charleton

That is £61k in real money. Since an average house is between £450k and £1.2M Lets break that down a little. £61k per year With a student loan tax and...

I think that this is fundamentally what the process is that gives us that feeling of consciousness, yes. But not just that, also continuous sensory in...

I am given to understand that a handful of corn flour is good for that.

Indeed. And your post about cream buns, chocolate sauce, and that nice man you met at a disco.

Tell that to Pope Francis and Ratzinger, both well known intellectuals. Pooof!!! LOL. Since there is no evidence of higher dimensional beings, a littl...

Figments are often unpredictable and capricious.

I agree. Our passions lie at the heart of everything we do. It's what motivates us. I do not think there is necessarily a 'reason' for all this. I do ...

It's rubbish.

How do you know this???

Run along to the solipsism shop I'm not taking the bait.

Take a look at some DNA, then you won't have to worry if I exist or not. Maybe you can account for how it is that all living things share DNA?

Fallacy of false analogy.

Is that the 'royal we"? If you don't know anyone exists then how do you pretend to speak for other people?

I think you are asking an epistemological question. How do you know I exist?

I don't think these are good examples of anti-intellectualism. The existence of nutters is regrettable, but those they follow and follow them are more...

You are having a laugh mate. It's called the theory of evolution and it has been happening for billions of years. Ask any gorilla! Or spend five minut...

What do you not understand by "Reality is not created by consciousness in an objective, sense, only in a subjective sense."? I seriously do not think ...

Reality is not created by consciousness in an objective, sense, only in a subjective sense. Why would you ask such a question?

Yes, it's called parallel evolution. Different branches of the animal kingdom separately evolved. It would not surprise me if consciousness can also b...

If he had given a fuck about slaves he could have lived without them. He could have freed them, paid them.

But since the traits are not specific to humans you can't do that. Which is very much the point I was making, obviously. You are looking for human liv...

There was a whole branch of biology devoted to this fallacy, now fully discredited.

Obviously the vote with the caveat is the only reasonable one. Whilst it is definitively impossible to do a post-birth abortion, since abortion actual...

Indeed, when we have dinosaurs like you. Shit does happen and that is exactly why Trumpers like yourself need to be fought against

Thomas Paine owned his arse.

Oh really? I don't think that is supportable.

I suppose that's up to you. If you want to deny rights to others then you have no leg to stand on when others deny rights to you. This would also enta...

Far too late. Children are much better equipped to know all about sex from the earliest possible age. As soon as they can talk. This protects them and...

Boo Hoo.

I answered for this reason. Though abortion should be the decision of the woman carry the foetus, as the body should be inviolable, abortion is less d...

You have achieved a great feat in this post.. At once you make a non sequitur, and a contradiction in the same moment. You assert that humans have fre...

I've seen Forums like this get too censorious. They end up with a few cranks remaining, and the heart of the forum dies

False analogy for the reason I stated above.

Boo Hoo. The spoilt ballot is in itself a political statement. Get over yourself!

Don't be absurd. As god is the designer, every death is his responsibility.

So much , so obvious. But you are changing the goal posts. All mammals, and birds, probably reptiles too; experience pain and pleasure. Let me remind ...

Well... obviously, except that at any given time 99% of all traits are survival neutral. The only ones that are significant are really important are n...

Evolution works FROM variation, not towards them. This makes the emergence of happiness all the more interesting. In fact all emotional states are evo...

Well DUH. You wonder why people take issue with you? Christianity is not built on "what he said", It is built on what he is reported to have said. FFS...

You are trying to impose a law that is useless. It's discrimination for the sake of it. If every single person who was mentally ill, incapable of rati...

This is what the "gun debate" looks like in the USA. https://thinkprogress.org/parkland-shooting-survivor-forced-off-facebook-6fc397ab2b9f/

And god is the biggest murderer of all. Miscarriage is his choice of abortion, and the plagues and diseases of the world are his games.

What's your point? Christians are not Jews and there is nothing to suggest per se, that abortion is wrong. God does it all the time; we call that a mi...

No - Se is in fact real!!! Honestly!

The thread is about the UK where this discrimination does not exist. But thanks for the info. Part so the US can be very backwards indeed. It's a wond...

I know what Aideen the Fairy looks like. She visits me everynight and gives me a neck massage!!! http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/mysticknightsofti...

"MEN" (not women) are not even created! But I think this is not meant as astatement of fact, but of an assertion of political right. The "forefathers"...

I suggest you spend an afternoon with a few people with Down's and try to tell them they are not allowed to vote. I think you might surprise yourself....

I'd agree that we need to extend the vote to 16years too. I assume that you too have an age limit in mind though? One that is not completely arbitrary...

They look exactly what they are; fantasies.