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Thanatos Sand

['Member']Joined: July 10, 2017 at 03:59Last active: August 11, 2017 at 20:51None discussions843 comments

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Its a nice idea Cav, but if the soul is natural, it would have been detected by now. There's just no chemical entity/human part that could escape scie...
August 11, 2017 at 19:17
No, I understood your incorrect point about what i said and positivism. So, the only one strawmanning is you. And I didn't ridicule you; don't be so s...
August 11, 2017 at 18:24
SSU, of course NK is a threat to China since NK can't be expected to be rationally intimidated by MAD and has less prosperity to lose. They also have ...
August 11, 2017 at 14:26
Sorry, rational science is not positivism. Your disdain for rational science is alarming; you must think angels make airplanes fly.
August 11, 2017 at 12:50
Aristotle never found the soul in nature. You're just being ridiculous now, comparing finding plants and animals to theorizing a soul.
August 11, 2017 at 12:48
No, it's rational thinking. According to your faulty logic, science is positivism; it's not. Also, you need to read Comte, you don't know what positiv...
August 11, 2017 at 12:45
Rejecting a notion that hasn't been supported by science or the laws of physics, and is undercut by all we know of those things, isn't mechanical thin...
August 11, 2017 at 09:38
Not that much different, since Hillary voted for the Iraq war, and pushed disastrous coups in Honduras, Libya, and Syria, where she wanted a deathly N...
August 11, 2017 at 08:24
Your reading is wrong since there is no evidence of anything but the body, including the brain.
August 11, 2017 at 04:41
The sense of real time and concrete space greatly diminishing does not necessitate a soul in any way. And neurologists have great ideas of what initia...
August 11, 2017 at 04:40
And Santa Claus brings the presents and babies come from the stork. Like your fairy tale about the soul, there is zero evidence supporting those outla...
August 11, 2017 at 02:23
Aristotle found nothing. He theorized a concept of the soul. Big difference.
August 11, 2017 at 01:59
The only naive one is you with your adolescent occultism. I suggest you go back to playing your Led Zeppelin albums backwards and letting the grownup ...
August 11, 2017 at 01:58
The only nonsense is yours, and congrats on ending a polite conversation with it. The Dems aren't only flirting with fracking, they're fully committed...
August 11, 2017 at 00:31
And there really are major similarities between centrist Dems and GOP now: 1. Both pro-war, particularly pro-imperialistic coups and bombing campaigns...
August 10, 2017 at 23:52
But I just showed you how it's not very different and you didn't counter any of my points. So how do you see there being a great difference?
August 10, 2017 at 23:46
No. it's not, not at all. It's based on the well-supported assumption it hasn't been found yet in a world that has been well-scanned by near-exhaustiv...
August 10, 2017 at 23:16
I define supernatural as it is defined. Go look it up. And since nobody has found the soul in nature or through natural means, it's either supernatura...
August 10, 2017 at 22:19
That's a good summary of the two groups, but MSNBC is definitely closing the gap on Fox as Comcast has given them a clear centrist, corporatist, warmo...
August 10, 2017 at 22:16
It's not just Trump supporters, not even close. Hillary supporters would deny the inconvenient reality of the DNC rigging the primary for her, even wi...
August 10, 2017 at 21:29
What else would they consider? God? And scientists used to not know why electrons or singularities behave the way they do. That just necessitates insu...
August 10, 2017 at 21:11
I'm sure they do, but I was referring to its current form Streetlight mentioned and MSM fomented.
August 10, 2017 at 17:56
Cool.
August 10, 2017 at 14:13
No, science had and has many things. And you haven't even established all is quanta, so how it is interpreted is moot. No, it's not, and you haven't s...
August 10, 2017 at 13:50
The problem with this differentiation is the "fake news" term was first started by the often-lie spreading MSM to try and discredit not only joke righ...
August 10, 2017 at 13:45
Physicists can. The fact you accept the terms as separate shows you acknowledge someone can say what their nature is. Qualia is an abstract human conc...
August 10, 2017 at 13:26
Scientists have done a pretty good job explaining matter and energy and explaining how that's all the universe is made of, with dark and anti- matter ...
August 10, 2017 at 11:57
its also to the great benefit of China, so you're not even reading my posts. And they are a significant threat to China, both because of nukes and err...
August 10, 2017 at 06:33
Not really, since Sagan was just making a personal prediction and many people distinguish between what feels good and what feels true. In fact, since ...
August 10, 2017 at 04:43
Care to make a point about an astronomer's prognostications, Jorndoe?
August 10, 2017 at 04:08
The only lady is you, and you just protested very loudly...:)
August 10, 2017 at 04:06
I'm sure it did. It's clear language baffles you...:)
August 10, 2017 at 04:04
The problem here is truth-as-belief never "took hold" in America or anywhere and was never several generations deep, so there is no different "Post-Tr...
August 10, 2017 at 03:59
We've always had this common misunderstanding in the world. That doesnt' make this a post-Truth world. The saddest part is people perpetuating the myt...
August 10, 2017 at 03:48
There has always been a sheer quantity of demonstrably false statements of thought belief being bandied about, so this isn't a different "Post-truth""...
August 10, 2017 at 03:45
And I asked you a simple question to provide evidence to back up your claim. You clearly can't do so. And you would have to back it up for state to st...
August 10, 2017 at 03:07
Sorry, Creative. You either don't know what evidence means, or you have no evidence to back up your claim. I think most will go with the latter.
August 10, 2017 at 03:03
So, they never taught you English either? You have my sympathies.
August 10, 2017 at 03:01
Showing evidence that that is actually the main curriculum in our public education system. I'm sorry you couldn't figure that out.
August 10, 2017 at 02:59
It is not the curriculum and you haven't shown it is. It's just another one of your delusions.
August 10, 2017 at 02:55
Except you haven't shown that "if" to be true in any way. So, your concerns are unjustified.
August 10, 2017 at 02:52
No, they're your notions, and one's right there in quotes. You really are terrible--or scared--of actually addressing my arguments.
August 10, 2017 at 02:51
Not only do you have no evidence this actually happened, you can't show it happened around the time of Trump's election. So, your notions of our livin...
August 10, 2017 at 02:44
:)
August 09, 2017 at 23:38
But all these things were to China's benefit, not just to ours. So, my point still stands that China has never really done anything for our benefit as...
August 09, 2017 at 22:23
That's very interesting, but when exactly has China ever used its leverage to help out the US? They're one of our worst "allies" in both they're pirat...
August 09, 2017 at 21:46
In too many ways....
August 09, 2017 at 19:51
That's possible, but I think the main reasons were twofold: 1. Hillary was a huge, powerful member of the DNC and she and the DNC had decided it was h...
August 09, 2017 at 19:30
And you just did it again. Priceless...:) Sorry, Aug, I'm only going to be responding to those who actually say something from now on. Have a good one...
August 09, 2017 at 19:24
Augustino, you are really talented at showing how you really shouldn't speak at all. "Two bobs of economics" is so exemplary of that...:)
August 09, 2017 at 19:21