So did I. So the question is what morally grounds the law such that the distinction between true and false grounds can be made. Are we defending the f...
Witchcraft exists at least to the same extent as prayer exists. People pray, and people practice witchcraft. So are you saying that all religious grou...
The rats are leaving the sinking prime minister. Suddenly, it's Boris no mates. But it always was Boris no mates; he was only ever the plausible front...
Organised religion forbids the miserable serfs and slaves from any escape from their exploitation. Because the organisation wants to continue to explo...
But I'm not talking about racism as I find it unhelpful. I am saying that states that claim to be democratic are nearly always dynastic to a great ext...
No it doesn't. It requires that people are selfish first, familial second, and tribal third, and that people in government are good at manipulating op...
Indeed, I don't notice a lot of Asians in the US government; they are simply pursuing their interests using the available rhetoric. The government mak...
Modern societies tend to be like the kingdoms of yore. Politics is almost as much a family affair as the Mafia. "Meritocracy" is the cloak under which...
No. It's better to stare blankly than to dumb down mathematics to what can fit in our small pointy heads. You'll be banning irrational numbers next, i...
Probably not, because Racism is certainly intended to do so, and affirmative action at least seems to be intended to mitigate the effects of racism, a...
To an extent, but only to an extent. There are clear differences one can find between the teachings of Jesus as recorded in the bible and other source...
The big bang is conceived as being the beginning of space and time, with those two not being distinguishable at first. "Before the beginning of time" ...
Indeed, as I said already, established religion is always the perversion of spirituality. Jesus spoke of 'the Father', not of 'an omni-benevolent deit...
One cannot know how many contributors have been put off posting by the many gratuitous insults he made. But I know of another intelligent poster who h...
The innocent suffer because to live is to be vulnerable. Life is a losing game - everyone dies. So rather than pretend it is not so, let us use our in...
On the old site it was always the hypothetical non-posting reader on behalf of whom moderators were supposed to act. Exactly! But mods cannot be expec...
Your attachment to the karmic explanation stinks. What is this 'our pain' you speak of? I want my pain to end immediately. You speak of our pain by wa...
Thanks. This is almost what I was suggesting - that karma functioned already in society to maintain privilege, and early Buddhism attempted to undermi...
It justifies it, because it justifies everything, by making justice a property of nature. And that means that any amount of exploitation is justified....
Yes. The idea of karma is rather similar to 'the Secret' and 'the power of positive thinking' in the way it gives comfort to greed and privilege. You ...
Well if I am forced to say that because we are not omniscient, there are things we cannot know, I might be able to live with that, at a pinch. Wait, i...
Can we stick with the umpteenth digit of pi, instead of the names thing? So my suggestion is that the non-omnicience principle should go something lik...
I don't think so. I think the principle needs to be formalised differently, as I indicated. I think it is a contradiction, because it asserts somethin...
Yes. I am questioning the legitimacy of that. It seems to be stating a contradiction by asserting p and claiming it to be unknown. If I substitute (p0...
I'm not sure if I'm following you, but I'm seeing a problem with this: It seems to me that 'an unknown truth' cannot legitimately be formalised as p b...
It started as a convenience, I used to carry my long spear and my flint knife to the hunt and if they were lost I would make another. The trouble star...
Meaning, purpose and use refer forward. For the religious, life refers forward to an afterlife or an eternal life. But for the irreligious, there is n...
Logic is really bad at doing time. Truths have to be eternal. That p is an unknown truth is unknowable until p is known, and then it is not an unknown...
Too many negatives there, or not enough. But the way the self functions is much more than an undeniable fact. I am this body and you are that body, an...
We the Philosophers of pf, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, prom...
Once upon a time there was peace. The tools of security are weapons, restraints, and surveillance. They are designed for the denial of freedom. Securi...
How does this work for multiple murderers, for example? On the face of it, there is bound to be a discrepancy. You know, you drop a bomb on Hiroshima,...
You really love to fight, don't you. You see fight everywhere. It is rather amusing, that I cannot disagree with your claim that I am aggressive witho...
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