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I almost died one day due to a heart attack by reading the incredibly stupoid posts here by incredibly stupid people. Well that was a stupid thing to do wasn’t it. Why would you be so stupid as to do something like that? Finally I can agree on something with someone on this laughing stock of philos...

Straw man! The authority we need and should aim for is neither supernatural nor human dictator , but is the authority of reason with universality of reason. Universality of reason must be accomplished by quality education for all, which in turn requires basically happy living standards for all. Rea...

Actually, that is the impossibility that we can rule out with absolute certainty, mathematically. An infinitely regressed chain of causes has no starting point. And that makes it certain that if such a thing were posited it never started. It was never started, because it has gone on since time infi...

If you go say 100 numbers a day each day then in inifinite number of days you can cover the entire length of the number progression This is false because even with an infinite number of days you would still never get to the end And so there is no such thing as the end of infinity because if there w...

If you go say 100 numbers a day each day then in inifinite number of days you can cover the entire length of the number progression A computer processing at 99 . 99 per cent light speed all the irrationals between 0 and I would never reach the end even if it had infinite time Not only that but it w...

A divinity or other incontrovertible authority such as a dictator or a dictatorial regime is still necessary when there is no democracy. For democracy to bite the electorate has to be sufficiently educated to resist inefficient or immoral politicians. What you wrote is a bit of a circular reasoning...

Leaving aside the question of whether Jesus really existed (he didn't), does anything he said amount to any more than 'be nice to people'? I mean, it's a great message, but do you need the son of god to convince you? At the time of the life of the alleged Jesus you did need to be the son of god (or...

Actually, that is the impossibility that we can rule out with absolute certainty, mathematically. An infinitely regressed chain of causes has no starting point. And that makes it certain that if such a thing were posited it never started. It was never started, because it has gone on since time infi...

{1}Really there are only two things one has to know: firstly, that time is linear, not cyclical; and that's empirically evident, so that part's easy. The second thing you need to know is the idea of causality...and of chains of cause and effect. Again, the evidence of the existence of such is empir...

The most liberal progressive democracies have a very short life. 100 % of all liberal progressive democracies end up being right wing populist dictatorships. This is a statement of fact. A false fact, in fact. You name your source, or the statistic you found this in, and we believe you. Until then,...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:25 pm
Triggered!!! Would you like to unpack this on a couch?

Which part of "leave me alone, you shit-for-brains ****" don't you understand?

Go away. Just f****** go away. Play stupid games with your mutti. This forum is for serious grown-ups, you don't belong here, Skepdick.

What is it with most people on this forum not knowing the difference between themselves and others? Of course I realise you are completely full of shit. The ontological determinism or non-determinism of reality is epistemically non-determinable because superdeterminism is currently untestable/unfal...

Dear Diary Moment 6/18/2020: I think one of the main log jams I’ve had as concerns Deleuze and Guatarri’s (via Artaud (Body w/o Organs (the BwO (is my failure to recognize what they meant by “body”. I failed to get it in the more expansive sense of any physical relationship between things: the alli...

You are failing to distinguish between ontology and epistemology. And you are also failing to distinguish between non-determinism and randomness. Epistemically you can't determine whether the ontology (reality) is deterministic or non-deterministic, so the entire issue about free will is incoherent...

Not quite, just wondered where he is, since I've known him since 2008, so it's a long time, even tho I don't like him, I still have the familiar feel and a bit of nostalgia. Yeah, I hear ya. These new-fangled come-hither idiots who join the site these days don't even have a clue what idiots we, the...