Artemis

IQ, like most things, is not a simple thing to assess. Studies have shown that it's culturally influenced and tests a pretty narrow range of abilities...

I think we should stick to ye olde PM method for alerting mods to troublemakers. Otherwise you might as well call it the witchhunt thread and we have ...

Are you stereotyping all black people as ghetto gang-bangers now? Ha! I know a few Nigerians who will get a kick out of that. Excuse me while I take a...

Well, but that mostly holds true not for "Germans" but "people living in Germany." There are plenty of Germans (i.e., people of German descent) living...

I sincerely hope you do mean that in the past tense.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/the-true-and-false-virtues-of-the-left-robert-boyers?source=EDT_NYR_EDIT_NEWSLETTER_0_imagenewsletter_Daily_...

You're right. Otherizing people is the wrong approach entirely.

Since atheism is the lack of a belief in a deity, I don't see how it could be a core principle to my philosophy. I don't base my view of the human con...

My only worry about the impeachment thing is that if Trump sees himself driven into a corner, he'll just resign (a la "I've got better things to do, g...

Cogito ergo sum. But I can only prove that with any 100% certainty to myself, not to you.

I think once you get into the hunter gatherer epoch of human development, you're already at the stage of higher cognitive skills. At least for the hun...

See my response to Praxis re:peacocks. Sure, like blonde versus brunette. There's no reason (I know of, correct me if I'm wrong) for one to be more at...

I'm not an expert, but seeing how most animals try to make themselves seem bigger when predators approach, I would assume that a huge plumage with spo...

When I say reproductive mechanism, I mean sexual selection. And, yes, I think it's just as important to understanding evolution as mere survival. I th...

While I'm in agreement with your description of how the survival mechanism of evolution happens, I do think there has to be positive survival value to...

I've always said Jesus would've been a long-haired, tree-hugging, bleeding-heart, commie-swine hippie (which is why I'm mostly sympathetic to his part...

:cheer: :100:

You ignore my answers and then you ignore my criticism of you ignoring my answers. Just in order to ask the same question over and over. Trolltrolltro...

You're trolling.

Not until you respond to answers I've already, repeatedly given you :kiss:

Do you always ignore the things your interlocutors actually say?

Why do you ask questions when you're clearly not interested in the answers?

I can lead a horse to water, but I can't make him understand logical arguments.

So, for example, I have now 3 or 4 times explained 3 and you keep just ignoring what I say. On that basis, and your unapologetic rudeness (which leads...

So that's just rude.

If you want to define god as love so that you can continue using that random word for whaatever reason, go ahead. But that means god is just an emotio...

Actually, I did, and you're just refusing to engage it. That not only shows you've lost the argument, but that you're kind of a bad (and impolite) int...

I answered that: probably a bit of both. They work together.

You keep on doing the same thing, so I'll jus shorthand it for ya: linguistic quirk.

Love doesn't entail god.

No, it doesn't. The brain multi-tasks. It can do many things at once. Like I can rub my belly and pat my head at the same time. Or play the melody and...

That's not a statement, it's a question.

Probably a bit of both.

That's not a paradox. It just means one of them is mistaken or lying. Edit: misread it. I already answered that: it's just a linguistic quirk that you...

Seems like a false dichotomy to me. Either god or nothing is worth dying for? The people you love are worth living and dying for to most people, I wou...

Consciousness and subconsciousness are as non-contradictory as a duck swimming on a lake. The legs are moving, but you can't see them, all you see is ...

Jinx! :wink:

It would still have to be logical. No.

I think whether you're talking about logic or metalogic, you're still forced to employ logic. I'm not opposed to finding flaws in parts of the system....

They don't exist, because they would be paradoxical. 1. Is true. And before you get all "Critique of Pure Reason" on me, the limits of our perception/...

Just a quirk of the abstract and constructed nature of language. You can say a lot of paradoxical things, and none of them actually exist, because par...

Arguing against logic using logic will inevitably lead to the equivalent of saying "this sentence is a lie."

You're trying to logic your way out of logic. It's not going to work.

Truth ain't a democracy.

Same. The forum won't be quite the same without him.

That's an entirely different process from simply being atheist. The atheist recognizes the absence of a god and an afterlife. After that the atheist h...

The arm is made out of smaller parts, without which it cannot exist. It can exist with some of those parts altered or missing, but there have to be en...

Show me some proof rather than just assert it out of thin air. Show me how there is such a percentage of otherwise "male" persons who can nurse, witho...

"Useless" and "inaccurate" are also distinct complaints. Being useless does not makes something inaccurate.

Of course it does work. It tells us, for example, which person gives birth and nurses. And which person can't, simply cannot, do that. It tells us whi...