Thorongil

Nah.

Or you'd like it to be. I could care less about such meaningless side-show drama.

Yeah, you figured it out. And I see.

So she can feel the world pelting down on her....

Knarc Rettib, with a silent K of course.

Why John? So plain and boring.

Gross.

Well, I'll be damned. You dun dodged an ethical and a legal quandary, my friend.

But is it ethical for you to do so? It seems you likely had to actively search out such a file, as opposed to it falling into your lap.

What does that make the Democratic party?

Nils with the Googling work. (Y)

I read a short story by Evelyn Waugh recently, which I was pleasantly surprised by. I might explore his other fiction at some point.

Is the violation of copyright law part of the human predicament?

Hehe, clever. Come on guys; it's not hard to figure out.

Nah, I'm not.

Unless that was an off-hand, unpublished remark, I would suggest finding the paragraph/page/book from which that quote is taken and finding out for yo...

If that's your definition of proof, why are you then not a skeptic?

Your criticism seems now to be that the good is not perfect. Well, so what? I don't claim that capitalism is a perfect system or that it can't devolve...

Then I return to my original point! They decay into something other than capitalism.

Sure. In a sense, some capitalists, as owners and investors of capital, are monopolists, but capitalism would prevent them from being so.

In part, yes.

Because capitalism supports free markets and to have a monopoly is to prohibit others from entering the market.

Also, the leftist equivocates on the word capitalism, in that he will use this word to describe what is in fact corporatism, corporatocracy, or crony ...

You still miss the mark. My opposition to them rests not on my mere dislike of them but on account of their opposition to capitalist principles, which...

I'm not seeing a difference between "proving God to exist" and "giving very compelling reasons for believing in God." The latter statement just reads ...

Boy, you sure claim to know an awful lot about me based on a few relatively casual comments I made on this topic above. This reads as a series of stra...

For one thing, classical theism is in jeopardy. To claim that God can be proven or believed to exist, despite not knowing his essence, becomes a nonse...

But they often do so through monopoly and government subsidy. No one is saying they're communists, but they're certainly not capitalists.

And North Korea calls itself a Democratic People's Republic. :-}

Which is what it is. Monopolistic corporate behemoths are antithetical to capitalism. Don't fall for the leftist equivocation on this word.

I don't quite understand the question. I was being slightly sarcastic mind you. The isolated ascetic does no favors for asceticism as a whole, whereas...

You seem to describe corporatism, not capitalism.

Let me clarify that I would never suggest such a thing nor deny the negative aspects of primitive life. I prefer civilization and capitalism over and ...

I find that the sort of work one does is more important than whether one works. The Bushmen are likely satisfied because they don't perceive their wor...

Yes. We don't have titles for his fragments or those of Parmenides, so that's the title scholars have given them. My list reflects those works that I ...

Yes. So much the worse for them. I wouldn't mind arguing this, though. The asceticism of Sufis, Christian monks, Buddhist monks, Jain monks, Hindu sad...

This is false, or at least misleading. Jains do not believe in a single, creator god, but they accept the Vedic devas and worship all sorts of deities...

There is physical asceticism, aimed at reducing the demands of the body, and mental asceticism, aimed at reducing the demands of the mind, so both I g...

Then they aren't ascetic. Asceticism must be voluntary or else it quickly becomes destructive and immoral, which asceticism isn't in itself.

Heraclitus - On Nature Parmenides - On Nature Plato - Dialogues Kierkegaard - Journals Marcus Aurelius - Meditations Spinoza - Ethics Berkeley - Treat...

I was going to say the difference lies in whether it has icing. I like both.

That should be "mehopes," from a Christian perspective. There's no reason to think it empty or not empty. You simply don't and can't know. Hell still ...

It's not even funny.

No, it's not. You don't know their internal state, only God does. Why don't you let him be the judge?

That's not for you to say.

David Bentley Hart. I quoted him.

Right. I used the qualifier "so called" when speaking of natural evil earlier. I'm not a fan of this phrase, as I don't think natural disasters and th...

I quite honestly don't understand what you're talking about here. Natural evil has been a problem for the theist for thousands of years and has become...

I can see this being answered both affirmatively and negatively. I don't know.

Well, we can then ask why there is the privation of the good, as opposed to just the good. Evil cannot be absolutely nothing, since it has meaning wit...