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Dah. Atheists are a clue that Theists exist, not God. 8-)

This is an abuse of language.

No. You are making fudge, not I. Perception is the relation, obviously. Since you have mentioned the "knower", you would agree that something lies bet...

Hume had no need to argue for against that which came after him. Hume's shoulders were those upon which Kant stood. He might have clarified Hume in th...

It's a times like these that I wish there was a "Like" button! :) :D

It is irrefutable. There is no knowledge without perception, not even Kant disagrees with this. I'm not saying perception is knowledge. But you seem t...

Marky has been too eager to attack me for saying that the source of all knowledge is perception, thinking he has spotted a naive empiricist (not that ...

You are misrepresenting Hume. Please state where you think he says "the only reason that..." His argument is more subtle, suggesting that a priori rea...

Rubber Duck!

Yeah I saw it. I was funny that the guy who everyone thought would like it, was the one guy that did not. Keith Allen is a well known contrarian god-s...

My first drug was tobacco which i was hooked on at age 11. That time there was still a lot of denial about its carcinogenic effects. By the time I was...

Music played well is an emotional full body experience; cerebral, physical and emotional. No technical job can possibly engage a person more. I think ...

ROTFLMFHO

With respect, my interlocutor is trying to refute the necessary claim I made that the source of all knowledge is from perception. Even knowledge of th...

I'm not ignoring it, but you are misunderstanding it.

We have no knowledge without perceiving the world. The mechanism is irrelevant to the argument, about the content of knowledge.

You are making my case for me, if you would but know it.

Not really. All science is based on evidence. We are just getting better at it. Newton gives way to Einstein, who in turn may well be shown to be inad...

You are just being ridiculous. Nothing can be conceived unless perceived. Put a new born baby in a sensory deprivation chamber and see what you get. Y...

So you accept radical empiricism like me? OR - you could answer my question "Tell me the non perceptual source of knowledge of which you speak!"

Algorithms randomised but written by humans do not imply any creativity on the part of the machine, no matter how unexpected the results. A machine kn...

Tell me the non perceptual source of knowledge of which you speak!

Since you believe your friend's observation that you have a loose grip on reality, there might be a reason that you do. MDMA is not psychotropic in th...

Not at all. Explain how? Show what Kant says.

`You are talking and saying nothing.

So they are planned! So what? Another thing I have noticed is that they all involve guns never imagined by the people writing the constitution at the ...

No I have first hand experience, and testimonies from dozens of people of my acquaintance. Drop a tab and you will know immediately. This is a complet...

Yes and no. They do not ask why, they DO ask how. If you want to know why ask a priest, as they have all the answers ready made.

You are mistaking what I am saying. I don't know if deliberately . but your objection is a complete non sequitur. Obviously you have to conceptualise,...

The truth is that ONLY sensory impressions give us all the knowledge we will ever have. If that leads you to skepticism you'll just have to lump it. T...

Please read what I said Dude! That is EXACTLY the statement I am attacking FFS. Please have the decency to read what I am saying, and not just pick ou...

It's not even a question. There is no more reason 'why' the "sun rises" than why there is a universe in the first place! However what the Enlightenmen...

MDMA Xtasy really does that. After a course of E's I found myself more understanding of others emotional position months and years after I stopped tak...

You have been careful to support my statement, by pretending to refute it. The two way street that lies between the concepts of the individual and soc...

It's the only way forward. Race is a response to fear of the other. until we can all live as equals, as one species one race- the human race.

It's hilarious. it's enough to reassure you how harmless pot REALLY is, as you kind of loose complete faith in the government's attempts to demonise i...

You are missing the point. First you are not comparing like for like. And this might lead to to your dissatisfaction. There are contingent reasons why...

Is that why you posted it? It's risible. Hippies used to watch it for fun in the 1960s, it's like one of those Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, of Plan ...

What's you point about the 1930s propaganda?

Drugs are many things, but they are amoral. Recreational drugs are no more an escape than a film, comedy, or a drink down the pub. Most people that li...

Well this is exactly what I mean by needing a Copernican turn. The social system has no volition, even if you consider it greater than the sum of its ...

He completely misconceives what a social system is. He is pressing home a view that suggests the the Social System is a causative agent, when in fact ...

Use it in the mirror it will do you some good. Alternatively get a life and drop a tab of acid.

So what is your drug experience?

I had my first joint in 1978. In my time I've grown it and smoked it. These days I'm not that bothered by it, though I find it helpful for chronic pai...

It's a cheap trick to say that drugs harm chromosomes when chromosomes are easy to harm. Pot is basically harmless, like anything else, when used resp...

So when did God tell you that? LOL

No true Scotsman fallacy. See what Christians do, not what they say.

Christians are proud to state that belief is in the majority. Presidents, elder statesmen , and high ranking army officers are always proud to declare...

Like I said - what you say is absurd.