spread and th...

Nicely put.

The commandment would be a way to be good, not the way.

Well, I focus on misery and I do define it.

No one, it would be a shared belief and at most you would be pressured by your peers to follow it. None, except by any laws/norms that would be built ...