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If nothing matters, then not even 'nothing matters' matters. :death: :flower:
April 28, 2020 at 09:05
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/04/u-s-intel-warned-of-coronavirus-threat-in-november-report.html This article is one of...
April 28, 2020 at 08:53
You're way off, my friend. The president was impeached on December 18th; the impeachment proceedings (or inquiry) began on September 24th. The WH bega...
April 28, 2020 at 06:47
Interesting.
April 27, 2020 at 23:45
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April 27, 2020 at 21:46
You lost me.
April 27, 2020 at 17:43
:cool: 'Swing state' voters MUST vote for the lesser of two rapists: Joe Biden. (I definitely would.) I'm not convinced, however, that he will be the ...
April 27, 2020 at 11:58
Wittgenstein d.1951
April 27, 2020 at 09:56
:mask: ... and this season on Survivor: The Apprentice Edition! :clap: :down: :up: "Av? Imper?tor, morit?r? t? sal?tant!"
April 27, 2020 at 09:45
:rofl:
April 27, 2020 at 01:22
"Retain" how - without a body (i.e. CNS which has irreversibly decomposed)? How do you/we even conceptualize a "consciousness"-threshold that's indica...
April 27, 2020 at 01:00
Why 'waste my vote' on Biden when he cannot win my resident state (Georgia)? :yawn:
April 27, 2020 at 00:22
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:up: Whether a person - moral agent - is a scientist or not, to 'ignore ethics' (i.e. to forego reflective use of criteria applied to making value, or...
April 26, 2020 at 22:47
I'm registered to vote in a reddish safe state, so most probably I'll vote "third party" like always (except in 2008).
April 26, 2020 at 22:10
Covid deaths yesterday 4/25/20: United States - 2,425 South Korea - 0 :mask: addendum
April 26, 2020 at 21:21
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April 26, 2020 at 07:32
Not sure about "sides", and I don't have to kick anyone's ass since I'm confident, as far as probity & sanity permits, that Putin's Running-mate this ...
April 25, 2020 at 22:31
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April 25, 2020 at 10:13
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April 25, 2020 at 10:10
Maybe the relative population metrics aren't relevant to the way you're looking at it, but I'm thinking of it this way: data: Geographical Areas, Nati...
April 24, 2020 at 07:57
:up: :smirk:
April 24, 2020 at 01:49
Okay - more or less. No. 'Agnosticism' either denies that it's known whether or not there's 'fruit' or 'which is an apple' and 'which is an orange' or...
April 24, 2020 at 01:46
Really? It isn't "relevant" - doesn't illustrate gross public health & political failure - that the U.S. has only 6.3× more population than S.K. and y...
April 24, 2020 at 00:51
What the wealthiest "failed state" in history looks like? :mask: How can the U.S. presidential election this November NOT be solely a referendum on tR...
April 23, 2020 at 14:07
Define the "god" you're refering to, then share both grounds for believing and not believing. (Be sure to avoid conflating 'belief that' with 'belief ...
April 22, 2020 at 07:13
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April 21, 2020 at 18:42
:rofl: :rofl:
April 21, 2020 at 17:10
Lucky for you, Frankie, a pandemic's come along to quarantine "two" philosophically literate, thinking persons who happen to be bored enough to shed a...
April 21, 2020 at 14:27
So you say ... :roll: Wrong. :lol: Non sequitur. :shade: Inductive fallacy (i.e. hasty generalization). Proof: ... I don't. :scream: Confusion of 2nd ...
April 21, 2020 at 13:37
No doubt. :smirk:
April 21, 2020 at 12:15
:up: (pardon the re-post) addendum: Today on Earth One, where bad news ain't mostly "fake news" (FOX Noise), the latest global effect of the 2nd wave ...
April 21, 2020 at 06:25
Catastrophe ('apocalypse' may be a bit too biblical, but ... :shade:). Of course I agree.
April 21, 2020 at 06:12
Ok.
April 21, 2020 at 03:26
addendum: Today on Earth One, where bad news ain't mostly "fake news" (FOX Noise), the latest global effect of the 2nd wave of covid-19 outbreaks: col...
April 21, 2020 at 00:59
:up: (And objective denotes subjectivity-invariant.)
April 21, 2020 at 00:42
My position is my position (as requested by Frank A.) Either it's rationally warranted or it's not. Show rationally that it's not; don't just tell me ...
April 21, 2020 at 00:31
I claim (1) that divine predicates of • Ultimate Mystery, • All-Creator (of existence), • & Providential Intervener (in the universe) are not true, wh...
April 21, 2020 at 00:08
True, but that's a symptom of the discussion's potential degeneration into a time-wasting circle-jerk. And "proof" isn't really the point, just warran...
April 20, 2020 at 10:42
Well, so is Sartre. A respected archive for citations but not - no longer - a cause célèbre in contemporary philosophical circles (or, at least, not f...
April 20, 2020 at 10:21
I'd struggled all the way to the end of BnN 1.5x (on my own, not for a class) during my first year at university. The ordeal had left me respecting bu...
April 20, 2020 at 10:11
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April 20, 2020 at 09:24
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April 20, 2020 at 06:15
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April 20, 2020 at 05:14
I'm old school: assertions without argument can be dismissed without argument (Hitchens' Razor). Keeps the discussion moving productively, I think.
April 20, 2020 at 05:05
Bingo! :up:
April 20, 2020 at 00:49
Well, if it "includes opposing religion, irreligious is good enough for me. As for "not knowing religion", that's just ignorance (in a social context ...
April 20, 2020 at 00:40
True, but that's not the question in #3.
April 19, 2020 at 18:53
Excellent OP. I hope someone explains their "No" answer to the last question.
April 19, 2020 at 18:43
Irreligious.
April 19, 2020 at 18:37
Not quite: I use both terms conceptually (not colloquially) as second-order (meta) statements in which each, one general and the other specific, addre...
April 19, 2020 at 11:09