You said this before, but it wasn't correct then, either. Pan was not the "God of Everything". You're getting confused with the Greek word "pan", usua...
I just noticed from your source that "39,773 Americans were killed by guns in 2017". That's about 110 per million per year. Even if 100 of them are su...
OK, but would I be correct to observe that the number of gun-homicides per million per year is still much higher in the US than the UK? If 12 of the 2...
The US allows its citizens to possess and use guns; the UK does not. We have 1 gun-killing per million per year, and our neighbours across the Atlanti...
And yet the statistics clearly show that countries where guns are controlled or forbidden have less gun crime (obvious? :wink: ). And the difference i...
OK, if that's what you want. But why not just come out and say that you think beauty is objective? Then we'd know what we were discussing, and why. :c...
Agreed. Again. :wink: Opinion is all there is when we're judging art. Subjective truth, wholly dependent for its truth on the person who holds that it...
But they are. ... The ones that aren't deliberate, of course. Guns don't kill people, people kill people? It's a tired old cliche, true as far as it g...
No, it isn't. We agree. :up: Art is art if the artist says it is. There is no art that is "better" than other art; there is only art. You will find th...
An artist is someone who creates art. You don't trust an artist, any more than you admire a scientist. Trust yourself to determine if you like it (the...
Very little. The mistake is to take a spiritual declaration "literally". It normally leads to problems of misunderstanding. Perhaps the following quot...
When the empirical evidence confirms that this is so, then yes. Guns are used by people to kill people. That is their primary function, as verified em...
Thanks. But what are you going on about? You don't seem to know much about the ancient Greek Gods, nor are you aware of the modern Gaia Hypothesis, wh...
Those are unusual uses of guns, and "firearms displays and shooting competitions" are just demonstrations of how they could be used to kill people. Su...
On a purely practical basis, cars have a use: transport. Guns are just for killing people. Even knives have other uses than stabbing people, although ...
No, it's just that, in general, they don't shoot each other. I believe Switzerland and Canada are good examples of countries that allow guns, but whos...
Because, with one or two exceptions, this is an American problem. Other countries don't allow guns. Still other countries do allow guns, but their cit...
That's a new one on me. No mention of Pan, the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, rustic music and impromptus, and compa...
Is it? Consider a hill, with a rock on the top. There are an infinite number of paths from the bottom of the hill to the top, but all of them lead to ...
I'm not convinced. Applying formulae to God is never a good idea, IMO. God isn't like that. :wink: But, out of curiosity, how does the Barcan formula ...
Interesting. I view God as both of those things, probably including the maxim the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. This is essentially the ...
Too literal for this discussion. The claims under discussion are spiritual in nature. So we are all part of God, but that isn't all we are, and being ...
A question that's always haunted me (in a good way :smile: ). But it's another topic, and I doubt there is much appetite here to discuss such things. ...
I'm not sure. All I know is that new perspectives nearly always offer something worthwhile, no matter how small. This particular perspective may prove...
I absolutely take your point. But in the case of a technical appraisal of a musical performance, such as one musician might make of another's performa...
If you're talking about a technical appraisal of the music, you're right, of course. But if you're referring to making a value judgement of the music ...
Well said. Art is art if the artist says that it's art. Our part in this is that we - as individuals, not collectively - get to decide whether we like...
There's so much about this topic that's unclear. It seems to be trying to justify the existence of objective values by asserting that there are facts....
Oh. I thought it was a "Brief argument for Objective Values". Not quite the same thing. And The Truth deserves and requires a topic of its own, not a ...
Although this discussion includes "conscious" in its title, I wonder if it is helpful to suggest that you start looking at humans as embodied minds, a...
I was commenting on how you twisted your sentences to include 'The Truth' - an important concept, but one which is nowhere near central to the discuss...
Neither logic nor maths was invented by one person. And neither was invented, I suspect, by someone newly-born, as your text sort of implies (but I do...
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