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In: Existence  — view comment
Existence suggests something acting or being acted upon. If existence has an essence it is differentiation.
February 04, 2017 at 22:47
In: A Simple Argument against Dualism  — view comment
Language itself is a physical manifestation of the intimate connections between mind and body. Language enables the externalization of thought by use ...
February 04, 2017 at 03:51
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Trump Accuses Australia Of Trying To Send U.S. The ‘Next Boston Bombers’: Report The president reportedly berated Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Tu...
February 02, 2017 at 04:13
In: What is an idol?  — view comment
Some thoughts on the topic: Idols are images that arise from the stories and teachings of religion, they act like words & stories as symbolic what is ...
February 01, 2017 at 16:11
In: A Simple Argument against Dualism  — view comment
Don't mind & body learn to cooperate over time. Rug rats don't walk. It takes time and lots of energy to learn how this apparatus works.
January 31, 2017 at 20:44
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/8E7nv83KAIw
January 31, 2017 at 18:37
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Might save some paper and require some exceptions, but I doubt it will hinder rule makers.
January 30, 2017 at 16:58
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Live or dead? Some prefer only dead, more predictable results.
January 30, 2017 at 13:09
In: The Raven Paradox  — view comment
So an albino raven is not a raven? https://youtu.be/EfYH7a4RBAo
January 30, 2017 at 13:03
In: Post truth  — view comment
Animal Farm may also enjoy renewed interest. The arrival of the pig-man embryo might suggest a progression from post truth to post human to post moral...
January 29, 2017 at 02:17
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Trump's ban is illegal: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/trumps-immigration-ban-illegal More fodder to keep him tied up in court. :)
January 28, 2017 at 15:19
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Amazing :(
January 28, 2017 at 13:45
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
And yet no ban on Saudi Arabia where 15 of the 9/11 terrorists came from...it's flat out racist
January 28, 2017 at 13:41
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
So you agree with racism?
January 28, 2017 at 13:36
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Trump on Friday put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily barred travelers from Syria Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya...
January 28, 2017 at 13:23
In: Does 'nothing' denote anything?  — view comment
I'am working my way thru Plato Sophist following is one of the 'god like' Stranger from Elea conclusions: "Stranger: When we speak of that which is no...
January 28, 2017 at 12:47
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3OQIosWEAAayNk.jpg
January 28, 2017 at 02:03
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/cVRbajsztig
January 28, 2017 at 01:01
In: Facts are always true.  — view comment
Still thinking that there are two (or more) kinds of facts. 1) Our immediate perception of reality which is constantly changing 2) Habitual facts, fac...
January 27, 2017 at 01:58
In: Facts are always true.  — view comment
Still think use of the word 'fact' is equivocal. Sure I can accept that facts are neither true nor false, simply states of affairs, but who decides wh...
January 26, 2017 at 00:23
In: Facts are always true.  — view comment
Yes, I think you can say that facts are always true. Determining what are the facts is not such a trivial matter in science, and politically at least ...
January 25, 2017 at 14:09
In: Opportunity for 'Fulfillment' of potential.  — view comment
It is pausible to suggest that a person should not be judged morally culpable if his/her actions were beyond their control, Thomas Nagel quotes Kant: ...
January 25, 2017 at 00:00
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Maybe we all fetishize. We all take inanimate objects and idealize them, giving them a 'transcendental' significance much in the same way some people ...
January 24, 2017 at 12:48
In: A Criticism Of Trump's Foreign Policy  — view comment
Trump's foreign policy is difficult to see. He is putting it all together as he goes along. But he seems too focussed on what he thinks is fair trade....
January 24, 2017 at 03:30
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
She was called a slut because she exercised her constitutional rights by giving testimony to Congress :-d By a guy who has been treated several times ...
January 23, 2017 at 21:49
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Nonsense. Women, & minority rights were, and still are, hard fought battles. Morality is the question. Do you think "alternate facts" are an alternate...
