god must be atheist

And by force de tour, anything positivist has a negative twist.

With all this stream of consciousness (or unconsciousness, or unconscionable nessnessness) I sound like a mouse-sized lion let out of the match box fo...

One of the gross mistakes in the evolving etymology of English words. It should be "how vulvar", but it isn't.

"I am a planned child." It almost sounds like I've been delivered to pre-ordered specifications. "We planned this child. Instead of doing some dirty s...

Oh, Crap. The verifati. I forgottati. Remembretati ti verifatty!

Oops, and not to forget the Infinitati, and the finnugritati. I almost forgot them, or maybe totally forgot them. But we must remember not to forgatit...

Not to forget the qualiati, the apprehendati, the comprehendati, the offendati, the reprehendati, the crogantiotati, the KrugerMichaeliati, the Infini...

informative is a thing that gives me knowledge of facts and events which I had no knowledge of previous to the giving of information. So to say that s...

You're right. Paul Michael is not. But I am. It is a mistake to lump all humans into the same lump of existential qualia. Qualia is not Equalia. Some ...

I just took a paraphrasing of your quoting Wikipedia. If you argue against that, you argue against something you have already accepted. True enough, a...

I am not sure if that's right, but I can't argue against it. After all, superstructures exist that are more than just the parts that make them up. But...

please cite the studies. Otherwise please withdraw this statement.

Thanks, good debate.

Nobody knows that, and that's the current state of knowledge. It happens. That's all that the materialists can say.

This is nice. No denying that. But that is all that it is.

Materialists don't say nothing else exists beside matter. They say that whatever exists, is based on matter. For instance, consciousness, feelings, em...

Thank you. I can't continue this argument until you learn what the 2nd Law of theromdynamics states, and until you learn how to read simple math equat...

You quoted the 2nd Law of TD, and you ask that question?

What do you mean? They have become infinitely heavy (full of mass)? Or their speed has become inifinitely large? or they reached a point in a distance...

Further to my previous post, if you are skeptical about the heat energy not dissipating at all: Imagine that the heat energy follows a function of the...

No, that is not true. The 2nd law states that thermal entropy can't decrease. But it allows it to stagnate. That's A. B. is that entropy possibly neve...

Absolutely.

Philosophers get so pissed when they are called sophists, that they clench a fist.

That true.

I would venture to guess that in BOTH cases it is not necessary to spell out existing knowledge, as long as one properly references the source. I am t...

I don't get it. Why can't it exist? What is it in its supposed eternal ticking that makes it impossible to exist?

Why, Thank you very much!! It feels like a little warm fuzzy-wuzzy to be complimented like that. Wow.

You're right. Spiritual leaders of even small congregations get some remuneration. But they just regurgitate the Bible or some other sacred text... th...

I think many of the street philosophers (including almost all participants on this forum / board, while present company is almost always excepted) are...

The getting insulted was the action by your boss. Your action was to insult a driver. It was not your action tha that the driver and your boss was one...

This is what western (vs eastern) philosophy demands: state an proposition and prove it. This is done to the tiniest details to avoid inroads of criti...

If this forum taught me something, it is to pick your bottles well. Not to win, but in order not to get caught in the quagmire of non-understanding. S...

I agree that it's a good definition of self-sacrificial ethics. However, I also maintain that the ultimate spring and origin of ethics is the survival...

Maybe I should have spelled out that it's a clock with a regular clock-face, that is, twelve hours, no more, no less. It has an hour, a minute and pos...

You don't get the concept. But that's okay. Your answer is 13.8 billion years and counting. Noted. Fine. No arguments.

We understand you are enamoured by Banno and his opinions in philosophical discourses. That's fine. But do you have any original ideas to share, as we...

Regarding the infinite past, I heard a good riddle: if a clock has existed forever, what time would it show this moment? This is a good one. It would ...

The lack of solidarity among the workers is matched by the lack of solidarity among the capitalists. The capitalists are constantly engaged in squeezi...

Haha. There are a few steps in deducing facts from this law in-between the underlying law and understanding time dilation. And I am unfamiliar with th...

Okay. Then let's put it this way: the time dilation and the clock that measures it after the big banggg pertains to the matter of the big banggg. Othe...

The person you mentioned is responsible for this philosophical mishap. But I don't see the votes and the majority of opinion as a proof of truth. I se...

Thanks. No amount of explanation will stick. Because I don't see the underlying law that creates this effect. All I am saying is that since there are ...

These are not absolutes. Many people murder their loved ones... most murders involve domestic strife, and family members. Murder, to use your definiti...

Very interesting. It is completely incomprehensible to me. I don't doubt your word, I am just putting it into perspective for you how informative this...

:razz: :chin: :clap:

People talk about "the universe" and "the known universe" and they mix up the two concepts. I am extremely unfamiliar with the math and physics of the...

I am the first one to admit that I never studied anything beyond high school. Yes, I have a degree, but I did not earn it by studying. I earned it by ...

Baden: Hangover: About geography. About the east-west and north-south divides. After the first world war ended, they redrew the map of Europe for the ...

You forget to apply your critical ability when you read authors. Yes, for any behaviour there is evolutionary advantage; but not at the same time, and...

No sweat. I am pleased I could help. And you have a number of alternative "right" answers following mine. "Gimme the wisdom to choose the right answer...