All three were mass murderers and only one got a bit of what each deserved. It's always hilarious to me that bootlickers always assume everyone else i...
Imagine both-sidesing this so hard that the standard of comparison is between an actually existing apartheid regime which regularly murders children a...
Have I? Because I mentioned that while you at least offered something others didn't, even what you did offer feel into conceptual incoherency once you...
I have no time for clomping words together and then having to take seriously the idea that an accident of grammar ought to be dignified as something t...
I disagree. In all these, let's call them, pathological cases of consciousness, you can trace the hows and whys of their pathology back to the body it...
OK, and? Again, if you think afterlifers would be happy with this sense of 'sense of a person' that funeral gatherers employ then so be it, they can h...
You're right that endogenous change won't happen. Change will have to come from the outside. Israel needs to be treated exactly like South Africa was....
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57464794 The new inheritor of the Israeli state apartheid apparatus takes his seat. The BBC article is kind...
One of my favs. Funnily enough, one of the things I've been getting more critical of as time goes on, even though I love it. Tell me more. -- I finall...
You literally brought up 'subtle bodies' - the nonsense and the straws were yours to begin with - I just happened to extend its application. The fact ...
And I'm sure plenty of people have thought - through whatever linguistic shuffling - that square circles are possible on the basis of subtle circles a...
Cool! Ok, at least this formulation actually has some conceiveable content rather than just mashing words together to see how they stick. But here the...
It's not an 'assumption', it's how words work. What would a disembodied life mean? We know life to roughly be a metabolic process that reproduces itse...
Exactly. It's not even that we have never observed such a thing: we don't even know what it would mean to observe such a thing. So you're right: it's ...
Maybe, but this is just a basic panpsychic position - if you're going to explicitly couple consciousness with the state after death, the implication i...
Yeah Pristine Culture was so-so. I liked just how sharply it drew the lines between France and England, but yeah, after the globe-trotting of HTWCTR i...
As others have pointed out, this is an incorrect reading of Wittgenstein. Gesturing vaguely to "lingustics and social science" and the fact that "Witt...
OK did some digging because this kinda shit is my jam, and in the OT the words at play are probably variations of mishpat and tzedakah which correspon...
The OT is a series of books, and I'm genuinely curious what you mean when you say they are dated back that far - in what form? As far as I know this i...
I feel like I read this in Agamben somewhere, but I couldn't tell you where exactly. Wood's Citizens to Lords has some passages on how Aquinas transfo...
The notion of justice goes at least as far back to the ancient Greeks, who spoke of dik?, which can be found in Plato, Homer, and Hesiod. But there wa...
Exactly what is different about what you said? It would be good then, if these so-called proponents offered anything close to a coherent concept of th...
That's what being principled means, yes. But now that you're done live action role playing where I live rent free in your head, perhaps we can get bac...
It's true that I do not care one iota about some dead Jews in 750BCE (I don't discriminate tho - I don't care about dead anyone in 750BCE). You got me...
OK, but this is just word games - in a way that not even the after-lifer would accept! No 'after-lifer' would accept that the 'afterlife' refers to th...
Hey I'm just answering questions! I mean it though - the notion of an afterlife simply has no conceptual coherence. After-life = life after the cessat...
None. Life is not the kind of thing that has an 'after'. The idea itself is a conceptual mistake, like a square circle. It is not the kind of thing th...
Yeah, I particularly liked his use of Godel flash cards, as it were, to get the point across. Almost no pop explanations ever mention Godel numbers in...
If God then . Literally the laziest argument on the face of the earth. It can't be argued against either, because God is simply a magical gap filler t...
It heartens me that arguments in support of Israel are, and can only be, as vapid and slimy as those advanced by those like TwoBit. Anyone with half a...
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