T_Clark

About a year ago, a poster suggested we develop technologies so that men were no longer needed. Women would be fertilized technologically. Then steps ...

As I said in a previous post, the OP isn't about why men are the way they are, it's about whether it means women are better than men.

How well do you know @"Bitter Crank"? Of course he's trying to start of fight.

I thought he did a good job of explaining. Also, the OP wasn't asking why more men are in prison than women. It asked whether the fact that more men w...

I sense a connection with your current "Unconditional Love" thread. Now, what does "socially superior" mean? Do you mean you think maybe women are nic...

A lot of people here have been at it for a long time. We really care about what we are saying. Some of us are really smart. Being on the forum is a go...

I'm a bit sheepish doing this, but I wanted you to see why I'm so passionate about this. How important it is to me. And not just me. Lots of other peo...

Thank you.

I don't care that you are 30 and live with your mother. My youngest child, 29, lives at home with my wife and me and we're happy to have him here. But...

I'm comfortable using my own judgment to decide what writing, food, music, art, etc. I like and I'm interested in. It's clear you are too. So what's t...

Not sure if you are agreeing with me, disagreeing, or neither. The trouble with saying that science is about facts is that it means you are unaware th...

The truly basic questions in philosophy are not matters of fact. They are matters of opinion. Not truth, but usefulness. "Metaphysics" is a dangerous ...

Please ignore this question if it's too personal - What does your brother think? I don't have much patience with the antinatalist's ideas or justifica...

I will respond. Hopefully later today.

There have been many discussions of antinatalism here on the forum. @"schopenhauer1" is one of it's prime proponents. I'm sure he'll have thoughts.

It looks like @"S" to me. It's a miracle.

As I said, I think it's my responsibility as a turd in the swimming pool to express myself more clearly. I think I've gone as far as I can in this thr...

Do you mean: Bolding #1: From my point of view good wording. Bolding #2: As I understand it, good wording. Bolding #3: In my personal opinion, oh, my.

I have been. I don't doubt that you have also. We've both been repeating the same arguments, going around in circles. In my experience, if posters hav...

Of course you looked after him. You're a good person. You care about him. It was the right thing to do. Now it's your responsibility to make sure you'...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4Gj7JsET4

Yes, what you've written is correct. Please do remember.

Well, I have no desire to live forever, even if it were possible, which it is not (he said smugly). On the other hand, I have a fondness for quixotic ...

Here's a quote from Emerson's Self-Reliance. I try to use quotes from S-R at least twice a week:

I was using the term "cognitive science" as it is often used, to denote the study of human behavior through the lens of new technologies such as CAT, ...

Yeah, I don't really like the way that came out either. I've filled this space a couple of times with clarifications then erase them. Now I've come to...

@"Buxtebuddha" used to call me "Clarkie." (a tear), although, as you can see, he used to spell it correctly.

This is not correct. Science and scientists try to discredit the idea of the mind in a number of ways: There is a school of psychology, behaviorism, w...

That's what you wrote, but what you really wanted to write is: We're not getting anywhere.

I'm sure you can prove it to your own satisfaction, but I'm even surer that you won't be able to prove it to mine. I'd be happy to give you a shot. We...

I use "god" because I believe that what I call the experience of god is closely related to a belief in god. There is an experience which many people h...

Let me see if I've got this right. Just as a hypothetical, a completely made up example, if someone were to say That would be a circumstantial ad homi...

As long as you laugh at my jokes and not my philosophy.

Circumstantial ad hominem? What the hell is that? An ad hominem is "an argument directed against a person rather than the position they are maintainin...

When hell freezes over is "the moment that accept claim." I'll never convince you. You don't have to convince me of the value of science and rationali...

It's not a matter of preference. You need them both in order to do anything, at least anything scientific.

I strongly agree with you here. Wait, no I don't. Yikes, I can't tell whether I agree with you or not. You use words that sound like something I might...

Boy, your experience is different from mine. I think maybe your term "external world" is the give away. For most of the scientifically inclined, the e...

It is my understanding that the Boltzmann Brain concept is taken seriously by some non-goofy scientists.

I don't think that's true. I think most scientists, and many others, believe that science provides a privileged viewpoint of the true nature of realit...

Have you ever heard of a Boltzmann Brain? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain The argument Boltzmann made is pretty much the same as the arg...

No, of course I don't mind you "jumping in." "There is no objective reality" is a statement about objective reality in the same sense that "There is n...

I understand the distinction, and I don't even have an argument with it as far as it goes. As you say, "Science presumes an external objective univers...

I'll stand behind my judgment. I'm with @"ZhouBoTong", whatever crap I say is good is good. "Transformers" is better than "Hamlet." Big Macs are bette...

I don't want to play word games and I'm not trying to be tricky. One of the definitions of "apprehension" is "understanding." So, pre-apprehension wou...

In another thread, you and I were discussing Rahner's pre-apprehension as something similar to what I was calling an awareness of god. To me, that is ...

I disagree. There are no facts independent of values. Values tell us how to split up the world in a way that makes sense to humans. Values are related...

Pseudo-significant SNL references: "Never mind." - Gilda Radner as Emily Latella "It's always something." - Gilda Radner as Rosanne Rosanadana Bass-o-...

Correct. The segment was called "Count, Pointer Count." Without looking at the web, what was that segment a pop culture reference to?