T_Clark

As I wrote in my previous post, I was wrong when I said the subjects you have raised do not belong in this thread. I don't know something you don't, I...

You provide a broad brush caricature of Islamic religious belief. You compare Muhammad to Hitler. You say the "House of Islam is a house of mastery in...

Thanks for correcting my misunderstanding.

I don't know what to think of your ideas, but the OP is very well written and pretty clear, given the complexity of your ideas. Until you wrote this, ...

And you can read the Tao Te Ching in an hour.

Lesser known Shakespeare quotes: I got married to the widow next door. She's been married four times before - Henry V That was no lady, that was my wi...

I find it a very useful concept. What I said is that 1) the concept of absolute reality is a metaphysical one. 2) As a metaphysical concept, it isn't ...

Thanks. I'll take a look.

Do all discussions except those in the Lounge show up on the front page when I choose All Discussions? If not, what other discussions are not included...

First, this is an interesting conversation, but the title sucks. It gives no indication about what the subject is. I've read through the thread and I ...

I will not clutter up your thread with my opinions beyond this. We've discussed this numerous times before. It's just a new verse in your anti-natalis...

If a new organism did develop completely independent of existing life, it seems to me it would be unlikely to be DNA based. There is also speculation ...

I was trying to make a stronger statement. I do not believe that absolute or objective truth exists. That's not quite right, because the existence of ...

I used "evolve" on purpose, because it seems to me there is probably a lot of a sort of evolution going on before something reaches the point we might...

That strikes me as the main reason new life doesn't come into being. If it takes 100s of millions of years for it to "evolve" from non-living matter, ...

I'm with you and Einstein. If you can't explain it to your son, you don't understand it. I have found myself using philosophical terms more than I use...

Some of us have lives. Not me, but some of us.

You seem to have very different ideas of how the world and knowledge work than I do. I don't believe the idea of objective or absolute truth is a very...

Following the standard set of procedures for presenting logic makes it more abstract and formal. More like math, which was probably the point. It can ...

It applies to much of what we know or perceive. Some examples - colors, races, languages, motorcycles, species, forests, science, art, mental illness....

This is intended as a straightforward acknowledgement that you have violated no guidelines in the posts that I've read.

Has anyone ever, in the long history of the world, come anywhere close to finding "some objective worldview that all reasonable people can agree on?" ...

I've been clear I don't think you've done anything that would require any action from the moderators.

This forum means a lot to many of us. It's clear it doesn't to you. If you feel the need to throw your weight around without following the rules or be...

Well, on this forum, you do have responsibilities. They are spelled out in the Site Guidelines. There are, as discussed in this thread, procedures for...

I don't think that trolling is a valid, useful, or effective way of dealing with troublemakers. Maybe that's the difference. I'm don't worry much abou...

Hey moderators. You haven't responded, which I think is probably a good idea, but I hope you're paying attention.

I don't disagree, but it matters how you take it on. Many times aggressive responses just contribute to the chaos.

Reading your posts, I've seen a lot that are blunt and aggressive, even insulting, but I don't know of any that I'd consider trolling. Maybe I've miss...

The moderators have been known to ban someone for repeated frivolous or low-quality threads. To me, that doesn't seem like a solution that should be u...

Oh, S, and you were doing so well.

I didn't even know who were talking about lynching until you brought it up. Till now, I just saw it as an opportunity to talk about an important issue...

Thanks for the opportunity to pull out, again, my favorite quote from Stephen Jay Gould: “In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree...

I hoped no one would notice I didn't get into this. So, thanks for that. I agree to a point. My posts here disagree with some of what Tim wrote, but t...

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

I think I know exactly how you feel. I don't want you to think I don't share your values. I know the feeling of standing on solid intellectual ground,...

Love Stephen Jay Gould, who came up with that. His writing amazes me. I learned a lot about writing and truth from reading his essays. Hate NOMA. Comp...

I followed the link. Pretty terrible. I can face the things he has to say. I've talked with people who believe things that I find very distasteful wit...

I get annoyed at people who disrupt the forum. Lying though? What is there to lie about here? We're anonymous. We don't really deal in facts so much a...

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I think we have a winner.

I'm really confused. There are two almost identical threads going at the same time. They are discussing the same issues. The same people are participa...

Unless you enforce that, this will turn into a anti-natalism thread. They always do. Anti-natalists are .... persistent.

@"s" - The username of the beast.

You've come to the wrong place. On the forum all you'll find is lesser minds jealous of our brilliance.

Bratwurst.

There's only one letter in your name.

I realized I left out some important information. First - I left out the country code. The full number should be - 66-666-666-6666. Second - I forget ...

Sorry. You deserve a better answer than that. It's kind of a raw deal for God. People who don't believe in him wouldn't believe in him no matter how g...

If only believable things are real, then Donald Trump wouldn't be President and fucking light would make up its mind.