Michael

An imposter. I'm pretty sure the real René Descartes wouldn't waste his time on here.

Now I want to know who you think the top 5 PF atheists are. And the top 5 posters overall.

It is paid attention. See District of Columbia v. Heller: "The Amendment’s prefatory clause announces a purpose, but does not limit or expand the scop...

It's not just about power. It's also about firing rate and number of rounds. Presumably an AR-15 beats handguns and hunting rifles in that metric?

It's probably just that it's harder for them to verify the identities of people from some countries. What other reason could there be? They're in it t...

Depends on the jurisdiction. In the UK the age of consent is 16 but someone who's 14 or 15 can consent, in which case the crime is "sexual activity wi...

Sure, that's what you said. ;)

And you and Fox News assume that Obama et al. are guilty before proven to be guilty. Such is politics.

I have a similar story, only it involves me pushing my brother off the top of a bunk bed and him breaking his wrist.

Of course, which would make the sign (and the sales-clerk) misleading, not false (or lying). I don't understand the relevance of this.

Setting a low bar there.

Then go ahead and ask him if you like. Again, I have no idea what you're trying to say here.

I haven't said he would be. I said he might be, which would make the existence of such a tape a national security issue, given that it could be used a...

Whether or not you see a reason for the embarrassment isn't relevant. What matters is whether or not Trump would be embarrassed. If so, he's open to b...

Right, we must come to a stop. We just have to admit that, for whatever reason, some people are embarrassed by whatever it is that they're embarrassed...

"is embarrassing because it is invading your bodily privacy" Why is invading bodily privacy cause for embarrassment?

No, you said that invading bodily privacy is embarrassing. You haven't told me why invading bodily privacy is embarrassing.

Why is that embarrassing?

I don't think he did. But I think there's evidence that Page, Manafort, Papadopoulos, Kushner, and Trump Jr. did: that the FBI were granted FISA warra...

Anything is possible, but not everything is reasonable. Seems strange to take an email that leaves a record of a by-the-books meeting as evidence that...

No, just as I can't explain why it's embarrassing if it's a naked photo of them, e.g. in the shower. But it's a fact that some people are embarrassed ...

It's compromising if it can be used as blackmail. A lot of people would be embarrassed to see such a tape of them released and so would do as they're ...

Peru jail twin who switched with brother is recaptured Arrested Development, anyone?

If there was a tape of you watching two prostitutes piss on a bed for you, wouldn't you want that kept out of the public eye?

I was baptised. Does that make me a Christian?

From his transition team, given possible concerns about national security. And notice that he's asking Comey if there are reasons for this, not conspi...

So you just assume that it's underhanded, in lieu of any actual evidence? And you accused me of being biased.

How can you know what the ... area says?

Here's the published parts of Susan Rice's email to herself (to keep an official record, which would be a strange thing to do were this some illegal o...

Was he? From what I have read, the concern was with sharing the information with Trump's transition team, given that some of them were under investiga...

Oh, OK. Then I wouldn't be surprised if the pee tape is real and is being used as blackmail and if Trump personally conspired with Putin to help swing...

What evidence is there that Obama tapped Trump's phones whether legal or illegal? Do you just believe it because Trump tweeted it?

Was this a joke, or do you actually believe that Obama (illegally) tapped Trump's phones, as Trump's tweets claimed?

How so? Because Obama was wary about informing members of Trump's administration that they were under investigation? I hardly count that as a conspira...

Less informed. Not not informed about anything.

Well, we know that she really was paid $130,000 by Cohen.

STUDY: Watching Only Fox News Makes You Less Informed Than Watching No News At All.

Then it is what I crossed-out earlier: The argument only shows that a being who is imagined to be real and have God's properties is greater than a bei...

Huh? Are you saying that Obama wire-tapped Trump, that the media knew this, that the media lied about it, and that the video above shows this?

And what properties do we imagine a being than which none greater can be imagined to have? Is "existence in reality" one such property? Then we're ima...

I know that's not what the argument claims. That's the problem. The argument is wrong. We imagine God to be real, even if he isn't. The assumption is ...

I think both portraits look terrible.

What lies?

I'm not saying that there isn't a difference between a real X and an imaginary X. I'm saying that if we imagine God to be real then we can't imagine s...

I don't think it does. My concern isn't with existence being or not being a predicate. My concern is with the claim that we can conceive of something ...

What do I conceive of when I conceive of God? What do I conceive of when I conceive of this "greater" Being? If there isn't a difference then I don't ...

Here: This is the problematic part. It's wrong. God is imagined/conceived to exist in reality. So how can we imagine/conceive of something greater? Th...

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

I'm not claiming otherwise. I'm arguing that one of the argument's premises is false. As others have suggested, your criticisms seem to be directed at...

It does, as the key premise of the argument is "we can imagine something greater". The content of our concepts are an integral part of the argument.