Yeah, but half of that number in troops are Americans-turned-Jihadists who were enchanted by the wonderful promise of the Islam. Plus, after joining u...
I caught a flee in my undershirt. It jumped off, but I caught it. I killed it. Upon closer examination under a microscope it turned out it had a built...
In a high school dance, where everyone went solo, not in couples, back 50 years ago, every boy first asked the prettiest girl to dance. Or dreamed of ...
You're right. In fact, there is a science now of writing fiction. They know precisely what any one person on the globe is willing to read. It has some...
It is a huge compliment to a writer who is experimental and non-commercial. On the other hand, I've been compared to Shakespeare. By some editors. The...
In some circumstances there is nothing better to do than what the person actually is doing. To say "you have nothing better to do than..." is a moral ...
Seance Sense Made Sensible for the Senses I went to a seance and heard an apparition Say to the medium, "appardon, but the partition between living an...
Randy, you are a writer. You have a superb command of verbosity. That opening post is reading material enough to win top prize in a short story contes...
Imagine that on a philosophy forum website everyone would become stupidity-proof. Then arguments would lose their bite. And that would be a good thing...
Fieldism vs Materialism: an example of misplaced oppositionals Materialism is not opposed to fieldism. Materialism's tenet is not that matter exists; ...
Hehe! I actually never made such a claim, because it would be false. (And yes, you can call me out on that, what with my giving you an understanding I...
I just realized that you claimed here a tautology. "A belief is always a belief". It can be followed by "that such-and-such is true" or by "that such-...
Actually, that is not what you have always claimed. Here's the proof: You are claiming this now, because I convinced you of its truth. I don't know wh...
Think of it this way: the likelyhood that your certainty is right on (ie. that your belief is false, or else that your belief is right on target) is r...
I appreciate that you may have known the concept beforehand. I have a little devil that sits on my shoulder and asks me, "why does anyone need to quot...
I don't follow that. How can you be sure that for every X there is exactly and precisely a -X? This is a statement verifiable only by empirical study....
Okay, I'll jump on the bandwagon. I’ve never heard of the Autonomism either. But there are an infinite number of other things as well (literally, and ...
equivocation Artistic licence does not carry a legal weight. A five-year-old artist can't drive a car or get married to his mother quoting his or her ...
This is a point of contention; we have no data of an observed infinity of objects, but it is not inconceivable that there is an actual infinity of obj...
Simple objects are not capable to function. They are simple; they don't have component parts, as per being a simple, indivisible thing. Only those thi...
I believe in materialism, and determinism, and no spiritualism of any kind. But I don't feel screwed. For one thing, we would have already solved the ...
You can't argue against logic like that. It would certainly drive any son to madness to have the Father as his father. I wanted to gag my dad with sou...
i have never seen a prophecy claimed outside the bible, other than those of Nostradamus. And this claim also stands for his predictions. The reason al...
I see what you mean, 90%content (180 proof). However, perhaps Jesus, or rather, verily I say unto you, that Jesus came back about 50 years after the p...
You seem to misunderstand the meaning of "certainty". It is a relationship between belief and truth, not simply a belief. Conceivably nothing we exper...
My mother's sister, an old Jewish woman, now dead, taught me the art of Jewish humour, which is wise and sometimes totally self-depracating. (That's a...
"Old Sam, he couldn't belielve he and Jesus war both Jews... he a Jew? how can be? With long hair, and a Mexican name?" "I said, hey, Abe... take a wa...
I don't have an answer for you, Christian2017, but I have a question for you to ponder: How would we go about proving for sure that the book of Daniel...
You can't establish any degree of certainty on solipsism vs. accepting that what you experience is actually the physical world. For your information, ...
god must be atheist has become googly-eyed. PfHorrest, your thinking is way too complex for my comprehension. Maybe facts are, too, but I haven't yet ...
The way I look at it, social contact, natular lights, are pragmatisms, dressed in a pretty pink dress. Basically, we feed the poor and the incapable a...
Yes, some of us. I, personally, prefer scratching my back to talking about it. Same with having sex (with or without a partner.) Show me the food! and...
Insanity, madness, can take on many forms. "Being aware of only one's own self" is one form. Being aware of the world, other people, life, animal welf...
The assumption is that you are not allowed to play with yourself. No food sensation, no touch, no hearing, no seeing, no tasting, no defacating, no pe...
is that like lap-dancing? I have never heard of "degustation". Degas, yes, I've heard of him, he was a painter; Gus, too; station, too; but the whole ...
How is your game going, PfH? I thought it was supposed to build a play-dough universe of solid, unerring, unassailable, elementary numbers. Such as 1,...
I'm sorry... was that a rhetorical question, expressing incredulity over my giving you too little credit of understanding mental illness, or else was ...
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