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Hmm - off the of of my head I can think of a few simple tests. 1) Lift your arms up and then relax them. You will feel your arms falling back to your ...

I relate to your comments. One little nit-picking detail: You can feel gravity.

Hah! We have a very similar situation in our family - sister-in-law is Trump supporter. We love her dearly. The crazy making thing (well OK, one of ma...

I can't make any sense out of this sentence. What does the word "nothing" refer to? Is "nothing" a label for the null set? How can "nothing" have a pr...

To expand a bit on what @"Banno" just said - if you are a witness in a court of law - when you swear to tell the truth, whole truth and nothing but th...

Are there other categories of facts besides "absolute facts"? E.g. Are there any facts that are not absolute? Are there facts that are green? Unhappy?...

You claimed that astronomers spend most of their attention to objects and don't pay sufficient attention to space. Call that statement A. Several peop...

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” ? Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass I apologize for the ...

As long as you're at it, would you also please go on record acknowledging that you are contradicting yourself, so that members will be relieved of the...

Well duh, but yes. And now you are breaking your own principle. Space is not an empty void. It is full of particles, energy fields, etc. Countless num...

I'm not playing your games. Your inability after numerous requests to give a clear explanation of your terms demonstrates that you yourself don't unde...

At this point I'm still trying to understand what you're saying. When I first saw this sentence it seemed wrong to me since under the plain language u...

[reply="TheMadFool;454262" there isn't an attribute that each and every object in the universe possesses Are you seriously suggesting that radio waves...

I'm OK working with however you choose to define your terms - but you gotta pick a usage/definition and stick to it. When you use the word objects? Ar...

there isn't an attribute that each and every object in the universe possesses. — TheMadFool Perhaps I'm totally misunderstanding what you're saying, b...

Could you clarify how you are using the word object here. E.g., Are you referring to physical objects - chairs, planets? Are you going more granular d...

Sing a song, dance joyfully, cherish every moment

You're over thinking it :smile: Breathe in, breathe out, repeat . . . . . . My 2 cents worth.

But that's not what Trump was saying. He was saying that even if we do not have a vaccine, herd mentality (his words) would eventually eliminate COVID...

The fact that slavery and legalized segregation are gone does not mean that systemic racism has disappeared. The fact that things are not as horrible ...

Ah - back to the Definition Wars. According to wikipedia: Atheism is in the broadest sense an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broa...

The fact that a small percentage of black people have achieved financial success is irrelevant to the discussion. Correct. if you are in denial that s...

I'll disagree with you on this one. It's not that they are lying - or even stupid or ignorant. They have (metaphorically) painted themselves into a ph...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. OK, Mr. Dickens which was it? Was the best of times or the worst of times. You can't have it both...

That sentence has no meaning. You're back doing poetry.

Are you saying that it is impossible for a person to do two things at the same time? I know I can. I can both drive and day dream at the same time. Of...

My sole contribution to this interesting conversation: Musical Chairs

And just to demonstrate that I am a man of my word? I give everyone else responding to my post the last word . . . . :grin:

For starter I take it that you would agree that 300 years of slavery and over 100 years of legally enforced segregation was not a good thing. If you'r...

There's an expectation that if you start a new discussion then you should take part. Other than that it's entirely up to you. Did someone post somethi...

Just seeing this discussion for the first time. I joined up about 2 years ago - mostly just to learn and pick up new things. I've bumped heads with a ...

I could be totally misreading them, but AFAICT 3017 is claiming that at least some portion of the Bible is factually correct. Of course you are correc...

You're onto something here. If all these groups would simply get together and work out their differences - that would be an amazing event that could c...

Millions of people around the world (such as our friend 3017) consider it to be either totally or substantially true. Of course one could counter that...

Every once in a while you say something that I agree with and here you are correct. There is virtually no historical account of Jesus. The Bible is a ...

Please allow me to introduce you two nice people to each other. @"nyimislam" - Apologies if I have misinterpreted you, but you seem to have some sort ...

I was trying to talk him out of repeating the same thing over and over again

There can be no doubt that early Wittgenstein - circa Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - would have agreed with my assessment that religious language do...

I am baffled at how I have said repeatedly over and over multiple times that - with your definition of "god(s)" as being a natural phenomena - I have ...

I was not ignoring you. To answer your comment - you and 180 & 3017 are asserting both P and ¬P. I'm gonna start by going meta-conversation for a few ...

I am offering you and 3017 the opportunity to give coherent explanation of how you can meaningfully talk about or assign truth values to statements ab...

I appreciate why people become religious. It gives people a sense of belonging - to both a community as well as to something bigger than themselves. I...

You "deity types" categories split things up on what "God does or does not do". That does not clarify what the sentence "God exists" means. Frank defi...

I have no problems with your definition of the term objectivity (allthough for some weird reason you insist on capitalizing it). There are countless d...

So we're agreed that there is some supernatural aspect to your concept of "God". Next you need to define the word "exists". Then you need to explain h...

You still have not answered the question.

I'm repeating myself, but I'll try again. When I use the words "truth" or "true" I am using them in the same sense as used in a court of law. A senten...

I thought I was clear in my question - obviously not. I'll try again. Is there some supernatural aspect of your "God". More poetry here.

I thought I was clear that the problem has nothing to do with self reference. Rather is because the sentence is incoherent - it makes no sense. it is ...

I have not read through the entire thread, so apologies if this point has already been made. Maybe I'm being naive or missing the point, but I use the...