T_Clark

This is not true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L49VXZwfup8

Welcome to the forum. When you say "the designer" I assume you mean the one who planned our reality, the world we see around us. I don't see any evide...

I'm not a good source to answer questions about the origin of Christian beliefs. I was only responding to your contention that Christians consider the...

You're arguing with a man who's been dead for 1592 years.

You called God "that jumped-up tribal deity we know only from a big book Christians revere as infallible truth." You can't not know that most Christia...

Ahem...

Ironically, in denying my point, you've demonstrated it. Probably the most obvious and one of the most egregious examples of atheists putting theistic...

I don't consider people misunderstanding something I've said as particularly serious. It happens all the time. I'm sure it happens to you too.

Another poem came to mind. This is an excerpt from "As If" by Carl Dennis.

You have misunderstood and misused my metaphor. You should come up with your own.

When I read your OP, I wanted to push back strongly against the idea that human rights are somehow dispensable, avoidable. That's what my posts in thi...

You've been talking to different atheists than I have.

I felt like a dick after writing this. Then I came across this while reading. I thought it might add a different perspective. Tao Te Ching, Verse 12, ...

Alas, when I bought my blender I forgot to get the super king-sized model. Mine will handle cats and small dogs, but not pigs.

Hey, don't ask me. It's your joke.

Not in this Clark house. I just ate some traditional pigs-in-blankets my wife made. How she got the pigs to hold still while she wrapped them in dough...

Geez, you are one dour SoB.

For all I know, creamed smoked cod roe is hemorrhoid cream.

/uploads/resized/files/fm/l96b1kra5lcjfa1x.png This is Kalles brand creamed smoked cod roe. That kid really seems to like it. Made by Abba Seafood. Th...

I'm sure there's a bowling app you can download. Here you go: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bowling-king/id769737983 Here's one for candlepins: https:...

No. I just mean that people don't normally take a rational approach to decision making. I'll go further and say that in many cases, we shouldn't expec...

I'll take a look.

I'm not familiar with Nagel, so I looked him up on Wikipedia. It seems like his position on reductionism relates mostly to it's presentation of consci...

Yes, I have bowled. Speaking of bowling... Growing up, bowling meant 10 pin. Big balls with holes. Bowling pins shaped like.... well, bowling pins. Wh...

I forgot to mention - the article I linked is a reprint with a new introduction. The introduction is actually longer than Anderson's paper and has a l...

I don't necessarily disagree, but cleaning rayon is a pain in the ass. But bowling shoes? Definitely. No, I don't own any bowling shoes.

This is something I am wrasseling with right now. The source I generally turn to is a paper by P.W. Anderson called "More is Different." He talks abou...

Most things humans do are neither rational nor irrational, they are non-rational.

I don't disagree with this, but I would put the emphasis differently. Yours is on the tentative nature of rights, their conditionality. Mine is on my ...

I guess that's why angels like them.

And, after all, they're angels. They wouldn't feed me something bad.

It is my understanding that canned ravioli sell by dates are always less than a year from canning. Or maybe that was two years.

I think your statements that I quoted are completely right and completely wrong. It's true that rights don't enforce themselves. They are not built in...

This brings to mind a song by Dan Reeder, an odd folkoid singer. American but lives in Norway - "Angels May:" Angels may come and stand around you And...

I'm skeptical. I always picture you eating food directly out of take out boxes with your fingers, chopsticks, or, for formal occasions, plastic forks ...

I really like the poem. It will be an inspiration for pet owners everywhere.

I like the spoon on the right a lot. It looks like it would feel good in my hand.

You're just bringing up the old justified true belief balderdash without calling it that. Pretty soon you'll get to the Gettier problem. JTB is the ap...

@"BC" Here's my favorite Aloha shirt. I don't wear it anymore because it's probably insensitive to indigenous people. https://thephilosophyforum.com/d...

I always assumed you are really Troy McClure. I remember you from such food posts as "Dried out anadama bread" and "White bread, ketchup, American che...

I am not familiar with it. There are many approaches to metaphysics. Given my strong attachment to the views of Collingwood, what does Watkins have to...

I think you're right. Solipsism is like the simulation hypothesis. If you are correct that they are unprovable, and I think you are, then they're meta...

I agree with this. Atheism forces God into little boxes and then complains when the boxes don't stack neatly.

And shared experience doesn't count? Not sure about that. I probably disagree. Still thinking.

Personal experience is evidence, whether or not you find it convincing. I'm not here to make the case for theism, but saying there's no evidence is ju...

As I noted, I don't consider Aloha shirts kitsch. And Rayon is wonderful.

I have a lot of stuff around my house. I tend not to throw things away that might possibly be of use in the future. But nothing I would classify as ki...

I think this would be the issue for me. If someone tried to screw me like this, I would be temped to refuse the offer unless it were a life-changing a...

Priceless. I was thinking about this. I assume the responder is not given a chance to negotiate with the proposer. That would probably make a big diff...