James Riley

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I often wonder about that. I used think keeping up with current events (intelligence) was a sign of intelligence, if nothing else. And that's assuming...

Not if philosophizing/reading/writing/lecturing is what you are. In that case, your life might be in order. At least as far as we can, considering we ...

You fail to draw a distinction with a relevant difference between Natural Law and the law. We disagree what the law provides, and recourse to the law ...

There is a daily email he sends out called Meditations. It is really short and I have no excuse for not granting 3 minutes a day to read it, but that'...

I've got 2,594 of Rohr's daily "Meditations" in my email inbox. I used to read them all the time, but then life got in the way so I started saving the...

I write only of what our organic documents would have us aspire to. You are correct, though. We have certainly gone off the rails. I think I shall loo...

Having been exposed all my life to wildly disparate perceptions of single things, by different people, you’d think it would be “ho hum.” But I still g...

Now we are getting down to the nut: I'm not saying the stick does not exist. I'm not saying the X's in the sand do not exist. I'm not saying the link ...

They do indeed. The stick that hits you most certainly exists. But the X in the sand is a pretender. The foundation of the stick's authority is, as yo...

End of argument.

I like Socrates. You compared him to Martin Luther, while a previous example was made of the difference between Gandhi and Socrates in the formers ref...

As I tried to teach you before, Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the U.S. Constitution is commonly referred to as the Supremacy Clause. It establishes that ...

:100: Founding fathers must have been reading Cicero.

You'll have to tell me about second supremacy clause. What are you referring to? As to the supremacy clause most people refer to as such, that is simp...

That makes no sense. If there is a right to X which pre-exists it's reduction to writing, that act of writing does not then subordinate the right to t...

We do. The rights exist, and the framers came along and created a Constitution that reduce them to writing and forbade violation thereof by government...

Agreed. I think part of y'Gassett's point was not that hunting is a distraction, but, on the contrary, hunting is life. It is those who don't "live" w...

Just keep going down the rabbit hole. While we should always go forward, as is our inclination, someone should go back and see if we didn't miss a tur...

Maybe. Apparently. I mean, my understanding of God is such that he must necessarily be easily capable of accounting for the the absence of himself. Th...

Damn, that sounds like a lot of work. I guess that anyone would expend that kind of energy to be right is testament to their concern about the opinion...

"It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is." Marbury vs. Madison. Chief Justice Marshall delivered th...

Reminds me of a meme I saw: "Hey, what gives? They said there would be a handbasket!" Anyway, you asked if we are capable of picking a leader. Yes. So...

I can accept your understanding of pantheism. My understanding was something more akin to polytheism, but with a twist: It's cool to have any god stil...

That is where your reasoning is failing you. You are making the mistake of attributing moral values, attitudes constituting the norms of Reason, etc. ...

I think God would not disvalue or hate anything. To the extent there is any hating or disvaluing going on, it is the relative perception of something ...

The measure would be presence. As opined elsewhere, there is agreement and disagreement and the fact that neither matters, itself does not matter, so ...

I would argue the uncertain resources of our will are uniquely designed and qualified to deal with an infinity of meaninglessness. God, are we good at...

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I don't equate morality with god or religion. As argued in another thread about the law, I think Natural Law is a morality innate to man (and maybe an...

That makes more sense (singular meaning me in the first scenario, rather than the fat man in the second). But the actions of the group still comport w...

I think that is actually my scenario. Morally. So the tables have not turned. They are doing what I would expect, morally. The only thing that seems i...

Well, the fat man is my loved one, I'm a bad ass with a gun and his life means more to me than my own or anyone else in the cave. We all die. In all o...

For the law to say that a dove-tail with Natural Law is mere coincidence, where the law stands alone, is the law saying too much. I see the law standi...

True dat. And if you think science has trouble dealing with nature, you should see the law!

Is there a case where that which is deemed good has been made so via a confrontation with that which is bad? And if so, doesn't that make bad good? An...

I had a time putting that all together until the wave analogy. Then I got it. My first thought is about the ocean, out of which we arise, and into whi...

I'll roll with #3. BTDT, but it's ineffable, so further this affiant sayeth naught.

I found a few minutes to read that law review article I cited above and will let it speak for itself. I only mention it again because some of it's ref...

Doubt does indeed stop a lot of people from doing things. But there is a whole 'nother class of people who don't let a little thing like doubt stop th...

That makes sense, but I'm not sure it accounts for pressure. When I go down X number of atmospheres under water, pressure increases. It is water pushi...

So, in blocking more push, would I not be lighter on earth than on the moon?

So why wouldn't it cause me to be lighter? So inculcated I am in the traditional gravity thing that it's hard for me to think that space is pushing me...

Thanks. That's a little easier to grasp, at least conceptually. It answers and defeats the intuition that it had to have started some place if that pl...

Interesting. I'm curious as to why space would push harder against me on Earth than when I'm on the moon. At first I might guess that the size of the ...

And hence the gentlemen's agreement. I'm over my head here but some wag once said, if you are the smartest person in the room, find another room. So I...

So, rather than gravity pulling me down onto the earth, space is pushing me against it? So the earth doesn't suck after all? Cross thread points with ...

Thank you, and a tip 'o the hat to a mocha venti on a long drive back from the big city. :blush: