Mongrel

Jews celebrate that bit of fictional genocide, though. Ghastly.

But you could ask. I don't think it's right to wave away victims. If they're brought up, they should be honored.. like, "Yes. That was terrible." I di...

I could tell you, but then you've have to change your name.

The scriptural history of the Hebrew capture of the "Promised Land" is a description of genocide. I think we should do: who was more violent, the Gree...

I didn't say their arguments were identical. Leibniz's approach strikes me as closer to Einstein's. Einstein occasionally relies on the reasoning in L...

Since you have yet to comprehend anything I told you, I think we're done.

The gang-rapers tom mentioned specifically justified their actions by referring to the actions of the Prophet. At present, Sunnis have no way to addre...

Every turn in the river sure makes its on way down to the sea.

Entrench power? The Republican party is dividing against itself. Paul Ryan is expected to try to find allies among Democrats. The next Hitler is as li...

Sorry to hear that.

Kant, like Leibniz, ruled out absolute space and time. This is sort of anti-Newtonian. Space is absolute if it can exist independently of objects and ...

Descartes launched a similar project. Ultimately the will to live conquers skepticism. There's a path in front if you. Put foot to path.

Probably because Arabs weren't afflicted in the reason department. Islam created a fruitful environment for philosophy, math, science, and poetry. Con...

I don't think he realizes his line of thought is about to get really racist. Or maybe he does.

I'm speculating that what's going on is that people are thinking that if A. Christianity does have a fundamentally pacifist message, and B. Islam's or...

It's more complicated than that. If you're interested, I found Muhammad Qasim Zaman to be an excellent entrance to the topic. Modern Islamic Thought i...

The problem of induction isn't supposed to make you stop your car in the middle of the highway because you don't know why you believe the road up ahea...

And this is why good intentions aren't enough to make one an expert. The point tom is about to make regarding Sunnis is correct.

Anybody read City of God? Is there an awesome guide book or commentary?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVu65bLRlms

You could base your faith in contiguity on observation if you have a functioning crystal ball.

Pipes' insight is not an indictment of the behavior of the average Muslim. It's the observation that there is no religious apparatus behind a so-calle...

You put a cup of tea to your lips. You drink it with full confidence that the tea won't change into gasoline on its way down your throat. You're willi...

I really don't like Daniel Pipes, but I think he has a point when he says there's medieval Islam and there's Islamism. Moderate Islam is mostly a resi...

I was just talking to John about a snake. I was trying to head toward the notion that just as the self must contain undisclosed elements, the world mu...

I don't know. Is there? I didn't present an argument.

Would that give us confidence or just be an expression of our confidence?

Embracing this assumption is a fine, upstanding thing to do. All the cool kids do it. That was never in question.

Again, there's wisdom in pragmatism, assuming contiguity past to future.

Past experience is an excellent guide, assuming contiguity past to future. But the challenge was to support this assumption.

I'd say, "First Amendment, mf." I'm just trying to tell you: your characterization of Jesus as a fire and brimstone preacher isn't in the NT. That cam...

Matthew 5:1-11.

The problem of induction zeroes in on our faith in contiguity past to future. Even if we knew that X has always been true until now, that knowledge wo...

How would the argument go?

Christianity is easy for me because I grew up with it. I decided to try to understand Islam better and I ended up reading several books (just trying t...

The actual landscape implies unseen landscape. Belief in the existence of that unseen landscape is not supported by any logic. Problem of induction.

I don't think you've read the New Testament. The prevailing message is love and pacifism. The more you judge, the harder it becomes to understand. The...

What verse in the NT promotes violence? It's all pretty pacifist. Comparing the messages of sacred texts, yes, Islam is more violent.

It's a lot like Canada except it smells bad. I once got lost in Detroit and ended up in Canada. It was kind of like what happened to Dorothy in the Wi...

You travel to a planet where everything smells bad, but it's peaceful. Meanwhile earth has undergone changes. There is constant warfare everywhere but...

It's about to get real between Mongrel and Wosret. Real as in statements being made about statements already being made. Major stink eye.

It's about to get real between the US and Russia. Real as in statements being made about improper surveillance. Major stink eye.

Say you're looking at the Mona Lisa. There's a landscape behind her which implies more landscape which is unseen. Is it reasonable to believe those un...

I'm the world looking at itself? But point of view requires separation. Maybe I'm a snake looking at its own tail. The tail is the world.

Cool.

Did you edit that?

That's true. When you take something that grew organically over centuries and replace it with a mangled mess of codified British law and explicit raci...

So are you saying that the effectiveness of dictatorship is a function of time period (as opposed to culture)? I think I might agree with that. It's b...

True. So if we started public executions, do you think the crime rate would go down, or stay the same?

Yep. But they do pretty well prior to failure, don't they?