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The image of cheerful philosophers torturing lawyers is just too delicious; we'll just slowly pour the whiskey into the bottle until the flyster eithe...

Thanks for that. I have come across a few refugees from the Witnesses, and the rigidity of that society does seem to lead to a performed 'acceptable' ...

Have you said something about yourself and I missed it?

At some stage in this confessional thread one might start to see a pattern; so far the obvious pattern is that philosophers like to display their exam...

The way we call the shit house a toilet or a lavatory or a cloakroom, instead of cleaning it.

Alas, the hundred acre wood will be a quieter sadder place without Tigger. But there will be more strengthening medicine for the rest of us.

Yes, I'm glad you appreciate the close connection. Ego is the zeitgeist of the age brought on by, I suppose a century of material 'progress'. Hedonism...

Not quite. My argument is that you need to stop believing in yourself in order to believe in God. And you have quite clearly exemplified this for me. ...

Do you? Or do you not even allow yourself to become conscious of how you have exposed your own irrationality, so quick you are to project it onto me? ...

Oh, my apologies, I thought you were a human.

The Earl of Sandwich repudiates in the strongest possible terms any attempt to associate his name with French so-called bread.

Yes, you are in very good company focussing on the facticity or fictionality of "the God claim". That is exactly what I am pointing to myself. As long...

It's an analogy, that you are taking literally in order to try and undermine. So I'll try a different one. I am a fan of justice. This does not mean I...

Indeed, one of the things one almost never sees, is the inverted image on the back of the eye. Not even if one peers into the mirror. It's just too da...

Understanding substance takes substantial understanding. Substance is what is the basis of objects, and understanding is what is the basis of subjects...

Some radical circularity here. The "law" is discovered by the repeated failure to produce perpetual motion machines, etc. The law doesn't prove anythi...

The self is the idea of the self that the self has; the circular track that thought runs around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwGVV2kI-vY In therap...

Or "US Election 2024" in case another democracy comes into being in the solar system somewhere.

the therapist has problems getting past the defence mechanisms of AI, and establishing a close rapport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwGVV2kI-vY

I'm saying that there is a tendency to resist pain, or to deny it, or to react to it with fear or anger; these prolong pain by turning it into sufferi...

Let me outline a simple reason why a philosopher might not find God. It is at the simplest a confusion of faith with belief. If you ask a fan of Ipswi...

That's what my imaginary friend said!

Then we have made it all ourselves. Or else it has all just fallen to us. Do you require evidence to be resentful? Do you require evidence to be grate...

It isn't.

Ah, the self made man who worships his maker? You see, either you bite the bullet of a 'transcendent' person who give s a fuck, or you have a half ass...

Something living but impersonal?

Impersonal gods are not worth talking to or (therefore) talking about. Stick to physics, no impersonal god will care.

My imaginary friend told me that there is always a load of balloony junk floating about and generally nobody cares, and they turn down the radar sensi...

Only I can prove solipsism true. By definition.

You heard it here first!

Did you invent science, religion, language, civil society, law, agriculture, technology, architecture, cloth-making, education, etc, etc, etc... or di...

It is a curious consequence of JTB knowledge that one may be certain, but one never knows that one knows - one always knows absolutely of the hypothet...

Sandy Deny, indeed! Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Albion Band! But this is a philosophy forum, therefore String Band or Bob Dylan. A words thing.

Of course it can. we are fallible. I always keep my keys in my right pocket so I always know where they are, unless I forgot to empty the pockets when...

That's a bit of a weasel question - I don't mind a bit of discomfort, but... Life is the dialectic. Bliss plus torment produces awareness. Again and a...

1. Yes. 2. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. K = JTB. 1. Al's memory Justifies his Belief as to the location of his car, and his belief is True. 2. Al has no Justi...

I agree with your analysis of the political thinking. But my explanation is of the failure of that calculation. Idiotic ideas are the rule for popular...

I had a dream. Actually I had 2 recurring dreams as a child. At the age of around eight learning something of the facts of life, I realised that they ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s3KHT5JYdU

Joining was an attempt to create a new European Empire, and when the French and Germans refused to be subserviently grateful for our presence, they be...

Game theory assumes a-sociality. But you don't get me I'm part of the union. I wrote an essay on that back in the day. The prisoner's dilemma is set u...

Because tomorrow the offer will be even worse. I'm saying the theory is wrong if it claims it is only played once. One's wages are paid weekly.

No it isn't. It is being played over and over, all the time, everywhere. If it were not so it would be of no interest to anyone. You and I may only pl...

None, obviously. I am the epitome of downward mobility, and thus cannot afford kitsch. Why are all guilty pleasures of German origin? Kitsch, schadenf...

Public health inspectors have been drastically cut back over the years, pest control has been privatised, cladding fire testing was handed over to the...

Back in the bad old days, the UK had lots of building inspectors and public health officers, and these interfering officious busybodies spent their ti...

Ah! Now I understand; thanks for explaining. You were having a competition in which you were both competing and judging. I'm so glad you won.

Good grief! I think I feel a thread coming on. I love you, @"universeness", but not in that way, I'm sorry.

Now I'm crying.

And there, ladies and gentlemen, is a straightforward demonstration of the power of prayer. Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.