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Since we do not have unfettered access to the universe; that our perception of the universe is necessarily partial - we could never recognise a univer...

It is better to have lived and never worked at all.

Knowledge is not related to moral goodness, just veracity. Morality and goodness are wholly subjective.

Own it, Agustino.

What was the argument?? Agustino claimed to 'believe' it is true, and had to back peddle on what it is exactly since the whole thing is absurd. Not mu...

The establishment like to control drugs and prohibit them whilst they can. I do not think there is the slightest evidence that .. If you are prone to ...

It is pointless arguing about the meaning of substance or reality. It is a plain and simple fact that the Catholic Church in its arrogance codified in...

What you offer is not relevant. I was offering to the thread that which is claimed by the Catholic Church. Law is not apposite. Transubstantiation is ...

In 1551, the Council of Trent confirmed the doctrine of transubstantiation as Catholic dogma, stating that "by the consecration of the bread and wine ...

Sounds like another anecdotal case for using a natural product and not some synthetic shit.

I think Posty is talking about a drug. I've taken srooms on several occasions through the years. I think my first was about aged 18. That was nearly 4...

Obviously Wiki knows more than Agustino. "Catholic Church, the change of substance or essence by which the bread and wine offered in the sacrifice of ...

Insults can also be a response to being confronted with your own ignorance with a valid challenge

Aristotle said nothing about it, as it had not been invented in his time, living 100s of years before Xist. Aristotle would have called it bollocks to...

No I do not understand what means... But I do understand what 'literally' means. Can you explain what all the fuss was about when Luther rejected the ...

WOW what type was it?

Yes it's great. PS. It's best to make a tea from the srooms. Do not over heat, and use a paper filter to strain the solids out. Apparently strychnine ...

That is exactly what the doctrine claims. That the bread and wine is literally transformed into the body and blood of Christ by the magic of the sacre...

Fair enough. Have you tried Adorno?

It's still arrogant and lacking in skepticism. He's just inventing his own conceptual certainties by talking about that which is not evident.

Stupid! I was talking about nature in the wider sense, and was a quip in response to the silly statement "Sexual assault can be about sex". I've never...

But you are reducing nature to just an ejaculatory reflex, when I've made clear, had you read the whole of my post that violence and power-over is als...

How come ataraxia?

I'm not saying that. I am saying that you are saying that about their attitude to skepticism, which is about enquiry or it is about nothing. What seem...

That's just a point of view from people who had written themselves off from the world. Its not the most common, nor typical, nor accurate. Skepticism ...

Why would any kind of innate knowledge be objective? Anything innate has to be, definitively the subject of all basis of knowledge.

the present is a time of no dimension. The past is negative, the future positive (or vice verse) whilst the present of the zero on the timeline.

Whilst I agree that there might not be a typical meaning, there is no doubt that yours so flies against the basic definition that it is definitely idi...

I think we might need to have a few weekly prizes awarded on the Forum. This one gets my vote for "Bleeding Obvious Comment of the Week". Sexual assau...

Is this the original version of Danny Boyle's Sunshine

There is no such thing as a star sign.

This is all very well and nice, but practicing what you preach is my minimum standard. If he wants to take the skeptical stance, he can't remain a The...

I do not think he's talking about the how at all. That would bring him in to the realm of psychology if he did. He's talking about shit you absorb, mo...

I think your oversimplification of Popper is basically a straw man.

Yes, but in all those words he did not manage to get this bit out. Add your sentence to mine and you have more information than his whole paragraph. I...

I'd say that quote was ineloquent, and verbose. Something lost in translation if I were being generous. But he's not saying much. "subject and object ...

You've shot yourself in the foot already. It is impossible that all reports are true since many contradict one another. The fact is that any moron can...

Most of Hegel is gibberish; clever sounding gibberish. He's as bad as Adorno. I've no need to repeat gossip, and my comments do not rely on that. I've...

SH is really about a power relationship, and complete liberation of sexuality would not change the fact that some men are in positions of power over w...

Hegel= obscurantist, mystic. Russell did not understand him and it is my view that Hegel did not understand himself most of the time.

What's the point of anything? You are here. Philosophy is a way of understanding your condition.

Can you read?

I think its clear enough that your use of the word is idiosyncratic, and atypical.

I think you are confusing meaning. There is a difference between 1) I believe in nothing, 2) I believe there is nothing, and 3) I believe nothing.

Interesting reaction. I think you could put yourself in danger of seeing the results of the dynamics which are actually contingent upon unique conditi...

No, I do not think so.I think this is more like the case of Catholics calling Protestants "atheists", failing to describe their thinking. Skepticism w...

NO. You are supposed to ask questions first!

This is not skepticism, this is apathy. Skepticism is the ability to reject the endemic assumption, reject the easy answer, and to examine the questio...

Succession does not always lead to more complexity. It depends on the specific case of the environment. For example in the post ice age landscape of t...

What question? What problem?