UPDATE: On the same day that Mr Rodman arrived in North Korea, they decided to release one of their four American prisoners... IN A COMA!!!!!!!!!! "Ot...
I don't know how the universe arose, but that's a slightly different question. You asked why is there order, not why is there existence. So my point a...
What's the alternative to designed order? Un-designed order... I did suggest that you look into complexity science, but essentially the answer is that...
It's your thread and you can derail it if you want to ;) But we are brushing up against something very related to bias. Especially in philosophy, some...
Absolute truth may very well exist out there (since I believe there is a hard external world, the truth of it's particulars is what I might believe it...
Yes, luck indeed. But the life which might emerge were things different would also feel very lucky that they're not living in a universe like ours, an...
Absolute truth is a mythical bird you'll never catch. The value of debates though: If we're just exposing our past experiences through debates, it's p...
If the laws of physics were different, maybe life as we know it would be impossible, and maybe life as we don't know it would instead be possible. The...
Let me give you an example of weak induction and strong induction: Weak: I saw a whale once, therefore I will see a whale today. Strong: I saw a human...
P1: some order is the result of design P2: the universe has some order C1: Therefore, the universe is designed. This is clearly inductive logic and as...
From what I've read and heard through documentaries Kim Jong Un loves basketball, and Rodman's visits are specifically loved by him. Maybe he gets pai...
I think that patriotism is foremost a tool during times of war used to cohere and motivate the populace in response to an external threat. In that fun...
Heh, so true. That and his addiction to swizz cheese (which literally gave him gout). It's the timing that really strikes me as odd though. Pundits we...
Just want to chime in with a thought: we're not exactly in a post-truth world yet (post modernism hasn't found a strong enough poison with which to do...
So you make very many inauthentic decisions... Do you make any authentic ones? It seems to me that if we spend the necessary time trying to come up wi...
I think people generally behave negatively toward others (in the manners to which you refer) as a form of stress relief. As such stress will diffuse t...
Arguably Goku went for the glasses before Tien actually released "solar flare". I would like to see a breakdown of the event before I take this as evi...
Issue #1: "Faster than light": It's only in his first encounters with Nappa and Vegeta that the "blink" movement is depicted in the shows (IIRC), whic...
I watched it ritualistically as a child, right up until the "Bu" enemy was defeated and then Dragonball GT came out (IIRC?). I watched the first episo...
DBZ is a great example of absurdism! Starts out with an alien child who is unnaturally robust in a world filled with monsters. He learns martial arts ...
But the "another race" IS affected in many and most of the same ways (and that's what you ignore by continuously labeling western society as racist/pa...
Heh...They just want a bit of lebensraum safetys-raum! In my experience 15-25 years of age seems to always be the target demographic of extreme ideolo...
These days our society harms people of all colors, and the only signal for reprieve is the color green (money). You wish me to conform to your languag...
I am quite interested in a genuine historical analysis of systemic oppression (and I hope you've got part 3 coming!), but the distilled jargon of post...
Are you a douche?... Well that depends on whose genitals I'm meant to wash! Obsessed with making fun of the Christian Old Testament?... I wouldn't say...
It's astounding how demanding that white people not show up to university for a day (to demonstrate solidarity o.o ?) is somehow done in the name of a...
It's like untying a knot; it all depends on the knot in question. You've got to understand it first. Yes they are. Here's an utterly hilarious video a...
Deep down there's a connection between precisely this kind of craziness and Trump himself. The social justice warrior crowd has been proffering the ov...
Funny you should use the term "ouroboros" (a snake eating itself)... I've been trying to write down a coherent analysis/synopsis of the entire histori...
Utterly failed? That might be an overstatement... There are plenty of venerable moral and ethical solutions to many of our problems, especially in the...
Go with the compatibilist definition: a choice is something that you make generally un-coerced by external forces. What constitutes generally un-coerc...
Personally I think the girl is codswallop, but they aren't my streets so that really doesn't matter. If the NY public likes the girl enough to keep it...
That's how I feel about the girl though: What's she doing there? The corporate style campaign that commissioned the girl was trying to promote feminis...
Bill Maher referred to himself as a "house nigger" on his weekly HBO show yesterday. When I listened to it I thought "Ah, here's something someone wil...
That's not a bad idea. Maybe she could greet people arriving to the statue of liberty? (a strong daughter raised under the protection of freedom?) Com...
It has to be left to public representatives to interpret the public will in the case of guerilla art (and suffer the repercussions if/when they get it...
"Outrage" holds an unfortunate amount of sway in the digital era... Bad press can destroy a person or entity if viral digital exposure leads to witch-...
Morally speaking, whatever the public wants is what they should get. I'm still holding out for a lasso wielding heroine myself... What I find most int...
That's what I said about the fearless girl! Should have been a cowgirl to scale with the bull! (and would have actually depicted female empowerment). ...
I want to say yes but I'm not sure... (admittedly I've never been interested in amazon beyond using it to get computer parts and random books) When wa...
Wall-mart is a good contemporary example of a run-away industry leader who can arbitrarily raise the stakes hand after hand until you go broke. One lo...
I don't think I've ever had any of my posts deleted (I'm a good boy!), but I wonder if and when posts get removed, is there any kind of notification o...
I thought this thread was going to be about Adams' thoughts on philosophers: (BBC Radio 4: 29th March 1978) (*fair use: educational and analytical pur...
What happens when our shared value laden imperatives are at odds with one another? If morality is a rational strategy of cooperation meant to promote ...
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