T_Clark

It can also be defined as a lack of belief in the existence of gods. Many atheists are like that. They haven't seen any convincing evidence and haven'...

Even without some sort of civilization-wide catastrophe, the Earth's population is predicted to stop growing in the next 50 to 100 years. That's when ...

How does this apply to what I wrote?

I think you and I agree at least on what the issues are and what the right questions are. Part of the reason these discussions rarely go anywhere is t...

Women got the right to vote in the US 101 years ago. And that was not the beginning.

Seems like you are saying what I said, just more forcefully. As I said, I can understand your point. I think it's a good argument. I think I would be ...

Maybe this is the heart of the matter - are the differences between a biological female and a transsexual irrelevant. As you point out, there are cert...

I agree with most of what you've written, but I can understand the resistance to redefining the word "woman." I think many people, including many wome...

By "liberalism" do you mean a belief in progress? Seems to me that capitalism and industrialism are the primary drivers of progress. Maybe capitalism,...

Good, well thought-out post.

Words mean what people say they mean, what they act as if they mean. Calling the Earth flat doesn't change the meanings of the words "Earth" and "flat...

What a coincidence. My goal is to do fewer than 10,000 sit ups. I am on track to meet my goal. Your goal is probably better than mine.

I hadn't heard of Hold Back This Day, so I looked it up. Most of the reviews I found are in white nationalist publications/websites. You won't find mu...

Be that as it may, that's the way things are. Bitch and moan. Gnash your teeth. Repeat after me "Hell in a hand basket," "Why, when I was a boy..." My...

"Woman" and "female" are words and can be redefined any time standard usage changes. If enough people accept people born as biological males who ident...

I, on the other hand, am so popular because of the rays of love and sunshine I bring to the forum every day. And because fdrake made me stop calling e...

I think you're looking for "orbanic gananas." That's much more in line with current cognitive science knowledge. And to think, without the Shoutbox, t...

I think Baden was suggesting that, now that we have the Shoutbox to let off steam on, we can be less rambunctious on the other threads.

It's Borat. Can't you see that?

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Colonel Sanders?

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

I can't be the first person to point out what is obvious, that @"Mystic", @"Foghorn", and @"skyblack" are all the same person, if they are, in fact, p...

Come on. You know the Philosophy Forum has a bimodal membership structure. One group, including you and me, are old coots who wonder what's going on w...

Now, now. Calm down. Time for your nap. There's a good boy...

Definitely philosophical. I guess it's Platonic idealism. He sat in the ideal form of the chair, not the chair itself.

According to the equations of special relativity, if a massive object such as a spaceship were to travel at the speed of light, time on the ship would...

@"Hanover" I was thinking - if you're a moderator, when you get elected, won't that cause a conflict of interest in philosophy-related policy?

You're as snotty and condescending as Bartricks without his ineffable grace and eloquence.

If you highlight text and then push the "quote" button that shows up, it will show up in your post with a location tag. Then we can tell to which spec...

Do you guys read the posts on this forum? There's a lot of mezza-mezza stuff and a reasonable amount that is interesting and worth responding to. Then...

It was not clear from the title that this discussion is about bannings. The moderators may not have looked at it. Hey @"Baden", @"StreetlightX" - what...

I didn't like this when I started it, but the rhythm works really well. It made me pay more attention. I thought the "but and if" format was strained ...

I agree with this.

I think I've laid out my argument pretty clearly. I'll leave it at that.

You're making this a lot more difficult than it needs to be. Logic is supposed to be a tool to help find the truth, not a game to find the most obscur...

X cares about every aspect of objective logic. I think the problem here is that the statements are being made in everyday English. When I say "I like ...

How about this T Clark likes fruit. T Clark does not like apples. Therefore apples are not fruit. I guess the question is - does the statement "T Clar...

I really like that. I've been meaning to read Stevens. I have to be in a special mood to want to read poetry.

Yes. We waited for the toy section in the back. It was like pornography for us. I vividly remember the James Bond Goldfinger set with a laser table to...

I understand what you are saying. One of the reasons I think that my unhappiness is at least partially biological is that it is so out of sync with ev...

The title of this discussion - "How do you think we should approach living with mentally lazy/weak people?" QED.

As am I. It has struck me that it is often the clarity with which a question or idea is presented that is most important. More important that the answ...

There are many people who are not "simple in thought" who are not interested in philosophy. The lack of respect you show for others is either 1) not p...

No. Space does not mean there is nothing. First off, space is something. It's expanding . Second - physicists believe all of space is permeated by a q...

Of course, but me not existing is not hard to imagine. The idea that nothing could exist is.

Are you talking about the Frost poem? I never really knew what that was about. I just like the way it feels in my mouth. The parallelism. The sense th...

It's funny. I answered @"unenlightened" above before I read your post. You said just about exactly what I wrote in my response to him.

There is no doubt in my mind that at least some of the unhappiness I have felt in my life is organic, biological, maybe genetic. Based on temperament,...

I don't think they're the same, at least not for me. Mine is less personal. It's not that I don't exist. It's that nothing exists. But...but...but.......