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Rooks would fit nicely into those open D & G columns.

My money is on black at this point.

Getting more suspenseful now. https://media.tenor.com/VrvWzQd0LKQAAAAM/jon-stewart-eat.gif

:lol:

Indeed, no machine mind could predict the best move against a mind like Hanover mind.

Hmm, no brilliant moves yet. Let's see some brilliant moves, guys. https://designpraxis.biz/img/chess.png I know, what you need is the perfect cheer. ...

He just wants it to be known that he's well above the din. I'm grateful for it personally, because it has allowed me the opportunity to use the expres...

I'm afraid only a theist can correct a mischaracterization of their ideas, particularly if it's unintentional. They can be rather odd and unintuitive.

I agree that there are atheists who intentionally mischaracterize religious ideas out of prejudice. There are also theists who intentionally mischarac...

If I'm wrong why you don't try to clarify what you mean?

Yes. @"T Clark" seems to be claiming, unless I'm misinterpreting him, that believers only believe in the ineffable, not anything particular, and not t...

The only reason that religion works is because God is ineffable and requires some sort of **special access** unavailable to the common folk. Do religi...

The problem is that they're all strawmen. Every God ever preached about is a strawman and not the REAL God. God is a boxed-up strawman. Atheists quest...

Now that I think about it a bit more, I think Clark may be saying something different. Basically that God is ineffable so any dumb atheist that comes ...

That's a serious accusation and being so deserving of an explanation.

Atheists don't make up religions. Religious leaders do. They box up God, Gods, or whatever. Atheists question these stories or 'boxes'.

Rather, atheists complain about the untidiness of the boxes that religious leaders put God into.

I’m beginning to think that that’s his basic can’t lose strategy.

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Nah, at this pace it'll be just a few short years.

On a lighter note, red onion & kimchi tuna salad is surprisingly good. https://designpraxis.biz/img/tunakimchi.JPG

@"Hanover" https://media3.giphy.com/media/cORM7Nlp21L8TAAjsS/200w.gif?cid=6c09b95230tr65xkwir1vfv0xcr3twli7ru2nhj3rub32h9n&rid=200w.gif&ct=g

People just can't help themselves.

The perfect countermove is for Hanover to kingside castle. Do it! :point:

Only as a collab. deal apparently. https://assets.biztimes.com/uploads/2019/05/Beer-collaboration.png

Oho, Hanover blocks the castle.

In The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit Of Capitalism, Weber believed that the Protestant ethic was the driving force behind the mass action that led t...

:lol: That's not how it works, actually. When you abandon reason things can get rather counterintuitive.

Not unusual at all. A Buddhist might experience “emptiness” (no God), for example, and someone else might experience something more akin to a sky-fath...

It’s part of a particular tribe of theism if it is “religious”.

Not all of them I imagine, he did show a lot of skin. :lol:

It could only be a religious feeling if whatever is experienced is inline with a religion, otherwise it’s just an experience, perhaps a spiritual expe...

I watched The Long Goodby last night. Man, they sure don’t make movies like they used to. The pacing was so much slower. The first 15 minutes of the f...

Of course. I think that the most significant difference is that the ‘religious system’ relies on absolute authority. That’s a big difference because i...

By “thought system” do you by chance mean science? Science is probably better described as a method.

Yes, that too sounds ordinary, and I imagine the same is true for conscientious atheists.

I expect that anyone who believes in life everlasting would not be materialistic, for instance, yet Christians, at least in the US, seem quite ordinar...

I don't seem to have stirred up any disagreement.

Well, there's certainly no evidence that Theists have everlasting life, and they rarely behave as though they actually believe it.

Honey-sweetened cassava flour chocolate chip. https://designpraxis.biz/img/cassavacookies.jpg

Accelerated dragon variation. https://media.tenor.com/luD92hxIVAIAAAAd/colbert-popcorn-popcorn.gif

Sicilian defense, promising to be an exciting game.

Thanks. Which is which of you?

@"Hanover" https://www.gifcen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/chicken-gif-7.gif

Post the link, if you please. I’d like to watch, or review if it’s a fast one.

Haha, NO! It’s made with fancy-ass Italian flour. Most folks probably couldn’t tell it’s gluten-free. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61R1w4fGsqL....

Gluten-free with home made pesto + mozzarella and salami. https://designpraxis.biz/img/pestop.jpg

I recently learned a bit of Spanish history from reading a bunch of Isabel Allende books. A particularly touching part was when, after Franco took pow...

True in my case. I don't consider myself a philosopher and don't play chess very well.

Did a YouTube search for my city and it’s supposedly the fourth most neighborly city in the nation, though I suspect a goodly amount of PR foolery in ...