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Explain that. If Jesus Christ was not God, why are people obligated to follow his moral precepts? What confers that duty upon them? Jesus taught by his life example and by appeal to reason. Ah. So you think the morality of Jesus was taught by "reason"? Give me the "reasons" why ...

Vitruvius wrote: It's not unrelenting hostility, it's more subtle than that. It's Cartesian subjectivism through to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, casting science as heretical, even as it was used to drive the industrial revolution. Even today, every movie you see, it's always a mad scientist trying to...

It's the nature of the balance that intellligent people are discussing. People who are bigoted are not bothered by balance It sounds like you are bigoted against people who you believe are bigoted. People are what they are. You can only control your own behavior. Human nature has been this way for ...

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:07 pm

Belinda wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:09 pm The ethical system of Jesus of Nazareth can and does stand without miracles as props.

Explain that.

If Jesus Christ was not God, why are people obligated to follow his moral precepts?

What confers that duty upon them?

Jesus taught by his life example and by appeal to reason.

Vegetarian Taxidermy wrote: Why do you think women are asked at scans if they want to know the 'gender' of the baby? Many people feel 'sex' is slightly impolite or embarrassing.... :D What are we in the Victorian Era? No, we are in the era of Lady Gaga. There's no shame. I doubt very much that doct...

You mean that talking about justice makes it happen? Oh, goody. Tell me where that's actually happened. The parables of Jesus. Jesus certainly didn't just "talk." And I don't know if I'd be very optimistic that His teaching and today's Social Justice rhetoric are going to produce a simila...

Vitruvius wrote: Belinda wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:25 pm I resurrect a worthy thing from Vitruvius for quote of the day. "I have tried to see the earth turn rather than the sun rise." This idea is worth discussing in its own discussion. And when I thanked you, and explained the meaning, a...

It seems from the material I copy and paste that magma energy research has so far progressed to viable technology only in Iceland.

https://www.science.gov/topicpages/m/ma ... gy+project

XR are vitriolic because they see addressing climate change in terms of sacrifice; have less, pay more, tax this and stop that; and China's economic development started late. Asking China to curb its economic growth when individually, Chinese people use around 10% of the energy of the average Ameri...

Vegetarian Taxidermy wrote: Why do you think women are asked at scans if they want to know the 'gender' of the baby? Many people feel 'sex' is slightly impolite or embarrassing and has connotations of exciting sexual intercourse so medics say 'gender' as it sounds more polite.. Medics try to be dipl...

Extinction Rebellion protests and demonstrations are signs of emerging mythology and creative activity that are the social-psychological underpinning of necessary cultural change that will help to actualise the technology that Vitruvius advocates. The threat of communism in face of climate change i...

XR are vitriolic because they see addressing climate change in terms of sacrifice; have less, pay more, tax this and stop that; and China's economic development started late. Asking China to curb its economic growth when individually, Chinese people use around 10% of the energy of the average Ameri...

Why? Because if we can discover the cause of some troubling event we might be able to stop similar happening again. Is the cause of body dysmorphia cultural or biological? Is schizophrenia cultural or biological? It is an interesting question. I asked a practising psychiatrist that sometime in the ...

Thank you for the explanation. Why do you assume that "successful" only applies to financial gains? I believe it is well-understood that we live in an era of massive corruption and much of the financial success people are having is the result of all kinds of fraud and other non-sense. Suc...

What's a 'sexual stereotype' and who calls it 'gender'? And why should I read your speil when you obviously don't bother to read my comments? Y It is worth differentiating gender and sex like it's worthwhile differentiating culture and biology. Why? Because if we can discover the cause of some trou...