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by uwot
Sun Sep 04, 2022 12:50 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: uwot is dead
Replies: 13
Views: 1499

uwot is dead

I've had enough of this character. I only invented him to beat up the racists and pedophiles that were poisoning this site years ago. I'll probably come back as me. Over and out.
by uwot
Sun Sep 04, 2022 12:42 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books
Replies: 130
Views: 8459

Re: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books

The trouble with being deeply embedden in religion is that you don't have the option of being open to reason. Well, as I keep saying, people will use their reason to develop their stories. So you start with a premise - god exists, for example, add a few things on your wish list, eternal life perhap...
by uwot
Sun Sep 04, 2022 12:30 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books
Replies: 130
Views: 8459

Re: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books

Perhaps you want me to me an enemy or something. I'm quite happy with the enemies I already have. But it was irony. In which case I apologise for suggesting otherwise. I know, I'm supposed to pick a side and hate the other side and overlook anything 'my team' does. It can be hard for many people wh...
by uwot
Sun Sep 04, 2022 12:01 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books
Replies: 130
Views: 8459

Re: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books

Well, sure, guns. Misuse of guns. Do you think it is appropriate to intimidate librarians because of books they don't even have in their library? Destroying people economically is also pretty terrible. No doubt. What has that got to do with libraries? So, instead of the pen is mightier than the swo...
by uwot
Sun Sep 04, 2022 11:52 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books
Replies: 130
Views: 8459

Re: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books

If God ceases to be regarded as all-powerful then the doctrine of Atonement can't be applicable, and Christian men can then assume the responsibility of adults. I Can think of at least one person who will insist that anyone who doesn't regard god as all powerful is not a christian. Bare in mind als...
by uwot
Sun Sep 04, 2022 10:40 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books
Replies: 130
Views: 8459

Re: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books

What really dawned on me, was that the bible was deemed to be ok for kids, ya know, a book where a man is nailed to a piece of wood, and also that the creator of all these kids just might burn you for eternity. F'ing ridiculous. The thing that gets me is that the central message of christianity is ...
by uwot
Sun Sep 04, 2022 10:36 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books
Replies: 130
Views: 8459

Re: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books

Well, at least the left and right finally agree that censorship and canceling is better than freedom of speech. That's either a typo or a fine sense of irony. What makes this story newsworthy is that these nutjobs have guns. That they feel the need to arm themselves says a lot about their trust in ...
by uwot
Sun Sep 04, 2022 8:12 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Metaphysics — local knowledge
Replies: 12
Views: 1892

Re: Metaphysics — local knowledge

This is a sort of "What is metaphysics" topic, but not aimed at any kind of 'absolute' definition (which may not even be possible; I'm not sure). As a newbie here whose favourite part of philosophy is metaphysics, I want to find out how things are understood here , in the metaphysics comm...
by uwot
Sat Sep 03, 2022 6:41 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: a theory of language...
Replies: 25
Views: 1500

Re: a theory of language...

Harbal wrote: Sat Sep 03, 2022 2:30 pm
uwot wrote: Sat Sep 03, 2022 2:21 pm now you've got me thinking you scoundrel.
How reckless of me. :)
Yes, you must learn to use your power wisely.
by uwot
Sat Sep 03, 2022 6:20 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 712666

Meanwhile...

...in the irony void between Mr Can's ears: ...The big question is why an "harmonious" or "law-like" regularities, the kinds of things science absolutely depends upon finding, exist in a system that is presumed by secularists to have happened by way of sheer accident. That should...
by uwot
Sat Sep 03, 2022 2:21 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: a theory of language...
Replies: 25
Views: 1500

Re: a theory of language...

I suppose we use words to represent concepts... I usually run a mile from discussions about language, but anything you write is worth reading and now you've got me thinking you scoundrel. It jumped into my mind that language represents experience* - particularly shared experience. Even people who s...
by uwot
Sat Sep 03, 2022 9:44 am
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: What Have the Greeks Ever Done for Us?
Replies: 1
Views: 803

Re: What Have the Greeks Ever Done for Us?

by Rick Lewis https://philosophynow.org/issues/151/What_Have_the_Greeks_Ever_Done_for_Us “Criticism, the Greekest of Greekness… When criticism was overlooked we had the dark ages. A bit of bile on the Ionian Coast and we’re on our way to the stars.” Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang Yes indeedy. You ...
by uwot
Sat Sep 03, 2022 9:30 am
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Christianity
Replies: 17085
Views: 712666

Re: Christianity

The reason that I didn't really bother to read the entire book *the Moon one - was that prior to purchase, I read a summary - relating to all the anomalies of this moon - the largest moon in the Solar System btw. Relative to its planet. Ganymede, Callisto and Io, which orbit Jupiter, and Titan that...
by uwot
Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:32 pm
Forum: Gender Philosophy
Topic: Gender Essentialism
Replies: 421
Views: 79559

Meanwhile...

...in the irony void between Mr Can's ears:
Immanuel Can wrote: Fri Sep 02, 2022 3:05 pm...they're also so divisive. The anti-Leftists, whomever they may be, are just "a basket of depolorables," not a group of fellow citizens or a gathering of various dissenting human beings...