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I heard it was really good and Gary Oldman is a good actor, but I couldn't bring myself to watch it. George Smiley is Alec Guinness. John LeCarre dedi...

My post didn't make any specific reference to theistic belief except in a quote from you. Isn't the whole point of your thread that all beliefs are in...

No one, except for maybe Plato and his ilk, has ever said that the boundary of any class of things is fixed or immutable. People disagree. Classes ove...

What possible relevance does that have to this discussion? You should be addressing my statements. I don't understand your point. Doesn't seem like yo...

Because no cognitive scientist would ever do a study to evaluate that issue. Do you think there is a single cognitive scientist, any scientist, who th...

Later in your post you say "not only was theistic faith invalid, but also, the very concept of belief!" Which is a fine thing to say, although I disag...

Did you ever see him in BBC's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "Smiley's People?" From the 80s. They're the first things I ever saw him in. For me, ...

Holey crap! That's Tasmania? I always thought it was New Zealand.

You would let billions die in order to keep your conscience clean? So you can say "It's not my fault?" Once again I say - Arguments like that are why ...

All paradoxes are failures of human language or conceptualization. Nothing physical can ever be paradoxical. That's the lesson of the 20th Century, al...

Related science fiction story. One of my favorites. "Nine Billion Names of God." Arthur C. Clarke. Monks in the Himalayas are writing all the differen...

I'm an old guy, but am not, and never will be a senior or senior citizen. Screw the discount. I am white and middle class. Seems a bit dishonorable no...

Ah. Ha, ha. Yes. The Munchhausen Trilemma, I know it well. Actually, I've never heard of it. Looked it up. Has a nice ring to it. Rolls off the tongue...

As I said in my post Sounds like there is no argument. Although - to say that all aspects of humanity evolved for survival, while probably true, is pr...

Let's look at the recent history of gay marriage in the US. So, the Supreme Court decided by fiat that individual federal and state (provincial) marri...

I disagree. Here is a link to a thread called "Does Morality Presuppose There Being a Human Nature" that talks about these issues. https://thephilosop...

This is an discussion that has been covered in many threads in the forum. I have participated in many of them. Here's my position and I think there is...

Oh, wait. I misunderstood. You think it would be ok to let the Death Star destroy Alderaan rather than drop Jar-Jar Binks down the vent pipe into the ...

I like that. We'll use our philosophy chops to address the old forum. How about this: You are on a bridge standing next to the old forum and looking d...

To give you a more serious response, I agree completely. My goal in life is to be fearless. I haven't got that long. I'd better get cracking. Many of ...

Although I agree with those who say the situations described are unrealistic and unhelpful (and silly) from an ethical standpoint, your point is also ...

Actually, this is a very good, if not ethically relevant point. All railroads, including commuter rail, I've worked for have very stringent requiremen...

But that was a saw blade. That doesn't bother me nearly as much. The thought of a razor makes my nose run.

I think this shows a misunderstanding of human nature.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/CrowTRobot.JPG If I were going to change my avatar, which I swear I won't, this is the one I would...

I try to be careful in psychologizing people I deal with. I sometimes fail. 83.25% of the people on this forum are excessively self-involved people wh...

It is a testament to my respect for you that I could finish your post. Of all the things that make me cringe and shiver, descriptions or depictions of...

Now Buxtebuddha, play nice. I thought your New Year's resolution was to be nicer. Oh, wait, that was one of mine. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is...

So, marsupial cherries?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOQW3L-aXXg

Careful or people will think you're bitt... Oh, wait. I already said that.

Be fair, even TL will tell her boyfriend what her real name is. Maybe not on the first date. Maybe that would be like getting to second base. That's a...

If I had to vote for the person I admire most, the list of possibilities would include Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Barak Obama, Lech Walesa, Vlaclav...

Sorry for the late response. I was gone for a few days. I haven't looked down to see any other part of this conversation before I'm responding First t...

I've always assume BC chose the blue jay for the same reason I choose a crow - they are raucous, argumentative, and cranky. I've always loved blue jay...

Ok. Here's my serious list: Become more self-aware in all the ways that's possible - emotional, physical, social, intellectual Stop being petty. No ch...

In my extremely limited understanding of this subject, the fact that two electrons are in different quantum states does not mean they are not identica...

As I've thought more, this has bothered me about the video that started this thread also. How did they shrink the elephant? Did they shrink the indivi...

Don't agree, but we don't need to get into it much. I don't believe that decision making is primarily a conscious activity.

Says who?

You have taken something that seems really interesting and non-intuitive but simple into something incomprehensible. The issue that the video is discu...

Here's a link to an essay by Stephen Jay Gould that covers some of the same ground and goes beyond it a bit: http://qrc.depaul.edu/djabon/CTTI/Reading...

Speaking of Dutch seafood, my brother and I visited Europe together in 2014. We stayed in Amsterdam for two days and then went off to the Alsace and B...

I've been trying to follow this conversation, but I keep getting lost. Explain again please, when does the herring become the body of Christ?

What if he says "I fink yore hot" when he asks you out? Will you still go out with him?

But still, if we agree that a person in two different multiverses who is exactly the same is the same person, then, by that same logic, all the electr...

It is my understanding that all electrons are exactly the same. Does that mean that all the electrons in the universe are the same electron? Actually,...

My favorite scene from one of my favorite movies.

I don't get it. @"tom"'s post seemed pretty responsive to me. You, on the other hand, seem comfortable basing your counter-arguments on snarky condesc...

You will find that this statement is controversial on this forum. There are many here who do think that science provides a privileged view of truth. O...