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But that is exactly what you did in your OP. Right here: In other words, if She cannot satisfy both desires, then neither should you. But as you have ...

Agree To me, given the full context, it was clear that this was his intention. Agree- but sometimes it's fun to embed oneself in his imaginary world a...

I'm a big fan of B's rambling posts - albeit not in a way he appreciates. So I'm not defending his OP. But in this particular narrow case it looks to ...

So if She is not bound by LNC, then She can satisfy both desires. Since we frail/fallible human beings are bound by LNC we cannot fathom/understand ho...

Hey B - it's been a while so welcome back. I have two questions - In the past you have included omnibenevolent as one of the properties your imaginary...

John Oliver did a pretty good job last Sunday - as one comment noted: "It would be hilarious if it wasn't tragic."

Nicely put.

This has to be one of the best ripostes ever.

Texas has the death penalty for murder. If a person truly believes that the human zygote and/or embryo is legally a person, then the logical conclusio...

Thanks - interesting read. My understanding (misunderstanding?) of Tolstoy is that he would say that the ultimate causes of these events are beyond ma...

As I read this ongoing thread I am reminded of the Epilogues of War and Peace where Tolstoy talks about the origins of the War of 1812. Tolstoy takes ...

Hi Bartricks - I'm pleasantly surprised - you seem to have a sense of humor.

If I had to make a guess, I'd say that you visited NY TImes sometime in the past (could be years ago) and just forgot about it. I could be wrong, but ...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the ...

Shoes, shoes - is that all you folks can talk about? What about pipes - don't they deserve a seat at the table of this conversation? :razz: https://ex...

At the risk of hi-jacking the thread, this is great in theory, but in practice very difficult - the key word here is "rightful". Who owns the Land? To...

I admire your efforts to try to get these good folks to think clearly, but you must realize just how extraordinarily hard it is for someone to change ...

You omitted another option 4) The question is incoherent. See here earlier in the discussion

Your original P1: "Clapton is god" is a definition and as such is not a well formed proposition and doers not take a truth value. OK. So we can re-phr...

Words have meanings. The word "god" in P1 is not defined - and thus we cannot draw any conclusions from that statement. Consider these alternates: P1:...

Thank you for the nice compliment.

I've been following this conversation along with many others that cover similar territory and I have several questions to all parties - If "self creat...

There is no denying this. But regardless of US bad actions around the world, I'm not seeing how getting my representatives to read Chomsky will help u...

I've been lurking in this thread for a while now - and following with dismay the events in Ukraine. I may not agree with everything you have been sayi...

The reason this caught my attention is that I was at my optometrist this week and the aide checking my eyes said (in effect) "Hey, I see you've got a ...

Just a minor point of correction here. Floaters are real.

I'm not disagreeing with you that we need to be cautious about drawing conclusions based on sketchy & unverified news reports - BUT - Putin's claims/j...

You are not the first person to point this out . . .

I did a quick search. If I follow him, B is saying that LNC is true but not necessarily true - i.e. that God has the ability to break/ignore LNC but t...

Again I could be misrepresenting B, but as I understand him/her (don't know preferred pronoun) God can simultaneously divest herself of her omnipotenc...

I could be mistaken, but as I see it the core concept behind @"Bartricks"' definition of omnipotence is that God is not bound by the Law of Noncontrad...

Chapel was pretty cool but my favorite was the Gallery of Maps

When someone says they have a certain degree in some subject, the default assumption is that they actually attended school and earned the degree. By l...

Paul has received honorary degrees from several universities, but he never attended college. But maybe I'm wrong - please provide some documentation f...

@"Banno" Whatever else you might think about B's musings, I don't believe he's a troll (I'm guessing he identifies as male). I just checked - he has n...

I don't get what all the fuss is over Ukraine. Russia wants a guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO - NATO will not agree to that. There's an easy...

Well, like duh. They go on the galactic birthday cake. All, umm, 13 billion of them. Not sure who gets to blow out the candles tho. . . . .

If we were to do a Venn Diagram of our positions, there would be a fair amount of overlap. I would enthusiastically support all of these things even i...

Fair enough. I'll correct myself. Most victims are people who refused to get a simple vaccine that would dramatically reduce the odds that they will b...

I'm baffled by your position. Not sure what country you're from, but here in the US we are still experiencing over 1k daily deaths from Covid and the ...

Sigh. The vaccine does not prevent a person from getting Covid. The vaccine significantly reduces the odds that you will catch it - and if you do catc...

If you never feel even the slightest twinge of schadenfreude when bad things happen to people who are trying to harm you, than you are a better person...

Most victims are people who refused to get a simple vaccine that would keep them safe. Can you give me an example of harmful schadenfreude? If you wan...

Thank you for the frank and unambiguous response. In of itself, I don't believe that experiencing schadenfreude is a sign of mental illness - provided...

Perhaps I was not clear. I am asking a very narrow question. I'll try to re-phrase. If Trump republicans (for whatever reasons) are committing volunta...

Alas - you have grievously wounded me with your powerful Sword of Sarcasm.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths With the exception of a slight dip in late November, the average daily death count from C...

I find Existential Comics to be laugh out loud funny on a regular basis. Here is Camus Teaches Elementary School. I donate money through Patreon and I...

That's not what InPotzl and I are saying - and furthermore that sentence makes no sense. I'm sorry, but I don't have the time / energy to continue thi...

As @"InPitzotl" has pointed out, your interpretation is incorrect. I'll try one more time, then I give up. For simplicity let's work with an example. ...