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Anticipating Denis Villeneuve's Dune film (Part 1) later this year (on 12/23 in the U.S.) - perhaps setting myself up for disappointment, but still - ...
January 24, 2020 at 02:51
Yet 'the kalam' doesn't sufficiently explain anything in a physical sense. :yawn: As for your "logical sense", D99, it's (at best) naïve. Besides the ...
January 23, 2020 at 21:50
From a previous thread discussion on same topic.
January 23, 2020 at 20:27
The charitable bet's on "cannot".
January 23, 2020 at 04:08
:clap: Right the eff on!
January 23, 2020 at 00:03
:smirk: Thanks for the malaprop! It complements my own foolery. Perhaps the topic question of this thread should be (more prosaically - pardon the hei...
January 22, 2020 at 23:15
And your point is ...?
January 22, 2020 at 06:56
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." ~Albert Einstein :fire: (NB: By stupidity I under...
January 21, 2020 at 23:57
Non sequitur. The length of a circumference can be measured with a finite (natural) number of and yet it's unbounded. Of course you don't. :yawn: Repe...
January 21, 2020 at 21:35
'Metaphysical stuff.' (Even if only implicitly.)
January 21, 2020 at 08:49
Perhaps.
January 21, 2020 at 05:04
Welcome to TPF ... How about (3) traditionalist conservatism? & (4) cyrenaic hedonism?
January 21, 2020 at 01:34
lol From the Jan. 14, 2020 Democratic Party Presidential Debate: I think the point of the NYT's dual endorsement is (a) the Democratic Party establish...
January 20, 2020 at 19:23
No. Consistent with the overwhelming convergence of observational data in contemporary physical cosmology, my understanding is that the BB was a planc...
January 20, 2020 at 18:28
:wink: NYT Endorses Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar
January 20, 2020 at 07:20
Apparently what I wrote went right over your head.
January 20, 2020 at 03:13
:grin: :up:
January 20, 2020 at 03:06
Sure did. Skimmed actually. Doesn't jive with anything else I've ever read about Noether's work and its implications. Ain't the internet just the trut...
January 20, 2020 at 00:10
Noether, bitch!
January 19, 2020 at 23:43
3rd party (since '84, except '08). I won't throw away my vote on a Democrat in a "safe" (Red) state. So *none of the above* ...
January 19, 2020 at 23:02
The woo woo crank who claims to violate energy conservation ...
January 19, 2020 at 22:57
So when's he getting that Nobel for his 'perpetual motion' engine?
January 19, 2020 at 22:50
:lol: :up:
January 19, 2020 at 22:48
And projection too?! :razz:
January 19, 2020 at 22:43
:sweat: :shade: No global warming either, huh?
January 19, 2020 at 22:34
Believe? No, kid; we know it is. :confused: This question makes no sense. "Always" implies temporality, and time is a metric description of entropy, o...
January 19, 2020 at 22:21
Particularly it doesn't. Finite Yet Unbounded paths, however, do. Just ask Euclid ... The vacuum is NOT "nothing". 99.9999...% of every THING is empty...
January 19, 2020 at 15:24
That's Freethought Materialist Land to you, kid. :naughty: Strawman. Not only are infinite regresses AND egresses "possible" along circumferences of F...
January 19, 2020 at 13:49
I don't follow. You're conflating 'personal morality' and 'public policy' - I think formulations & execution of the latter ought to be guided by princ...
January 19, 2020 at 12:53
:up: :clap: :death: :flower: Only when death (i.e. human Mortality) becomes (medically/technologically) optional will (the need for) religion die. Lik...
January 19, 2020 at 11:48
:cool: ... yw.
January 19, 2020 at 11:36
:up:
January 19, 2020 at 09:12
Ergo: What @"StreetlightX" said ...
January 19, 2020 at 09:00
:clap: :lol: :up: Splitting the difference, huh? That's "mighty white" of you, Fool; it's patently circular, however, by your own admission of "offeri...
January 19, 2020 at 04:51
"Common sense" intuits That I am the center of the universe ... That the earth is flat ... That the sun goes around the earth (rising, moving east to ...
January 18, 2020 at 10:58
Maybe the dung that fertilizes Racism's growth but not "the root". Biologizing the 'theory & practice' of biologizing - reduction of acculturation to ...
January 18, 2020 at 10:00
:clap: Fellow traveler - rage-voting against the two-headed party machine! Why do 'they' keep throwing away their votes by "swing state" voting in "sa...
January 18, 2020 at 08:58
I think so. Here's a sketchy attempt ... and even sketchier clarification. (Embedded links go down rabbit holes of assumptions, etc.) True. Caring for...
January 18, 2020 at 08:26
I stand corrected. After reading several recent polls of black voters in South Carolina - ignoring Biden's name-recognition & Obama-associated popular...
January 18, 2020 at 07:25
I'll be voting 3rd party for president - especially since I'm currently a resident of a "red state" where a Democratic presidental candidate can't win...
January 18, 2020 at 02:16
Like you're doing with this post. Ad hominems @ Scruton's critics. :shade:
January 18, 2020 at 01:36
Warren.
January 18, 2020 at 01:29
• Pathfinders: The Golden Age Of Arabic Science, Jim Al-Khalili • Ontological Catastrophe, Joseph Carew • The Philosophical Thought of Wang Chong, Ale...
January 17, 2020 at 10:28
:up:
January 17, 2020 at 05:47
:lol: (You're right!) Res ipsa loquitur ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/367663 https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment...
January 16, 2020 at 17:50
Repeating nonsense & error doesn't make your point. Likewise, repeated philosophical & scientific objections to your nonsense & error merely bounce of...
January 16, 2020 at 16:11
As others have pointed out ... Petitio principii. :yawn: Akin to ... 'Causality must be caused' or 'A north pole must have a north pole' ... 'Strawber...
January 16, 2020 at 02:52
Strawman. We have always worked, and still do work, against those who have always worked, and still do work, "towards superiority". This sort of speci...
January 15, 2020 at 21:38
Rich & famous (for the talent of marrying up) colored lady got her feelings hurt, so then fucks off in a huff back to where she came from? And I'm sup...
January 15, 2020 at 17:02
Poor 'straight white males' always (at least since the 15th century CE) the long suffering victims of reverse discrimination, political repression & e...
January 15, 2020 at 16:11