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There is no sense in which the will is free, but we may feel free to the extent we are ignorant of causality.

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[quote="Gary Childress" post_id=695854 time=1707827630 user_id=6477] [quote=Advocate post_id=693044 time=1706395061 user_id=15238] An occupying force cannot claim the right of self defense bc they are the aggressor, not the defenders. Hamas has every right to exist. Israel has given up its...

No version of god has ever been demonstrated to be possible, much less plausible, much less likely, much less actual.

The existence of nothing as an alternative to something has no possible evidence, empirical or logical, to support it.

An occupying force cannot claim the right of self defense bc they are the aggressor, not the defenders. Hamas has every right to exist. Israel has given up its.

[quote=FlashDangerpants post_id=693014 time=1706375437 user_id=11800] [quote=Advocate post_id=693011 time=1706374550 user_id=15238] [quote=FlashDangerpants post_id=682923 time=1701709151 user_id=11800] There is a fallacy rampant about these parts, but for which I know no name. I imagine that there e...

[quote=FlashDangerpants post_id=683090 time=1701784785 user_id=11800] [quote=Iwannaplato post_id=682993 time=1701736347 user_id=3619] [quote=FlashDangerpants post_id=682923 time=1701709151 user_id=11800] all I see is strawmen [/quote] It's a claim. I haven't seen this one, but for a while one poster...

[quote=raw_thought post_id=650231 time=1687391953 user_id=10786] Space is not something objective and real, nor a substance, nor an accident, nor a relation; instead, it is subjective..." Immanuel Kant, Inaugural Dissertation of 1770, p 65 I agree with Kant that we cannot understand space eithe...

[quote=FlashDangerpants post_id=682923 time=1701709151 user_id=11800] There is a fallacy rampant about these parts, but for which I know no name. I imagine that there exists a formal name for it, but if not I guess we must provide one. I am tempted to borrow from the Greek myth of Cassandra who was ...

[quote=Dontaskme post_id=688129 time=1703849896 user_id=12017]
Who made the grass, the flowers and the trees and the birds and the bees and the people who made the crop circles? :lol:
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It wasn't done by a Who, it was done by a How.

[quote=commonsense post_id=660115 time=1691349353 user_id=14610] I believe the sun will descend in the west tonight. I believe this because that is what has always happened. But, of course, I cannot know what the sun will do tonight, no matter how many times it has done such until now. I can believe...