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...and has no care for either.

Hence this thread.

This is quite a good defence of the conservative agenda. What makes ethical statements different to other statements is that they are supposedly what ...

It's odd how one can be caught up in trivial pissing competitions. Good for thread length, but not of any value. I sounded of earlier this week at the...

And he did that using poetics.

Your responses to Michael. Edit: in a bit more detail, Michael presented a mathematical analysis in support of his claim. You did not reply in kind, b...

Here's some post-truth myth making; enjoy! http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/08/23/paula_white_defends_trump_post_charlottesville_on_jim_bakke...

One can hope.

(I am beginning to hope for 100 pages...)

Glorying in your own ignorance. Stats is a basic literacy.

Thanks for adding so much to the post count, though.

Others think that because they do argue, they are right. Go over your argument again. is a non sequitur, since it does not follow from the support of ...

No; there is no point in engaging with you. I'll leave these few comments here for others to consider.

So now you shift your ground. It is somewhat astonishing that there are those who take your comments here seriously.

You can't see the obvious non sequitur here? That goes a long way to explaining your position, despite not watching television.

Education. The long-term result of poor funding of public learning.

Which explains intransigence, but not the original decision to support someone so obviously inept.

Me, too. So what could the reason be? Are they honestly blind to the lies? Or is truth expendable? Do they see the narcissist, but accept it because.....

America's Cultural Revolution

Being a village worthy, I can't get past the fact that god is being described as indescribable...

So at least one limit on god's power is that she cannot suicide.

more oxygen allowed insects to grow larger. Nothing to do with gravity.

But my favourite Earth fact is still that the north magnetic pole is a south magnetic pole.

I'm a bit surprised no one has chimed in that there was no one around in the cretasious, and hence that we cannot know if there even was any gravity.....

you give indeserved prominence to nouns.

Not all words are nouns. Not all words represent.

"Fuck" is a fine word... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7rWLzloOI

It was a good day.

Kevin hasn't read this thread. Or if he has, he thinks it is about Steven.

There's a bias here towards the philosopher's error of treating all language as naming. It isn't. It's far more likely that early language would have ...

My comment was serious. http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(14)00666-6

Nuh. It would have been "fuck!"

Ignore Srap. Doesn't know what he is saying..

So we know what "soul" is? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZ3_obMXwU

Good quote. I think it worth noting that for all his shenanigans, Caligula had less of an historical impact on the world than a handful of Jewish rabb...

A society in which brute facts (using Searle's terminology, see my last post)) are ignored will almost inevitably fail. Brute facts are unforgiving. A...

There was a thread recently about the social construction of reality. Utter balls, of course. Except that there is a reality to social construction, a...

A few hours ago I was trying to think of examples of historical post-truth societies. Caligula came to mind, compared to, say, Trajan. Which adhered m...

Point; but it cannot be immoral to break immoral laws.

Murder is by definition illegal killing. But what is illegal is not the very same as what is immoral. Murder need not, therefore, be always immoral.

X-)

I see this new site as a place for new challenges... Actually, I am more interested in ethics than metaphysics at the moment.

Really? Cool! Now, to beat the shoutbox...

Malevolence requires a will to evil. Narcissistic personality disorder is beyond good and evil.

Gassendi was a retired professional.

Not near the ten thousand of previous threads. I'll have to try harder. Damn. Forgot you have the bucket and mop.

Not going to happen. But that's OK, since I've yet to achieve a longest thread record on the new site. How many posts in 69 pages?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Fair call. I enjoy a discussion that gets deep into the ideas involved. Some might recall that I enjoy a proper one-on-one debate; something wiht real...

Spending their time talking about him instead of doing something useful. I'm just pissed that this thread is not about me.