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In: Roger Scruton 1944 – 2020  — view comment
Well, he wasn't my cup of tea - 'occasionally reactionary Toryist (yet reluctant Thatcherite) and rigorous, anti-modernist, aesthetician' - or drop of...
January 15, 2020 at 15:56
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
:up: Or maybe a this conjecture ... ... ergo an 'infinite causal agent' exists??? :rofl:
January 15, 2020 at 07:26
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
We have been doing you this favour post after post, thread after thread. Leading you to water, we still cannot make you think ... :sweat:
January 14, 2020 at 19:57
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
Hearing is not listening. Besides, "more counter arguments" flood this thread just like your other "creationist" threads yet you incorrigibly cling to...
January 14, 2020 at 19:43
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
Your lack of valid, let alone sound, arguments, D99, is, in part, in what my counter-arguments consist. My "illuminating" posts contain objections to ...
January 14, 2020 at 18:55
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
:lol: :clap:
January 14, 2020 at 10:57
In: Why do you think the USA is going into war with Iran?  — view comment
FOX News & WSJ fellow Newscorp daily the NY Post ran this W_hy's T_rump F_ree article: Admission of guilt. If not, dear MAGAts, then tell me/us what t...
January 14, 2020 at 10:51
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
:up:
January 14, 2020 at 07:07
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
:snicker: :up:
January 14, 2020 at 04:22
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
:party:
January 14, 2020 at 00:49
In: The ultimate torture.  — view comment
:scream: :up:
January 13, 2020 at 23:03
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
:up: Life (e.g. human being) fine-tunes her models of the universe - otherwise known as reflective equilibrium, a rarefied, special (cognitive) mode o...
January 13, 2020 at 22:44
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
Kripke is, at most, (sort of) interesting (e.g. Quine, Goodman, Sellars, Haack, Lewis ... make much more sense). Definitions, btw, lack truth-value; t...
January 13, 2020 at 22:08
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
In other words, it's an induction (i.e. cognitive bias, or as Hume says "habit of thought"), and as such, begs the question how do you know this? (to ...
January 13, 2020 at 21:50
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
How do you know this?
January 13, 2020 at 21:33
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
Minding is what a living (human) brain does. :chin: Explain how you know this to be the case. .
January 13, 2020 at 21:31
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
:up: I see. Like ... 'walking doesn't arise from legs' or 'singing doesn't arise from lungs', etc. :roll: Of course you have. :yawn: Before all else I...
January 13, 2020 at 21:22
In: A Regressive Fine Tuning Argument  — view comment
:clap: :100: 'Logic & facts' do not persuade either woo-bots or trolls; nonetheless I applaud the effort, especially when it's succinctly lucid and sc...
January 13, 2020 at 20:42
In: Why do you think the USA is going into war with Iran?  — view comment
Bern Against the Machine! FtB! :up:
January 13, 2020 at 06:11
In: Why do you think the USA is going into war with Iran?  — view comment
Yes they are. Many more like e.g. Speaker Pelosi are needed ...
January 12, 2020 at 22:18
In: Thomism's ethics  — view comment
e.g. Wayfarer :yawn: ...
January 12, 2020 at 20:37
In: Why do you think the USA is going into war with Iran?  — view comment
A 'capable politician' is one who can persuade even those who disagree with her to follow her lead.
January 12, 2020 at 20:31
In: What the study of Quantum Theory has taught me about Reality  — view comment
:up:
January 12, 2020 at 08:50
In: Why do you think the USA is going into war with Iran?  — view comment
Can a president be an effective leader without being a capable politician?
January 12, 2020 at 08:44
In: Thomism's ethics  — view comment
Yeah, true, but ... ... just saying :roll:
January 12, 2020 at 05:22
In: Why do you think the USA is going into war with Iran?  — view comment
As per my latest fit of POTUS (Piece. Of. Totally. Useless. Shit.) Derangement Syndrome: :roll: :grimace: On January 3, 2020, in a WH statement from M...
January 10, 2020 at 20:43
In: Jesus was a Jew. Why do some Christians and Muslims hate Jews?  — view comment
Because ...?
January 10, 2020 at 01:08
In: Jesus was a Jew. Why do some Christians and Muslims hate Jews?  — view comment
:up:
January 09, 2020 at 22:37
In: Definition of entity  — view comment
:point: :point: "To be is to be the value of a variable." ~W.V.O. Quine
January 09, 2020 at 06:05
In: Why do you think the USA is going into war with Iran?  — view comment
APPARENTLY, THERE WASN'T AN "IMMINENT THREAT" JUSTIFYING THE VIOLATION OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF ONE (ALLY) STATE IN ORDER TO ASSASSINATE THE 2ND HIGHEST ...
