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I wouldn't presume to discourage the imagined audience from doing so, but would merely point out that it is assumed that any disparity is the conseque...

"I don't think either of us will benefit from continuing this discussion." My friend, I had no such illusions going in. But please don't discount the ...

Absurdism is a philosophy - Søren Kierkegaard and Albert Camus being the chief exponents. It was coined in relation to nihilism - Friedrich Nietzsche,...

I have a philosophy that's quite at odds with the society, and world I live in. I cannot live in accord with my philosophy - because society doesn't w...

Is that the entirety of your remark, or should I be waiting for something....more substantial to follow? ditto.

If by applause you mean agreement, then yes, that is what I'm waiting for. But all I've met with is disagreement - some of it, quite vitriolic. In par...

The Icelandic should line the bore holes with pipes - not pump water into a hole in the ground. If you pump water into a hole in the ground, thermal e...

I don't want to get banned, but banno is quite obviously seeking to provoke me. He was nothing but insulting. And he's wrong about nuclear fusion. I a...

Oh boy, more straight up insults. I am forced to ask whether you think you, as a moderator capable of banning people from the forum, should be insulti...

"No" is an exclamation used to indicate a negative response. It's also an adverb, meaning "not at all; to no extent." Fusion can occur on earth - I do...

No. The gravitational force of the sun is 333000 times the mass of the earth?

Misguided in what way? I freely admit my instinct isn't based on calculating the gravitational effect upon atomic nuclei of the mass of the sun, relat...

I quote the passage above to illustrate where we came in on this question - just a day or so ago, and how already, the point has wandered quite a ways...

First, you might want to deal with obvious criticisms of the grammatical structure of your attempt at a sentence. Then, you may wish to give my post a...

You're indifferent to statues, but support tearing them down. Yeah, that makes sense. The thing is, building a statue is a constructive symbolic symbo...

During that two hours, did you perchance - go back and read my post? Or just spend it thinking up another one liner?

I mean, I don't believe it's possible to create a self sustaining fusion reaction that produces excess energy... in earth gravity. That doesn't mean i...

I've encountered the idea of post material values before - that is, the idea that the West can afford to care about the environment, but you make a go...

I don't think nuclear fusion can work in earth gravity. I think the huge gravity of the sun creates an immense density of hydrogen plasma - and this i...

If I made a coherent argument, you wouldn't read it. You'd ignore everything I said, and toss off some thoughtless one liner within two minuets of my ...

How does something that isn't there, say anything? You look at that statue of Colston, for example - and are offended by it. It means something differ...

The left wing approach to sustainability is wrong. Capitalism isn't the fundamental problem. The problem is our mistaken relationship to science; in t...

Australia is exporting 350 million tonnes of coal to Asia every year - while bushfires rage out of control, and the Brazilian rainforest, and Russian ...

I think it depends on how you read the graph. I read it as total number of electric and hybrid vehicles registered, but if it's annual number of regis...

That is a startling transformation from ...none, to not quite none - and it only took a decade! There are 47 million cars in Germany - according to go...

I admit, I haven't done a lot of reading on the subject - but you didn't address my point. Economic geography is still alive and kicking. People can't...

I agree, but I believe I can make the case - even to fossil fuel producing nation states and companies. For instance, the UK is currently planning to ...

Oh dear, am I? I do apologise. I had heard it was around 40 people dead, but I can't vouch for the validity of the source. So how many people were kil...

No. I don't propose drilling to the core of the earth. I was explaining how vast the energy of the earth is - 4000 miles deep, 26000 miles around. We ...

These quotes are from different posts. The former is from my reply to Count Timothy Von Icarus, regarding the US Presidential election. The latter is ...

The Problem of Induction. Karl Popper. Yes. I get your point, but it doesn't really apply here. I don't know because I live in the UK, and believe it ...

Exactly! It's odd, frankly, that media are so adamant the election was legit. When have they ever - not been out to sensationalise and scandalise? But...

The fundamental nature of the problem is not capitalism. It's our mistaken relationship to science as truth; established when Galileo was tried for he...

I've admitted, numerous times, that I don't know if the election was a fraud or not. I'm in the UK. You Yankie-doodles are much closer to this than I ...

One doesn't need to do very much reading on the HRA to realise that your explanation of the issues, conflates effect with cause. It may indeed, have h...

You don't think political correctness is authoritarian? Those who don't parrot the dogma get burned at the stake of cancel culture. Then, climate chan...

I don't know. It seems a bit immodest to start a thread to propound my own philosophy. It feels better to introduce my ideas by showing where others a...

East Anglia ONE, off the coast of the UK, has 102 windmills, took ten years to build at a cost of £2.5bn, and produces 714MW - enough to power 600,000...

I can show you evidence of Black Lies Matter riots, but I can't show you evidence of left wing media - not criticizing them, because - as surely, even...

I could, I guess - but why should I? Because you demand it? Google the phrase 'mostly peaceful' - and I think you'll get my point.

I don't know if you'd call John Oliver a major outlet. I'm in the UK. I'm not glued to Fox or MSNBC - watching in depth political analysis of American...

Are you really? I thought you were dead. Esoteric, incomprehensible, and dead.

To you! But again, to subjectivists, beauty, or deception - is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I see no value in deception - at least, not on ...

Black Lives Matter were just applauded uncritically by the left wing media for killing around 40 people, causing hundreds of millions of dollars of pr...

Sorry, I don't understand your question. I can assure you I'm not racist. I do however have big problems with political correctness - not least, that ...

I'm in the UK, and I'm Blairite still. It was after the fall of Communism in Russia and China, Blair sought a Third Way - re-rooting socialist values ...

Philosophically speaking, given that your lot appeal to a subjectivism. how I appear to you says something about you, but it says nothing about me. Fo...

Because this is a philosophy forum, not a chat forum. I'm here to discuss philosophy. I'm not here to butter you up, and become your firmest friend. I...

I can only hope to fare better in your esteem. The Mayor of London used the New Year's Eve firework display money to hire drones, to form the BLM rais...

I'm an offence to all decent people? It's difficult not to take that personally. I think maybe, your problem is that you assume your values are far mo...