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The point about the article is quite clearly that a literal interpretation doesn't exist and any reading of it needs to be backed up with additional i...

Is it that you aren't aware of it making predictions or that you think there aren't any?

Let me help you with one: it does not predict consistent behaviour of natural life.

What are the predictive claims of evolutionary theory?

Yes. And the rest of your post is irrelevant to this question.

I agree melatonin isn't a very problematic drug but it still is a drug.

Before prescribing drugs there's other things to try. I cut out caffeine completely and have been sleeping like a baby since then, even though it medi...

It's always fun talking to you when you pretend to be dense. Here's a good article for starters: https://rozenbergquarterly.com/issa-proceedings-2006-...

Yes. They're idiots. The only reason this isn't obvious to you is because after 200 years of "golden rule" you don't know any better. It's unfortunate...

This is ahistorical piffle actually. The golden rule is younger than the US constitution and constitutions, and statutory laws for that matter, were m...

Speaking of insane. How's that leadership tug going in the UK?

I love long walks, my cat and grand piano. I think I can manage loving a perfect facsimile of a person.

That's not a paradox, that's confusing basic algebraic functions with a tautological axiom.

Why downgrade votes on stories you obviously thought deserved an "I like it"?

It's a dream isn't it? Seems to work for me. The flood is some kind of erotic spiritualism or perhaps an allegory for an orgasm, which is why she can ...

Why does a US-centric interpretation not surprise me?

That's the most ambiguous review so far. Well done!

I guess the robber sounds more from the street or less educated but that's about it for me. I didn't have a particular feel about colour for any chara...

Like all stories, multiple interpretations are possible but I think I agree, by and large, with that interpretation. Trump didn't win but for all the ...

I interpreted his post to refer to morality. Legal penalties are whatever the law says are the penalties. In that view, the executions were perfectly ...

I'm pretty confident you haven't read it just yet. :-)

I guesstimated from memory. What's up with all these people and details? GoD!

Get back to reading and commenting, lazy ass.

Funny how I was worried the meaning of my story was too much on the nose and then I read interpretations and I'm like "What? Where did that come from?...

Maybe this is for you: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi2e1/syllabus/ann...

OK, so I voted guilty, understanding it as a moral injustice as opposed to a legal injustice. It could still be a legal execution if all the proper ru...

Sorry, 9 writers and 1 clown! :grimace:

Btw, everyone, there are ten talented writers who've written short stories and you can vote and comment on them! https://thephilosophyforum.com/catego...

@"Baden" I heard an MP describe bojo as the black Knight from monty python's Holy grail. :rofl:

Well, you are arguing a case and claim they stand accused, but accused of what? I can find SA guilty of a lot of things but I think it's important we ...

May I suggest for next time that the stories are pinned? It would be easier (at least for me) to remember which story I had read and which not.

Guilty of what?

Here's the variation on a theme: anybody disagreeing with you is under duress! How often do people have to disagree with you that it's going to dawn o...

Every single time.

Or maybe don't have such a US-centric view of the world. The suggestion self-sufficiency expertise isn't available in rural France (of all places) is ...

It's absolutely weird how you actually believe that. The people you've called liars in this thread, actually didn't lie. So yes, you've insulted plent...

Lol. I will never in a million years move to the US, the source of too many problems in modern times with one of the most corrupt governments to curse...

At least pollution will be manageable where we're looking, so that will do just fine. Nuclear war, well, no use planning for that any way. I'm not hop...

Sure buddy. Coming from the guy who calls anyone who doesn't agree with him a liar and when he gets an answer to his question is disigenuous by preten...

Better in the airport than in the House, Senate and Supreme Court. :razz:

I'm in good company since he gave almost everybody a bad review. :rofl:

Excellent commentary by @"hypericin". I'm using that literary device called "irony". :razz:

Not necessarily. In the Netherlands there are a lot of train stops with trains stopping at the same platform but going in opposite directions. The lef...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/679346 That explains why I don't consider what has been put forward as proof of greater imperialist ...

Some books I'm getting hard covers of: Start your farm And Self sufficiency

will... I've given up on politicians fixing anything. I'm now investing my energies in finding a plot of land in France big enough to sustain a family...

Nice strawman. I have in fact discussed this with ssu in this very thread.

Sorry, I was unclear, I don't really have an opinion about that but think you should feel free to vote.

Well, your call of course but I think it's unnecessarily strict. We've got enough votes that you're not going to make a difference for who the winner ...

OK, I never noticed I guess.