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I haven't argued otherwise.
October 20, 2020 at 13:21
Perhaps you're right. I suppose I just want anyone who votes for Biden to feel like they ought to need crawl out of their own skin or slit their own t...
October 20, 2020 at 13:06
The irony of course is that if one takes Dawkins' seriously, one would have to subscribe to what amounts to a theological conception of evolutionary t...
October 20, 2020 at 06:32
Great, wonderful, what do you want, praise? You're still dirty, you're compromised as is everyone on the left, and everything is still awful, and will...
October 20, 2020 at 01:12
I don't doubt it, and I haven't argued otherwise.
October 20, 2020 at 01:03
You keep charactering Biden as simply a 'less worse option'. Perhaps he is that. But he is not only that. He is also a terrible human being who is res...
October 19, 2020 at 23:44
Yeah, this was my original point: that Dawkins set scientific literacy back by an order of decades. Perhaps I ought to have said 'popular' literacy or...
October 19, 2020 at 23:37
Pfft, and you complain about abstract. My point's not complicated: Biden's a fucking monster, and if you vote for him, you'd have to do everything you...
October 19, 2020 at 23:22
Well no, one could not vote, or vote for a third party, and that would be fine too. All of it would be shameful, all of it would be complicit, because...
October 19, 2020 at 23:12
I'm not arguing for vote abstinence, nor am I arguing that one should somehow have less responsibility in some magical 3rd reality. I'm simply laying ...
October 19, 2020 at 23:04
*shrug* If you want to act like voting takes you off the hook then so be it. Enjoy the continued decline of the world which you would be responsible f...
October 19, 2020 at 22:58
You misunderstand. It's not about emotion. It's about being responsible, and being complicit, and about the necessity of recognizing that voting entan...
October 19, 2020 at 22:49
Ohh you're a loon. OK as you were.
October 19, 2020 at 15:23
Bold presumption that this is not already the case.
October 19, 2020 at 14:02
Then it seems to me that you are not a good reader, who mistakes a framing device - one explicitly authorized and in fact tributary to the very source...
October 19, 2020 at 13:56
I don't know; I don't think it should matter. As soon as politics revolves around personalities and individuals, it's over. Any system that could lead...
October 19, 2020 at 13:50
She cuts to the quick after her small discussion of metaphor to note that it's all just a bunch of window dressing to get across the point that "Shorn...
October 19, 2020 at 11:23
I don't have the book in front of me right now, but I'll rattle off some examples when I do. In any case the question of 'metaphor' is a sideshow. Daw...
October 19, 2020 at 10:37
Yeah, that's the apology she ought not have given.
October 19, 2020 at 10:30
It really doesn't: everytime he's pushed to lay out the implications of it, he's forced to dilute it to the point of triviality. Hence why the book is...
October 19, 2020 at 10:15
Didn't read any of that, don't plan to.
October 19, 2020 at 10:10
I didn't say that "there's no substantive political difference between Biden and Trump" so one has to wonder who exactly you're replying to.
October 19, 2020 at 10:09
Not my problem that Dawkins is a shit comminutor and and even shitter science populariser.
October 19, 2020 at 09:48
Yep, sounds good.
October 19, 2020 at 09:43
One of the absolutely bonkers things about reading The Selfish Gene is just how much he has to consistently qualify just how useless and misleading it...
October 19, 2020 at 08:34
Quite simply because this: "This is that the basic unit of natural selection is best regarded not as the species, nor as the population, nor even as t...
October 19, 2020 at 08:20
Yeah, it doesn't give one, but I think it takes the self-reports of people who say they believe in God as counting for the religious.
October 19, 2020 at 03:26
Don't worry too much about labels dude. Just give a shit about people and recognize when some strategies play right into the opposite of that.
October 19, 2020 at 03:24
Like, it's been four years. If people continue to be surprised that Trump is a total wanker, who, really, is the idiot? People act like - if only one ...
October 19, 2020 at 03:15
I literally do not give a shit about Trump retweeting whatever trash he happens upon while internetting. You couldn't pay me to give less fucks. If yo...
October 19, 2020 at 03:04
The scorn heaped upon Trump's personal (rather than political) behaviour had always had a humongous element of classism built into it. Trump does not ...
October 19, 2020 at 02:35
Trump is in every way an establishment politician who was worked to better the conditions of the same corporate overlords who rule over American polit...
October 19, 2020 at 02:24
While this amateur armchair speculation is very cute, I will refer you to the article in the OP - on which this thread is about - which demonstrably s...
October 19, 2020 at 02:11
Biden is a cunt whose 40 year long career in politics has contributed to immeserating millions in both the US and outside of it, I think everyone can ...
October 19, 2020 at 01:51
I hope to hell he doesn't 'leave the country' because that means some other poor miserable sod country is going to have to deal with that fuck. Americ...
October 17, 2020 at 11:24
Nah, Dawkins is trash, set scientific literacy back by an order of decades. Fuck that guy. An atheist made for an American audience whose contact with...
October 17, 2020 at 09:59
Thus: the way to kill God is not though petty arguments but through a rugged materialism - good lives for all, security of body and community, to each...
October 17, 2020 at 01:52
Wow I didn't know I love Mary Midgley.
October 17, 2020 at 01:38
Euthyphro Dilemma and God’s Omnipotence, via @"JakeTheUbermensch": In this post, I will argue that choosing the second horn of the Euthyphro dilemma--...
October 16, 2020 at 07:45
Does God fear his creation but is too fond of it to destroy it?, via @"Vivian": Steve Buscemi’s character in Spy Kids is an overly-ambitious scientist...
October 16, 2020 at 07:38
Attempting to Address the Problem of Evil, via @"Mackensie": The “Evidential” Problem of Evil 1. In many sad events, we can’t see what good features w...
October 16, 2020 at 07:35
On the Misinterpretation of Religious Texts, via @"JakeTheUbermensch": --- In this post, I will argue that the prevalence of gross ‘misinterpretations...
October 16, 2020 at 07:25
Moral Skepticism and Theism, via @"JakeTheUbermensch": In this post, I will argue that one solution that the theist could take to get out of moral ske...
October 16, 2020 at 07:24
A Prepackaged Good and Evil, via @"Vivian": It can be argued that good and evil comes prepackaged with free will since birth. When God created man wit...
October 16, 2020 at 07:23
Balance of Good and Evil, via @"Vivian": The battle between good and evil is a common theme in many books and movies. Harry Potter battles Voldemort, ...
October 16, 2020 at 07:22
The Issue With Religious Diversity, via @"Matthew724": If God exists, why are there so many religions? In other words, if God is all-powerful and all-...
October 16, 2020 at 07:20
Existential Argument Against Existence of God, via @"Matthew724". Nobody denies that there are some people who don’t find life to be meaningful and/or...
October 16, 2020 at 07:19
If God doesn’t exist, is life meaningless?, via @"Matthew724": If God doesn’t exist, then is life meaningless? What do we mean by “life”? Does that ju...
October 16, 2020 at 07:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9afwZON8dU&feature=emb_title Graeber on the 'Extreme Centre'. Couldn't be more relevant.
October 15, 2020 at 12:47
"Such would be the future's hopeless alternative: either the possibilities imposed by the axiomatic, or the impossible as a future void of its possibi...
October 14, 2020 at 11:20