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Immanuel Can wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:09 pm
Dontaskme wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 11:03 am Seems a bit weird that we have to wait until we die to know whether we will be held accountable for our right and wrong actions.
You don't. You could believe God right now.
So here, all you've said, is, if I believe God right now. I can know right now, whether I will be held accountable upon my death for my actions, I can actually know right now, if I'm right to believe or wrong to not believe before my death...is that correct?
Dubious:
Upon death there is no accounting to be made anywhere or for anything. Last Judgements don't exist. Why should it?
Immanuel Can wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:09 pmIf you're right, you'll never know. If you're wrong, you will.
How come you can say with certainty that you can know right now, that someone else will never know they are right to not believe God upon their death?
Do you have some kind of special predetermined knowledge of other peoples fates regarding their belief or non belief in God.. IC?

And what about those people who just say to themselves honestly and openly ... I cannot know if there is a God or not?
What happens to those people upon death...do you have predetermined knowledge of their fates too?
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Alexis Jacobi wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:37 am
AJ: But actually, and as it plays out, your approach [Iambiguous'] is ultimately more didactic. What I do (theorize) is what I am inclined to do by nature and by my situation. You can label it didactic pedantry if you wish. Your terms will not, I do not think, have any effect on the sensible choices I have made.
Iambiguous: What sensible choices? In regard to your own interactions with men and women who are not of Northern European stock, what would you construe to be sensible behaviors? Can you cite examples of behaviors that you deemed not to be sensible? Behaviors more common to those of races other than your own?
In other words, back to this:
No, seriously, you are the one who keeps making reference to Northern Europeans. How are they different from Southern Europeans?

And, in your view, do these differences revolve around things that some Northern Europeans might construe to be more reasonable or more virtuous behaviors? Does superior/inferior enter into it at all?

Would you be okay with Northern Europeans producing children with Southern Europeans? Would both be construed as entirely equal in regard to educational and employment opportunities? Would you treat Southern Europeans exactly the same as you would Northern Europeans? Would you be just as comfortable living in a Southern European community as in a Northern one?
To which Mr. Wiggle responds by going straight back up into his intellectual contraption clouds...
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:37 amIn an incipiently hysterical frame of mind he cannot understand that the sensible choice is to remain within a type of non-commitment (to political programs and action for example). I did not ever speak of any interactions with anyone. But let's examine what I did do: I did say that I will regard it as a 'negative' if the European-derived stock of America is no longer a super-majority. That is, the larger slice of the population. The determining one therefore. This assertion is immediately associated with *evil*. Yet it is not. It has been made to seem evil though. And this through a causal chain that involves social engineering, propaganda, education, and different mechanisms and tools. I.e. a causal chain of actions.

So I conclude what is obvious: Even to think of these things, to merely contemplate them, has been associated with evil. Why is it important to point this out? Because this type of 'argument' is used all the time, everywhere. Literally we are subsumed in it. So much so that to all appearances we cannot distinguish it from real argument, and therefore free thought.

The questions Iambuguous asks are not to be answered. He asks *questions* that already contain the answers he seeks. And these he can rail against.
No, I ask questions that allow him to take his "scholarly" intellectual contraptions out into the world of actual human interactions between the Northern European stock, the Southern European stock and the black, brown, red and yellow stocks.

Those who think like him are in power and they are intending to stop the "demographic crisis" in nations like America.

They scoff at his "world of words" and demand action!

"What is to be done?", as they say, to bring that about?

He'll either address that given particular contexts that might precipitate legislation relating to reproduction, education, employment, social interaction and the like -- apartheid? death camps? -- or he'll continue to hide beyond his "theoretical"/"philosophical"...assessments, analyses.
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:37 amSo for at least 10 years now, possibly longer, I have been experiencing this sort of reaction in many different areas (mostly on forums I participate in but also in some personal and non-personal relations) and thinking about it. Through long processes of introspection and consideration I have concluded that the statements I make (for example here) are reasonable, careful, and also moral. I do not say that they are not difficult areas though.
The classic AJ abstraction!! It tells us nothing at all about what Southern European, black, brown, red or yellow folks can expect if they are members of a community where those in power think like him call the shots. His thinking, his introspection, his philosophical assessments are "reasonable, careful and moral" though.
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:37 amI have always said "I am here for my own purposes". I do not mind at all encountering this reaction. True it always results in stifling and conversations that go nowhere. But I am committed to getting all that I can out of it and so I *study* it.
Again, no problem. If pursuing racial stocks didactically and pedantically is his thing fine. As I said there are plenty of others here who will stay up in the clouds with him...endlessly exchanging words that define and defend other words "technically".

But my thing is to take the tools of philosophy out into the world of day-to-day human interactions; and, in particular, pertaining to interactions that come into conflict in regard to moral and political value judgments.
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:37 amOne has to say all of this and get it all out there before the meat of the actual terms of conversation are even possible to address.
This I hear all the time from the "serious philosophers": "Only after we can all agree 'technically' about the definition and the meaning of the words we use to encompass our 'ethical theories' can the 'real world' of human social, political and economic relationships ever be properly discussed."

And, for some, of course, that comes to mean "never".

AJ will either "walk his Northern European white folks talk" here with respect to things like race and gender and sexual orientation and Jews or he won't.
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Alexis Jacobi wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:17 pm bla
Iambigdickhead is not being racist by rendering humans by colours of skin...typical USAdian fuckwit..yellows - etc..


