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Nothing is "turning out". In both cases there's a body of texts, and there's us. Either you trust (by and large) those sources or you don't. Either yo...

Fixed. There is no reason to confine causality to certain "physical" events and not others. This is the essence of compatibilism. Reason is a type of ...

The same question could be asked of Socrates, who could be a figment of Plato's imagination... Either one trusts the source or one doesn't.

Correct. Of course he never thought of founding a new religion. Shut and closed, rather. That others such as Paul piggy-backed on him only shows how v...

Indeed, they align well with the House of Hillel, and against the House of Shammai. But didn't we agree that Judaism at the time was plural? Jesus was...

The plot thickens...

Thanks. I was aware that vaccination was not recommended for kids. I was asking about medical doctors who "question the use of the vaccine, against th...

1) This is official advice, not going against it, and 2) Isaac is retired I think, so this does not apply to him.

It's prescriptive in any case. It tells people what to do and not do, whom to worship and whom not to, how to worship, what to eat and not eat, etc. M...

He says many things, not all of which point to literalism. I mean, there's a certain ambiguity in Jesus, as recorded. The Torah is an official doctrin...

They always do. :-) Perhaps unfortunately, we all have neighbours, and our relationship with them is important. One of the questions salient in John i...

Or according to the spirit of the Law, rather affording so much importance to its letter. As any rabbi of the time, he had his own interpretation of t...

Thanks for the precision. Indeed this development came way after Gama and Columbus. My mistake.

I do agree with you that he was speaking from within Judaism. Yet he was trying to reform Judaism, and as a result some of his teachings are at a vari...

I am aware of the importance of mechanical chronometers for navigation around the world and the explorations of Vasco de Gama, Columbus and others. Th...

Like who, and with what arguments?

De nada.

That's true in anglophone settings. Beyond that, nobody cares about him.

The moment you turn paranoid.

This is not the hypothesis I was raising, though. The idea was rather that reason could be fully determined by reason herself, by prior thoughts, goal...

Well put.

Yes. Including pretty much the entire old French lexicon, which got absorbed into English starting from Hasting.

I'm a big fan of English. It's a very powerful language with great flexibility and vitality to import or create new words. It is perhaps weakest in th...

Why do you think the Brits and Americans are opposed to Islam?

That could indicate the presence of a cliché. Something you took for granted without prior examination.

Last time I checked, the British and Americans were NOT opposed to Islam at all. Nor should they be, I agree.

Right. It is the only logical point of view on this matter that I can think of. Otherwise one falls into the liar's paradox, as @"Hanover" rightly poi...

Trump, Bolsenaro, BoJo and co.

Nobody cares about fake philosophies.

That makes absolutely no difference to the demonstration. The only thing you need for reason to be compatible with determinism, is for reason to be de...

As an aside, a few Arab authors are herewith highly recommended: Yasmina Khadra is a Algerian author of (mainly) crime novels with a social and politi...

A shopping mall girl Getting off the limo In her tricoline dress Passing by the window Of my heart And she didn't even see me Hey, shopping mall girl ...

Indeed, women would benefit from the implementation of shariah in Afghanistan. They'd be better off.

I've been wandering around with Afghan Mujaheddin for years, prior to the Taliban. Now, I know you probably meant it as an insult, but I don't take in...

If you hate Arabs with a passion, as I think it's pretty obvious you do, you will never be able to see past your own propaganda, ensconced as you are ...

There's this puppet Who goes: "no, no, no, no!" All day long She says: "no, no, no, no!" She is so pretty That I dream of her at night No one ever tau...

:up: Indeed, mechanical puppets don't usually make much sense.

This is a false opposition. Even if determinism is true, it could be that beliefs are determined by reason in a fully deterministic manner. Imagine fo...

It can prevent others from taking such role playing seriously. If your philosophical ideas are just pretense, then why should anyone (including you) c...

Any Arab you happen to like?

Afghans have this gift. I've met some pretty regular folks who spoke five languages.

Err, inter alia the French, Italians, Spaniards, Germans, and the Arabs of course.

As you must be aware, we don't read history as written by the Arabs. E.g. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, by Amin Maalouf is interesting in that it pr...

It was still under Arab rulers. The Persian were beaten by the student of Aristotle, and under Greek control for a while; so of course they assimilate...

Vice versa, why the insistence (among some) on erasing Arabs from history? Give to Mohamad what belongs to Mohamad.

Every civilization is a mix of cultures, though, except the most primitive perhaps. And Berber, and Jewish, and Syriak, and more... but that synchreti...

Heard a new term yesterday, about how news outlet keep scaring people with new variants: "variant porn".

Yes well, one could argue endlessly with the details of the story but the broad outline isn't too far off. To me the main actual changes in the credo ...

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