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How very convenient. :wink:
June 08, 2021 at 00:01
Unfortunately God doesn’t say how to act, people say how to act, and people aren’t God (supreme Good).
June 07, 2021 at 17:36
Socrates gadflying in public, totally cray cray.
June 05, 2021 at 01:58
Kinda like a reverse Pygmalion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmADMB2utAo
June 04, 2021 at 13:35
A quick glance at a few of the videos gave me the impression that the Academy of Ideas is the brainchild of some Koch brothers think tank, designed to...
June 04, 2021 at 13:21
Don’t worry, modern artist still paint depressing pictures like this... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fKZlR5zURU0/U0wKE6lzzKI/AAAAAAAAZdQ/SFw_TJB2AFg/s160...
June 04, 2021 at 02:04
Nice cinematography.
June 03, 2021 at 13:31
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Hey, whooooooa, watch were you’re squeez’n there lady! I’ll have to conflate Trump and alien bioweapons more often. :razz:
June 03, 2021 at 03:03
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=byQrdnq7_H0
June 02, 2021 at 15:09
He only said that because he couldn't paint like Sargent. https://aforsay.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/singer-sargent-1000_498.jpg
June 02, 2021 at 03:18
Good day to you, Madam.
June 01, 2021 at 22:23
The fundamental difference is that, like Trump clan, y’all value other shit over truth.
June 01, 2021 at 19:41
Trumpians never concede, and I predict that you never will also.
June 01, 2021 at 19:02
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Like Trumps twitter account or an alien bioweapon. https://fsa.zobj.net/crop.php?r=vS0M07A7LzPiCCRWWF2nnW6aUDmvnTIuGXHQdJweZ0hDifuzAt0QTuL712jAfa2_vbk...
June 01, 2021 at 18:57
Though mockery may be lacking in civility, it may not fester the receivers instability. Speaking of which, the Einstein topic was closed so there’s no...
June 01, 2021 at 18:26
A little atmosphere. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TW3-3Xy0kCo
June 01, 2021 at 15:23
Act like a bear and fight or flee. In this case you chose to flee, however, you’re not a bear, you’re apparently an intellectually dishonest human bei...
June 01, 2021 at 14:26
I think they call it utilitarianism.
May 31, 2021 at 21:28
Sam Harris is a stoic? Well-being in the stoic sense is often referred to as eudaemonia. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/JblwxxiT5RhePc6VgYyTp...
May 31, 2021 at 21:24
https://www.janefriedman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/justin-attas-puzzle-piece-plotting-method.jpg Okay, let's try a different image. Think of real...
May 31, 2021 at 21:07
His religious-like reverence for the * Unknown * suggests that it's more like the former. This part is telling... The problem here is that how can you...
May 31, 2021 at 20:19
I suspect the problem is that you’re a visual learner so I’ve taken the liberty to literally draw it out for you. Enjoy... https://www.simplypsycholog...
May 31, 2021 at 01:17
What we call stereotyping is part of how our minds work. It’s not possible to not do this. Perhaps your ideas about innocence are, well, innocent. Per...
May 31, 2021 at 01:03
I never planned to win the race But you convinced me face to face There was never a chance Of losin' at all
May 30, 2021 at 17:23
Before the sky was blue it was black. Blue corrupts, and when it corrupts it corrupts absolutely.
May 30, 2021 at 17:12
Right, a God without personality. That being the case, communing with nature (or literally whatever) could be seen as communing with God. Doesn’t seem...
May 30, 2021 at 14:59
Ah, but only a corrupt mind is stingy with their energy and time.
May 30, 2021 at 14:42
I’ll read the article and then... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YEG9DgRHhA
May 30, 2021 at 14:38
An innocent mind doesn’t fear unhealthy dialogue.
May 30, 2021 at 03:24
You haven’t shown how this prevents Quietism. Actually I might assume the Pantheist to have quietist tendencies, wanting to contemplate and commune wi...
May 29, 2021 at 23:42
So not just disbelief but belief that theism is dangerous, destructive, or encouraging of harmful behavior.
May 29, 2021 at 21:47
"Blind” auditions for symphony orchestras reduced sex-biased hiring and improved female musicians' likelihood of advancing out of preliminary rounds, ...
May 29, 2021 at 20:26
Stereotypes are unquestionably useful, we can glean a lot from a mere glance at a stranger, for instance, but they typically contain negative attribut...
May 29, 2021 at 19:54
The point is that moral life isn’t dependent on religion, as some seem to claim.
May 29, 2021 at 18:27
"If Jesus is white and God is white, then authority is white," Anthea Butler, an associate professor of religious studies and Africana studies at the ...
May 29, 2021 at 18:05
The conceptual separation of church/state apparently dates back to at least Seneca. Also, Seneca was a stoic who understood that virtue could be devel...
May 29, 2021 at 17:43
I’ll answer it. Apparently they were something like the following before wise men domesticated them. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/th...
May 29, 2021 at 16:05
Don’t really have the gist of this term. Opposed to all theistic concepts?
May 29, 2021 at 15:37
Sheep did just fine before there were sheep herders. Anyway, you must be pleased with the results of this wise guidance and the current condition of h...
May 29, 2021 at 15:02
Really old school apparently. I used to think that consciously using religion like a tool was a relatively new phenomena, but maybe it was like that f...
May 29, 2021 at 13:59
Einstein’s words have weight. They have the same kind of weight as he described the ‘chains of religious belief’ having. The chains he claimed that fa...
May 28, 2021 at 22:56
As an angry non-believer I’d prefer to watch pistols at dawn but I guess that’s out of the question.
May 28, 2021 at 20:30
Right, that appears to be the point, sad as it is.
May 28, 2021 at 19:55
At the briefest glance looks very Eastern.
May 28, 2021 at 19:50
Is anyone discussing atheist arguments? I thought the topic was about atheist irrationality (anger, fanaticism, and unfounded pride).
May 28, 2021 at 18:43
Perhaps he believes that all languages besides English are of a different ethnicity to your ethnicity, and he resents the implications that he's not s...
May 28, 2021 at 18:19
At least NOS’s trolls have a bit of sophistication.
May 28, 2021 at 16:31
The comment was aimed more at Amen, but you have been supporting the ad hom towards atheists. Rather than address atheist critiques you attack their c...
May 28, 2021 at 16:20
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or euphemism. In any case... :rage: :lol:
May 28, 2021 at 14:19
Reality is often ‘you can’t make this shit up’ hilarious, and you have a beautiful sense of humor.
May 28, 2021 at 04:00