Michael

How is that any different to simply stating that it's false that houses turn into flowers? And what about other kinds of falsehoods? To borrow your wo...

He's been exiled back to the old PF. Which happens to be nowhere. So bye-bye Maw forever!

I once wrote a great R-rated short story about Jack and Jill and I think a gingerbread house. Posted it as part of the old PF's short story competitio...

Maw has now been banned.

I’m not saying that the physical part exhausts the concept. I’m saying that even if there’s more to the concept than the physical part we can still as...

I just need a novel topic. Does God exist? Are morals objective? Do we have free will? So many choices.

For example, I haven’t started a discussion in 2 years.

The angel is the guy.

I’m glad we don’t have Google Ads.

Isn't that the place started by one of the old PF crowd (Floyd I believe)? He didn't like it when I called him Pink.

I'm not saying that we don't have the concept of flowers and houses. I'm saying that these concepts don't preclude us from talking about houses turnin...

I'm not a scientist so I can't offer much of an explanation. I only know that it's concerned with the combining or splitting of atoms so that one elem...

The ones pertaining to nuclear fusion and fission primarily.

Because we know that it's impossible for houses to turn into flowers. Whereas if she were to say that the tree in her garden became a shed we wouldn't...

I agree with this, but I don't see how this precludes the conceptual possibility of houses turning into flowers. It's no different in kind to mercury ...

I don't really understand this. There's nothing theological about saying that things in the world are made up of matter and that matter of one type ca...

Perhaps this example will better explain the issue I have: I'm your neighbour and I tell you that my friend John is coming to visit. John cancels but ...

Posted to get the above to show

The trick is to campaign for him so that the voters think he's declared his candidacy and vote for him, even though he hasn't because he's too proper ...

I'm not a fan of Tinder. I can't stand cheesy/sexual chat up lines and "normal" conversations via text are so boring. Nothing beats meeting people in ...

Sure, I didn't mean to say that it is impossible. We can transmute mercury into gold, and things like that happen naturally in nuclear fusion. The cas...

I've seen a lot of reporting like that and I think it's pretty bad. There's a difference between being stupid and not knowing that something is illega...

Yes, that's what I quoted. The part that surprised me is this: "a prosecution would encounter difficulties proving that Campaign officials or individu...

Maybe not philosophy but I'd say we need science to determine that the molecules that make up a house can't feasibly rearrange into the molecules that...

I was talking about the Trump Tower meeting which is concerned with campaign finance violations, not being an agent of the Russian government. Mueller...

I was referring to Don Jr. (and others at the Trump Tower meeting), not to President Trump.

I'm surprised that ignorance actually was a defense in this case: So they broke the law but they can't be prosecuted because it can't be proved that t...

You should do less of that and more campaigning for Obama.

Is that what we intend though? Imagine some historian were to (falsely) believe that his friend Artabanus assassinated Xerxes and wrote the sentence "...

Pfft. Also, from your link:

Have Obama run for Vice President with the unspoken promise that the President resign immediately.

I think the case of Superman and Clark Kent presents some issue here. If I believe that Superman and Clark Kent are different people then I intend for...

I don't think that it's a double-standard to think that one country's legal system is better than another's if there are material differences between ...

Cheater.

They didn't really need to as it's against UK law to extradite anyone who could face the death penalty anyway.

If you have three you have three, if you have two you have two, but if you have one you have none. What is it?

Pig brains partially revived four hours after death One step closer to immortality. :party:

He also needs to be tried in the UK for failing to surrender to the court and in Sweden for rape (should they reopen charges).

I was awesome. Still am, but also was.

If anyone spoils Game of Thrones for me I will ban them with extreme prejudice. That is all.

Just busy with real life

Right behind you. I literally just said.

I’m right behind you. :eyes:

What else are the EU supposed to do? Deny the request and have us leave without a deal? They don't want that. The problem is entirely with Parliament ...

As it followed on from you saying "Yes, but less so. It depends on what would need to be done to save them" I assumed you were explaining why you feel...

Earlier you said "I'm not a utilitarian. I don't 'deduce' that killing is wrong by some kind of calculus, it just feels wrong." so the above seems at ...

What are you doing in Scotland?

Does it feel wrong to allow someone to die when you could have saved them?

If I allow the train to continue on Track A then there is a 100% chance that 2 or more people will die and a 25% chance that 3 people will die. If I r...

My decision would be the same in both cases because your addition makes no difference; I would redirect the train to save 2 people. Could you explain ...