Buxtebuddha

Italy has a similarly strange mixing of peoples in the past millennia or two. Arguably more diverse than Britain.

Alright, but at some point one must engage, or had to have engaged, in bodily interaction, no? I wouldn't say so. Certainly not literally.

What do you mean by social engagement without bodily interaction?

http://i.imgur.com/4bUV7Ls.gif Good luck, Wos (Y)

What'd'ya mean, wos? You don't enjoy reading through threads such as, "I AM A GEOLOGY" or "PARAKEETS AND SEMICOLONS"? Bro...

Maybe if you'd treat your belly with such fire you'd be better off, ;)

So you need more patience? Count me in, too, Clarky.

My point has been that mere belief in x or y being good does not make x or y good. As I said, the baby trusts that a bottle of bleach is good to suckl...

Want to live, need to flourish? That's what I'd get on board with, :)

You assume the child trusts that it's good, not merely that he instinctively desires it. If you gave him a bottle of bleach he'd suck it. The trust, t...

And how is this religious faith, or faith in something unseen? Yes, this is the unremarkable, mundane, and uncontroversial kind of faith. What does th...

How can the child just born have any assurance or hope or conviction in the "things" not seen? The only sort of faith that the child has is in what he...

Handsome posted note face, Q. Make it your avatar! You can be my brother.

Merry Christmas to all ye sinful fucks!

Not I!

A subscription to The Philosophy Forum, (L)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_DXEWlM3rQ

That seems to be MU's argument as I see it.

You can define it, but I don't have to believe it. One issue in this thread is the suggestion that defining it entails believing it to be real, which ...

Why isn't it? You can be the most moral person in the world, but if you don't realize what good you do do, then your mental health won't be any good. ...

Agreeing to the theist's definition of terms is a slippery slope when the definitions themselves allow for zero disagreement once accepted. If an unbe...

This type seems to sum you up quite well, but I'm sure you won't see that irony.

If the premise is that music isn't as good as it used to be, then you've not a very expansive music taste.

By that logic an older human has been around the block many times and failed to do any better with each try.

Really?

I think it's out of the subconscious desire for love. We want to be consoled of our silly thoughts and so we often attempt to console others so that t...

Hmm, I'm not sure if I'd characterize narcissism like that. It isn't so much that the narcissist doesn't want others to be treated as well as them, ju...

Are you saying that someone wouldn't treat a narcissist better than themselves? Getting seduced by someone like that occurs all the time, in real life...

Can one ever have the answers or know the truth, though? How might I make the right conclusions, then? I think Christianity provides a pretty straight...

I have to wonder how many here have sifted through the hundreds, thousands of pages of Christian theology that pertains to one of Christianity's most ...

:’( Need butt to talk about butt.

The body is still number one.

That they're aware of their bad behavior? Being moderators, I expect them to uphold the site guidelines better than anyone, and yet...

In my experience some of the mods and others here aren't adults with such a capacity.

10 moderators all voting for each other sounds like a terrible idea. They're already "voting" for each other in this thread!

Hey, are you admitting that you're a moron like me? X-) Oh I know, I'm just shooting in the dark here, hoping that people check their privilege and th...

Moderating one's own comments is precisely what moderators here have not been doing. I can moderate my own if I do not receive shit from moderators wh...

I also don't agree with much of what MU is saying here.

Pardon, but retract what? That you're an ignoramus?

You're trying to argue with two people who haven't read or understood the theology. Good luck changing their mind...

I'm sure if Jeremy Corbyn died for all our political sins, Sappy would whip his dick out and make a cult of it.

Careful saying things like that. Everyone knows the mods here are always right and that we mere peasants can't articulate our opinions!

I think what you're getting at, from my perspective at least, is that philosophy can help provide a working body, but you, we, must still figure out w...

You can think it's bullshit. I think it's bullshit. But it's not the historian's job to call bullshit. Philosophy does that!

What we know as history does. No, it does not. The historian analyzes what he has, not what he does not have. If he has no evidence suggesting the con...

You're not understanding at all. What I'm saying is that the claim itself is what historians analyze as part of a historical narrative, not whether or...

Good historians wouldn't question the validity of one's claimed experience, only how that claim functions in different narratives. Suggesting that cla...

Define mystical experience for me.

You can pinch my butt cheek if you'd like.

I realize that, but I'm saying that your experience has measurable phenomena. If you say that mystical experience is not measurable, then how can one ...