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I don't think @"fdrake" was just responding to you and I didn't find his response defensive. At the risk of being presumptuous in interpreting him - H...

This line gets my vote as the best insult of the week. I agree with everything you wrote about why you're here - that's why I'm here too. We can talk ...

Agreed. I'm going to put it on my list for a future discussion of it's own.

Look in the dictionary - This is the actual definition of "philosophy." You're just trying to take the fun out of it. I was just responding to your A ...

Let's see. Clearly philosophical but not scientific - What is the true nature of reality. Clearly scientific but not philosophical - What is the struc...

Did I mention that you're a dick?

You're kind of a dick. As you explained in a previous post, that's not an ad hominem attack.

This is pretty harsh. Nothing Abdul has written gives me the impression he has a mean or nasty view of life. His posts are always curious and open. I ...

Other people have an effect on how I experience my life. They are responsible for the things they do. Only I have responsibility for how I react to wh...

Neither. It is a condition, an internal state. It isn't given to you. I don't see why any one person's happiness necessarily comes at the cost of some...

This is a really interesting discussion and it's made me think differently about the issues. When it comes down to it, call it method or methodology, ...

I clean up properties with soil, groundwater, and river sediment contaminated by chemicals. Those chemicals cause present or potential future risks to...

I've been really depressed, but I still liked chicken salad. Just don't put curry in it please.

So...I say "I like chicken salad." You say "No you don't." Is that right?

Worshiping Thor as a god is not a value, it's a belief. Values are not true, they are expressions of what people think is important. Your values are n...

Sorry. That doesn't work as an argument. The fact that others agree with you is not the point. I disagree with you and I've given reasons. Respond to ...

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"I know what's best for me." It's not so much that I know what's best for me but that it is my responsibility to know what's best for me if I want to ...

Following up on my last post, here's a poem, "Holy Brethren", from one of my favorite poets, Carl Dennis. If I don't believe the doctrine of my neighb...

Well, no, it's not a fact. It's your interpretation and I think it shows a misunderstanding of what "value" and "judgment" mean. Emotions are not valu...

I always thought "methodology" was just a fancy way of saying "method" that makes you sound smarter. Now, looking it up, I see the difference. I'm goi...

So something that's credible is "worthy of our ascent?" Does that mean "true?" "Probably true." This is getting a bit circular. Here's a definition of...

Sorry, and believe me I'm not trying to be difficult, but what you've described isn't part of the scientific method. It's one process for generating h...

Following up on our earlier discussion, is this or is it not an argument ad hominem? And not on me, but on me and everyone like me.

Hmm... I'll need to think about that.

You've got it backwards. One of my pet peeves is when someone says "hmm ill need to think about that" or "i think you might be right," because then I ...

What does it mean that a belief is "credible?" Doesn't it mean there is justification for it? What does being probable mean? It's a statement of condi...

I'll say it again - experimental design is philosophy. Epistemology. Yes, I'm getting sick of this parallelism. I won't do it anymore. This is somethi...

This is a very interesting paragraph. I was having trouble following this whole discussion, but I think this summarizes it very well, although, as usu...

I can't tell. Are you agreeing with me or disagreeing with me when I said... My first thought when I read your original post was that your view of hed...

I think human values are just that - human. They are part of our nature built in by evolution. They are in our brain, but also the rest of our bodies....

It is in New York City, so there is an expensive cost of living.

This seems unnecessarily complicated. Maybe it would be clearer if you can give simple examples of philosophical and scientific issues addressed by yo...

Yasir Arafat was a civil engineer, but I guess that doesn't count.

You don't have to be real smart.

You're wrong.

For what it's worth, my good friend's 25 year old daughter got her bachelors in fine arts, worked for a year, and then went to a 6-month computer codi...

It's still not for me, but I respect and admire what you have done.

Civil engineers!

Yeah, but, to me, you personify all that is good, all that is evil, about moderating.

Boy. He kinda flipped out on us, didn't he. I kept thinking to myself after he said women shouldn't vote - how come Baden hasn't banned his ass yet. I...

Doesn't leave much more to say, does it? I'm a bit shocked he would write it out loud. Now we can crucify him for being politically incorrect.

I went back and looked. Is there anywhere you or anyone has defined what "gender feminism" is.

Evidence?

Evidence?

You've got it backwards. As a civil engineer, I can assure we're the least intelligent of the engineers (other than industrial). I think you may have ...

Evidence? What percentage of students? Studies? Surveys?

Up until last year, I worked for my entire engineering career, 29 years, for the same company with people I love doing work that I enjoy, am good at, ...

Thanks. I read "The Road Less Traveled" and at least one of his other books, "People of the Lie," probably 15 years ago. I enjoyed them, although they...

I acknowledge that a fertilized egg is different from separated sperm and egg cells, but as I've said previously, to me, eight cells is not a human be...