People, what have you done Locked Him in His golden cage Golden cage Made Him bend to your religion Him resurrected from the grave From the grave He i...
Same battle for the CBC. Leftist; multiculturalist; representing the opposing view to half of all Canadians. The large C conservative gov cut their fu...
However, some dictator's awful wrongdoings free up society after the dictators' downfall, to the extent that incredible growth and prosperity follows....
I love this! Thanks, Matt, for posting this video. The music itself sucks. But the visuals -- the robots playing it -- brings life to the performance....
The Only Way Emerson, Lake & Palmer People are stirred moved by the word. You kneel at the shrine, deceived by the wine. How was the earth conceived? ...
(TRUTH I take to be the correspondence of our opinions to reality, in the particular instance that our opinions are precisely coinciding with the even...
Thanks for clarifying this. What you argue against, therefore, is the denial of truth (which TRUTH I take to be the correspondence of our opinions to ...
@"PFHorrest", I am one of the polemicists. As you know. I think your temperament is more of the academic philosophers -- you don't get upset at the vo...
I was mixing Berkeley's voice with my opinion, and with what was stated in your essay. I never read Berkeley. Sorry about that, it was my mistake to a...
yeah, Contemporary Christian music... You know you're getting old when you hear your youth's favourite hard-rock band's most radical song over the p/a...
Black Sabbath was reputed to be a devil-worshipper's band. In the late sixties or early seventies, to counter this myth, they released an album, "Mast...
In my opinion all music that has no explicitly religious text for lyrics, can be viewed as atheistic, and theistic at the same time but not in the sam...
, the search you have done proved you wrong in parts, and did not prove you right in other parts. If you studied physics, you should demand a refund o...
I love it when a dilettante searches the Internet to disprove a point. They come up with pearls of wisdom that they can't fathom, and they actually he...
I object to that on the grounds that if it is true, then by its nature it cannot be known to be true, because to know it to be true we would need some...
There always remains the possibility that we will fail to construct such models that can consistently account for all experiences, but we can never be...
In psychology a distinction is made between perceptions, which are interpreted by the mind, and sensations, which are the raw experiences that get int...
nihilism at its most extreme denies that anything is real or moral at all, that there is any such thing as reality or morality. I don't know about mor...
And while this (egotism and solipsism)is clearly still as tantamount to nihilism, in the sense I am against, as any of the more collectivist kinds of ...
As you can see, PFHorrest, unfortunately I am not doing the homework assignment; I am not saying "I read this here, and it's the same, by this and thi...
It (Berekeley's subjective realism) denies that there is any objective reality, holding that there are only subjective perceptions, with agreement bet...
Both of these second types of relativism that I am against, for their being tantamount to metaphysical and moral nihilism respectively, hold that the ...
Ok, pfhorrest, I read partly through your essay. Out of respect for your intellect and for your what I'd call exemplary behaviour on the forums. I ref...
Dear Pussycat, entropy is not present in the quantum level of existence (if that's what you mean by microscopic scale), but it is very much present in...
One of the characteristics is the ability to create. If you can not figure out any of the characteristics, because they are hidden from you, then crea...
Perhaps everything is everything else, and perhaps nothing is everything else. - how can you argue against such a statement? It asserts nothing, it is...
Lots of things can be found out by using the wisdom of the crowd. Even if the crowd consists only of one person other than you. This happens provided ...
"Music is the language of a world that comprehends us, but we have no comprehension of it." - Ludwig van Beethoven. I am an atheist, and in a conceptu...
Your essay was incredibly boring. I found it impossible to read, after the first few words of the beginning. It was so boring. It may be my ineptitude...
A lot of misunderstandings are going on in this thread, to validate one's stance of rejecting another's stance. The one being rejected on grounds of m...
Sophia Loren -- one of the icons of my youth, along with Brigitte Bardot, Gina Lollobrigida, Audrey Hepburn, and Claudia Cardinale. In my country in m...
La Kid? I'll have to borrow El Cid from my local library and watch it. If it's a Western, I expect him to shoot first and ask questions later. If it's...
Everybody has their own theory about ethics, so why shouldn't I. But I can't write a book about it because that would need a lot of filler; I can writ...
I would have sworn that The Outsider had been written by Albert Camus, in French, with the original title "L'estranger". He was about 25 years old, to...
Okay, I have a confession to make, too. I am not Charles Heston, or Moses, or God. Any similarities, real or perceived, are purely coincidental. I can...
You're right. Bad arguments start with bad assumptions. You are, now I realize, a cross-dressing, lesbian, post-op transvestite space alien necrophili...
I see this as a sign that @"Csalisbury" lives her life (I assume she's a woman, for simplicity's sake... her pic) in the negative imprint. By negative...
As you are an embarrassment to logical thinking, @"Banno". Your style and behaviour pattern has chased away at least one really smart and useful contr...
Yes, there is a lot of assumptions thrown behind that claim of mine, among others, that there are no supernatural powers. Another assumption is that t...
They are capitalist pigs now, camerade. The children of Chinese capitalist billionaires are buying condos and houses in Toronto, Vancouver and countle...
I can just see what the other baboons are teaching the newcomers in a direct pedagoguical way: "Fuck you. You are just a fucking baboon, kid, don't yo...
This is what I am talking about, Salisbury. ChatteringMonkey hammered the ideas into a recongnizable shape. "good philosopher", "do away with the bad ...
The differentness. I see many posts here. Some stupid posts. There is a lot of "stupidity" about me. There are some smart posts. There are philosophic...
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