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I don't like it, because I don't agree with the original - cogito ergo sum. It is arrived at by dishonest means, and written in terror of the Church -...

Is this about David Cameron? If so, it was certainly malice! He could not have believed he could reduce immigration to the tens of thousands while a m...

I read your article, and also read the wikipedia entry on Max Stirner. Interesting guy - and not nearly as well known as he deserves to be. "Stirner i...

No. That's not right. Human beings lived as hunter gatherers, in tribal groups of around 40-120. Then, these tribal groups joined together to form civ...

That's a bit of an unfair observation. I see the way the world works, and write in relation to that - not what you, personally, know or don't know. I'...

That's interesting. So it was Galileo's presentation of the ideas that annoyed the Church, as much as the ideas themselves. Dumbest smart guy ever! St...

Murder is wrong. Show me a murder and I'll tell you that's wrong. Show me a criminal - who fought off four police officers while handcuffed, and was r...

I would thank you - and mean it, had I not just glimpsed at your profile and recent comments, and discovered a disregard for the consequences of philo...

And I have zero expectation that you would ever back democracy against fraud, or law and order against a black criminal. You don't think you're a piec...

No you're not. That's what you really believe: There's no need to pretend you're joking. I'm not going to de-platform you for speaking your mind. I wo...

Were that a good argument, we'd still be living in caves. Geothermal energy has been tried. It's employed extensively in Iceland and New Zealand, for ...

I am not the only one with plans, that's true. But mine will work - whereas, producing slightly less carbon isn't an answer. It's a hell of a lot of m...

Thanks for wishing me luck. Short of omniscience, we all need a little luck. That said, I don't think everyone who disagrees with me is an idiot or a ...

You seem to know more about Galileo's trial(s) than I do, which is also quite ironic. I do know that in Dialogue, Galileo put the argument for geocent...

It is kinda weird that you identify with the left - and when I challenge prominent left wing ideas, you say "How dare you assume what I, personally be...

I think it was St Augustine who wrote something like "rational knowledge and religious knowledge cannot be in conflict" - so it was wide open for the ...

Sounds like you're there! So why do we not agree? Let's start with epistemology. What can we know, and how can we know it?

In order for better sense to prevail, one has to understand the fundamental nature of the problem. With regard to the climate and ecological crisis - ...

Then why do you support political correctness and extinction rebellion? Why do you act in ways that are contrary to human rights like freedom of consc...

There's the spirit! There's a massive source of clean energy inside the earth - that we can tap into and use to extract carbon from the atmosphere, an...

Well therein lies the problem. I can make the case to the right. It's a case for a sustainable and prosperous world. It's a case for dividing massive ...

I don't know Issac. It's not merely a matter of distance run, but whether you are running in the right direction. Have you actively sought to abandon ...

I live in the UK. I was a Remainer. I ripped into the right for several years during and after the 2016 Brexit referendum, which coincided with Trump'...

I worked for it. I tore my hair and gnashed my teeth. I looked past myself, and past the powerful religious, national and economic ideologies with whi...

Or as Voltaire had it - "all's for the best in the best of all possible worlds." A perspective, known derisively as Panglossianism. There was a man. T...

Yes, I think it is different. For the right, it's lying. For the left, it's post modernism.

I see. I guess, but I don't see things that way myself. It implies futility - like all we're doing is re-arranging the deck chairs. I think science is...

I don't understand the saying. It doesn't seem to make sense. Either it's a truism - meaning, "things are what they have been in every moment" - or it...

What you've got there is either a brain tumour or a junkie trying to score pain meds!

"Is producing factory farmed animal products ethical?" I think is the better question - because the consumer cannot be expected to bear the cognitive ...

It's not my metaphysical assumption that there are fundamental building blocks. That's the assumption carried forth by quantum physics. I didn't intro...

I think quantum physics is philosophically mistaken in assuming the idea of fundamental building blocks. Rather, I think quantum physics is a science ...

https://bigthink.com/dr-kakus-universe/dark-energy-the-energy-of-nothing

I suppose, if you two are arguing, and don't feel that listing academic sources is any way to resolve the issue - you could each put your cases to a n...

No it's not. I'm doing it right now. I am assuming science knows reality. Piece of cake!

Interesting question as a test case for my argument; that morality is fundamentally a sense - like the aesthetic sense, or a sense of humour. I do not...

I don't know that he was stockpiling ammo. His previous conviction was for possession of 13 firearms. Perhaps the ammo was left over - and he just fai...

I asked you for a credible threat emerging from Parler. You say you found one. But Florea didn't attend the event. He mouthed off on Parler - pretendi...

Why not post the abstract?

No. Science isn't a death trap. Science is rightly, both a tool and an instruction manual for use of those tools. We use the tools - however, we don't...

I see. Okay then. Thanks. Bye.

You should have read the case notes more carefully. Page 3 - top, reads: "although evidence gathered in this investigation to date indicates that Edua...

On reddit there's a thread entitled 'free speech' and people visit that thread and post vile, violent, absurd, sweary, scary things to try and get the...

It's more like, 'you failed to condemn calls to violence by BLM - so your condemnation of calls to violence on Parler is an hypocrisy' - but it's not ...

Morality is fundamentally a sense, fostered in human beings by evolution. Evolution occurs in relation to a causal reality - an environment, to which ...

I have to say, I'm not optimistic. Biden is already $4 trillion in the hole, and he hasn't taken office yet!

Tu quo que? Not so. I advocate for the human rights of freedom of conscience and expression; for everyone, even left wing political correctness liars,...

Unlike say, BLM?

Very astute. I couldn't agree more. To secure the future we have to improve living standards, because poor people breed more - so Marxists would have ...

Thanks. We could all use some luck!