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Does anti-facist mean ‘critical of fascism’? Look, I stated I was hasty so saying such does nothing. ‘Anti’ is not the same as ‘critical of’ AND I cle...

Ontology and epistemology are not ‘exact sciences’ (so to speak). To suggest there should be some underlying objective foundation for reality that we ...

It is not massively complicated. Trans women are trans women. Women are women. Referring to a trans woman as a woman is just a way of accepting someon...

It follows if you are completely against any theistic believes. I admitted it is a matter of drawing the line somewhere. Upon further consideration I ...

If you in direct opposition to theism then it follows that you are pretty much opposed to theists, right? I guess there is a middle ground though. May...

I have no problem with people being racist or bigots. The issue is when they act out such attitudes. If you openly admit you are hostile to a whole gr...

Bigotry isn’t a great look. There is a BIG difference between antitheist and atheist. Maybe you read atheist by mistake :)

‘Preaching’ is not ‘theology’ though. It seems like the boundary you are looking for is more about that?

Preaching should be banned (but a warning doesn’t hurt). I used to see that on another forum I was on. They were asked to stop or leave. Some stopped ...

@"Banno" My general view is if they are here for theology only then they may find other parts of the forum interesting. Exposure to different views/id...

@"Banno" I understand what you mean. I think it should be taken as a case by case issue not an outright ban. People do actually change, and some peopl...

Many people here ‘blather’ all kind of nonsense that has nothing to do with religion and they are not banned. Some have even been mods!

Ontology is a whole branch of philosophical enquiry that has a long held tradition in theological circles. Should we ban ontology too?

@"Banno" How about banning antitheists?

Claiming that ‘god’ is the answer is not really theology.

Possibly … belief in god is not essential for theological discussion

Only if they act with hostility towards others who disagree. I would also say that many not believing in scriptures and such shouldn’t mock.

I think people people can act in bad faith on many issues not just religious ones - I’ve seen it often enough on this forum. Theology is an area that ...

His point was that IQ does not, on its own, a determine ‘success’ in life. There are some physiological parallels with g and physical markers like rea...

How numerous are these studies? I know that for personality tests and IQ they are decent markers because lots of data has been collected over century ...

Yes. And it is a good thing people question the validity of certain terms and rehash more archaic terms too. It is simply down to everyone else to ass...

Here is a very basic breakdown: https://www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/sexual-reproduction#Sexual_Reproduction_Definition And to repeat, if we were ...

Defects are not the norm. We do not go around humans don’t have ten fingers simply because a tiny minority have twelve. There are TWO sexes. There are...

I don’t care about Blackburn’s question (and have no idea what it was). I saw you say there are more than two sexes - that is wrong. End of story.

The phenomenologist doesn’t care

It is not something that everyone has an easy time grasping and I’m only giving you a rather stunted version. I only read more about it via studies in...

I only care about the ridiculous claim that there is a reasonable claim of being more than two sexes when there aren’t. In terms of sex (for humans) i...

I am curious about measurements of humour. That is where my skepticism lies mainly. I know that other traits have been studied for extended periods of...

You might find this one interesting: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/humor-2021-0054/html?lang=en

Cool! Look for studies against it now. I have never really looked into humour as a trait before tbh.

Fair enough. Show me. Show me please. Thanks.

So why not admit you’re being dishonest? Did you think the sex of fish were under scrutiny here just because there was talk about a trans swimmer. Hum...

I know I exist.

I am sure there are plenty of other people who can do her job and I bet there are plenty of black people among them too. I understand why it is a litt...

Not always … be honest and give hard data. It is a minuscule number. It is like saying humans don’t always have five fingers, but we all know that peo...

Other than male and female can you name another sex that is prominent enough to get near 1% of the global population. Show me the scientific literatur...

No. If you read a bit about it somewhere you will come across the term ‘bracketing’. This is something like not denying that something exists or not, ...

Correlation is not causation would have been a better way of putting it. Creativity has a tenuous relation to intelligence. So, my concern would be th...

Husserlian phenomenology is not directly concerned with what is or isn’t. The focus is purely on the experience. The experience is the experience. Tha...

There is no evidence that humour correlates with humour. It does have some relation to creativity though, but how significant that is is probably stil...

I can only answer the first question. No. It is not a plausible theory at all. You would have to provide some solid evidence for this and I cannot see...

I would say it is justified if one person is rabidly screaming at you and try to bait you whilst you calmly and repeatedly tell them to stop then begi...

It was reply to his reply to me. Press @… to go to post.

Yes

Sorry, didn’t realise this was some stupid word game. Bye

I suggest you read the entire thing.

Not for all proponents of panpsychism! If you don’t get it you don’t get it. The fault may be mine entirely but enough is enough. Sorry.

Death will come one day. I promise :)

I was being a tad pedantic ;)

You clearly miss the point of what panpsychism is as an idea. It is NOT necessarily about the ‘universe’ being conscious. That is precisely where I fe...