You are rambling! What is a subjective measure? It sounds like an elastic ruler where you can put the marks where you like. Aka, nonsense. Another tri...
Value? What is value? I cannot speak for all philosophy, but there is a fairly widespread distinction in philosophy between fact and value, such that ...
Your commitment to truth does not even run as far as to accept correction when it is offered. The Harry Potter books were written by JK Rowling, and F...
And had anyone been eating his porridge? Or was he a goddam liar, putting words into a bear's mouth? And as to that, You are alas mistaken. The author...
What's that got to do with it? We know that Daddy Bear said "Who's been eating My porridge?", and Gandalf wrote "Not all who wander are lost.". I don'...
It seems a commonplace that rights and privileges arise together with duties. Thus in this case, the privilege of running for office entails the duty ...
UN. Universal Declaration of Human rights. A moral equality is stipulated. It is to be understood that we are not equal in talent, physique, intellige...
I hope, when I send my last message to the world, it will have some passion. I hope it will not be a lecture to my mother, copied to others. My mother...
I have read a couple of stories about multiple deaths. Curiously, the foundation of this one is the negation of the identity of the one who supposedly...
May I humbly suggest that every site inhabited by humans needs a waste disposal system. If we did not have the controversial threads, the controversie...
—Thanks @"Noble Dust" and @"hypericin" for officiating. Yes, having read everything briefly, loss of contact with reality, guilt, cruelty and death se...
I have no recollection of any real philosophy. I certainly remember aggressive posts and mainly negative posts. I had a brief look, but came up empty ...
I am reading that directly off the graph I posted earlier. It is not a modelled prediction, just a bare "well that's what it was the last time". and h...
I haven't noticed us acting, and nor has the climate. Not only that, but plans to act effectively are not even being talked about or put in place. Lik...
Sounds like psychobabble and ad homs in place of any interesting insight. I am quite content to be labelled by people with agendas on either side, and...
That has been tried. and tried. And now it is too late. Governments have met and done very little; people have spend their lives trying to protect env...
As to quantum weirdness, it may turn out that causation as we experience it is a statistical effect of the large scale of our experiences, and the min...
Teleology is perfectly well accounted for if it is simply understood that the intended result is imagined in the mind. Thus it is not the effect that ...
In that case, though it presumably is. The cushion had no depression prior to the introduction of the bowling ball. Unless it did, in which case the b...
Yes indeed. Successful genocides are quickly forgotten, because history is written by the winners. And this is a thread about Gaza today. I have forgo...
Yes, I discount it, because even to the extent that it is in common parlance as you speak it it is qualified as "of Armenians", it does not rule out t...
Too wide for your narrow mind? It seems to function s a legal definition. I am objecting to the ruling out of language in common use — can you explain...
They're not rules of mine, but my understanding of polite careful speech. You say what you like and the site owner will let you know what his rules ar...
Possibly. But it would be off topic to discuss them all here. But Note the magic word "intent". This is why attention to the rhetoric of the belligere...
You can talk gobbledegook if you like, as far as I'm concerned mate; I'm describing common usage and objecting to those who wish to rule it out of bou...
What is your argument though, that current usage is wrong because we need lots of words to uniquely ly describe the Holocaust? It's a very weak argume...
I didn't say it doesn't matter, I said one cannot rule it out on principle, but one has to look at what is happening and what is being justified by wh...
On this tendentious use of language. The Nazi atrocity against the Jewish population has a unique name : the Holocaust. This term should not be used o...
The idea of 'causation' presupposes time, because a cause is defined as prior to its effect, and causation is a temporal process. Therefore, it makes ...
Then you know the difference between a chat bot and a climate model. So you are blowing smoke like a well paid climate denier. This is a level of disi...
You were talking about freedom; now you are talking about free will. I think they are ideas that come to dominate the mind. Ideas always function by d...
Here is a village local to me, where the sea defences are not going to be raised, and where one cannot get a mortgage. Over on the east coast of Engla...
Sorry about that. It's frustrating dealing with the global scepticism at times. Here is where i have a problem with trusting you and the honesty of yo...
That's a separate thing, though also significant. The latent heat thing is that you have to add some heat to ice at 0°C to turn it into water at 0°C, ...
What mainly has to be taken into account is that so far it is mainly sea ice we have been losing, and sea ice loss doesn't raise sea levels unless the...
I cannot work out from your analogy whether I am an Israeli or a Palestinian, but whatever, those dogs better watch out, eh? Or are they vermin? My ki...
Here is the latest research on the CO2 roughly since the dinosaurs, still recent history in geological terms, but going back a lot further that the di...
Over 4.5 billion years there have been many influences on climate. Obit wobbles are one. vulcanism is another continental drift is another, and life i...
Bruce Perry gets honourable mention in my old thread on trauma theory. I agree with the general thrust of the op, but I caution that parents are not t...
Yeah life is a risky game. I wouldn't play it if I had the choice. But your suggestion seems to be to ignore the best prediction we have and all the e...
I would suggest an entirely different origin for the food related sambo along the lines of the Australian habit of shortening a word and then adding a...
No I'm not. I am not worried. I will be dead, indeed before very long, but I do not make my life a misery by imagining that my life has any great impo...
Yes. We are probably more chimp than bonobo, and on top of that we inherit trauma from the traumatised of the previous generation. And as I have alrea...
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