I didn't say you did say anything about contradictions. I don't have to wait for you to say something before I can say it. But you know what a contrad...
So if I say something like "I have faith in a god that does not exist." then if you want to engage, you cannot just let it pass that there is a contra...
That was a joke. We have to assume we speak the same language, and try and reach an understanding of what we agree and disagree about. So no, differen...
I have no problem with you saying this because I consider it meaningless drivel. No, actually it being meaningless is a big problem. If I say 'I have ...
Yes. It's a bit of a pointless topic really, and the op has bailed as he usually does. But one does the best one can. I rather like to make the challe...
It's the way you keep commenting on my use of the word love, and not at all considering what I have said about Plato or about the Christian tradition ...
It rather depends what It can do and what I cannot do. I don't care to make a universal decision either way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpHBzijni...
Yes, the term has many different senses, but they are related. But if I love the natural environment and want the best for it even if I cannot have th...
So if I love to walk and I break my leg or become tired, I must not love walking any more? I cannot love to be out in the hills when confined to bed? ...
I dare say that every act must be motivated by an emotion, - that is tenable. What is not tenable is that the commandment is to have an emotion and no...
I can add a couple of titbits to this. The trade on the African coast was slaves for iron, and to a lesser extent guns. The African iron industry was ...
It might be useful to turn the philosophical eye inwards for a moment and ask what is philosophy. And in doing so, one must look at philosophy as it o...
I will go ahead, thanks. But it is not random and I have not invented it. It is a mainstream tradition. And obviously, it is not an emotion. And I hav...
One of the deficiencies of atheism is the notion that the existence of God is of great importance. There is no love. God is love. Therefore I have fai...
I think I would not ban over the abuse. Pm 'fuck you's are par for the moderation course. But the 'ban me' challenge is a fairly explicit refusal of m...
It is one thing to recognise the Machiavellian nature of politics. It is quite another to run on a platform of Machiavellianism. One cannot serve one'...
I'm sorry, I wanted to leave you be, but this is a bit too extreme. Suppose, like most of the Welsh, she did not? Half a million people in Wales can s...
Have fun joining up those dots. I'll leave there, sir. I have had this conversation too many times. But I do urge you to consider the historical conne...
Races are imagined, but countries and cultures are real? My wife is a very real mixed race culture person, Welsh and Caribbean. Her father's name, his...
If one is to suppose that the entire universe of space and time Is held in the hand and eye of God, then it makes no sense to me at least, to speak of...
Yes, I agree. But I think we are even more losing the ball down the gutter if we think that gender dysphoria is unconnected with the almost universal ...
But it's a joke, do you not see, to expect a socialist in a capitalist society to refuse to bow to the rituals of money and property ? One gets a job ...
Since money/ownership is a mythical cultural construct. Folks should be combating the cultural construct, not bowing to it while claiming to be trying...
Well where I used to live was half empty back in the sixties and abandoned cottages sold for £50. So my experience rather contradicts this That is fra...
I am a geriatric English remainer in Wales. But I think the blame for the school and pub closures has to be laid more at the doors of the Welsh emigra...
Well it does, unfortunately. This is an almost universal psychological disease in the West. There is hardly a male or a female that does not spend ino...
No it isn't. :groan: Biology is mere biology. Society picks certain biological features and gives them significance, and completely ignores others. Fa...
Alas you are not saying at all what I am saying. You are, from my POV, the bureaucrat, laying down the law about what does and does not count as a gre...
Alas you are quite wrong. A blue bin lacks entirely the necessary attribute of greenness. Greenness is declared necessary, and declared to be a matter...
I'm very glad to hear it. But it would be a bit silly to suppose that anyone suggested that everything one ever observed was oneself, except in a triv...
I can well imagine that you are not your self, and I commiserate, but as it happens, I am myself, so when I see myself the observer is indeed the obse...
You don't know, but I have seen the picture and I know my own analogy. It's a blue bin with writing on and wheels. And I say if the writing says it's ...
Damn, I knew there was a flaw in the analogy. :razz: But what I am suggesting is that you don't need to find ever more criteria by which to classify y...
Julian Baggini, Susan Blackmore, Sam Harris, Thomas Metzinger, obviously haven't read Descartes, or didn't understand him, or are trying to sell some ...
Well what the bin says is what is written on it, but how the bin feels 'inside' is the nature of the rubbish it contains. So although it may have the ...
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