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He wasn't. As explained here, "Both during his life and after it, Crowley has been widely described as a Satanist, usually by detractors. Crowley stat...
February 24, 2017 at 09:33
It might be indivisible at a certain scale, but it's not indivisible at every scale. There is a half way point between the start of a 100m line and th...
February 24, 2017 at 09:10
That doesn't make it true. I would say that religions are prone to falsehoods. That wouldn't make it evil. And I think the key term there is excessive...
February 23, 2017 at 16:37
Yes there is. But even if there wasn't, that wouldn't make it evil. Their addictions are harmful, and this harm can be empirically measured. There isn...
February 23, 2017 at 16:27
It ain't.
February 23, 2017 at 16:22
Probably good, as I seem to recall psychologists saying that it's harmful to suppress sexual desire.
February 23, 2017 at 16:19
Not many people would want to have attained that status.
February 23, 2017 at 16:17
Like in ancient Mesopotamia, the birth of civilisation? And yet you called them savages when I showed you that they practiced same-sex marriage. And, ...
February 23, 2017 at 16:15
How do you delineate the savage from the civilised?
February 23, 2017 at 16:08
Well, savages do have the strangest virtues.
February 23, 2017 at 16:06
I'm pretty sure he was just being pedantic, taking the etymological root of "virgin" as the literal definition.
February 23, 2017 at 16:04
His point is that the notion of virginity was only a relevant notion when we lived in a society where women were treated as property and where "purity...
February 23, 2017 at 16:00
You're getting too tied up with the term "countable". As suggested above, just consider the term "floozable". A floozable set is a set with the same c...
February 23, 2017 at 15:52
It's the same definition of cardinality: "Cardinality is defined in terms of bijective functions. Two sets have the same cardinality if, and only if, ...
February 23, 2017 at 15:42
No, it's the same definition and both relate to bijection. It's just that the cardinal numbers used are different. In the case of finite sets we use t...
February 23, 2017 at 15:34
Actually, I think the claim that homosexuality isn't a choice is a response to the claim that homosexuality is wrong because it isn't natural (i.e. is...
February 23, 2017 at 15:22
As explained here, "Cardinality is defined in terms of bijective functions. Two sets have the same cardinality if, and only if, there is a one-to-one ...
February 23, 2017 at 15:08
Yes, I think you're right. aletheist clarified earlier that I was wrong to admit to being wrong.
February 23, 2017 at 14:41
Nope. http://i-6uf0utvje8gy-cdn.plushcontent.com/uploads/files/hw/d4lxos49t4gp394v.jpg
February 23, 2017 at 14:25
I knew I should have stuck to my guns. MU's comment had me doubt my interpretation. Oh well. Thanks for your clarification.
February 23, 2017 at 14:12
When you asked "do you disagree" I assumed you meant "do you disagree with this definition", not "do you disagree that this is the definition that man...
February 23, 2017 at 14:09
I'm not sure what you mean there, but this articles site uses Silvrback.
February 23, 2017 at 13:53
Looking at that @"jamalrob", why did you go for the separate Articles site rather than the integrated blog?
February 23, 2017 at 13:48
/uploads/files/hw/d4lxos49t4gp394v.jpg Call me "He who Drops the Mic-hael".
February 23, 2017 at 13:36
It's a thing in maths. It seems to me that you're trying to argue against mathematical terminology without actually understanding the mathematics invo...
February 23, 2017 at 13:32
It's a function, so in this case f(x) = x. And with even natural numbers, f(x) = 2x.
February 23, 2017 at 13:23
Sorry, I got my terms mixed up. It's surjection, not bijection when it comes to infinite sets.
February 23, 2017 at 13:19
There's no such thing as "packaging". What we do is define a list of categories and then when a user posts a discussion they select which category to ...
February 23, 2017 at 13:14
Yes, I disagree, as it entails that women can't have sex with each other, and so that all lesbians (who haven't been penetrated by a penis) are virgin...
February 23, 2017 at 13:10
I think there's some misunderstanding here. jamlrob has no control over what the software can do. It's like Facebook, only we pay to use it. So there'...
February 23, 2017 at 13:08
The software can only do what it currently does.
February 23, 2017 at 13:05
You mean "I'd say that 'sex' primarily means sexual intercourse"? What does that involve? A penis penetrating a vagina or anus?
February 23, 2017 at 13:03
He can't make a blog section.
February 23, 2017 at 13:01
OK, what do most people mean by those terms?
February 23, 2017 at 12:59
What does it take to lose one's virginity, then?
February 23, 2017 at 12:54
I don't really understand this objection. I can say that no matter what apple I eat, there will always be apples that I haven't eaten. Therefore apple...
February 23, 2017 at 09:58
That's what we get for letting those damn immigrants work for Royal Mail. Someone should kick the lot of them out and let Great Britain be great and B...
February 23, 2017 at 09:03
It was sent but we were told it was lost in transit. Unfortunately we don't have a spare. Such is life.
February 23, 2017 at 09:00
Or enter your personal blog address in the Website field of your bio.
February 22, 2017 at 15:17
Set A is a subset of set B if every element of set A is an element of set B. Nothing about the definition requires that A containers fewer elements th...
February 22, 2017 at 14:45
I'm not sure what you're saying here. If you're only saying that consciousness depends on brain activity, then Chalmers would agree. He's a property d...
February 22, 2017 at 13:48
How do you know that the people you claim to be fully conscious are fully conscious? Because of their behaviour? Then you're begging the question. The...
February 22, 2017 at 13:13
One could always question the notion of behaving as if we're conscious. One might say that we only behave as if the physical laws and prior physical s...
February 22, 2017 at 10:36
The set of natural numbers is a subset of the set of natural numbers. A countable set is a set with the same cardinality as some subset of the set of ...
February 22, 2017 at 09:19
Personally, I would suggest dropping the term "physical" and offering something more meaningful. Can consciousness be reduced to outward bodily behavi...
February 22, 2017 at 07:42
Actually, the set of natural numbers is countable by definition, as in mathematics a countable set is defined as a set with the same cardinality as so...
February 21, 2017 at 21:40
I'm sure there's always a good reason for Sally to beat you.
February 21, 2017 at 16:01
Making money takes time and effort. Having (lots of) money means free time and laziness and - perhaps most importantly - lie-ins. God I hate the morni...
February 21, 2017 at 13:14
Nah, that'd be money.
February 21, 2017 at 13:12
Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds. Guess we're all wasting our time here. We ain't gonna convince anyone! Also, obligatory Trump bashing, 'cause obviou...
February 21, 2017 at 13:11