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Thanks for all the responses everyone. There's a lot of good stuff to look at. I do have an interest in debating these things with some religious peop...

Care to take a position?

Thanks for the link. Do scientists consider viruses to be 'living'? I thought there was some debate over that point. Also, viruses don't reproduce in ...

I agree, but I think it depends on what book and what chapter one happens to flip open.

That is essentially what I'm attempting to do, but I've been unimpressed with my ability to succinct and convincing evidence. I was hoping for a link ...

I'll get back to you both later. Right now I have to go toil for 8 hours.

lol I mean in a serious way. Many people have a hard time wrapping their heads around speciation because we have fairly limited examples of it happeni...

What do you say or show someone who doesn't believe that evolution results in new species?

This has to be one of the best Facebook groups ever. https://www.facebook.com/groups/prophetsfortrump/

The Cold War was supposed to have ended in 1991. The problem is Putin still thinks it's alive and well.

This is simultaneously true and untrue. While Putin's speech is likely aimed at bolstering his position for the election this very month, if "The West...

Any mods interested in cleaning up the shitposting in the Personhood and Abortion discussion?

Antinatalism might not suit your taste, but it's hard to argue that being concerned for the suffering of all conscious beings is arrogant. As if there...

He certainly isn't defending pedophilia, though. He called his own abuse "reprehensible". Maybe people think the implication of what he is saying is t...

This is a very uncharitable reading of their positions. While Dawkins' comparison of pedophilia to religious indoctrination probably falls flat for mo...

Wayfarer has been saying this for a while. He has repeatedly said that Trump doesn't seem to understand the difference between the collusion charge ag...

Wayfarer is a billionaire. Trust me. He doesn't need to show tax records to prove it. Trust me. Wayfarer also has great words.

He behaved normally for a liar. He was confronted with a previous claim he made and his response was "I don't stand by anything." If your worldview is...

Trump doesn't even make this claim. Have you considered asking for a cabinet position? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFhYoBlZ2g

Accusing a former president of wiretapping him? Lying about voter fraud? Lying about people being killed? Are you such an intellectual infant that you...

In the most general way of interpreting that statement they are correct. You can look at any specific statement and then, after the fact, change it sl...

http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/

Saying things that are wrong and can be verified as wrong aren't lies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading

Wow. Lying is a only a way of speaking now? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html

The hallmark of a true sports car enthusiast is buying something they can't afford. :-$

I'll try one last time. Billy lights a fuse attached to a bomb inside the bank. Unbeknownst to him there is a wet spot half way down the fuse and the ...

This is wrong. Not strictly true. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42065714 And even if it were; better to die a traitor than live as a mass mu...

Trump orders General Mattis to fire a nuke at NK. Mattis complies. Trump nukes NK. Trump orders Mattis to nuke NK. Mattis refuses. Trump didn't try to...

Backing off under threat of great consequences is different than a casual discussion about whether he should or not. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/2...

Telling someone to do something isn't an action? He was talked out of the idea by having cabinet members threaten to resign so he didn't push it. That...

Come on Agustino. Even the die-hard Trump supporter Sean Hannity conceded the point.

I'd guess the Democrats are trying to solidify their current and future base. The voter base in the US is becoming less and less white every year beca...

To the question in the OP I'd have to say no. I think broadening definitions has created a lot of problems regarding social issues. Words like rape, s...

I don't think language can be violence, but if I did this would probably qualify.

So one positive and one negative. Either of you experience ths "dissolution of self" that is often talked about? How long did your bad trip last Posty...

It doesn't really seem right to me either. I can't tell if his argument is that transubstantiation is wholly subjective, or that it is objective, but ...

Anyone here have any experience(s) with psilocybin?

Nice work.

To be clear, I don't agree with his assessment. I'm just trying to make sense of how this conversation has persisted in these fourteen pages since I l...

It seems MU is saying the act of transubstantiation is completely subjective. By MU's definition, "substance" is an assumption. Therefore, the only th...

You know what I mean Thoron. Yes, technically they are records found in history that claim to record things that happened in a period of history. They...

Let's not pretend the four Gospels are a historical record. They are narratives written by highly educated Greek Christians about uneducated (except J...

How dare you insult my mysterious steed!

This brand of teleology is not uncommon in my experience. I have listened to sermons where it is explained that the central drive of people is worship...

Nobody wants to comment on the verses where Jesus says he's a door? One could say the whole Gospel hinges on those verses.

I don't have a dog in this doctrinal fight.

Ah yes, the old heretic. Not heretical enough that the Catholic church doesn't want to claim his opinion for their purposes, though. I tried to explai...

Ahhh I see. Well, when discussing religious doctrine, one generally relies on mumbo jumbo to make points.

So they become the flesh and blood, but not in any perceptible or substantial meaning of the word "become". A better name would be Transunsubtatiation...

I If you're saying that transubstantiation is not physical in some sense, where the bread and wine actually become Jesus' flesh and blood, then what i...