RegularGuy

What business people seem to miss is that they GET TO OWN EVERYTHING. That means they get to determine their own pay, and the pay of everyone beneath ...

:lol: I’ve already done all of this on TPF.

Do the Democrats and other anti-Trumpers here feel worried about the national polls regarding matchups between Trump and leading Democrats? I mean, Tr...

You and me both

Yeah, I actually will miss him. It was like rubbernecking at a car wreck or something like that. He was an oddity, but I think he added a certain flav...

But in all seriousness, I really do feel pity for him.

What is cluster b?

Only a part of my mind is philosophical. Another part wants to gossip. There may be several different personalities instantiated in my single brain, a...

I would bet Ilya had some deep-seated emotional problems. There was something wrong with him; his head wasn’t screwed on right. If only @"Anaxagoras" ...

What you describe is almost exactly what I have been going through for years, except in my case I don’t think it’s the FBI. I have called the police a...

I have similar concerns about the History Channel and Fox News. Neither one is what they report to be. Fox News is hardly “balanced and fair,” and it ...

I’m happy for you.

Did you recently become more intelligent? Did you start a new medication or something?

You take Adderall, too? :rofl:

True Neutral Human Monk/Cleric (3rd/2nd Level) Ability Scores: Strength- 11 Dexterity- 10 Constitution- 12 Intelligence- 15 Wisdom- 13 Charisma- 10 Al...

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I’m not a threat and I’m not dangerous. I just want to be left alone by certain people; not you, you’re fine. I like Wallows. It’s certain other peopl...

Obviously you think I’m just psychotic. I may have mental/emotional problems, but you weren’t there. You don’t know my history. I don’t really care if...

Well, the CIA/Pentagon is protecting me as compensation for what they did to me. You have my sympathy. I’m sorry you lost your freedom.

I had a full blood work-up a couple of months ago. My kidneys are in good shape, thank heavens.

I didn’t realize drinking too much water is bad for your liver. Why is that?

That’s true that you showed other interests. I have a BMI of around 40. I do not have diabetes maybe because I drink more water everyday than should b...

My sons got SSDI benefits. My finances are none of your business. Furthermore, if that’s what you’re interested in given my story, then I have to ques...

I am grateful to this great country for what it has done FOR me. There are bad Americans, however, and I for a long time equated bad Americans with a ...

Thank you Baden.

I was deconstructing what abductive reasoning means. “Simplest”, “most likely”, and “best” at the end of all the arguing about objective standards and...

It is all you do here that I’ve seen, and it’s not doing philosophy.

You would be delusional. Belief in God is not delusional. As far as abductive reasoning goes, it IS reducible to sentiment in that it is what the comm...

That’s a straw man. It’s not wishful thinking. I didn’t claim that “most likely” means “wishful thinking” or that it was a feeling. I said my belief w...

You didn’t understand his position that God is not accessed through empirical observation but through subjective experience, which by definition canno...

I’m not really religious. If I were, then I’d join a church, mosque, or temple. I don’t have a problem with criticism, per se. I have a problem with p...

Oh, that’s right. You don’t make affirmative claims. You just point out the flaws in others’ arguments. Anyone can do what you do on this forum.

And what is philosophy to you? In all of my interactions I’ve had with you I’ve yet to see you put forth an argument for any positive claim. You are a...

I prefer it because I intuitively feel that it is more likely. Just like a intuitively feel like you are more likely to punch a baby in the future tha...

For someone who feels that morals are a matter of preference and who claims to have no beliefs concerning God, you sure do like to argue your points r...

I'm bored and tired of the whole atheism/theism debate. You're being ridiculous. I'm not evangelizing. That's libel, and you're just being an ass. I f...

I claimed what I believe. It may be true, it may not. Just like your atheistic beliefs.

How is my explanation "bad"? Furthermore, what do you mean by: How does one explain something by not reaching a conclusion?

I would say it depends on the individual's constitution, how accustomed to the particular drug they are, and how well they can function on it. Some il...

Is it a false dichotomy then? Is there another explanation that I missed? No explanation is NOT in line with Occam's razor. And yes, when one of two a...

I would be interested to hear how you explain consciousness using the physicalist model.

I very much doubt that.

I gave my reasoning in my seven-point argument. You said I wasn't justified in saying that conscious life spontaneously and accidentally came into bei...

There IS NO BURDEN OF PROOF in abductive reasoning. That's the nature of abductive reasoning! :lol:

What is a good reason for believing that conscious life spontaneously and accidentally came into being?

You constantly edit your posts after I've read them. You can't expect me to go back and see if you've edited all of your posts. Why do you do that?

I gave reasons. Whether you thought they were bad reasons is your preference because you haven't addressed my reasons. You just said I was wrong.

No, you haven't. You made bald assertions.

It is just as good an inference to say that conscious life was guided into being by another consciousness than to say it occurred spontaneously and ac...

Point out where I went wrong.