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In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
" may be impossible to distinguish between people and bots not because the bots have grown as smart as people, but because much of the time, people ar...
March 08, 2020 at 07:04
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Yeah you gave an answer but not to the specific question I'm asking you.
March 08, 2020 at 00:54
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Is it that you simply can't or stubbornly won't answer the actual question (with a reason, or reasons, (a) thru (h)) which I've asked?
March 07, 2020 at 16:36
In: Theory of Consciousness Question  — view comment
Also, in this sense, Spinoza's substance (i.e. natura naturans) ... or atomist's void ... Advaita Vedanta's Tat tvam asi ("Thou art that": atman is br...
March 07, 2020 at 03:43
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
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March 07, 2020 at 03:20
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Yes or No - Are you GODLESS (i.e. Do you LIVE a theistic g/G Belief-FREE, theistic Religion-FREE life ... re: ?????) - (a) because of sufficient evide...
March 07, 2020 at 01:17
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
:up:
March 06, 2020 at 23:56
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
:smirk:
March 06, 2020 at 23:53
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
:up:
March 06, 2020 at 10:13
In: What justifies a positive ethics (as opposed to a negative one)?  — view comment
An ode to (odor of) common sense ... :wink:
March 05, 2020 at 19:57
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
:scream: An axiom of existence: the unpreventable cannot be prevented. :lol: Since 'already born' procreators are also sufferers; and (2) since for ma...
March 05, 2020 at 19:47
In: When are we at the brink of needing new technology?  — view comment
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March 05, 2020 at 02:32
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
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March 04, 2020 at 04:04
In: Bernie Sanders  — view comment
Born and raised a proud American, I must ... agree.
March 04, 2020 at 04:00
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
:eyes: :up:
March 04, 2020 at 03:53
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
:sweat:
March 04, 2020 at 03:49
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
:clap: :monkey:
March 02, 2020 at 23:38
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Well, seems to me (at least), that an "agnostic" who walks like a ... and who quacks like a ... is indistinguishable from a ... ... practical atheist....
March 02, 2020 at 17:00
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
Sure. (1) On what NON-TERRESTRIAL basis do you assume interstellar (or galaxy-wide) colonization by "advanced alien life"? (2) On what TECHNOLOGICAL b...
March 02, 2020 at 00:19
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
Btw, 'the earth is flat' is a "reasonable" supposition during, say, the Bronze Age ... :roll: And you've not addressed the assumptions I'd objected to...
March 01, 2020 at 23:10
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Bloomberg's a cunt: he'll (probably) drop out - Wednesday(?) after conceding that his +half billion dollars barely bought him any delegates - and decl...
March 01, 2020 at 22:59
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
march readings: • The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett, John Calder • The Theology of Samuel Beckett, John Cauler • Until the End of Time, Brian Greene • ...
March 01, 2020 at 09:34
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
I'm disappointed but not surprised by (again, accurately trending polls) Biden's comeback win in the 'Clinton-Obama-Clyburn status quo' South Carolina...
March 01, 2020 at 06:13
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
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March 01, 2020 at 04:40
In: Unshakable belief  — view comment
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February 29, 2020 at 12:21
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
"Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about." ~Harry G. Frankfurt
February 29, 2020 at 07:56
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
This 'expansionist-territorial, terrestrial' assumption (re: interstellar to galaxy-wide "colonization") is as completely unwarranted as the assumptio...
February 29, 2020 at 07:27
In: Unshakable belief  — view comment
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February 29, 2020 at 02:46
In: Bernie Sanders  — view comment
Very much worth quoting (almost) in full: Nails it :100: :clap:
February 29, 2020 at 02:43
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
Freeman Dyson 1923-2020 "The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it f...
February 28, 2020 at 23:07
In: Bernie Sanders  — view comment
:up:
February 28, 2020 at 06:19
In: My profile pic?  — view comment
Personal logo for your profile. Codex logo for your book.
February 28, 2020 at 02:34
In: Plantinga: Is Belief in God Properly Basic?  — view comment
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February 28, 2020 at 02:30
In: Bernie Sanders  — view comment
February 28, 2020 at 00:35
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
:up:
February 27, 2020 at 14:10
In: Bernie Sanders  — view comment
:up: FeelTheBern.
February 27, 2020 at 04:23
In: Plantinga: Is Belief in God Properly Basic?  — view comment
:up:
February 27, 2020 at 04:12
In: Bernie Sanders  — view comment
:up: :clap: Somebody needs to STFU. :shade:
February 26, 2020 at 22:37
In: Plantinga: Is Belief in God Properly Basic?  — view comment
"Properly basic belief" is perhaps a misnomer, and what Plantinga is talking about is, in the best case, (akin to) a "religious" form-of-life within w...
February 26, 2020 at 21:59
In: Bernie Sanders  — view comment
:clap:
February 26, 2020 at 07:59
In: Plantinga: Is Belief in God Properly Basic?  — view comment
Right. So not "basic", acquired (only by survivor species) via adaptation. In other words, emergent traits (i.e. habits) not "beliefs", or proposition...
February 26, 2020 at 04:22
In: How to Deal with Strange Things  — view comment
:up: :up:
February 25, 2020 at 23:18
In: Plantinga: Is Belief in God Properly Basic?  — view comment
Except for 'aspects of the world' within a narrow range of (non-planck) sizes & (non-relativistic) speeds, our (unaided) senses do not. Our "view" is ...
February 25, 2020 at 22:54
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Feel. The. Bern. What do we - non-shareholding stakeholders - have to lose except our chains (aka "debt peonage" "wage stagnation" "healthcare un / un...
February 25, 2020 at 22:11
In: Plantinga: Is Belief in God Properly Basic?  — view comment
You beat me to it. :up: EDIT: A nearly 40 year old article that makes even less sense to me now than when I'd first read it back in the mid-1980s, . N...
February 25, 2020 at 21:21
In: Sexual ethics  — view comment
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February 22, 2020 at 22:19
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Apt analysis, which reminds me of a couple of maxims: "History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes" & "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great wo...
February 22, 2020 at 05:22
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
I moved (back) to Atlanta in 2015. However, looking forward to relocating to Portland, Oregon this fall. Left coast "blue state" for the duration - pu...
February 22, 2020 at 03:30
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Dope! :smirk: (I live just down the street from his presidential library.)
February 21, 2020 at 23:01
In: music of atheism  — view comment
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February 21, 2020 at 21:49
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