god must be atheist

me too I'm still waiting for the next sequel

I think you want to portray yourself as a doctor, since you used the word "my patients". However, physicians don't write "every day" as "everyday". Ma...

I mean she might have SOME insight, but no insight resulting from personal experience. That makes a HUGE difference.

Because she is a man, and has no insight into the plight of the North American Black peoples.

Intelligence is an attribute that is fostered by genetic mutations and combinations when the environment provides preference for survival (and bringin...

You are stealing your material from the "Sermon on the Mound."

Okay. I won't do it again.

To be honest, the greatest works of humans are born out of idle coincidences. As luck would have it, I may be offered the Nobel Prize for this three-l...

More shit coming out of you. What you are describing is that healthy people have to pay for their own education, and unhealthy, sick individuals get s...

You are actually full of shit. The italicized part of your text is untrue.

You are just a bundle of joy, a harbringer of good news, aren't you. Diagnosis is made because people get sick. The lives of the diagnosed are comprom...

I know the feeling. I listen to "She Loves You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" and I am on life support for a week from extreme exertion. You should never try work...

not a problem, Cornwell, nobody else does either. I just am miffed that it's reciprocal.

Thanks for your reassurance.

Wow. I am speechless.

Tobias, I essentially said the same thing several pages ago that you said here. I expect Banno to give you a sophisticated and cajouling answer... and...

:rofl: Whew... thanks. This was the next best thing to getting my arguments regarded / noticed / acknowledged.

One day... one day I will learn how to properly spell the referred-to author's name.

For me, not that anyone cares, the issue was immediately decidable. "Can the will overcome and act against itself." Can a tree be taller than itself? ...

what do you suppose is in my fridge keeps dead stuff deader than pavement + dont need to constantly dodge the traffic

i vote for genetically re-engineered mussc-s

gifted children are always over- represented. (!)

bzzzz! wrong. those groups are over-represented.

solution: members of proportionally mixed races.

solution: surgical amputation. two legs and an arm should do it.

usually between myself and the fridge.

POLL Which is the worst of the three? 1. AntiChrist (the real mccoy) 2. Hitler 3. Banno ignoring my arguments. (I do NOT mean Banno's persona per se.)

Many think that death is one continuous, long state that reaches to the infinite future. That is a wrong thougth. Death lasts 4 minutes. After which a...

I think there is a difference. You determine the food you are cooking; but you can only describe the food that your neighbour is cooking. Description,...

Is it worth using a mental concept of a thing which we can't agree what it is, since it escapes definition and description; I think it's more embarras...

I don't think will is something that seeks a definition that determines it. It seeks a definition that describes it.

:100:

Why did you not say so, ever, in the OP? I thought the thread was about this: Oh I wish people wouldn't adjust the goalposts when they are cornered. N...

I just hope that my comments here won't be ignored.

Anything contrary to a concept could be the source of the manifestation of that concept, AS LONG AS IT IS NOT IN THE SAME RESPECT. And thereby lies th...

The freedom... of what? the freedom of the will? the freedom of action? the freedom of the person to whom these are components? The freedom of motivat...

Tyranny in my faulty imagination is absolute rule. Rule that is self-serving. Making others do what they don't want to do in order to satisfy the tyra...

I am sorry, but I have to quote again my best friend, teacher and master: Paul A. S. He came to me one day, and asked, "Peter (not my real name) do yo...

I think therefore that one always acts according to his or her own will. Whether his or her own will is free or not, is a totally different question. ...

In the drinking example you provided, according to my point, you do what you will: you decide that the unpleasantness of denying yourself a pleasant i...

I agree with you to this point, Janus, but when you are forced, you are given a choice too, and you will follow the path of what you will. It coercion...

Sure. I have a comfy little matchbox.

Yes. No doubt about that.

I have to give it to you. You're right about that. It's just that you don't abduct criminals as an investigator for the law, you arrest them.

Holmes was capable of powerful, arresting reasoning. -

Amen. As well as what Hitler is to Just Society. Or what Nero is to Philosopher King. Or what I am to Frank Sinatra. Or what Satan is to Archangelsk. ...

Except he fails to spell out WHAT precisely he is ignorant about. The topic of his ignorance is paramount to make his statement meaningful; yet he avo...

I oppose both of your views. (Hehe.) A philosopher king has the following potential qualities: - wisdom - high iq - fascination for power This mix of ...

Absolutely. And that is why it is important to know the true meaning of "we don't know". Speculation without ANY evidence, prior or posterior, is futi...

Strawman, again. You attribute things to others that they never uttered. Can YOU be more specific? or less specific? Or more or less general? You are ...