Agustino

What does "nature" mean?

In truth, I know quite well what laws of nature mean and why you can't define them. Because laws of nature are actually an antiquated and incoherent c...

So is it your claim that laws of nature can be wrong? If laws of nature can be wrong, then how is it possible for miracles to be unreasonable, when mi...

Okay, I might agree with regards to the philosophy class, but we're not in a philosophy class here. We're actually in the Lounge of a philosophy forum...

Indeed. Some people, like Zizek, would say that this sort of "blindness" is constitutive of our (social) reality. For example, the commodity exchange ...

Well you have told me quite a few times to read Hume, but I'm more interested to have a discussion with you. If you want to base your points on what H...

Funnily enough, that's what Marx also remarked in Das Kapital: "they do not know it, but they are doing it". For example, people go to school thinking...

So anything that is a "transgression" of our scientific understanding of the world is a miracle. Then I guess light bending around the sun was a mirac...

What are the "laws of nature"? What does "law of nature" mean?

A miracle is very difficult to define - alas, I am not much interested in definitions. The problem with Hume's definitions is that "laws of nature" do...

Contemporary physics exists with one end in mind, which structures the entire enterprise. I am of course speaking about what Nietzsche called the "wil...

Why not?

I think the supernatural plays a much larger role even in day-to-day life than most people care to admit (I will not even mention guiding the evolutio...

60-70% No, I would say. But there's a lot more believers and conservatives around here than old PF, this is a more balanced community. You probably vo...

Let's exclude those and other things that can be determined as fakery.

Why not? Hmmm, yes, if achieving certainty is your goal, probably intuition isn't as useful (by its very nature). But if taking good decisions is your...

No horse riding.

No, we're talking about predicting election results brah! But at the time, you were telling us that this is what the polls are saying! So what happene...

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So then you recognise that intuition has a very important role in life in helping you solve some problems right?

Well there are a lot of ifs there mate :lol:

Hmm maybe, but jokes that work while talking and listening to each other by voice, don't necessarily translate well when put in writing

Yeah, that would be a good idea, why not :P

Well yes, in some cases. That's not usually what I've been capable to do in those rare events that I'm talking about. I wish. I can't do that one. It'...

No, not a percentage prediction - that's quantitative.

What prize will @"Michael" get?

He always shares that but not to you :joke: Yeah, Michael solved it.

Yeah, that one is. All of them are. Except one of them.

@"Baden" @"jamalrob" @"Michael" - why would a PM conversation not have HTTPS protocol? It doesn't have HTTPS protocol on both my side, and on the othe...

Well, you pick one, link it here, and I will watch it and let you know.

Well @"Baden", this is an emergency. No, I haven't said I guessed. False. Then why were you (and the liberal media) so convinced he would lose? I was ...

My claim was with regards to public debates (like the one I linked). I don't remember that debate on PF very well (I read it long ago), but yes, I thi...

We never had any, except one between 180 Proof and someone else (not very capable) 2000 years ago. In discussions, most atheists here are not very goo...

Probably. Craig's responses weren't very great either. He missed many points that he could have scored. For example with regards to uncaused events, h...

Sure. Cite to me one debate where you reckon the atheist wins. Point me to them. They had a professional panel of professors/intellectuals, the studen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d2X9rrzgso I quickly skimmed through this debate, and Dr. Craig completely humiliated Rosenberg :lol: Why is it that ...

This is actually true Benkei :lol: It's the first truth I've seen you write in quite awhile about me.

You certainly are a very strange man. I answered this exact question just awhile ago. I didn't predict this. I didn't predict this. Sure, since when a...

*facepalm* okay. Give me a shout when you're willing to discuss: I'm not interested in this other silly bickering.

It's just a pragmatic observation :P Yes, that's exactly the problem, that he openly admitted to it. The students didn't care much, but in a 1-on-1 ra...

:lol: You have developed an obsession with winning votes. Winning the election isn't the same as winning votes - I predicted the result of the electio...

That was just for his re-election. Presidents usually get re-elected once they have been once in office. Why do you reckon that happens? Does it have ...

I was always curious about this actually. How do you deal with the parents of your husband/wife? My first girlfriend's parents hated me, so it would h...

The communism/socialism thing is BIG for most older Americans man. Many would not vote simply because they heard Sanders is socialist/communist. This ...

Yes, that's the problem. But yes, Sanders had gathered a lot of momentum too. He would definitely have had a much better chance than Clinton, and may ...

If only young people and students were to vote, sure :P

Right, go on then big boy, hold me accountable :sweat:

Trump also spent significantly less than Crooked and generated much greater energy - that was another sign.

Crooked wanted to win the Presidency from bed :rofl:

That doesn't mean her intensity was higher. She could barely stand on her two feet, give me a break. Trump had probably 5-6x (if not more) the rallies...