Thorongil

Lol, you would frequent there.

We were talking about God causing an event that we know from the law to be evil, like murder. You replied by saying that, if God caused the event, it ...

I find capriciousness and evil to be highly incomprehensible actually. Whether theism is true or not, evil often defies easy explanation.

Oi vey.... I do. I'm tempted to challenge this, but I'll provisionally say yes. X could only refer to the moment of conception, in which case we're ta...

The left has cried wolf too many times, but they're in so deep that they're oblivious of this fact and so simply double down on it.

The Antifa/BLM people and the Neo-Nazi/white supremacist people are mirror images of each other. A pox on both their houses I say. Both buy into the r...

They were.

Have you ever heard of Markus Gabriel? https://www.amazon.com/Why-World-Does-Not-Exist/dp/0745687563

Let's look at it again, then. My claim is that birth itself is not a harm. You then said: I thought you were agreeing with me here. But looking at thi...

I don't think he's out of the woods yet, as I too detect something similar to what you do in him.

Damn. I'm sorry that happened. I guess it goes to show that ideas have consequences, as Richard Weaver would say, sometimes physically deleterious one...

I myself am not opposed to taking action on what are recognized by all to be things deleterious to the natural environment. I am opposed to the idea t...

Are you being serious?

Poppycock. This is to say that evil is not evil. This returns us to your original argument, which I only granted for the sake of argument. I suppose t...

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That would have been impressive!

It took me a long while to realize he was trolling me because I honestly never expected him to take to trolling. I was trying in good faith to present...

But I just said he's probably trolling, which was confirmed in the Shoutbox. Sue me for not seeing it as fast as you would like. I honestly never expe...

Wow. So you were trolling.

Who?

You have some lemons, some water, and some sugar. Making lemonade requires mixing lemon juice from the lemons with the water and sugar. This means the...

Wow. You must be trolling me. I don't know how else to account for such brazen stubbornness.

If "at the moment" still presupposes the lemons' prior existence in your mind, it doesn't. It contradicts this statement:

Darth, I refuse to accept that you are this daft. The point I just made to you was that, if you acknowledge ANY duration of a lemon's existence BEFORE...

Your own damn words! Here you acknowledge that lemons do need to exist before making lemonade. The duration of their existence is irrelevant. Whether ...

What the deuce is your problem here. You have made both of the following statements: 1. Lemons do not need to exist before making lemonade 2. Lemons d...

Then to hell with the Epicurean position! I never said I was an Epicurean. You're not listening to what I'm saying. To be harmed requires that a perso...

You contradicted yourself, and I've shown why. Telling me to "reread" what you wrote, instead of explaining why my assertion that you have contradicte...

Because there is no person to harm, prior to it, like there is in the case of death.

Let me add that this comment itself perpetuates what you see as circularity, because it refuses to address what I'm saying. Consider again, for a mome...

You're asking how nonexistence can harm them, and I agree that it can't. Death itself harms the person, not the after death state, of which you refer....

Look at the word I bolded. Oh. Can the dying person benefit from or be harmed by his own death? Initially, I would say no and probably for the same re...

:-} As for the first question, that depends on context. I agree in principle with the death penalty, for example. So I do think people can benefit fro...

No, pessimists clearly don't all think that. I still consider myself a pessimist, but I don't consider being born a harm, strictly speaking. Ah, final...

But I don't disagree with this. Never have. Once born, people are exposed to harmed. What I have consistently objected to is the claim that being born...

Believe what you like.

Do we really know this, though, or are we simply projecting what we think they would have thought onto them? Well, was there any alternative? Civiliza...

Because they're in the business of brainwashing.

You asked for opinions on whether certain of Agustino's comments were sexist and got mixed replies. The policy statement is not in question, but wheth...

But... this assumes you know what sexism is. If sexism means "whatever Mongrel and Baden deem to be sexist," then anything could be sexist, and that's...

It feels like you're pulling my leg now. If they exist at the time of making lemonade, then they existed before one made lemonade.

Yes, I know. As I said, I'm intelligent enough to know how to stay hired without accepting their brainwashing attempts and thus maintain my integrity.

HR people are not to be charmed but laughed at and shunned.

It won't work. I have too much integrity and intelligence.

Fine. You want to be able to throw around the label without actually having to define it. Don't choke on that cake.

You pity them, do you? Why, that sounds a bit sexist to me.

I should have. What's sexism?

Alas, no. Now, about my question.

Hey @"Mongrel", could you actually define "sexism" for us?

Yes. This is a clear bait, and I'm not taking it. I explained my views as thoroughly as I can and so will leave it at that.