January 09, 2020 at 05:50
In: Jesus was a Jew. Why do some Christians and Muslims hate Jews?  — view comment
YW. Just wanted to make sure our resident Bible/Qur'an-thumpers & woo-pimps didn't miss those points of yours which I think are worth emphasizing. :up...
January 09, 2020 at 03:08
In: Why do you think the USA is going into war with Iran?  — view comment
:smirk: :ok:
January 08, 2020 at 21:28
In: Jesus was a Jew. Why do some Christians and Muslims hate Jews?  — view comment
:up: Amen.
January 08, 2020 at 21:24
In: Why do you think the USA is going into war with Iran?  — view comment
Actually, rereading your responses to my three questions I must apologize as it's clearer to me now that you're not 'defending the indefensible' after...
January 08, 2020 at 21:19
In: Why do you think the USA is going into war with Iran?  — view comment
Au contrair, mon amie - he's very much mine too! Thus, my visceral - and vociferous - critical reactions to him. But you mistake my rhetorical emphasi...
January 08, 2020 at 20:59
In: Why do you think the USA is going into war with Iran?  — view comment
(a) So it doesn't trouble you - a patriotic American - that your president sold out his country's national security in an ill-advised attempt to perso...
January 08, 2020 at 19:14
In: Jesus was a Jew. Why do some Christians and Muslims hate Jews?  — view comment
Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef would no doubt (if he were not himself most probably a myth) approve of the following Not-So-Good News: A. fuckin'. Men, schop!...
January 08, 2020 at 17:28
In: Thomism's ethics  — view comment
:up:
January 08, 2020 at 02:05
In: Jesus was a Jew. Why do some Christians and Muslims hate Jews?  — view comment
:up:
January 08, 2020 at 02:02
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
Dead Presidents (1963) written by Willie Dixon & sung by Little Walter (Coincidence - on shuffleplay - or wishful thinking? ... as Iranian bombs drop ...
January 08, 2020 at 01:37
In: Jesus was a Jew. Why do some Christians and Muslims hate Jews?  — view comment
Why do some Christians hate some other Christians (e.g. Catholics vs Protestants)? Why do some Muslims hate some other Muslims (e.g. Sunni vs Shia)? N...
January 07, 2020 at 18:44
In: Thomism's ethics  — view comment
A venerable, old, (Augustinian) theodicy for excusing all evil (especially ecclesiastical atrocities). You're referring to Aquinas' antiquated (unquan...
January 07, 2020 at 18:12
In: Understanding art  — view comment
Mostly, perhaps, but not completely. (I've music, dance, theatre & poetry in mind more so than visual, graphic or plastic arts.) Some musings on (unde...
January 07, 2020 at 17:29
In: Are there any prophecies in the Bible that are known to have gone fulfilled or unfulfilled? T  — view comment
Seems pretty straight forward to me, especially when a "prophesy" concerns an event predicted to occur within a specified time-frame (and/or in a spec...
January 07, 2020 at 08:13
In: Rating American Presidents  — view comment
In that one regard I agree, but disagree considering all or most of what I stipulate as "worst": There's not one of these attributions (and likely sev...
January 06, 2020 at 06:33
In: Flaws In Heraclitus’ Notion Of Absolute Change Or Impermanence  — view comment
:up:
January 06, 2020 at 06:10
In: Most Important Problem Facing Humanity  — view comment
Anthropocene RIP (c12th mil BCE - c3rd mil CE) :death: <---- :flower: × Overconsumption. :fire: To wit: If I may answer briefly, and perhaps clumsily,...
January 06, 2020 at 00:15
In: Most Important Problem Facing Humanity  — view comment
Overpopulation. The result of Poverty (which is driven by Inequality made intractable by Political Corruption). Also, a significant driver of Climate ...
January 05, 2020 at 15:52
In: Why do you think the USA is going into war with Iran?  — view comment
Just one 'patriotic anti-nationalist's' two bits on a sunny winter morning: Good job, Covfefe! (aka "Very Stable Genius") Good. Job. :clap:
January 04, 2020 at 19:25
In: What’s your philosophy?  — view comment
@"Pfhorrest" :clap: Well done. Now you've got me reconsidering a summa of my own (which has been brewing for a decade or longer). Thanks for that and ...
January 03, 2020 at 00:03
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