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Anyone who think ethics and law are related has never, one imagines, had to deal with the justice system.

Moira Gatens and Genevieve Lloyd - Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present Brian Rotman - Ad Infinitum... The Ghost in Turing's Machine: Taki...

But what a dénouement though! Some real M Night Shyamalan stuff at the end there.

Really really. Religion is too weird, idiosyncratic, and personal/social. Best to let lying dogs lie.

If their belief isn't hurting anyone - ideally I'm not trying to ritually sacrifice myself - then I wouldn't really have any reason to. And if I am tr...

If you say so. I just resent what I saw was the hinted suggestion that one cannot have any kind of autonomous space apart and extricated from the spac...

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I don't care to convince you, or anyone else. If you think questions about God make sense, good for you. I was simply stating my own preferred positio...

Would it help had I phrased it "God? What is that? *shrug*" ? I was simply trying to emphasize that even having asked the question, our imaginary frie...

Well I'm antagonistic to the suggestion that atheism - at least an atheism for whom religion and God means nothing - ought to be more curious about re...

Interest doesn't make engagement with religion a baseline. I'm not arguing that you (or anyone) shouldn't be interested in religion. One can be intere...

But I don't understand what gives you licence to dismiss my own nonchalance as 'quips' or 'not taking it seriously'. Why is the default position that ...

Yeah. When you're so privileged that not being granted more privilege is a grevious injustice.

I'll try to later. Pushed for time atm.

I really don't know. It seems slim pickings atm, but any anything could happen. I suspect the democrats need to have a good and proper implosion befor...

I'm serious though. Of the multitude of artefact Gods, the majority of which, presumably, you don't give due consideration to either, I simply feel th...

If either Flake or Warren are nominees I'll eat my hat, tassles and all.

The God of the philosophers is the only interesting God. He functions simply as a productive constraint on thought, an intellectual rough ground or li...

No doubt the Mayans said the same of the decline in the belief of Quetzalcoatl. Which is not to say curiosity isn't relavent. I'm curious about Quetza...

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Blessedly, no. And even if I did I wouldn't try and ween them off their belief, which would just be a recipe for disaster.

That's fine. I don't care enough to want to convince a theist otherwise. If they're happy beliving in a God, more power to them.

Yes, that was a statement on a position I hold in a thread on the topic; not unlike a statement by a theist on his or her own views on God, which woul...

Also yes, reasoning is a minimal requirement for posts here, if you don't like it, kindly find somewhere else you can be unreasonable among.

*Every 3rd thread on the front page is about religion* "The forum is biased against religion!" Lol.

A distinction; a demonstration of its significance; an argument; a conclusion (or a question).

Idealism is... a pattern of thought; it's much harder to be indifferent to. We're idealists everytime we're not careful about how we think. God is sma...

Not enough indifference. Still treats the problem of God's existence as a legitimate question, even if answered in the negative. Only true atheism is:...

It's not a punishment to not be granted the honor of sitting on the highest juridical seat in the land while - what? slumming it? - as a federal judge...

The converse of installing an alleged attempted rapist to the supreme court would be not installing an alleged attempted rapist to the supreme court. ...

Ah, well, guess you'll install an alleged attempted rapist then to make law for your country for the next 20-30 years. Messed up the timing. Got it.

Yes yall should probably put an alleged attempted rapist into the high court of the land because its too inconvenient to do the due diligence, and the...

I'm basically Brett Kavanagh. Without the alleged attempted rape stuff.

I also have disproportionally more lady non-ex friends than I do lady friend exs!

I have disproportionately more lady friends than I do guy friends. But I'm not going to make weird generalizations based on that.

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No it's about philosophical principles!!! :death:

Ah yes, the supreme act of philosophical rebellion: taking for granted the well-positioned, power-wielding, politically and institutionally backed man...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/christine-blasey-ford-is-a-class-traitor.html "It strikes me that Republicans are scared of Ford because ...

That's, uh, one way to put it :sweat:

:gasp: Woah.

Purely speculating, I wonder if it was just a question of cloaking his theories in the prestige of Socrates. Employing his name, as Cic said, to simpl...

I knew these take a while but wow this keeps going.

Its just like: it is too much to ask that a supreme court judge not have a sordid sexual past with allegations of sexual assault? Like it's 7 people. ...

This is kinda Frankeque in that it's a random unsubstantiated assertion. Cool.

A question of tactics then? I dunno, I think the corruption is too deep-set; I'm not convinced tinkering is the right way to go. We've had literal cen...

I suppose it's only fitting that I'm now going to close this thread as a result! :) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Baphomet.png W...

I think there's a deep continuity between both though: the turn to agency and responsibility as illusory are essentially direct responses to the failu...

Make better threads and we can zeal all day and all night :smile:

I've been found out :yikes: