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If you study the subject of iatrogenic deaths (deaths caused by doctors and/or medical treatment), you'll see that it's one of the most common causes ...
July 28, 2017 at 11:49
Oh yes, please hurry, because you'd do me a great favour by freeing me of having to deal with a character like you. Pretty much the best gift you coul...
July 28, 2017 at 11:47
That's proof that coke doesn't have beneficial effects in case of stomach ache. But a doctor with a very good reputation recommended that to me a coup...
July 28, 2017 at 11:45
I don't actually think that I'm smarter than everyone else, so I have no idea where you're taking this from. But I do think that I'm smart enough to t...
July 28, 2017 at 11:39
When one of the "best" doctors tells you that drinking coke is good for treating a stomach infection, you know they don't know what they're talking ab...
July 28, 2017 at 11:15
That's a non sequitur. Just because I'm not a doctor doesn't mean that I can't judge doctors or know if they're wrong.
July 28, 2017 at 11:13
No.
July 28, 2017 at 11:10
"Expertise" is fake. Experts are dumber than you expect. You have no idea how many doctors I've met who are dumb, arrogant, and don't actually know wh...
July 28, 2017 at 11:05
I see. Do you expect me to be impressed or?
July 28, 2017 at 08:18
Mere attention grabbing. Typical of the fake science community - which quite sadly is quite a lot of science today. They research only what some want ...
July 27, 2017 at 21:55
Funny, when I come here it's the same old bunch (creative and Wayfarer) grabbing tightly on their pink ponies and crying about Trump :D
July 27, 2017 at 21:51
Surprised you've listed this over Saving the Appearances. Admittedly, I haven't read it, but some of the reviews that I read of it certainly didn't in...
July 27, 2017 at 21:34
The fact that he thinks so about his own works doesn't make it true to begin with (I find it quite laughable, poor Nietzsche), so you're creating a fa...
July 27, 2017 at 13:32
So let's see. You come in a thread that I started and claim that the more I write the more the thread becomes intolerable - well, guess what, if it wa...
July 27, 2017 at 09:07
:-} Yes, because he doesn't let you spew falsity
July 26, 2017 at 22:08
No, I'm saying the way you use "atheism" is wrong, I wasn't actually referring to the dictionary definition provided by LW.
July 26, 2017 at 21:20
Yes, wrongly defined by you, because it effectively replaces agnosticism as well.
July 26, 2017 at 21:15
And you complain about moving goalposts? You should clarify what your terms mean, that's rule number one since Aristotle! :P You're protesting at her ...
July 26, 2017 at 21:05
Just because the referents of the words point to the same underlying person does not mean that they both describe Him equally well. I made no mention ...
July 26, 2017 at 20:49
The "Muslim God" and the "Christian God" are just words (referents). They are obviously referents to the same entity, for there is One God only, there...
July 26, 2017 at 20:22
:s Allah is meant to denote the same God. Palestinian Christians for example, use God and Allah interchangeably. It doesn't matter if you say God, or ...
July 26, 2017 at 20:07
Well, granted that you're a guy who used to think the Gospels were written hundreds of years after Christ, then I think in all likelihood you don't kn...
July 26, 2017 at 18:31
No Dostoevsky was zero percent atheist. Here was a man who died with the Bible in his lap... Although neither was he an exemplary Christian in his lif...
July 25, 2017 at 20:57
I don't see a link with human rights here at all. If capitalism leads to the production and sale of "goods" which are harmful, then I absolutely don't...
July 25, 2017 at 13:31
How do you define capitalism? If you define capitalism as free trade, then free trade is an advantage to those who are already powerful, so long as th...
July 24, 2017 at 21:34
Absolutely not. It's like at a Poker table. When I end up holding, say 70% of the entire tables wealth, then the others cannot compete anymore, even i...
July 24, 2017 at 21:26
Right, so let's do some economics then. What is this? This is the long-term graph illustrating the average total cost (ATC), average revenue (AR), mar...
July 24, 2017 at 21:13
Is the goal of the capitalist to maximise profits?
July 24, 2017 at 21:01
I follow. It's not about whether I'm more of an expert than that guy, this goes deeper. I don't trust experts, most of the experts I've met are wrong ...
July 24, 2017 at 20:43
Why is monopoly anti-capitalist? Every business seeks a monopoly of one kind or another.
July 24, 2017 at 20:41
>:O
July 24, 2017 at 20:39
Okay, but take Kierkegaard that FATHER of existentialism. He was very conservative with regards to the family, although he never had a family himself....
July 24, 2017 at 20:26
Think about it. If some crazy guy wants X, then I'd be a fool not to provide it, because I'd be dropping the opportunity to make money. That's why con...
July 24, 2017 at 20:23
Yes exactly, I think that's a problem that we're a consumer driven society. It encourages desires to grow, expand and multiply among the people, which...
July 24, 2017 at 20:19
What's a proof then? A proof to me is undeniable evidence that something is the case. Such cannot be given in the case of God. I can prove the Theorem...
July 24, 2017 at 20:15
Well yes, maybe I was too harsh above, excuse me. The last sentence was meant to be a joke, but it didn't come out like that, came more like I was try...
July 24, 2017 at 20:13
:-} Yep. Regardless of Michael's attempted insinuation, the fact that I haven't read a few books of the Old Testament is not comparable with your situ...
July 24, 2017 at 20:06
No, actually that's not true. I despise large corporations (>$10 billion revenue) because of the unfair financial strength that they wield. The rest o...
July 24, 2017 at 20:03
That's nothing but an argument from authority. I asked you to use your head and give me an actual reason. Philosophers of the past may have thought it...
July 24, 2017 at 20:00
The whole conundrum seems a bit nonsensical to me. Nothing can be "proven" to exist. You can't even "prove" other minds exist. Classical theism does n...
July 24, 2017 at 19:55
Why do you say existentialism is the philosophy behind the moral attacks on the family?
July 24, 2017 at 19:52
>:O Certainly, but I don't quite believe it's the same thing. Corporate behemoths do actually control the allocation and distribution of large amounts...
July 24, 2017 at 19:15
Maybe, although corporate behemoths identify themselves as capitalists ;)
July 24, 2017 at 19:11
Hmmm I will agree, because I think you're using capitalism to mean what capitalism used to be.
July 24, 2017 at 19:09
True enough but it was kind of silly at least to me. Meursault always seemed to me to be unable for some strange reason to feel compassion (for exampl...
July 24, 2017 at 19:07
Word. The challenge though is to escape the drudgery of capitalism, and you cannot do that by working for the behemoths of the economy (corporations)....
July 24, 2017 at 18:28
Man doesn't deserve anything, so why would he turn away? God doesn't HAVE TO give him what he wants. You're talking as if the man in question believes...
July 24, 2017 at 17:30
Regardless of what science discovers, it's not enough. We'll always be at the mercy of things that are outside of our control.
July 24, 2017 at 13:59
I'm not sure about that, it seems that the situation is about 50-50 for married people, with the balance leaning in favour of faithful monogamy being ...
July 24, 2017 at 13:44
Depends what you mean by "true".
July 24, 2017 at 13:31