Michael Ossipoff

No, let's not imply that I refuse to answer you. If you want to quote a particular statement or conclusion of mine, quoted from a post of mine on rein...

As I said, I've had my say about that, and you're free to draw your own conclusions. Michael Ossipoff

Suit yourself. I've had my say on that matter, and you're of course free to reach your own conclusions. But that question doesn't bear on the fact tha...

Sorry, but reincarnation isn't part of, or assumed by, Skepticism. All I said was that reincarnation is consistent with, or even implied by, Skepticis...

I'd said: --Michael Ossipoff You replied: Incorrect. I don't limit "it" to brute-facts. I said, "assumptions and brute-facts". Because it was obvious ...

Speaking for myself, I'm not a Naturalist (...which is basically a euphemism for "Physicalist" or "Materialist"), or an Atheist. Metaphysically, I'm a...

But what meaning would you expect there to be? What meaning need there be? There are things you like. What more meaning could be expected or needed? V...

No. You were saying that I didn't define the metaphysics that I call Skepticism. Here's what you said: In that paragraph, you aren't arguing about the...

First, let me explain to you that, to fit a word's definition, a meaning doesn't have to fit all of a dictionary's definitions of that word. It only n...

But i'll say one more thing now: I fully defined and described Skepticism. ...in the my initial post about it, and in subsequent posts. But i welcome ...

No, it isn't. The word "skepticism" is defined in every dictionary. My metaphysics rejects and avoids assumptions and brute-facts. Rejection and avoid...

Why? I answered that question in another post today. Two great social-scientists, P.T. Barnum and W.C. Fields, have the answer to that question: P.T. ...

It would take a long time to find the post, but earlier in this topic, someone asked what it is that carries through to the next life in reincarnation...

I hasten to emphasize that I'm not calling everyone I've communicated with here "trolls". Far from it! Most people where are serious and sincere about...

In general, in our long prehistory, false beliefs regarding important practical matters meant premature death by starvation or predation. So, in gener...

Nonsense. I spoke of dumping garbage into the Sun. The probe will indeed be garbage when it's approaching the Sun on a collision-trajectory, before in...

Sun big. Parker-probe small. I've answered that many times. Instead of repeating the answer again for you, i'll refer you to previous posts. Michael O...

As was previously explained, the ecliptic disk was centrifugally spun-out from the forming-Sun. Michael Ossipoff.

Incorrect. The Sun was inviolable because it was out of reach. The ever-tinkering monkeys couldn't get at it. They've pretty much trashed their own pl...

You badly misunderstood what you read, BitterCrank. The formation of the ecliptic disk, spun-out from the contracting forming-Sun isn't my theory. It'...

Yes. Yes, gravity is contracting the initial cloud and the forming-Sun. Angular momentum is conserved If the radius of a rotating object is decreased,...

When I said "Chromosphere", I meant "Photosphere". Michael Ossipoff

We're material beings called animals. That's all we are. There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing disparaging about that. Animals are an aston...

Bitter Crank, maybe your astro-history teaching needs a little work. Don't quit your day-job yet. Yes, it seems to me that it has been suggested that ...

Troll-talk. One part of the definition of a troll is his asserted assumption that what isn't in agreement with him must be wrong.. Michael Ossipoff

Well, I was referring to the forming-Sun, at the time of the outspreading of the ecliptic disk, as "the Sun", even if its fusion hadn't ignited.by tha...

So you don't believe that the ecliptic disk was formed via conservation of angular momentum, when the initial cloud contracted? Well, yours is a minor...

I didn't say that I'm indifferent about the garbaging of the Earth. In fact, I've said the opposite,above in this topic. I said that the garbaging of ...

No, you didn't say that. You didn't say that the Sun formed from a disk of material. That's what I was correcting BitterCrank about in that passage. ....

Natural selection was operating many millions of years, a billion or more years, before any of the Nazis were even a gleam in their parents' eye.. The...

Incorrect. NoAxioms didn't say that. The Sun wasn't formed from a disk of matter. The matter that formed the Sun was a cloud, but it almost surely was...

The disused probe will be garbage when it falls into the Sun, even by the common ordinary definition of garbage: Disused material. I didn't say that u...

I've answered that many times, above in this topic. ...many, many, many, many times. So I might as well repeat this too: This topic has devolved to re...

1. The experiment is being done precisely because so little is known about the solar corona in particular, and the Sun in general. When little is know...

If that sounds disparaging, it certainly isn't intended in that way. It's astonishing and impressive beyond words what evolution produced when it prod...

Exactly. Michael Ossipoff

To biologists, I guess an animal is a member of the kingdom Animalia. The definition of that kingdom has been changing lately, partly because of DNA s...

Oops! When I said "EKG" I meant "EEG". Michael Ossipoff

Then share with us one piece of evidence that we're other than animals. There's nothing in your experience that isn't consistent with your being an an...

Likewise. So do I. But I was talking about academic philosophers. They have an additional incentive--the Publish-Or-Perish imperative that i referred ...

I’d said: . . You replied: . . Of course. . . Of course. You’re speaking of a simplified analog of us. Different in degree from us. . Basically, if yo...

I’d said: . . You replied: . . Then I’ll say it now: It doesn’t. . But there’s an unnecessary, made-up problem of philosophy, (the Hard-Problem-Of-Con...

I overspoke a bit, because of course no metaphysics can be proved. So all that I can say on that matter is that it seems to me that there's probably r...

But that photo, and the abuses of the various abusers, says nothing whatsoever about issue #2 that I answered about in my previous post. Is evasion of...

I’d said: . . You replied: . . You’re quite right, that, if I want to attribute something to natural-selection, then I have to answer your objection t...

Ok, fair enough. I was just referring to the kind of remembering by which someone could actually say that they've previously lived. Haven't some of th...

No, that cloud of matter that formed the Sun isn't the immediate origin of the Earth. After that cloud originated the Sun, the Sun originated the plan...

Andrew4Handel said things that led me to believe that he supported the Physicalists' Hard-Problem-Of-Consciousness. He seemed to be saying, with Physi...

Yes, Andrew4Handel didn't support Sapolsky's statement. Well, there doesn't seem to be disagreement after all. Michael Ossipoff

I’d said: . . Not really. My comment was insulting, sure, and I should have picked another word, but, really, you're arguing that we shouldn't send a ...