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The problem arises when a deterministic system has to decide between two options which equally liked or when the outcome of the decision is not known. You described the problems of determinism perfectly. Interestingly, these problems only arise in biological movements, and in sub-atomic (quantum me...

There is of course information in your DNA. Now replace knowledge by information in my argument to see what you get: 1) Causation requires information 2) Information is structured 3) Therefore any caused thing is structured 4) Anything which is structured cannot be free 5) Therefore free agent cann...

I would first have to have a belief. I do not have a belief. Therefore, it is not possible. This is the stupidest argument I've ever seen anywhere on the internet. You are saying that if you don't have a belief in it, it is not possible. This argument is easy to defeat. You never had a belief in an...

(1.) Just wondering is there any thing that is actually incompatible between what is in religion and what is empirically observed as being true? I just ask because I do not see any incompatibility between the two. (2.)What is bullshit in religions? (1.) Religion: there are supernatural forces affec...

Gentile means goyim. Gentil is what the user ought to have typed. Has nothing to do with Hussler or anyone. Just with the bad spelling by the person who thus made the meaning ridiculous in the first place.

Impenitent wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:38 pm deconstruction is seldom gentile

-Imp

I agree. It's mostly Jewish.

Re: First Believe, Then Understand.

I can't believe someone wrote this as a true assessment. I can't understand how it could be true.

Your personal life's purpose is not to be discovered by the Socratic Method. Socratic Method is a tool for finding principle truths, not personal purpose. Your personal purpose is important to know, and I suggest you figure it out for your sake. But Socrates would have more asked what is the good, ...

If the psychosocial demands of people were immutable, then the government would not waste so much time encouraging the demand to be instructed. I.e. modern schooling. This is true, but do people learn anything before a post-secondary education? In my opinion they learn the letters of the alphabet, ...

uwot wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:00 am (Immanuel Cant and Skulltor had a tiff)
Help me out here, Mr Can; I can't work out which of you two is which.

Two whiches don't a coven make.

When a life starts, and when personhood is established are SOCIALLY defined categories. Unless you want to say that there is nothing to distinguish a virus from an elephant because they are all "life", you will have to accept that individual lives have a beginning and an end. No. Calling ...

-1-, Veggie suffers from chronic emotional impulsivity and severe emotional lability. This is why she loses her temper all the time on the forum and blurts out so many disgusting expletive-laden posts (most of them are enough to make a sailor blush!). I think she has a congenital frontal lobe disor...

of course all XYY are males, more male than me an assumed XY. And the YYYs are Yes Men. ;-) ya and of course the XXXs are Yes Women. i say yes to women, so i must be an XXX ;-). I should have thougth XXX meant a winner in tic-tac-toe. But I fully condone your yes-man-ness to women. Life has become ...

"e plurs unim(sp). is a good thing pregmatically, and something i support - Why do you support it? It means "out of many, one". This is a complete non sequitur. It means nothing in and by itself. Out of many whats? One what? Or one who? What the fuck does this mean? It has no meaning...

until all of America ends up "brown-coloured" with an average IQ of 86. (Although it is very vulgar and absolutely not PC for me to actually say this , it is what a SHIT LOAD of native,white European Americans are actually very worried about right now !) Sounds like the shitload of shits ...