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But "how Trump is" is not the problem; what he (really the GOP) is doing is the problem. And as @"StreetlightX" pointed out focusing on how Trump is d...

Your argument is a sorry mess, Bartricks; everyone but you can see that. If you really believe what you are saying, and it is not just the fact that y...

Deflecting is not successfully refuting. And staying in the cave at all costs is not the ideal you should be aiming for. And it wasn't meant to be an ...

:up: There's nothing more disempowering than moral outrage.

I was referring to the mythical 'Troll'. See here: In any case the other sense may fit too: as it seems Bartricks must be either slow-witted, or argui...

But physiology, by your own argument, is only based on images that the mind creates. In any case I don't agree that physiology tells us anything at al...

How do you know that to be the case? Upside down in relation to what?

Good warriors and true have tried the sword of reason to evict the resident Troll from his cave, and, alas, all have failed. :rofl:

Right, if his analysis is correct then he should not be believed. Perhaps not all of them then? Or perhaps not any? Make do with kangaroo and emu meat...

True, fairytales are predominately moral tales, and no doubt far more effective, insofar as they involve the imagination and emotions, than lists of p...

Luckily it's out of our hands; it's hard to believe there has ever been a human community without its share, however small, of cheats. It's just a mat...

It's hard to believe Trump has that much power over other minds; is he a hypnotist or are the other 6 just very poorly informed? Odd!

It's true I haven't been reading much about what's going on. I hope you're right that Trump will go, but I'm not very confident about it. In any case ...

That's right, with humans what constitutes fitness is an even harder question to answer than it is with animals, due to the massive complexification b...

Cool, got it, thanks.

From that article: "A source in the Italian Ministry of Justice, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Daily Beast that Barr and Durham wer...

How do you post a link that has the text changed? That is from this: https://www.thedailybeast.com/barr-went-to-rome-to-hear-a-secret-tape-from-joseph...

The idea of "something separate that bears them" is an unholy reification of, ironically, materialist thinking.

:rofl:

Sure, I said it doesn't guarantee it, and what I should have added is that, in the case that reproduction occurs, it doesn't guarantee that offspring ...

Exactly! That seems to make sense because fitness (whatever that is actually thought to be) does nothing to guarantee reproduction on an individual le...

I'm no Trump supporter, but I predict an impeachment inquiry into this matter will hurt the democrats more than it does Trump. If Nosferatu is overste...

Sure, something can be thought to be real in different senses, if there are different senses of the word. So, we can say that something could be empir...

The common understanding and use of words determines their meaning or meanings. I'm not saying you can't invent new meanings, or rather new nuances of...

I'm not sure that Quantum theorists would agree with you that the quantum field has nothing more than an abstract reality. As to the Akashic Field, I ...

OK, no worries, I missed your second post.

Whether or not there can be anything real apart from any observer's perspective is not a question I am attempting to answer. My concern was with what ...

More likely wishful thinking. (I'm right there wishing with you, though :smile: )

He hasn't been banned yet, but in accordance with good hunter/ gatherer ethos he certainly ought to be shunned.

Hunter/ gatherers typically shun those who display self-important attitudes, or try to claim more than their fair share. This is a spontaneous act of ...

Spinoza's God is not "first person" in the common theological sense. In fact that is precisely what he argues against in his Tractatus Theologico-Poli...

I am not claiming there is any such thing, or that there isn't, and I certainly didn't claim that it is spatio-temporal, as the snippet you quoted and...

Thanks Mww, I hope I don't "soil" it. :joke:

Thanks 180, I really want to find fault with them myself, and be able to come to something better. I think there is a common currency of terms like 'r...

No, that is not a possibility since the vast majority of people make sense of moral values (even if they don't always adhere to them or agree with the...

Well, then you are losing a helpful distinction. Maybe that explains why you are blind to the tendentiousness of your claim for a god: Reason. If a mo...

It is bad faith Bartricks, and judging from their responses that fact seems to be obvious to everyone but yourself. It consists in your unwillingness ...

The bad faith coming from Bartricks is producing a monumental stench.

This! Studying hunter/gatherer societies would probably be instructive; it seems they are ethically way ahead of us. The problems really started with ...

OK, we're back to "never focused" again. I suppose you include your own posts in that? Do you read many long posts? I seem to remember you saying that...

OK, so you didn't mean "never focused" but "almost never focused". So those posts you actually read carefully, and are able to understand, hardly ever...

You mean the topic or issue of the OP then?

Focused on what?

The problem often lies with terminology. For me the real is what is, not (necessarily) what we experience. So I would say that what we think of as the...

Thanks @"180 Proof", I missed that very apt comment by @"Pantagruel".

You are right to pick me up for that sloppy use of language. What I meant is that the transcendental is what is beyond our experience and the understa...

Now I'm not sure whether you think Eternity is real or imaginary. They are certainly concepts that have an important function in mathematics. I'm not ...

When virtual particles appear, or their effects appear, in spacetime of course they must be thought to have the duration of that appearance. But they ...

The quantum vacuum is not thought to have "temporal parts"; and yet from that quantum vacuum spacetime emerges. Is spacetime an activity of the quantu...

I get what you're saying and I am probably as pessimistic as you are about people becoming community-minded all of a sudden. But people (generally) fo...