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Barry Etheridge

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Most? Like pretty much every commentator on the Election you seem to have conveniently forgotten that Clinton received nearly 2 million votes more tha...
November 19, 2016 at 14:55
There are days I find it difficult to believe that the human race has lasted so long. This is only one of them!
November 19, 2016 at 14:12
I think you could reasonably argue that Brexit is actually a step towards greater globalisation as UK seeks as a matter of necessity to improve and cr...
November 14, 2016 at 19:46
Er .. that was me! Not him! And there is clearly a qualification there in 'on the way to'. I'm not at all suggesting that you instantly go to zero pro...
November 14, 2016 at 19:38
Nope. If you pour water onto a piece of blotting paper it is absorbed and then after a delay to reach saturation point it is re-emitted. The mechanism...
November 13, 2016 at 13:10
You started this journey into madness by claiming that we don't see the stick we see the image of a stick on a screen somehow constructed on the surfa...
November 13, 2016 at 12:54
No. No. No. That's ignoring the wave/particle duality of photons to say nothing of the constant speed of light. When one hits a molecule it is absorbe...
November 13, 2016 at 00:20
Unfortunately its only slightly less dangerous cousin AFM now seems to be on the rise in the US.
November 12, 2016 at 23:51
Ah, I see. The trouble is that no vaccine is 100% effective in 100% of the vaccinated population, whether this is due to mutation in the disease itsel...
November 12, 2016 at 23:43
He hasn't. You have. Please explain the physics by which the image appears on your hypothetical screen. What is its source, how do you see it? Is it a...
November 12, 2016 at 12:13
Could you ask that question in a sentence that I might be able to comprehend? X-)
November 11, 2016 at 23:02
How much do you need? The anti-vaccinationist have provided us with more than enough with record measles outbreaks over the past few years, for exampl...
November 11, 2016 at 22:43
To me 'my philosophy' is an entirely vacuous phrase. So not philosophy but theology?
November 10, 2016 at 12:54
You want to try again? Your first sentence amounts to ... If conscious experience is caused by your brain, conscious experience is caused by your brai...
November 10, 2016 at 12:50
That'd be right. Staged and fake!
November 10, 2016 at 12:44
No, it won't. There are no grounds on which to mount a challenge. Even if Trump appoints a Supreme Court Justice whose decision he can absolutely rely...
November 10, 2016 at 12:42
Says it all, really. Many will have convinced themselves that making America great again is worth the cost of being lied to, others that only a liar i...
November 10, 2016 at 12:28
Well yesterday pretty much knocked that on the head!
November 09, 2016 at 19:40
I'm not surprised. This was clearly about any change at any cost - revolution rather than evolution. The trouble with revolution however is the day af...
November 09, 2016 at 19:39
So the real question now is do we call it Califexit or Exitornia, apparently!
November 09, 2016 at 19:34
Isn't that true of all academic disciplines many of which from an external point of view may be questionable? Psychology, sociology, literature, theor...
November 09, 2016 at 14:50
Actually yes. He wildly overspent on this campaign. He has failing businesses on his hands and he's going to want a slew of lawsuits to go away so can...
November 09, 2016 at 14:20
Ah yes, because Donald Trump has consistently resisted any temptation to protect his wealth by less than scrupulous means like false advertising, tax ...
November 09, 2016 at 12:07
There is no rational argument to understand. It's an entirely post-rational campaign. And there are plenty of people who don't give a damn about becom...
November 07, 2016 at 23:53
Nah. Madge will wake up in a shower and realise it's all been a dream!
November 05, 2016 at 11:31
Sub-conscious reasoning intruding on consciousness. Short-cut decision making. Wrong, most of the time!
November 05, 2016 at 11:28
Incompetent teachers setting meaningless homework? No that's not mean to be added to your list. It's a genuine question. I can't see any other reason ...
November 04, 2016 at 16:33
No. The courts are deciding on a question of how far the executive powers of the Government under royal prerogative may legally be extended. Today's d...
November 03, 2016 at 19:44
But we didn't actually ever declare war on Iraq. With his usual slipperiness Blair deliberately avoided a declaration of war (for which he alone could...
November 03, 2016 at 11:59
There's some scary looking argumentifying going on here but we can simply dismiss the fundamental premise that infinite series are by definition conti...
November 03, 2016 at 11:50
No formal Act is required. It would take years that way. This would be a vote to approve (or not) the Government's intention much like the one to appr...
November 03, 2016 at 11:37
Then you have to deal with the vast reams of evidence from separated twins that suggest the very opposite.
November 02, 2016 at 16:06
A strange conclusion. Counterfactual in that I know a plumber with a first class theology degree, Counterintuitive in that much philosophy is dedicate...
October 31, 2016 at 12:07
So if there are ten apple trees in your orchard and three of them have sour or rotting apples for whatever reason, you don't harvest the other seven? ...
October 31, 2016 at 11:58
A strange example since basically we did decide we wanted to get to the moon and people did die achieving it, the only difference being that they were...
October 28, 2016 at 20:47
But it's not going to stop him! That's the whole point. It might get both our heads kicked in as his resentment transfers itself to me for lecturing h...
October 28, 2016 at 20:36
Is there some new alternative meaning for the word 'no' of which I've not been made aware?
October 28, 2016 at 19:39
If you want the answer in those bald terms then, no. Absolutely not. It would do far more harm than good - actually it would do no good at all!
October 28, 2016 at 19:35
'Made'. He hasn't been communicant since 2008, far too late to to admit to the untenability of his position for my liking. He pretty much admitted to ...
October 28, 2016 at 19:28
An entirely vacuous notion as far as I can see. It supposes that you can take all that God stuff out of Christianity and be left with a moral code and...
October 28, 2016 at 19:19
Hmm, is that what I said? I really don't think it was!
October 28, 2016 at 19:12
I find this very difficult to believe. Have you any actual examples?
October 28, 2016 at 15:10
No, we should not be tolerant. But that is because there simply is no virtue in tolerance. Putting up with things while you inwardly rage, which is al...
October 28, 2016 at 15:06
All very fascinating but totally beside the point. You claimed that Godel's incompleteness theorem . That is incorrect!
October 27, 2016 at 23:09
How? There doesn't need to be an actual God for human beings to act as though they were such a being. Atheists can still be guilty of hubris!
October 27, 2016 at 20:48
With all due respect, if it wasn't for people like you, Dawkins would not be as vocal in this area as he has been, and it would be very much easier to...
October 27, 2016 at 20:45
Is it death (no longer being) or dying (the process of deterioration to the point of no longer being able to sustain life) that they are afraid of (gi...
October 27, 2016 at 20:40
No, you absolutely do not. Logicists hold that all truths within any system of logic can be deduced from logical propositions within it. Godel proved ...
October 27, 2016 at 20:34
Nobody? I think you'll find that a long way from the truth! I fear that as the first recorded example of genetic engineering occurs in the Old Testame...
October 27, 2016 at 20:24
Then your original post makes no sense. If all this is subconscious how can we be in touch with it? Surely that requires that it be brought to conscio...
October 27, 2016 at 20:11