praxis

Is that true? According to polls in Texas, most favor some access to abortion, and as far as I can tell it hasn’t been on a ballot.

You think that states should have the power to deny women their freedom to choose, right? If so, doesn't that make you a stinking statists?

The women in many states don’t have the power to choose now. Aren’t you supposed to be some breed of libertarian? https://i.postimg.cc/66djN7fR/IMG-12...

Tunbridge Wells knows the value of brand equity. :lol:

Apple series of Lady in the Lake. :up: :up:

I like some of them, others not so much, like this one… https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/1Q84_%28United_States_edition%29.jpg Even an AI...

He’s dedicated to truth, democracy, and saving Americans from being poisoned by big agriculture/pharmaceuticals… so he endorses Trump. :chin: Just ano...

How much?

If Trump can be believed this is good news because he reported that those jobs were filled by illegal immigrants. Good news or part of a blizzard of l...

Exactly. Religious kinship is magnitudes deeper because it assumes shared core values. I’m afraid that kinship is inherently tribal in nature, and tha...

I can’t agree because, if I’ve been following your reason rightly, your duality (real land/phony water) expresses a fetish. Wouldn’t you feel kinship ...

It’s functional in its binding effect with those who also believe as you do, believe in the duality of real lands and phony rivers. You feel kinship w...

It’s not my term, it’s Constance’s term. As I’ve said from the beginning, I think the essence of religion is binding. If you look at the etymology, it...

You seem to be suggesting that humans are inherently corrupt or inescapably fetishizing everything. I can agree with this because it means that the es...

To used Constance’s simile, you’re saying that it’s like I linger at the fetish notion of sex. The thing is that anything can be fetishized and sex do...

Religions have all sorts of answers to all sorts of questions. It is rather presumptuous of you to try speaking for all religions. Out of religion cam...

A religion is an institution or ideology.

The question a religion poses is whether you have faith in its *ultimate* authority.

We’re not communicating for some reason.

What are you talking about? :brow: Steve Schmidt is a thirty-year Republican and a political and corporate strategist. He is best known for working on...

Show instances of this in this or the Trump thread.

Rather, religion is the foundational determinacy of our existence, and in this, ethics is prescribed.

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Is anyone (with the exception of the MAGA cult) foolish enough to take what a politician says at face-value? Anyway, you have a remarkably low toleran...

I think an impartial viewer would disagree that the exchange is sickly sweet, cartoonish, and ingenuine. You think they're being plainspoken and nice ...

Why do you think it’s fake? I wouldn’t think that you would even watch it.

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I watched 10 minutes of the Harris and Waltz chat just now and if it’s an act they’re good actors. They come off as warm, approachable, and down to ea...

We both know its meaning. Can you perhaps rephrase the question?

Not true, the color red speaks, and says different things depending on the form of life it appears in. In an orchard red says “ripe”. In the temperatu...

Works great. Doesn't ask for email address or anything. https://i.postimg.cc/X7LMskBG/temp-Imagen-Kf-Ltn.avif

When I asked if you were "claiming that “the good” exists in “the world” separate from minds (words and concepts)" you said yes. To me, that is an exc...

I'm trying to understand how "the good" is fundamentally different than words and concepts. I can't see how "the good" isn't conceptual in nature.

Getting so looney tunes that he's starting to sound like Daffy Duck.

I feel blessed. https://i.postimg.cc/PxXrR5rT/temp-Imagerq-XICS.avif

Where?

Looks like Melania because she’s squinting? Trump gets weirder by the day.

Are you claiming that “the good” exists in “the world” separate from minds (words and concepts)?

There’s a host of concepts involved in “the moral prohibition against doing this to others” that is far removed from the experience of that pain. I mu...

Talk about blindsight, I don’t think I would have made that blunder if we had this conversation in person.

I meant no disrespect to you or your mother. I apologize if you feel I've been disrespectful or vulgar. I agree that we learn emotion concepts as we d...

I'm imagining baby Vera Mont in her crib expressing her needs (not desires yet?) and your mother trying to satisfy those needs. The cries are relentle...

So you didn't conceive desires as an infant, yet you still had them. :chin:

Can you conceive a motivation yourself? Did you conceive the desire to eat, drink, and breathe yourself?

I hate to judge a book by its cover but that one is very nice.

You’re basically saying that it’s impossible for an unconscious intelligence, no matter how powerful, to analyze and replicate a conscious intelligenc...

How can you say that so definitively, aren’t we all still foggy about what consciousness is?

Blindsight, yes, I didn’t recall the name until you mentioned it. It had some interesting parts though I don’t remember it being very engaging, and in...

Plants seem to desire sunlight when they move towards it.

Not directly, no. But imagine, if you’re willing, a non-conscious intelligence whose most underlying motive is procreation. No, I don’t mean Homo sapi...