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I'll toss a coin. Heads - there's such a thing as luck. Tails - there's no such thing as luck! Oh no, the coin hit the fish tank, cracked the glass, t...

Your low effort, non-responses bore me. How about we end this now?

That's different. You're getting paid. You represent the company - and they have a right to project an image, and protect that image from the expressi...

I confess, I didn't really watch the promo video of sanitized scenes we'd like to see - instead of the rioting burning and looting that actually took ...

At the macroscopic level - where we live, and stuff is made out of atoms, and events can be described in terms of cause and effect - I posit, that the...

Hello Gary, Some quick tips on how to use he forum. If you move your mouse to where it says "7 hours ago" - bottom left of a post you wish to respond ...

And from this we can deduce that giving morons free will was a bad move on God's part!

Apparently not! Thus disproving your argument!!

I thought we'd agreed that discussion between us is pointless. I hoped you might learn that if you're a jerk - and you are, people won't want to play ...

We broadly agree. I applaud your knowledge. Do I detect a hint of Max Weber - the Protestant ethic and the spirit of Capitalism? You're right, that af...

It's not a conspiracy theory. Data collection ended in 2012 - the year before Black Lies Matter was formed. The statistics do not support the narrativ...

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1) “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...

I cannot see the purpose of posting that. Or indeed, the point in continuing a discussion with someone who isn't honest. You represent and typify the ...

I prefer the words reality and science. Any implication to God is pure speculation. But if reality is Created, it follows that science is the word of ...

The assumption that there's some sub-level to reality that is more fundamental, and that macroscopic, causal effects are the consequence of random qua...

You have to make your own reasons for living. There's some help; first, not being asked if you wanted to be born. It's a fait accompli; you're here no...

On the meaningful level - it seems like "the law of the excluded middle." Tertium non datur ("a third is not given")

Oh, at last! I was hoping someone would prove the existence of God!! 5000 years of philosophical head scratching - and this guy's cracked it. Nice one...

The disparity is between the statistics, and the idea fostered by BLM through social media, that there's a racist killing spree being conducted by the...

I cannot dispute the existence of your quote on the website - but that's not correct. Look at this: Home | Data Collection Detail Data Collection: Arr...

So you came to a thread entitled "How is Jordan Peterson viewed among philosophers? and posted your own question "What was the original left?" because...

No. Data collection was shut down the year before BLM were formed. Not the year after. They were formed in 2013. Shockingly, I don't keep a record of ...

Everyone (I assume) purports to want to conserve what is good and progress to what is better - but it's as you imply, better for whom? You're the one ...

It seems we agree - I don't know by how much. But I view science as valid knowledge of reality/Creation. I don't know if God exists - but if he does, ...

Not sure how to parse "the conservative left." Do you mean Conservatives, but to the left of the Conservatives? Or do you mean lefties into conservati...

I saw 'All the President's Men' recently, about Nixon and Watergate, and it was apparent, as the reporters - Bernstein and Woodward, drilled toward th...

The Luddites were a secret oath-based organization of English textile workers in the 19th century, a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery...

I don't think the Factory Act was widely honoured. There were only four factory inspectors for the whole country; and many of the factories would pay ...

Slavery was ended by Britain in 1830. In 1833, Parliament passed the Factory Act, the provisions of which were: No child under 9yrs was to work Age ce...

Ah, go be benevolent unto thyself!

You can't sidestep my argument by condescending to me. The answer is no. God can't do anything.

omnibenevolence NOUN (with reference to a deity) perfect or unlimited goodness. So now we both know what it means, I make the same argument.

You said he was an omnibenevolent being, or God, which is to say he created something to be benevolent toward, or created the universe. One cannot be ...

Values. have. no. meaning. to. someone. who. is. alone.

So if this omnipotent being, or God, or whatever - hasn't created anything, how can he be benevolent?

Then he's not alone. Again, Robinson Crusoe is on a desert island alone. How can he be immoral?

So Robinson Crusoe is stuck on a desert island, alone. How can he be immoral?

Didn't someone post this same thread before?

Then who is he benevolent toward? Himself? That sounds like a euphemism for masturbation!

Yeah! Maybe your philosophical computer can also make remarks dripping with obvious sarcasm! That's always good in a debate!

I can't speak for the US, but it does seem they didn't handle ending slavery very well. If only the colonies had been returned to rightful rule of Her...

No, it's a dialogue typical of a Turing test - and an indication of what you're up against trying to program a computer to do philosophy. A great deal...

Disadvantage someone is assumed to have, on the basis of their arbitrary characteristics. Reversing that, making those arbitrary characteristics an ad...

Nihilism upholds no value that requires one accept nihilism!

Person: I saw some puppies in a shop window - so I bought one! What did I buy? Computer: a shop window!

Reimer's case is utterly tragic. But no less tragic, arguably, than confused kids - drinking in all this left wing gender politics propaganda, turning...

How so? Would NOS happily go pick out a branch to hang himself from - when you waved vaguely in the direction of a forest? If you're gonna make a poin...

It wasn't a reasoned argument. You didn't make a point - you gave me homework, posting a link without picking out what you think is relevant.

I don't lie. What would be the point? This has really snowballed from my comment that the left deny the biological fact of gender. Now we've got penis...