I've been kind of obsessed with this subject for many years, so - sure, differently! You could say that. What I'd say though is - this is wrong: Minis...
The energy is there; it's just a matter of tapping into it safely, at a sufficiently high temperature, and at a workable and affordable depth for dril...
Ultimately, our relationship to science is a philosophical question. Philosophy informs politics, which - in turn creates a legislative framework with...
I should resist. I'm done. There's no hope. I've explained - from philosophical justification through to the specific technologies that need to be app...
Blame it on capitalism then. I'm done. Have less and pay more until you're all communists; and when you have absolute power, let's see how long you ca...
"Ministers are set to approve a new North Sea oil and gas project months before Britain hosts a global climate summit in Glasgow." ...in other news: "...
I read your post at the time - if you refer to this: It was in response to this, I said, "please do." Make an argument for atheism, as strong as you l...
I would have said: One can reasonably argue that religion may be pointing at something real, without considering religion definitive of what it points...
I can see why you italicized the my. Perhaps you should also have put quote marks around the term "logic." Further, your link refers specifically to '...
How can you if 'There is no Independent Existence'? This forum, and all its members are figments of your solipsistic imagination. You're talking to yo...
I wondered if the term 'logic' was being used in a formal, or colloquial sense. I think maybe 180 used the term 'logic' colloquially, and was then cha...
Define being! No, on second thoughts - don't. It doesn't actually refer to anything. It has all the definitional qualities of a linguistic spandrel; a...
Morality is partly objective because it is inherent to religion, law, philosophy, politics, economics - and the ideological architecture of society, a...
The Magpie Annual 1974. The Littlewoods catalogue lingerie section. TV guide. The Bible. Pear's Cyclopedia. Dune - Frank Herbert. Energy for Survival ...
WF speaks to an impoverished view of evolution. It's true, that evolution is driven by random genetic mutation, and has no particular destination in m...
Should I first write a definitive history of the Church in diary form, explaining day by day - everything that occurred from the establishing of the P...
You might at least acknowledge that science was deprived of any notion of purpose by religious fundamentalists who insisted that religious texts were ...
The event staged, seats set around the TV, popcorn buttered; the fighters enter the ring and proceed to dance around each other for the whole first ro...
I'm no stranger to flying spaghetti monsters, and the like. And I'm not a theist. Do try to keep up! I'm agnostic, questioning your atheism. You intro...
It is on your part. It's basic stuff you assume I don't know, because I'm asking you to look beyond such basic arguments. For example: Nietzsche was w...
All civilisations are built on religious foundations; because attributing moral authority to God, is how hunter gatherer tribes joined together to for...
The problem is that "such ideas" are arguably, the foundation of society; and here's where the atheist must falter - short of an alternate higher powe...
If Spengler is right, what makes you believe the infinite is unachievable? If I had a few tens of billions to spend, I'd drill for magma energy - clos...
Humankind could secure a prosperous and sustainable future - by addressing and overcoming the threat from climate change - but only if we adopt the ri...
I have to agree. The first post should be a statement of one's own position! For all the learned philosophical arguments rallied to assault a dictiona...
I shouldn't resist. That's the point. And yet I'm enormously careful in my fearless investigations - I have no desire to turn the apple cart upside do...
I love it. It's so dark! It's not untrue. There's something we're responsible to in our thoughts - and it's not clear what that is. I conceive of "it"...
How gracious of you to notice all the dross in between. Maybe I should give up being a crusader for the myth of sustainability, and become a stand up ...
I have questions. For instance, Kent - how come no-one recognised him when he put his glasses on? Hey, I never tell the same joke twice. ...I mean, he...
Wow! I didn't know we had such a scholar among us! Good to know. If I have any questions about the life's or texts of "Nietzeche,plato,Wittgenstein,ar...
How do you know "Excessive reflection is a sign of low self esteem"? What examples can you cite of the title 'philosopher' being used to bolster prest...
I've been thinking about this for years, and I've done a fair bit of reading on it - and it makes no sense to me, or to the facts, to consider moralit...
I've waited to say this, until now: "Post-Brexit Britain should abandon the EU’s “excessively cautious” approach to regulation and light a bonfire of ...
Yes. I would. Yes. I would. No. It's not. As I already said, even chimpanzees have a moral order of sorts. What's most distinct about human morality i...
Wrong again! Morality comes from human beings - from evolution within a tribal context. Moral behaviours were advantageous to the tribe, in competitio...
Then you'd be wrong again! Science can easily sustain capitalism - by harnessing limitless amounts of clean energy from magma. This isn't possible for...
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