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I do not understand the nature of the question. Why are you asking it?

Art without Craft is like Sex without Love.

There is no unitary or precise answer to that question. You'd have to ask a mother crocodile who cares for her young. Or any other number of animals t...

Since you have not supported this with any evidence whatever, its a bit rich trying to pretend that the arguments that have been offered to you alread...

Evolution cannot tell you anything. Evolutionary theory can suggest how certain traits persist. But cannot suggest 'reasons' why. Millions of creature...

Well duh.

Something existing outside reality is a contradiction in terms.

How could this even be possible? There is no morality without moral beings. Moral beings are real.

No act is always wrong.

Like I said, you do not really appreciate what 'objective' means.

At one point Marx was so poor he pawned his clothes. He did not believe that every thing was PRE-determined. All determinists recognise that ACTIONS l...

Oh? I think you might not really be very clear on the meaning of the object/subject distinction.

Just because killing is painful does not mean it ought to be considered immoral. There are any number of moral leaders who have claimed the objectivit...

99% of all stats are made up on the spot.

I see you immediately falling down on the myth that a moral system can be objective. And reflect that you are also going to fall into Hume's is/ought ...

No, not in any way. Marx lived in extreme poverty.

You've never met my dog.

Generally amnesia is partial. Not in all cases. And there are all to many cases where the loss is profound. Nonetheless, pretending that consciousness...

I think he means that people tend to privilege words and their definition way beyond their role as representative approximations of the things they se...

Theory of Forms. The notion that objects more or less conform to an ideal. It places the logos above the world of appearances.

The dubious legacy of Plato.

You'll never have me sweetie! I'm out of your league.

I think you are confusing Putin with Trump. Russia has every right to be concerned by the moron in the Whitehouse. The difference between Trump and Pu...

In other word's the thread is as valid were you to call it "Ontological Argument Proving Harry Potter's Existence"

Let's remember that the Ukraine coup was the result of EU and USA help.

He also likes a good massage.

That's you. Not me. Try and read his post again What do you not understand by the phrase "My view is that since humans are generally selfish, happines...

You have no warrant to conclude this. Since and existence with no sensation is impossible, sensory input is an indelible part of consciousness. It is,...

This is as far as I can get in one session. I've throw out the obvious stuff, and the religious BS.

Depends on who is saying it and about whom. According to you, you know best, but it might be true that another knows best for you since you cannot kno...

Since we don't know what god is and the whole point of the exercise is to define god AS "the greatest conceivable being", your statement is empty.

Happiness is not in the gift of anyone but yourself. It cannot be a right nor a reward, since it is not a thing whose supply is restricted by the stat...

What other creatures would you include here? It seem to me that "existential" as a adjective is not adequate to the idea you are trying to convey.

Time will tell about Brexit. But I can't think what this has to do with me, or my observations about Trump. But any nation who elects a president who ...

not really. If anything it would be an ad gentum, or ad populem. For it to be a fallacy type, I'd have to be reacting against a specific argument. The...

Sadly Americans exist whether you believe in them or not. They stand as a warning against stupidity for the rest of the world. Now they have their God...

If you hate this one tale a look at https://www.quora.com If you want some fun answer their questions with a set of common misconceptions.

This is total bullshit. And one of my pet peeves. What they, and you are talking about is INSULTS. An ad hominem is something entirely different. Allo...

What do you mean.?

What a wretched existence. Imagine a child born without any sensation. What would they be conscious or? Nothing. Their brain would never form from the...

Dominance and recessiveness are misunderstood, and not particularly relevant. This has to do with the presentation of traits and how the phenotype dif...

Nothing you say here is relevant. Being an intellectual, or being seen as intellectual (which is what the thread is actually about) does not entail ma...

It may well be true that "jewish" people score higher (on average) on IQ tests. But you can't predict a person's IQ by their "ethnicity". Race is a so...

Yes. One thing has to be the consequence of natural selection; the sheer infinite variety. Variety is explicable in terms of the process but simply ca...

oh PLEEEEEESE! How are you differnt from Icke?

Theological Highlights of Vatican II. New York: Paulist Press. 1966 . ISBN 978-0-8091-4610-9. Introduction to Christianity. London: Burns & Oats. 1968...

"it" is the mother of all confusion.

I'd never recommend growing mushrooms in your pants.

ROTFLMHO

I have often heard it repeated that the problem of the existence of evil is explained in the following way. God is good, but were the entire universe ...