Secular Café Archive

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he does seem a bit pro-russia.

It's like jazz.

[quote=""Roo St. Gallus""] Saw an interesting story this morning. Japanese drug stops flu in one day I always take this sort of prediction with a certain skepticism- but if it turns out to be true, wonderful. Given the complexity of situations which is hidden in the exceedingly a...

[quote=""Hermit""] I am not religious at all and I can understand politesse' point. The 'character' of god is a 'character'. It is how we tell stories. Surely you can see allegorical wisdom in the story of the fall. To start with, I regard almost everything written in the Bible a...

[quote=""Koyaanisqatsi""] this seems strangely myopic. Which? That post, or the entire exchange between us, as the attempt has been to corral Poli’s mercury I am not religious at all and I can understand politesse' point. It’s not about a point, necessarily; it’s about applying t...

[quote=""Greatest I am""] Is this how you justify bigotry? Basically, yes. How do you explain or justify it? Do you not know that when you create a positive bias for something, you automatically create a negative bias for the opposing view? Regards DL So your racism/stereotyping ...

[quote=""Koyaanisqatsi""] There's no mystery about it, I think literalism is dumb regardless of book. That doesn't discount the possibility that either book might reflect real events. Such as...? What do you mean, such as? JTFC :noid: I do think it is quite likely that there was ...

[quote=""Greatest I am""] Is this how you justify bigotry? Basically, yes. How do you explain or justify it? Do you not know that when you create a positive bias for something, you automatically create a negative bias for the opposing view? Regards DL[/QUOTE] So your racism/stere...

[quote=""lpetrich""]I recall Gamera once stating that to speak of God as existing implies that God is somehow subject to Being. Something which left me :d unno:
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That makes sense to me.

Heh. You're welcome.

[quote=""Jobar""] I will say that laying your troubles in the arms o' Jaysus isn't going to do a single thing to make those troubles better, even if it may make you feel better about them for a while.[/quote] it sounds like it's doing something to make those troubles better. IMO,...

[quote=""Ozymandias""] There's not room in the head for both Christian faith in God and accepting science, facts and reality. If you accept God your reality will start warping truth around it. It's not a good place to be. And while you're with God there is only one predictable ou...

[quote=""Greatest I am""] I feel like I would be disturbed if I gazed upon the well from which you draw your ideas. As you should be. The well of Republican thinking is full of immorality. Regards DL I meant that your inspiration seems to be what I would call Neitzche's abyss. Or...

[quote=""Greatest I am""] I feel like I would be disturbed if I gazed upon the well from which you draw your ideas. As you should be. The well of Republican thinking is full of immorality. Regards DL[/QUOTE] I meant that your inspiration seems to be what I would call Neitzche's a...

[quote=""plebian""]I feel like I would be disturbed if I gazed upon the well from which you draw your ideas.[/quote]

I flubbed that effort. I should have said if I gazed into that well, I feel like the well would gaze back into me and I would be disturbed.

I think it's probably better systemically for personal chill as well as social cohesion to try to reframe when that emotion comes up. Even though Moore is not someone whose character tendencies and rap sheet enamor him to me, to put it diplomatically, I can make statements expressing positive suppor...

I feel like I would be disturbed if I gazed upon the well from which you draw your ideas.

[quote=""subsymbolic""]I disagree twice. 1 portmanteau 2 when I can’t think of a word, I merely describe it. Swedish may be more compact, but both have infinite generative grammars. Oh, and can you remind me of the Swedish word for strawberries and cream?[/quote] can you just rem...

[quote=""subsymbolic""] O lol But the mystical English really do have well over a hundred distinct words for mud. Meanwhile, back at groundhog day, the fact is that either two conceptual schemes have bridging rules or they don't. If they don't then there is literally nothing you ...

http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Preamble Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have...

[quote=""BWE""]O It was the same deal with the Eskimos having 50 words for snow. They don't. lol But the mystical English really do have well over a hundred distinct words for mud. Meanwhile, back at groundhog day, the fact is that either two conceptual schemes have bridging rule...

[quote=""DrZoidberg""] How about this one? Eating organic food 'causes' autism...a bit 'grown up' for schoolkids of a certain age perhaps. I can't think of one that primary kids might be able to learn from. http://www.pd.infn.it/~dorigo/autism_organic_foods.jpg Dammit... now I'll...

I'm surprised you didn't catch that.

[quote=""Grendel""]The vid. You've made a mistake. I said levels not layers. Levels of thought, not matter. Your presumption that I am a naive blundering amateur. So the video was meant to show me how crass I was in blundering around in the reasoned logic of an expert. How polite...

[quote=""subsymbolic""] The laws of physics? Am I right? :) So you’d use the laws of physics to decide what the laws of physics are? Will that be before or after you learn to fly by grasping your feet and pulling upwards firmly. Galileo noted that the physics of his day was full ...