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I don't understand. You don't understand. We're like two blind men flailing at each other! I'm walking away. You keep flailing!
January 29, 2021 at 22:54
Well, okay then. I had a go at your thought experiment, and I totally get your argument. It's "No, he's omnipotent. He can do anything" in response to...
January 29, 2021 at 22:47
If by clever you mean dishonest, then yes, they're very clever! Did you read the case of David Reimer? Circumcision gone wrong; so they surgically tur...
January 29, 2021 at 22:08
I don't think it does, partly because it's nothing I didn't already know, secondly because it's hunter-gatherer tribal culture, and lastly because I'm...
January 29, 2021 at 21:17
Right so, if you say: ...what do you think the effect is of undermining gender norms by teaching primary school children there are 99 genders, and tak...
January 29, 2021 at 21:07
No. I'm heterosexual. My curiosity is purely intellectual!
January 29, 2021 at 20:37
Something I went through - as I grew up, was a very profound disenchantment and anger with religion, as I realised that I didn't believe in God, but h...
January 29, 2021 at 20:32
When you describe Christianity as a shallow paradigm, what do you mean? It is derivative, that's true. But there's also something universal going on. ...
January 29, 2021 at 14:31
As far as I can tell from some quick googling - this supposed research is based on little more than a disparity in numbers, where an inequity is taken...
January 29, 2021 at 13:52
The very nature of human understanding is heuristic, while the world is incredibly large and complex. To entirely overcome prejudice - in the literal ...
January 29, 2021 at 13:29
What pisses me of is that big hedge fund investors tried to destroy this company, and profit from putting people out of work in the real economy. They...
January 29, 2021 at 13:02
Okay, but I suppose you realise that LaPlace was a strict determinist, and Einstein proved determinism false a decade before Quantum Mechanics. Also, ...
January 29, 2021 at 12:47
Right, but we're in the realm of QM again where (in my view) the possibility of objective knowledge may be hampered by the lack of existential propert...
January 29, 2021 at 10:27
I have less disagreement with Khun's argument than the arguments the concept of incommensurability supports. I cannot count the number of times I've h...
January 29, 2021 at 09:52
Khun. Incommensurability. I get the idea, but I don't accept it. Even the Biblical version of planetary motion admits the fact there's an earth and a ...
January 29, 2021 at 09:27
The Grunidad won't allow me to read it without registering. I don't want to register. I hate giving out personal information online. That said, I'd ra...
January 29, 2021 at 09:13
That's my job! I'm a philosopher! An objectivist philosopher! I bring light to the darkness - not darkness to the light!
January 29, 2021 at 08:47
I do want to try and persuade you, so I'll give it a go. It occurs to me that subjectivist philosophy is disgusting. As an objectivist, at least I bel...
January 29, 2021 at 08:41
I don't buy it. There's an objective reality that exists independently of our experience; and this must necessarily be so, because of the age of the e...
January 29, 2021 at 08:12
I don't accept this. Was I being too subtle? If you can;t explain yourself - but can only assert your pre-programmed politically correct opinion, save...
January 29, 2021 at 08:02
Sorry, what? What has become self evident? Gravity? Sure! The idea that QM is the science of the frayed edge of reality, based on a faulty assumption?...
January 29, 2021 at 07:40
Exactly! But on the other hand, there's this great line from the Big Bang Theory where Sheldon says something like: "I like to think gravity would hav...
January 29, 2021 at 07:09
I disagree. And not merely because, I don't know if God exists or not. We are assuming the existence of an omnipotent being. You said: But is this a G...
January 29, 2021 at 06:53
If God could simply redefine what good is, to construe anything he chose to do as good, then benevolence has no meaning. God could rape, torture, kill...
January 29, 2021 at 01:29
I gladly admit - my understanding of quantum mechanics is a layman's understanding, and the above is more instinct than comprehension. Maybe I just ne...
January 29, 2021 at 01:13
The point is not omnipotence. But the sum of omnipotence, omniscience and benevolence. If an omnipotent and omniscient being were not benevolent - it ...
January 29, 2021 at 00:53
I think that's true, but only because quantum mechanics is misconceived. I think the fundamental seat of reality is the causal, macroscopic reality we...
January 29, 2021 at 00:37
An omnipotent, omniscient and benevolent being cannot do anything; which is to say they could not do anything at all - because they would understand t...
January 29, 2021 at 00:09
If you assert that gender is culture dependent - how do you know? It's not enough to assert my ignorance - you need to demonstrate it by proving that ...
January 28, 2021 at 23:12
I quote this line, but refer to all of your argument up to this point. You have misunderstood. Boys have tendencies toward physical spatial play - and...
January 28, 2021 at 21:24
There's only 70m citizens this side of the pond. And the politics and the philosophy are a little different - over there! But I place the blame for th...
January 28, 2021 at 20:48
Did you really? Wow. I myself had no idea. You must be psychic or something. Gender dysphoria is a mental disorder according to the DSM-5. In young pe...
January 28, 2021 at 20:34
I thought we were talking about the traditional blind-spots of the right; based in religiosity and money, both of which are - as I said, matters of fr...
January 28, 2021 at 19:11
That's an interesting citation. I had thought my brand of ecological thinking was pitched solely against left wing anti-capitalist, misanthropic tree ...
January 28, 2021 at 14:25
Oh, bubble head, if you don't know why someone who expresses such disrespect for civilisation should be left naked in the woods, go back to your ghost...
January 28, 2021 at 12:14
When I read someone describe the struggle for human civilisation as "raping the planet" I want to strip them naked and leave them in the woods with no...
January 28, 2021 at 11:55
That's more of a response than my explanation of purpose - on page one got. "I disagree with the assertion that the earth is over-populated. Rather, t...
January 28, 2021 at 11:41
Oh, I'm sorry. Were you serious? Is the idea of a ghost in your corpse somehow related to the question of purpose in life? How so?
January 28, 2021 at 08:38
I knew someone who believed in the theory of the soul leaving the body, detectable as a weight difference, so much that he had it arranged so that he ...
January 28, 2021 at 08:19
It wasn't the takeaway message for the Nazis!
January 28, 2021 at 03:06
A polarised political landscape is not my doing, nor subject to my choice. I disagree with the PC line for whatever reason - statistics, developmental...
January 27, 2021 at 22:29
In part, but it's also environmental. It's nature and nurture; in that a genetic pre-disposition was fostered by an environment in which sexual opport...
January 27, 2021 at 22:23
As opposed to a basis in deviant psychology!
January 27, 2021 at 22:01
I agree. I disagree. It's lefty media who are outraged by him. See Cathy Newman. I disagree again. I don't believe Peterson set out to be a spokesman ...
January 27, 2021 at 21:55
It is off topic. I'm not at all keen to get into a debate about gender theory; particularly one that states a political position as a fact - without a...
January 27, 2021 at 21:29
Likely, because it's offensive. I don't think that's a good reason to delete it myself. I think offensive questions have to be asked. Perhaps - "Is ho...
January 27, 2021 at 21:08
The difference is that right wing incoherence is actually based in the ignorance of historical belief, and is a compromise to accommodate that - in th...
January 27, 2021 at 20:37
I've seen that heat difference engine approach used - I think it was a program called Grand Designs, where they follow people building their own homes...
January 27, 2021 at 19:45
Could you be more specific? There are debates, about all sorts of things, but increasingly, the social sciences are being politicised by the left. The...
January 27, 2021 at 19:25
Is that what you got from that? No. I should clarify. I'm saying that left wing politically correct positions are adopted for the purposes of causing ...
January 27, 2021 at 18:45