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The fact that Trump and his henchmen are simply dismissing the Impeachment is once again, evidence of their contempt for the rule of law, to say nothi...

The investigation didn’t fail. It resulted in 7 jailings, numerous arrests and the exposure of a foreign interference network.

It's treated as revealed truth. Nevertheless it is the case that for secular philosophy, 'the laws of physics' are the nearest thing to divine writ.

There are no accounts of people who were aware of Newton's Laws of Motion before Newton published them. Jorndoe is holding religious revelation to ant...

Surely a direct encounter amounts to something more than 'having heard of'. The point is, the Bible has many descriptive passages of God revealing Him...

So the Burning Bush doesn't qualify?

[One point is that many atheist arguments begin with the presumption that Biblical and other sacred texts are fictitious or purely mythical by default...

Barr is not right.

It’s a fact that ‘contempt of Congress’ is a crime. Its civilian equivalent is ‘contempt of court’. And yet Trump bathes in contempt of Congress. He r...

Ever heard of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl? It was a big seller in the 1960's, one of my mother's favourites. Frankl was a psychiatrist w...

The $400 million that was appropriated for Ukraine had been approved by Congress - i.e. 'the people' - and then withheld by the President for his own ...

Behaviourist after torrid love-making session with professional colleague: 'That was wonderful for you, dear. How was it for me?'

Summary of the main charges behind the Articles: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/10/opinions/gop-trust-trump-ig-report-dantonio/index.html

:up: Thanks. That makes it a little clearer. I still think it's a pretty lame argument, so I suppose I ought to butt out.

Ultimately Nixon acted for the good of the nation by resigning - something Trump would never do.

https://nyti.ms/38jnf0t So - you call in an umpire, a third-party source, to investigate a conspiracy that you think you can see - and when the result...

I completely agree with you. The problem is, for me personally, that I myself have become inured to (not to say corrupted by) the easy comforts which ...

True enough, but it still doesn’t amount to being able to feel pain. So Putnam’s idea of ‘multiple realisability’ doesn’t extend to the domain of robo...

In an impeachment proceeding, the Senate is the court of law. The House prepares the indictment, based on the articles of impeachment.

the backstory to all of this is that Trump really is convinced that the Mueller investigation was a hoax perpertrated by his enemies. He will never le...

Barr has repeatedly shown that he is fiercely partisan in favour of Trump. This report, which he commissioned, didn't find the evidence that his boss ...

Not to mention 'nature's vast assortment of personal preferences......'

:rofl:

The other point is, the reason I’m posting a lot on this topic, is because in my opinion there is dedicated pro-Trump agent posting here. So what? you...

I don't think expression of emotion is quite what Buddhist ethics have in mind. When they speak of 'moral dread' and 'sense of shame over moral transg...

I think the 'moral equivalence' argument of Trump with anyone else in the political landscape is entirely false. He's in a league of his own. The real...

Could you hurt it? Cause it to feel physical or emotional pain?

Sure, but requires some analysis. The Buddhist approach is less like a commandment than a counsel, based on an appeal to our innate ethical sense (alt...

You think the idea of Trump leading a cult is a joke?

I'm posting as a public service, and as an antidote to your noxious rubbish. When I can be bothered.

also notice the technique of turning 'discussion about Trump' into 'discussion about the discussion'. Another method. But it's all scripted. The world...

Note that labeling criticism of Trump as 'hysteria' is just another way for the Trump trolls to defuse legitimate criticism. It's the same as when the...

What I don't see, is how the symbolic representation of pain, like the word PAIN, is actually painful. Nor how it is possible to argue that computers ...

Incidentally SEP article on the topic is here https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiple-realizability/

(Very well, thanks.) As I said, you could simulate pain or a 'pain-type-reaction'. But one of the key points of pain is that it is felt. Which provide...

When you’re performing a function or carrying out a calculation or in reference to a machine, then this makes sense. But how would a machine realise p...

I've always felt that there's a much stronger argument for MR than just pain, in that neuroscience can't find any objective correlation between 'brain...

I never comment on Nietzsche, I regard him as a damaged person. I’m intending to study Horkheimer and Adorno, The Dialectics of Enlightenment, instead...

There’s an asymmetry which Trumpistas are expert in exploiting. Democratic government is above all a framework of rules and agreements whereby candida...

So Trump announces on the White House Lawn that Rudy has ‘a really good report’. It’s on the story that Ukraine set up the Russians - same shtick that...

I've never heard 'hedonism' of any variety mentioned in Buddhist discourse, although the pursuit of pleasure is generally regarded as a canker and a h...

True wisdom is beyond pain and pleasure. A yogi or sage feels pain and pleasure like anyone else, but does not shun pain or seek pleasure. There are d...

By ultimately discovering that there are? 'Hell is truth, realised too late' ~ Anonymous.

There's such text as a 'bodhisattva sila sutra' but even if there were, it could not be dated to 450 BC as there are no Mah?y?na Buddhist sutras dated...

Here is Jerome S. Feldman's homepage. If you could pick a scientist to refer to regarding the subject of this thread, then he would be a leading conte...

Thank you :up:

Instead of ad homs against the scientist, see if you can come to grips with the actual argument. But I'm not holding my breath. No time like the prese...

According to Christian doctrine, beings are free to accept or reject God. If they reject God of their own free will, then 'hell' is the result. Wherea...