January 23, 2017 at 21:31
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Women's march recap: Protests make history as more than three million across the globe stand against Donald Trump They got off their duff.
January 23, 2017 at 21:19
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
In the US people have the right to protest, it's legal and it seems as though protests are more successful for the people. Without protests I doubt we...
January 23, 2017 at 21:12
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
No, it more reaction to what was said, there are a lot of persuasive arguments, but his position is too untenable to allow to go unchallenged.
January 23, 2017 at 21:05
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Hey m-theory...this is the shout box & I'm shouting
January 23, 2017 at 21:02
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
They paralyzed this nation and I only hope that the DEMs can do worst to them any legal route.
January 23, 2017 at 20:57
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Ad homenium
January 23, 2017 at 20:54
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Oh, yea and I mean our President
January 23, 2017 at 20:52
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
This is an appeal to traditional GOP values...exactly what they did. YEA BECAUSE SOME OF YOU WERE TOO BUSY GABBING PUSSIES
January 23, 2017 at 20:50
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
The only way to deal with Trump is to keep him buried in litigation on every possible front.
January 23, 2017 at 20:45
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
If you want to stop protesters, threaten them with Felony charges and pick them up indiscriminately, that is repression.
January 23, 2017 at 20:35
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
The headline: "In Trump's America, 'Felony Riot' Charges Against Inauguration Protesters Signal Dangerous Wave of Repression" full article here: http:...
January 23, 2017 at 20:29
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
More than 200 people who were mass-arrested at the Washington, D.C. protests against the inauguration of Donald Trump have been hit with felony riot c...
January 23, 2017 at 20:18
In: Post truth  — view comment
OK, but he won, and his henchmen will be spinning "alternative facts" at us for the next 4 years. It may not affect all thinking people, but that said...
January 23, 2017 at 16:19
In: Post truth  — view comment
Washington Post excerpted Chuk Todd (Meet the Press) conversation with Conway yesterday https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/22/how-...
January 23, 2017 at 15:57
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Pubs. I decided to make myself a deep-dish Eggplant Parmesan today. Its funny how much nostalgia is involved in cooking. A glass of Merlot from an ine...
January 22, 2017 at 23:05
In: Eternal Musical Properties  — view comment
/uploads/resized/files/ee/khu3zxqx57qbwlj9.png I thoroughly disagree. I've been there and done it. There is no way you want to put a child through the...
January 22, 2017 at 21:21
In: Eternal Musical Properties  — view comment
I agree with Agustino on this, Isn't this the problem. Causality can't be logically anything but the the way it is, to conflate it with reason is the ...
January 22, 2017 at 18:52
In: Does everyone think the same way?  — view comment
What distinguishes a red-red object from a red-white object? Isn't the red-white object redundant? Or?
January 22, 2017 at 18:00
In: Vengeance and justice  — view comment
When you say "law" you mean whatever is subscribed to as law where you at, which in most cases already decided politically, historically, by statute. ...
January 22, 2017 at 15:21
In: Where is the truth?  — view comment
If truth, then isn't it necessarily in us as part of a community that uses the same normative rules.
January 22, 2017 at 13:34
In: Eternal Musical Properties  — view comment
Hey TL, I like the music you posted. Both are lyrical poems set to music, laments about doomed love. "Dream Brother"'s music seems to act as the backd...
January 21, 2017 at 22:49
In: Is pencil and paper enough?  — view comment
Inert things don't think or feel, and I think it is a mistake (voodoo) to attribute either property to inanimate objects. Pencil and paper are tools s...
January 20, 2017 at 19:25
In: What is the rawest form of an idea? How should one go about translating it into language?  — view comment
The awareness of the sensation of a feeling.
January 20, 2017 at 13:18
In: Where is the truth?  — view comment
"Where is the truth" In history.
January 20, 2017 at 12:00
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