Barry Etheridge

For the most part? And your statements don't make any sense. In 1) you claim coercion and then say that it's preference or habit. It can't be both! In...

Yes and no. We can and do (theoretical physics is pretty much nothing but, for example) and sometimes must simply to survive (the Torah's sanitary law...

No need to apologise at all. I think there is a very real sense in which everyone is wrong about literally everything! At the very least it should be ...

Self-evidently, yes (at least until we find an equivalent alien race with who we can compare notes) but I don't see how any of the remainder of your q...

They're all mentioned in a work entitled "Where God went wrong" which fell through a black hole in 3016 and emerged in Peterborough in 1936 only to la...

3rd cousins on the distaff side!

(Y) I was gonna go with 'a load of dingo's kidneys' but it looks a bit inadequate now! X-)

What suggests to you that I have either the time or the interest for a critique of your personal mindset. At least buy me dinner first!

I wouldn't bother. It's vastly overrated!

I've honestly given up trying to make sense of anything wuliheron says. He seems to be post-linguistic!

You gotta love speculative pseudo science, aintcha?! Here's a thought. Just throw it out there. What if the reason for the development of language is ...

Seems like a thoroughly sound assumption to me. Given the human beings can start an argument in an empty room 1000 miles from any other soul the idea ...

You know what they say. Don't find perfection. You'll only ruin it!

And what sensory experience leads you to posit the square root of -1, pray tell!

No you don't!

Er ... yes ... that would be kinda helpful, so where's your take. At the moment you might as well be asking "Is there anything gezornenplat in life?" ...

I'm not sure I follow the logic of this at all. It's entirely pragmatic to want to do the things you do better surely? That requires constant review a...

Whilst I'm glad that you find this to be the case I would suggest that it is not something you should advertise around the suicidally depressed. One i...

Color perception is impossible! >:)

Er .. no .. it's because we have the ability to detect electromagnetic waves of varying wavelengths in a particular band and discriminate between them...

Yes, we are. Time isn't. So, if you insist on using the term speed, it is we that have it, not time.

Both those outcomes are extremely unlikely - it may be possible to win a referendum in Scotland though I doubt it but not in Northern Ireland - but ne...

On the contrary, there is a strong bias toward therapy throughout the history of philosophy. 'Get the world straight in your head and psychological he...

Should the courts find against the Government the constitutional crisis that follows will make Brexit itself seem like very small beer! I'm not sure t...

Isn't that precisely what cognitive therapy is supposed to do? Are you saying that there have been no cognitive therapy successes?

And if the result's the same will that put an end to this nonsensical campaign to overturn a decision that's been made for better or worse or will the...

Not always!

Except that it doesn't. Quite apart from encouraging potentiallty damaging co-dependency even to the point of deviancy (sado-masochism, for example) r...

They aren't? Well that's my life's work down the pan then!

Easy. If it's my theory it's correct. If it's anyone else's theory it's wrong. Can't get any more scientific than that!

I can't help[ feeling that reliable predictive powers were granted us long before 'science'. After all knowledge of the acceleration due to gravity is...

Oh I don't know. Isn't 'serious philosophy' something of a joke in itself?

That's a 90% reduction in posts then! ;)

Scandalous!

Sounds like a cue for a song! >:)

All very interesting but really nothing that wasn't said in Augustine's City Of God.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, away from this idealised notion of both that you seem to have ... The standard cosmological model is so sacrosanct ...

What claims? I asked you if you could honestly say that there were no examples of the alleged methodologies crossing the rigid boundarioes you have se...

It is always worth reflecting on the fact that from the point of view of the Eastern Churches there is barely any difference between Catholic and Prot...

Any chance we could get a moratorium on you invoking quantum mechanics (which you clearly don't understand) in ways that make no sense and do not adva...

Though possibly not far out enough!

You know what. I really don't care any more. You carry on spouting you're error strewn nonsense and I'll get back to my bacon sandwich with a clear co...

Seasons and other variations such as the position of stars and phases of the moon make that extremely unlikely, I would have thought.

Yes it would if the non-human sentient was human! You've continually failed to (or more likely refused to) address this simple fatal flaw in your argu...

This is high order sophistry! One is never required to prove a negative. It is the plaintiff that must prove his case, something which you have singul...

But surely there cannot ever be absolute freedom in any physical Universe. Popular as the phrase appears to be amongst the positive thinking brigade i...

Then I would venture to suggest that you interpret it wrongly. There is absolutely no doubt that Paul believed that every act of human will is sin, th...

Are you seriously suggesting that there is as clear a dichotomy as that? There is no part of science based on authority and tradition? No part of reli...

To claim that it is so, yes. But claiming something to be true doesn't make it so! But that is exactly what it is. Of course that opinion may be infor...

Well, actually ... its status as the tallest mountain is disputable as there is at least one challenger in the form of Mauna Kea so there is a subject...