However, Alexis, how was that sample of IQ stats made from differing racial groups?
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Dontaskme wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:15 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:09 pm
Dontaskme wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 11:03 am Seems a bit weird that we have to wait until we die to know whether we will be held accountable for our right and wrong actions.
You don't. You could believe God right now.
So here, all you've said, is, if I believe God right now. I can know right now, whether I will be held accountable upon my death for my actions, I can actually know right now, if I'm right to believe or wrong to not believe before my death...is that correct?
Dubious:
Upon death there is no accounting to be made anywhere or for anything. Last Judgements don't exist. Why should it?
Immanuel Can wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:09 pmIf you're right, you'll never know. If you're wrong, you will.
How come you can say with certainty that you can know right now, that someone else will never know they are right to not believe God upon their death?
Do you have some kind of special predetermined knowledge of other peoples fates regarding their belief or non belief in God.. IC?

And what about those people who just say to themselves honestly and openly ... I cannot know if there is a God or not?
What happens to those people upon death...do you have predetermined knowledge of their fates too?
You cannot tell another person their fate in life or death IC ..that's not for you to tell, know or announce.

All you can know is your own personal experience. If like you claim, you go to live in heaven or hell for the rest of eternity upon your death, or even know that destiny before you die, then that's simply your experience, and your experience can never be the experience of someone else. You can never tell, know or announce the experience of someone else....and that truth seems to be what you find difficult to accept, isn't it?

In other words, all of us here are in our own kind of unique personal solitary confinement. None of us can know the life and death experience of another. We are each and every one of us alone with only ourself, for eternity.
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attofishpi wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:25 pm
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:17 pm bla
Iambigdickhead is not being racist by rendering humans by colours of skin...typical USAdian fuckwit..yellows - etc..


However, Alexis, how was that sample of IQ stats made from differing racial groups?
It's a damn shame that Philosophy Now magazine forum has to attract lowest common denominator "minds" like his. But what can you do in our lowest common denominator internet world.
See what I mean? :wink:
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iambiguous wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:33 pm
attofishpi wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:25 pm
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:17 pm bla
Iambigdickhead is not being racist by rendering humans by colours of skin...typical USAdian fuckwit..yellows - etc..


However, Alexis, how was that sample of IQ stats made from differing racial groups?
It's a damn shame that Philosophy Now magazine forum has to attract lowest common denominator "minds" like his. But what can you do in our lowest common denominator internet world.
See what I mean? :wink:
See what I mean? - does that translate to :-- See that I am average? :wink: ..or just VERY MEAN?

What do you mean by : between the Northern European stock, the Southern European stock and the black, brown, red and yellow stocks.

..are we talking about humans? Or are U just another racist KUNT?
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attofishpi wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:36 pm
iambiguous wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:33 pm
attofishpi wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:25 pm

Iambigdickhead is not being racist by rendering humans by colours of skin...typical USAdian fuckwit..yellows - etc..


However, Alexis, how was that sample of IQ stats made from differing racial groups?
It's a damn shame that Philosophy Now magazine forum has to attract lowest common denominator "minds" like his. But what can you do in our lowest common denominator internet world.
See what I mean? :wink:
See what I mean? - does that translate to :-- See that I am average? :wink: ..or just VERY MEAN?

What do you mean by : between the Northern European stock, the Southern European stock and the black, brown, red and yellow stocks.

..are we talking about humans? Or are U just another racist KUNT?
The fucking internet!!! :roll:
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:roll: There is no excuse for racism (even on the internet iambigous)

What colour am I? ..and how will that affect your security blanket? :mrgreen:
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attofishpi wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:45 pm :roll: There is no excuse for racism (even on the internet iambigous)

What colour am I?
Note to AJ:

You explain it to him.
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iambiguous wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:48 pm
attofishpi wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:45 pm :roll: There is no excuse for racism (even on the internet iambigous)

What colour am I?
Note to AJ:

You explain it to him.
Ok. Looking forward to AJ explaining how IQ stats are accurate among people of "colours"

I've been asking for quite some time now how these stats were collated fuckwit.
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Harbal wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:27 pm
attofishpi wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:25 pm
Harbal wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:18 pm

Does the God that you are acquainted with bear much resemblance to the God in the Bible?
Do you know what Harbal, that is probably THE best question an atheist has asked me.

I need some time to consider (*certainly it didn't talk the universe into existence)...but give me a little more *time.

(probably a lot more)
No rush' I'll be here.
I am not discarding this request me ol' mate. I know you are in no hurry, but it will be answered. :)
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iambiguous wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:44 pm The fucking internet!!!
What happens is ‘you-plural’ get overwhelmed by hysteria. Personally, I think you’ve been trained (brainwashed) so that certain topics push you over an internal edge. It is really amazing to me. And I have nothing more to say on the topic at this time.

Why don’t you pass the time playing a little solitaire?
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iambiguous wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:48 pm
attofishpi wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:45 pm :roll: There is no excuse for racism (even on the internet iambigous)

What colour am I?
Note to AJ:

You explain it to him.
Derangement interests me. Both his variety (compounded by alcohol and psychedelic drugs) and your variety.

As much as I’d like to talk about all varieties I find it impossible. You-plural lose all capacity to reason calmly.

So all I can do is to *note* it.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:06 am Atheism can't be rational. It cannot even hope to acquire the evidence it needs for its fundamental claim.
Isn't the fundamental claim of an atheist merely a claim to disbelieve there is a God? There clearly are people who do not believe there is a God, and their existence is the evidence for it.
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attofishpi wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2023 7:29 pm
I am not discarding this request me ol' mate. I know you are in no hurry, but it will be answered. :)
Take as long as you like, I'll still be here when you're ready.
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