It's evident you have not explained it well at all. By continuously saying this instead of responding properly you make it amply clear. It's not us, i...
If we do the weighted selection (with the redundant option being rolled for in the answer algorithm, not the guess algo), then 37.5 percent is indeed ...
Do you even have an answer for me? Blithering about us not getting it isn't helpful. As I've just shown mathematically and proven experimentally (with...
If we take the question at its veiled-face value, the odds of guessing correctly actually turns out to be 3/8 We have at least a 1/4th chance of being...
Friends, warriors, comrades, lend me your tears; I come to bury Justice, not to praise it. The evil that movements do outlasts them; Their good is oft...
What is your username? A: Jeremiah B: Zarathustra C: Epicurus D: Jeremiah This is where 33% chance of being right comes from (Michael explains this in...
The main problem is that "this question" grammatically and conceptually must refer to the multiple choice group (without any given criterion pointing ...
I encountered a new set of notions out of the post-modern camp a few days ago (i guess it's not all bad!) which describes the essence of art almost ex...
:meh: It's a good thing I charge per soliloquy! We only have so much control over our own egos, but 'lacking wisdom' and misunderstanding does tend to...
I got more than half way through this before becoming self-aware that it might be going a bit too far. Shakespeare has been poking and rattling around...
I find much less to object to with the full context What I mean to say is that a single painting or work of art might be analogous to a single scienti...
Shakespeare came to mind when I was parsing a mental list of people I consider to be great intellectuals. His prose was dense and bold, but graceful a...
The Big Bang Theory just doesn't do it for me. I mean, when I first heard of it the premise was intriguing, but in the end it's just a bunch of nerds ...
The mark of a great intellectual is a great intellect :) Aye, there have always been intellectuals, though environmental circumstance certainly has a ...
Harman's Pluto-Picasso comparison feels downright misleading: Science explores the universe and things in it. Art does not explore itself, that's the ...
Indeed, but even if we could prove full blown Yaweh nothing would really change. And even if it's all an ultimately meaningless game of Jumanji that w...
Dear thread, Atheists generally try to stake out the weak position of "lack of belief" instead of "belief in non-existence" because the former is defe...
I think it's just a brute fact @"Posty McPostface". If the multiverse is real, whatever membrane separates us is not permeable enough for humans to sq...
Because the multiverse doesn't know which you you are or the outcome you want (it doesn't give a shit in fact). Every-time you select the lotto number...
We are forced to hold him accountable in this life, so to speak, but that doesn't mean we should burn him at the stake in this life either. There's an...
This is correct. The bolded statement amounts to a belief in "determinism", which undermines the possibility that hard free will exists. This is gener...
You are quite right. I'm quick to blame the "regressive left" perhaps because they simply get the most mainstream play, but I do see the diametric ris...
Hear-hear! Nobody is obligated to listen and respond, especially to stupidity. I fear however too many people confuse the right to ignore and reject p...
I was click surfing one of the fandom-wikis the other day and learned that death personified (lady death) is already emotionally preoccupied "fascinat...
It was quite good. Those nerds really know how to string a narrative(s) together. With such an extensive "universe" of lore to draw from, something ab...
it's not a choice made with hard free-will because he could not have chosen otherwise. While Jack's decision was relatively free and un-coerced in the...
The dinner-time armistice accords were signed out of necessity on all sides following the battle of the bloody steaks. :) (there's something sacred ab...
Yes. Not having hard-free-will absolves us of absolute moral responsibility, but it does not absolve us of practical responsibility. Nobody seems to a...
Atheist here! Elon Musk should come out as trans-deist already so the term atheism isn't slathered by this kind of silliness (atheism is such a tortur...
I always win the elevator game! You open with a cheeky nod upon entering the lift. But make it a nod of such subtlety that they cannot be sure if it w...
It makes very little moral sense to inflict punishment for the sake of punishment (such as torture or revenge) if there is no hard free will. A good e...
Good so far. Indeed, it is almost as if to suggest an un-caused cause, which then makes calling that our will seem rather absurd. Pretty much! But the...
Indeed. Though I'm not fully clear on how the Clinton impeachment went down (was 10 at the time), I'm eager as ever to draw comparisons to previous im...
I agree, but some purgers are worse than others. Give and inch of rope to the white house and they'll instantly stretch it into a mile though. Obstruc...
Well it's not like he's lied under oath... Yet... If Mueller actually subpoenas Trump it wouldn't be surprising to see him talk his way into trouble. ...
:grin: I do like fart jokes, but only if they have the right flavour! I like how the natural and healthy bodily function that farts are can contrast w...
I think they are... If it happened to Old Bill who was quite popular, it can surely happen to the scandal sluice box that is President Trump (though I...
Our fantasies generally depict idealized forms and features. In the personal amphitheater of our own minds and imagination we magnify and focus on wha...
Here's an analogy that might help: Ever hear of 'learning machines'? Long story short, they're very complicated algorithms that are in fact too compli...
If we don't have free will, we still have the illusion of free will, and so basically everything works out the same in the end. Jack may not have had ...
It's very true that the fantasies we construct amidst mystery are generally more appealing than the reality behind the drapes (they grow and change al...
Homoerotic ritualized constipated war my friend. Within it all is fair. I've been quite careful not to cross any tangible lines though, and satire is ...
I am not a peacock, no, just a humble illustrator, but the man you recalled from the gym was, and while you were not taken with his strut and plume, y...
Tense, yes, romantic, no. I was going for more of a lust portrayal. Lame is something I associate with all erotica so I've hit my mark here. Though, i...
Alas, my love, you do me wrong, To cast me off discourteously. For I have loved you well and long, Delighting in your company. Alas, my love, that you...
Indeed! But in the genre of erotic tragic comedy, the fantasy-crashing contrast reality provides is like a happy-sad-sobering bucket of water in the f...
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