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In: Is there a race war underway?  — view comment
:100: :clap:
May 05, 2022 at 20:46
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
Pro-lifers are also pro-voter suppression (and pro-death penalty). Why? It's all about demographic control. Reproductive freedom is deliberately exerc...
May 05, 2022 at 20:08
In: Vexing issue of Veganism  — view comment
I think it's necessary for, at least, lowering demands for food production (re: impacts e.g. agricultural deforestation) and depletion of highly-stres...
May 05, 2022 at 20:02
In: Why do we fear Laissez-faire?  — view comment
:smirk: :up:
May 05, 2022 at 19:33
In: Memory vs. Pattern Recognition  — view comment
:up:
May 05, 2022 at 19:30
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo! :fire: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=scyC9A6o_Ts "People of the Sun" (2:50) Evil Empire, 1996 Rage Against the Machine
May 05, 2022 at 05:24
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
I have no idea what you're asking about, Nick.
May 05, 2022 at 00:36
In: James Webb Telescope  — view comment
Easy there, conquistador. :sweat:
May 05, 2022 at 00:28
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
From what you've written, it seems you don't understand ...
May 05, 2022 at 00:25
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
:up:
May 05, 2022 at 00:20
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
:up: :up:
May 04, 2022 at 21:08
In: Time Travel Paradoxes.  — view comment
I prefer the more plausible, though equally speculative (or absurd), idea of a "viewing" rather than "traveling" to the past, particularly as imagined...
May 04, 2022 at 21:02
In: Nick Bostrom & Ludwig Wittgenstein  — view comment
No more "unlikely" than that we are living in a simulation.
May 04, 2022 at 15:06
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
Maybe Breyer changes his mind. KJB still takes her seat as an Associate Justice. Stealth expansion. Probably not a good idea, but SCOTUS is already so...
May 04, 2022 at 06:07
In: Nick Bostrom & Ludwig Wittgenstein  — view comment
From a Metzingerian perspectiive, "self" is a (persistently embodied) phenomenal illusion re: .
May 04, 2022 at 05:18
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
Okay, I was mistaken relying on memory about the US Senate. However, had HRC not thrown away the presidency by refusing to campaign in the midwest in ...
May 04, 2022 at 05:11
In: Nick Bostrom & Ludwig Wittgenstein  — view comment
... or we're 'delusional zombies' – eliminationists – living in a simulation.
May 04, 2022 at 03:32
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
With all due respect, that's bullshit. (1) The US Senate had a GOP-majority from 2011-2021; Moscow Mitch denied "44" one SC nominee in 2016 and there'...
May 04, 2022 at 03:24
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:lol: :rofl: :100: :clap:
May 04, 2022 at 02:43
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
GFY, man.
May 03, 2022 at 21:21
In: God & Existence  — view comment
So ... "it's Wabbit season again, is it?" :smirk:
May 03, 2022 at 18:41
In: Nick Bostrom & Ludwig Wittgenstein  — view comment
:fire: Amor fati.
May 03, 2022 at 18:39
In: God & Existence  — view comment
Please "logically demonstrate" that evolution entails a "Cosmic Mind" (whatever that is). :eyes:
May 03, 2022 at 18:23
In: Agnosticism (again, but with a twist)  — view comment
Answering these questions should be easy ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/690033 ... but apparently for you it's not.
May 03, 2022 at 10:37
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
Okay. Nevermind.
May 03, 2022 at 08:50
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
Which "God" does "God" refer to? What are this (your) "God's" attributes, predicates, properties, etc? See previous post (finished after your reply):
May 03, 2022 at 08:12
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
Trifling semantics. And "God" being undefined, this expression is incoherent. Lastly, your "definition of atheism" is colloquial, from a dictionary, a...
May 03, 2022 at 07:35
In: Agnosticism (again, but with a twist)  — view comment
Insofar as "God" is undefined, this perennial question is incoherent.
May 03, 2022 at 07:29
In: What is the extreme left these days?  — view comment
:up:
May 03, 2022 at 04:43
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
Again, as I've pointed out, my (second order) argument addresses "theism" (i.e. the prosecutor's case) and not "God" (i.e. the defendant) .
May 03, 2022 at 04:37
In: A Cure for Anosognosia of Mental Health in the Works?  — view comment
:up:
May 03, 2022 at 02:32
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
May 03, 2022 at 02:30
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
Prediction: "Roe" goes down, Dems keep the Senate and House in the midterms this fall. I can't wait! Sets up a presidential election death match in 20...
May 03, 2022 at 02:28
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
Yes, there are three. As I've pointed out (if you'd read my text for comprehension rather than scoring points), "not true" includes "false" and theref...
May 03, 2022 at 02:06
In: Why do we fear Laissez-faire?  — view comment
The state is mostly controlled by Capital to moderate, or manage, the economic imbalances produced by Capital's exploitation of Labor and Nature. The ...
May 03, 2022 at 01:54
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
"All theists" do not have to "share their belief with others" for theism to dominate cultural traditions and institutions. In the last two millennia i...
May 03, 2022 at 00:54
In: A Cure for Anosognosia of Mental Health in the Works?  — view comment
Not doubt a PhD from 'Deepak Chopra University'. :sparkle:
May 02, 2022 at 21:19
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
May readings • Metaphysical Animals, C.M. Cumhaill & R. Wiseman • An Essay on African Philosophical Thought: The Akan Conceptual Scheme, Kwame Gyekye ...
May 02, 2022 at 21:13
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
:fire:
May 02, 2022 at 20:30
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
:up:
May 02, 2022 at 19:44
In: What if Perseverance finds life?  — view comment
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May 02, 2022 at 19:23
In: What did Gilles Deleuze mean by “positive” desire?  — view comment
Yeah, okay. I didn't say otherwise.
May 02, 2022 at 18:36
In: What did Gilles Deleuze mean by “positive” desire?  — view comment
I think Schop's inexorable, blind 'Will-to-survive-and-devour' instead.
May 02, 2022 at 18:34
In: Vexing issue of Veganism  — view comment
I second @"T Clark"'s welcome, admiration of your OP and disagreement with your argument. Not to be flip (I should respond with a proper argument in k...
May 02, 2022 at 18:29
In: What did Gilles Deleuze mean by “positive” desire?  — view comment
I understand Deleuze's "positive desire" as a post-Freudian (etc) translation of conatus, specifically Spinoza's conception that, like inertia or curr...
May 02, 2022 at 18:04
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
"Not true" includes false and does not denote 'no truth-value' or 'truth-value undetermined'; thus, "not true" is a truth-value. Specifically with res...
May 02, 2022 at 17:38
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
If you can determine that "C is not true", then it is not "undecidable". And whether or not "God exists", as I've pointed out, is not the question I'm...
May 02, 2022 at 07:38
In: Why do we fear Laissez-faire?  — view comment
And you're too obtuse to recognize that the latter "idea" is invalidated by the former "fact". :sweat:
May 02, 2022 at 04:25
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
No. If one believes T is because one is "ignorant" of T, then that would be an argument from ignorance. However, to believe T is not true because the ...
May 02, 2022 at 03:43
In: The Invalidity of Atheism  — view comment
:fire: In no sense is that "true". Theism consists of positive extraordinary claims and thereby a theist bears the burden of proving that such claims ...
May 02, 2022 at 02:46
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