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What does it matter? We’re of the same species. In fact, we are the last extant species of human being, and it is quite possible we mixed with our ext...

I can try. What would you like me to argue or defend?

I only mentioned Trump once and that was to say I never mentioned Trump once. There are only a few reasons why you’d spread such a falsity and all of ...

It appears that Canadian soldiers participating in the military world games in Wuhan were getting sick with covid-like symptoms back in October of 201...

I wasn’t making that argument. I was only drawing a parallel between sophists, sophistry, and the belief that words and incantations can manipulate ma...

What’s the argument?

That’s not an argument. So go ahead and make one.

It shouldn’t matter either way. I never mentioned Trump, at any rate, so the criticism is projection or worse. But I thank you for letting me speak fo...

I thought we were talking about existential threats and global catastrophe, like climate change and nuclear destruction. Silly me. I do not dispute cl...

Which one of these has come true? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

I suspect you’re so tied up in your own equivocations and proofs by assertion that this is all you could come up with. A shame. I almost hoped to see ...

I’ve never said we don’t have the ability to speak. You said speech has power; now you’re saying we we have the ability to speak. You never had any go...

Your speech says more about you than it does about me. Your evasions and ridicule reveal to me all I need to know about the contents of your mind and ...

I don’t use them as a means of convincing others. I use them as a means of expression, of creativity, to communicate my thoughts and to manifest my th...

Humans are notoriously awful at predicting the future. At least I can’t think of anyone who got it right. Some of them may have, but there are more wh...

Censorship begins, in part, with the conferring of power to speech. One must fear the effects of speech to seek to regulate it, and to do this one mus...

I fell into nominalism a number of years ago. Having banished the specters from my mental furniture, life seems much clearer these days.

Thinking is an action. A thought is the act of thinking. We do not gain mass when we perform actions, but the body does perform work.

Violent speech…one can scan the annals of medicine and not find a single case of anyone being injured by words. This is because violence is caused by ...

If words were able to form concepts in the minds of people we would understand a foreign language simply by reading or hearing it. Rather, one has to ...

It doesn't warrant intolerance. I don't see how it could. But certainly some people will see it that way.

A New Zealand athlete will be the first trans-woman to compete in the olympics. Until 2013 he was competing in men's competitions. https://www.theguar...

The noun "God", or whatever name it is given, has yet to be shown to refer to anything in the universe. One can only scan certain literature to find a...

From the moment the light reflecting off an advertisement hits the lens of the human eye it is manipulated by the human body. The advertisement first ...

I’ve only ever claimed I’m a liberal. It’s not unlike Body Integrity Identity Disorder, where people have urges to amputate healthy limbs or sever the...

Perhaps something like the integration you speak of would be a better and more humane goal than disfiguring the body. Therapists should move to disfig...

Yes, very true. I’m my own industry I rely on word of mouth. I just can’t get over the metaphors, though. What do we mean by phrases like “shape what ...

To me the narrative that trans-people are changing their gender or sex doesn’t adequately describe the situation, and presents a false hope. It sugges...

Advertisement is fine and harmless. It only provides information. It lets others know of the existence of your product or service, which is almost nec...

I’m on the same kick. I didn’t know about the C E/ CE thing. Good advice. In Canada, we’re so wedded to the CCP that they are building a massive trade...

I find that scientists who rails against misinformation, dissent and wrong-think are worried more about their politics and power than any science. But...

It wasn't too long ago the very mention of the theory would result in censorship on social media, and those who did believe it were derided as deluded...

I don't think that's the case about it being partisan. Many apolitical and Democrat friends and family of mine believe the lab theory. They no longer ...

I think the distinction lies between the belief that the existence of things and substances are either dependent on or independent of the mind. I'm mo...

History is replete with men who thought they could predict the future, and without much success. So more often or not we're faced with a chicken-littl...

That’s very true, though I think it is much easier to change employers than it is to change state authority.

Individualism is the anthesis of collectivism, not morality. It also stresses that others have self-interest too, not to mention rights, feelings, des...

Yes, it is. With each day more power is conferred to the state. Laws are created and enforced more than they are repealed. The government increases, n...

Nothing in individualism forbids addressing moral issues. And I would think any ideology that emphasizes the moral worth of individuals necessarily co...

You said I was a product of a highly-advanced society. I corrected that.

Unlike a macrophage I am the product of two individual mammals. Just this morning I picked 5lbs of spruce tips.

Human beings are like blood cells, then? I struggle to see it.

It was a good read. Most of us, I think, have long lost our umbilical cords, and so too the last connection each of us have had with another human bei...

It’s ironic because Schiff seized the phone records of Devin Nunez, Rudy Guilliani, Jon Solomon and more during the impeachment inquiry. The poor guy....

The 16th amendment to the constitution didn't occur until 1913. Until then an income tax was imposed only to prop up the state in times of war. So its...

So much freedom has been sacrificed on this one prognostication. The problem is they do not nor cannot know what "the greater good" is, so it is often...

I'm all for people starting whatever associations they wish so long as it is of the voluntary variety. These co-ops and the like can then serve as shi...

I evoked the 70million+ to show that your generalizations were on the hasty side, not to say that I was right. I’m a registered independent, “unaffili...

Businesses are often created from the ground up at much cost and effort, and those who did so have every right to control the operation of their own c...

Yes, I defend Trump. Guilty as charged. So do millions of others. Over 70 million voted for him the last time I checked. But instead associating me wi...