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In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
March 4th is my guess: the day after Super Tuesday (unless, of course, she emerges with the most delegates, then Bernie should "clear the way" for her...
February 21, 2020 at 21:42
In: music of atheism  — view comment
:gasp: :up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AeCHP-4iRbM "Preacherman, don't tell me, Heaven is under the earth. I know you don't know What life is reall...
February 21, 2020 at 21:21
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
How so? Bernie isn't a registered Democrat yet he's seeking the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party with the promise to take a (very much ...
February 21, 2020 at 20:40
In: music of atheism  — view comment
:cool: back @ ya -- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YRWRRBX3TB0 "What God wants God gets (God help us all) What God wants God gets The kid in the corner...
February 21, 2020 at 20:34
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Oh I can't wait to watch the video with a tub of extra buttery popcorn & a pint or three. :clap: :smirk:
February 20, 2020 at 04:23
In: The Texture of Day to Day  — view comment
???
February 20, 2020 at 03:53
In: The Texture of Day to Day  — view comment
Yeah, I've had my cosmicist dark nights of the soul, so I feel ya ... :zip:
February 20, 2020 at 03:45
In: The Texture of Day to Day  — view comment
I'm an epicurean (scientific) materialist, though once upon a youth ago I found gnosticism quite intriguing (my 'existentialist' phase no doubt), so t...
February 20, 2020 at 02:17
In: Telomeres might be the key, so why doesn't society as a whole focus on immortality?  — view comment
Suicide is the persistent illusion of choosing to "die at the right time", that is, when, for whatever reasons or passions, one cannot go on. (Beckett...
February 20, 2020 at 01:28
In: The Texture of Day to Day  — view comment
Please explain.
February 20, 2020 at 01:03
In: music of atheism  — view comment
:up:
February 19, 2020 at 22:00
In: Secular morality  — view comment
Well put. Thanks for this. :clap:
February 19, 2020 at 21:57
In: music of atheism  — view comment
:death: :flower: "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn" ~JDM "Because I feel like bombing a church Now, now that you know that t...
February 19, 2020 at 09:58
In: The Texture of Day to Day  — view comment
"When all else fails We can whip the horse's eyes And make them sleep And cry" ~JDM "How to live" in what way? to what end? "Approach life" from withi...
February 19, 2020 at 09:14
In: Religious discussion is misplaced on a philosophy forum...  — view comment
:pray: :rofl:
February 19, 2020 at 07:29
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
:up:
February 19, 2020 at 01:14
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
"So we keep asking, over and over, Until a handful of earth Stops our mouths — But is that an answer?" ~Heinrich Heine
February 17, 2020 at 17:46
In: Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy"  — view comment
:up:
February 15, 2020 at 16:50
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
:lol: A "very stable genius", huh? :ok: :rofl:
February 14, 2020 at 19:34
In: The Good Life  — view comment
Not to show off (really) but only to acknowledge the antiquity of my answers to an antique question. Spinoza (Maimonides, Ibn Rushd, et al), Epicurus-...
February 14, 2020 at 03:22
In: The Good Life  — view comment
I can't say what 'the good life' is but I can't conceive of it not including amor dei intellectualis deus, sive natura ataraxia aponia apatheia (i.e. ...
February 14, 2020 at 02:50
In: Something out of nothing.  — view comment
:up:
February 14, 2020 at 02:21
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
No. I prefer Freethinker ... or anti-theist. You guess wrong, Frankie, because either you've not read what I've written on this thread or you can't un...
February 14, 2020 at 02:10
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Not only saying so, I've easily demonstrated you're wrong several times already on this thread. And just for kicks, Frankie! But your only reply's alw...
February 13, 2020 at 21:47
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Just a prediction. Past is prologue and he's a fucking coward. He has the RNC pressuring state GOP officials around the country cancelling GOP primari...
February 13, 2020 at 03:24
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Unfortunately, that day-glo Dead Twat Tweeting won't debate Bernie (or Bloomberg or ???).
