You can pretend all you want to that it's just a different perspective and you're able to distinguish between real news and slanted reporting but it's...
Take this statement as you right it: That means 1500 people beat cops. That's just absurd. A few people may have but certainly but not 1500. I think J...
Simply based on the majority voting for someone who made his agenda known and he then obtained a majority vote. Does that mean every move made has bee...
OMG and you had the nerve to make fun of what I considered a fact. Everything you have said here is a matter of opinion. Them being a threat to democr...
Alright so it's not quite a fact, it is more of a scientific imperative based on the rational and study in the following papers, one an NIH study. htt...
Not sure I agree with every characterization here but once again a very reasonable and interesting post, I commend you on your thoughtfulness. I'll ha...
Where do you get this from? What does constitutional oversight mean? I think you mean to say congressional oversight as the constitution is a document...
Totally agree and applaud your whole post here. Although there is no dictator in this picture, nothing that has been done by the executive has been un...
To the OP; there's good book by Sam Harris called the Moral Landscape which might be worth a read for you. I have my disagreements with Mr. Harris but...
The mental construct of "2" in the brain is not material. Again this is definition dependent. Material has a meaning that excludes mental constructs a...
I will further qualify my answer to say that if we say or determine that the number 1 is real and not just in the sense that it represents a real conc...
Now this I find is an interesting question. I find myself initially at least, in agreement with your position on this although I'd like to give it fur...
Here's a very basic example of the error you are making; A = B B = C Therefore A = C. This is logically valid in all cases. It's sometimes true and mo...
I suspect English is not your first language? There is no correct English language logical reasoning that would support the premise or conclusion that...
This is patently not true or incomplete at best. You are the one over generalizing. A child's life starting is contingent upon their parents initially...
Well now that is true. I stand by the fact you cannot know anything for absolute. I have held dear friends as they took their last breath and all I ca...
Na, I don't buy anything you say here. Bounded infinity doesn't make any sense at all, it's not infinity if it is bounded....again by definition. Indi...
I didn't over generalize anything. I specifically stated if the existence of a thing is dependent on the existence of something else and the first thi...
I wasn't making any argument. I only formalized your argument. I don't support it. I stand by the fact you can't know any objective reality. If you ha...
The above quote is wrong (logically invalid) if you stick with the generally accepted meanings of words. You are by syllogism, inferring that "existen...
I partly agree and disagree. I think you are playing semantic gymnastics. Saying you exist because you exist is definitely just circular reasoning (Se...
Okay now this is interesting and although I knew Cicadas had a 17yr cycle, I didn't realize there was a `13 yr version nor the Fibonacci sequence bein...
Yeah I blew it with that sentence as you rightly pointed out, it doesn't necessarily follow. It's just difficult to understand how subjectively bounde...
I agree that it is difficult and I get the prime number claim but is that really a predicate that is outside of the human notion of prime numbers? I a...
I'm not really interested int the story here. I'm more concerned with the media's completely negative coverage. 100% all the time. Even if I admit tha...
Sure but that wasn't the point. In the hands of the Dem President they are hailed and in the hands of the Rep President they are ridiculed and despise...
Do I believe federal workers have lost their jobs due to Trump, certainly. I'm a federal contractor and work with Federal workers. But I don't just "b...
Didn't mean to scare you, lol. It's not objective reality that makes it so, it's a common language and vernacular. You can define objective reality in...
So I said I didn't like agenda driven propaganda from media on either side and you think I said the media shouldn't report on what Trump is doing by e...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I'm supportive of all or even any of those recommendations, just that trying to get the real story has become almos...
All I can say here is if the New York Times characterizes Musk's actions as such then it must be true because they have no bias and all their reportin...
Yes we are essentially agreeing that there is no objective reality that makes any sense with regard to human consciousness. We have no way of experien...
If I understand what you are asking my answer would be no, there is no "correct" way, there is no truth of the matter, there would be different ways, ...
I think this is a categorical or contextual error. Things that exist I would say have real predications and fictions which are constructs of the mind ...
As you have stated it and quote Hume, that would suggest what I supposed. That rationality cannot be divorced from human emotion and so the statement ...
Also I'd like a redo on my opening statement about removing emotion and ethics/morality based on what you've objected to. It's really religion, morali...
LOL as I said I disagree. Well not entirely. I do think you can make a rational case for suicide but that requires more thinking and writing then I wa...
I disagree. Suicide may be rooted in those things or maybe not. Could be as simple as wanting to end the intractable pain from terminal bone cancer. I...
Thanks and I also think your conscience should be clear, you were providing the right kind of support against conventional thinking but right nonethel...
The case against suicide once all the emotion and man-made ethic/morality is removed, it is a matter that cannot be determined as an absolute. In othe...
(I realize your question is somewhat rhetorical but I'll take a stab at an answer anyway). No of course not. We are human and therefore prone to contr...
I was going to write it exactly as you have but I didn't want to use such forceful language. It's essentially what I meant. Well you are making my poi...
After reading through several responses and the OP I've noticed that the definition of nature the OP is questioning about, needs to be clarified to re...
Can't answer that as I don't believe there ever was a "Jesus Christ". Actually I'll take a wild guess after all and say he'd say the same thing that I...
I see no logic to the notion of torture used in that thought experiment. Could have left it at simply "killing" anyone who learned of it's existence. ...
This I agree with, it's lack of morality. No I have not played dungeons and dragons so I would need a definition of evil as you are intending here? As...
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