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When’s the next Meetup, please? ..can’t believe I missed this. Well, if you check the dates, it's probably because this happened before you joined the forum. Still, that picnic morphed into an article I wrote for the magazine which you can read here: https://philosophynow.org/issues/104/Philosophys...

Walker wrote: ↑Tue Aug 23, 2022 12:08 pmAre you afflicted with this syndrome?

The Left hates Trump. Be clear about that. Hate. Blind, irrational hate grasping for anything to support it.

How would you describe your attitude to Biden?

I like what uwot wrote above especially as it fits with my favourite theory of existence that experience is existence and existence is experience. Well as I'm sure you know, that's Berkeley's esse est percipi - to be is to be perceived. It's a perfectly coherent and very parsimonious theory. Howeve...

promethean75 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:04 amPlease see Wittgenstein's response to Moore's 'Here is a Hand' thesis.

Done.
Now what?

Actually, the GR is not universal, and not invented. It’s Christian, in the first place, and in the second, not at all the same as the so-called “Negative Golden Rule” of, say, Buddhism. So you’ve just got that dead wrong. I think PN once had an article on this… There are several articles about the...

So, if I have an apple in my hand, I bite into it and smell it and state that I am absolutely certain that I have an apple in my hand, I am in fact wrong to make that statement. A more accurate statement would be that I am almost certain that I have an apple in my hand! Personally I'm happy to acce...

Harbal wrote: ↑Sat Aug 20, 2022 1:00 pmIs it true that everything about Jesus that is in the Bible was written long after his death?

Well assuming Jesus was an historical figure then yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel

attofishpi wrote: ↑Mon Aug 22, 2022 11:40 amBoonyism looks like a half decent religion.

That's because he was a half decent batsman. Here's what a proper god does after cricket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyk-FgtKz0 All laud Freddy Flintoff.

What is absolute truth? Nobody can nail it down. We know the limits of our absolute knowledge. This was nailed down by Parmenides and Descartes - at any given moment we know that whatever experience we are having, it exists. Whatever you see, hear, smell, taste or feel, whatever sense of Belindanes...

All I would add is that there is a certain cerebral weakness that compels the hard of thinking to insist their beliefs amount to knowledge. I suppose that is what I am saying, or at least that people act upon their beliefs as if they were knowledge. I find it hard to avoid the conclusion that human...

...this is only how it seems to me. Well, the idea that we are motivated by the avoidance of pain is fundamentally Sigmund Freud's pleasure principle; "sophisticated social structures" sound like Émile Durkheim's collective consciousness and that "beliefs are very often what we act u...

(MAINLY) FOR ASTRO CAT... https://iai.tv/articles/the-big-bang-didnt-happen-auid-2215 Comments (anyone)? It is an example of the fact that exactly the same evidence can support different hypotheses. So is this: As for Jesus Christ, He's the key issue. It's up to you to decide to hear Him or reject ...

What I find interesting is that Science accepts an effect as the proof of an inferred cause’s intangible existence, and yet denies that same method of proof for God’s existence. You shouldn't read too much into that, Walker. One of the key moments in the development of modern science was Copernicus...

...you can often tell when you're hearing truth, and when you're not. Truthful answers have a way of sounding coherent and integrated in ways that falsehoods often lack. Anyone who has read a story knows this is untrue. There is a quote attributed to more people than you can shake a stick at to the...

Ah, the most reliable and unemotional source of information: the pregnant American female. :wink: Yes, I'll do that. :? Note to others: Tell me this isn't a classic example of just how pathetic he can be here. Not really; classic examples of just how pathetic Mr Can can be involve his often pedanti...