February 13, 2020 at 02:30
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Anyone can label themselves whatever they want. What's in a label right? The significant thing is whether or not a label designates a distinction that...
February 13, 2020 at 01:44
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
:smirk: ... effin' Randroids.
February 13, 2020 at 00:25
In: Natural Evil Explained  — view comment
In no sense is a parent deemed "good" who is "impartial" to the point of allowing her "children" to prey upon, torture & cannibalize one another. :cla...
February 13, 2020 at 00:06
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Ok :rofl:
February 12, 2020 at 16:02
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Polling tracks popular sentiment. A series of polls (data points) tracks a trend (curve) of popular movement, or direction. The polls in 2016 accurate...
February 12, 2020 at 15:24
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
:up:
February 12, 2020 at 12:28
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Anytime now would be good a time to start. :sweat:
February 12, 2020 at 04:03
In: Would a Logical Empericist concede that it is possible to know whether God does or doesnt exist?  — view comment
:pray: Depends on the g/G type defined. Insofar as a LE assumes the statement "There is a g/G" is cognitive (i.e. propositional), predicates ascribed ...
February 12, 2020 at 00:25
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
Your muddle makes you sound like one of Frankie's fraught relations trying to brown-nose your way (back) into an inheritance ... Please stop. Your spi...
February 11, 2020 at 19:09
In: Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy"  — view comment
:clap:
February 11, 2020 at 18:58
In: Something out of nothing.  — view comment
:death: :flower: Interesting ... :clap: So, in other words, with respect to my question: there are no grounds (i.e. evidence) for "the reality that is...
February 11, 2020 at 18:51
In: Do the Ends Justify the Means?  — view comment
The link in my previous post (scroll down past "amoral egotism") is to an old thread where we discuss justifying "an end so great". Asked and answered...
February 11, 2020 at 01:40
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
:up: :roll: If you have to disingenuously cherry-pick quotes, at least quote what the subjects themselves have actually said or wrote. Re: Not a bona ...
February 11, 2020 at 01:07
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
:sweat:
February 10, 2020 at 20:28
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
Maybe. Low-hanging fruit first. Trial and error. R&D. New tech (or new physics - certainly new to us). Eventually optimize, improve on nature. Thousan...
February 10, 2020 at 17:36
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
So no Kardashev Type II "Dyson Spheres"... or other (detectable) stellar megastructures. Okay, I agree (so does Freeman Dyson et al, btw). It doesn't ...
February 10, 2020 at 17:10
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
:up:
February 10, 2020 at 03:31
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
If the parties select the candidates and there is nearly complete overlap in major donors support - control of the agendas - of (both) parties, then t...
February 09, 2020 at 20:03
In: About This Word, “Atheist”  — view comment
:sweat: :lol: :rofl: Rounds of drinks for the whole joint! Funky bartender's grinning and foxy waitress gave up the digits. :yum: :party:
February 09, 2020 at 19:33
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
Keep in mind that the most significant difference between science fiction (no matter how "hard") and scientifically plausible speculation is the Coper...
February 09, 2020 at 18:56
In: Something out of nothing.  — view comment
If "after physical death" is a "reality", then there must be evidence by which we can discern it from unreality (i.e. mere fantasy, wishful/magical th...
February 09, 2020 at 18:12
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
As premature as it is to say anything about the Democratic Convention in July, I suspect that it'll be brokered, that is, no candidate will emerge fro...
February 09, 2020 at 17:53
In: Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy"  — view comment
Okay. Even better ... I guess the Bayesian-ness here gives me less confidence with this "inclination". You may be right though. So duty when higher co...
February 09, 2020 at 17:31
In: Fermi Paradox & The Dark Forest  — view comment
Why? Suppose, as I point out in wall-of-text # (iv), we can't recognize "any evidence for them" - we can't surmise validly from our own intellectual /...
February 09, 2020 at 17:14
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