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would you describe yourself as a duplicitous person?

Why?

I have read the baghavad gita but I don't remember the whole thing.

I already acknowledged that the Bible has examples of warfare waged by the righteous against the wicked.

Why are you speaking in riddles?

He must've intended for them to turn them into plowshares because when Peter uses the sword he is told by Jesus that whoever lives by the sword will d...

If this is the case then perhaps christians have failed in their missionary mission.

Spartacus fought the romans without state power.

Christ didn't practice self defense when it was a matter of life and death.

As far as I know they never attained state power.

I know of no interpretation of christianity where suffering is the end and not the means. If this was the case then hell would be the goal and heaven ...

I think that you would agree that there is more to human life than our reproductive organs. I don't think that life exists to serve reproduction but I...

I don't know if a god exists or if there are many gods and I don't care. I am completely indifferent to such questions. I am not trying to take away y...

It was never my intention to discuss my personal ambitions or even my particular life. I don't see how I would benefit from that. I hope you'll give m...

I don't know much about souls so If I was forced to chose between the two alternatives I would probably select the first option instead of the second....

I can't offer you any money in return for your assistance but I can offer you my gratitude and if there is anything that I can assist you with I will ...

I should think so because I have no reason to think otherwise

I am a very ambitious person.

Thank you for your response it is encouraging and informative.

Bro don't be like that I am genuinely trying to engage in good faith.

Couldn't it easily be argued that democracies also excel at placing crazy, foolish, and large people in positions of power where they then proceed to ...

Isn't this only technically true in a deductive argument? I was under the impression that an inductive argument only provides good reasons to believe ...

Considered illegitimate by who? If you are suggesting that the consent of the governed and the opinion of the many is somehow the basis of legitimate ...

I asked if that was the correct interpretation of the words you used but you chose to interpret it in another way. Did I ever say that I wanted to pla...

How is a question an argument? Don't you need statements that are logically related to one another and derived from each other? I know that you never ...

I need a little bit of clarification before I proceed. What bit are you referring to exactly? You didn't exactly quote me and or make it explicit.

So are you saying that if these hypothetical or literal millions wanted to die than it would've been acceptable?

I don't see how suicide is somehow better than death by natural causes or natural disasters. There is such a thing as advertising and propaganda desig...

I think we finally have a firm foundation to build upon. This reminds me of marxism and it's theory of the base and superstructure. Even though I myse...

Could you define pragmatic and pragmatism in simple easy to understand words so that there is no confusion? I'm not asking because of some passive agg...

What position? I don't remember making any kind of deductive or inductive argument. Maybe I did but I definitely don't remember it. Maybe I haven't ma...

Couldn't you just as easily ask what does it mean to be a kingdom except that it has a king? I mean it seems kind of strange to define something in te...

This seems like a strange yardstick and I'm not sure what it is supposed to measure. If it is the "coherence" of foreign and domestic policies I'm not...

Couldn't a government experience instability as a result of alternative factor such as plague and natural disasters? I think it is a bit unorthodox fo...

Excellent questions and I will do my best to answer all of them. I would like to state in the first place that I have no idea why the economic or demo...

You have a very interesting perspective and I thank you for sharing it with me.

I won’t pretend to understand a mathematical concept like infinity. Also discourses that involve algorithms as an important component will inevitably ...

I know nothing about computation but I think I get the idea. You need to perform an experiment to test a hypothesis. That’s basically what you’re sayi...

I don’t know how empiricism is connected to these concepts but I’m glad that I understood your intended meaning.

I don’t know how empiricism is connected to these concepts but I’m glad that I understood your intended meaning.

In other words there is nothing necessary in the universe necessarily because necessity is meaningless. Is that an accurate summary or am I missing so...

Your replies sometimes remind me of riddles. Admittedly I'm a bit confused. I won't pursue this dialogue any further if you're only going to respond w...

Do you mean like necessary and sufficient conditions? I'm not asking for an exhaustive list but I would like to know what would be sufficient to make ...

Would that mean also that something is necessary if there is an available reason for it's existence?

I fail to see the relevance of it’s nonexistence or of the timing that is associated with it’s development. Maybe you’re suggesting that there is no r...

How can you make this assertion with such confidence?

I was under the impression that inevitable just meant very likely to happen, or a tendency. How can we calculate the probability of a galaxy forming o...

I'm not sure that I follow. Can you give me an example or elaborate a little more?

Interesting. it seems like there is some overlap with the notion of knowledge and ignorance or certainty and uncertainty. in other words the inevitabl...

Some people think that life is the illness and death is the cure. But I want to ask you do you believe that every death is random? That would be consi...