Secular Café Archive

.... but it's also useful to have insight into the underlying processes. This post more a note to myself than anything else. In my 'Foxhole' thread which is aimed at being something of a summing up of my credo, with some sort of support, I was going to write something related to this. Busy with bow...

[quote=""ruby sparks""] For instance - are there social purposes in marriage, and if so to what extent might they be consciously designed, to what extent emergent, or what?...... ......Then we could move into questions concerning if, how, whether, and why the putative purposes of...

You don't have to look very hard into 'The social purpose of marriage is to control men.' to note one rather large flaw in such an assertion, though as I mentioned in another thread a day or so ago, even terrible crimes against reason like 'Thou shalt not commit False Dichotomy' do not constitute gu...

Actually it really is quite windy today. I just had to phone to report a lost slate from my roof - could do without the hassle, but so it goes. Because down in the SW quadrant the weather is generally towards the top end, it has to be quite bad to actually cause damage. When I phoned the estate agen...

No rhyme or reason for it but felt too ill to put computer on yesterday. For the first time morphine didn't help much. Didn't eat or drink much either, and that was forced. Today, though, back to something like normality. Feeling stiff and weak. To the point that getting out of bath a struggle. So s...

It's on neaps. That makes helluva difference - I'm not that worried about this one. That's a general post regarding the SE as a whole. The levels might be slightly different, but to compare what has happened there with a disaster of any sort is rather silly. It's a succession of extraordinary events...

What a day! Woke up really wanting to take a leak, for the first time since my catheter was put in. Nothing going into catheter. Weekend, so harder to get housecall, so rising discomfort and anxiety until about an hour ago. Slowly getting over it all now, and have brand new catheter in. Yesterday la...

I have a recollection that there might have been some sort of scandal about Arthur Mee - or perhaps it would have been a scandal had it come out 50 years ago but would be regarded as innocuous now. :d unno: The Eagle was the boy's version of Girl - and was a bit namby-pamby to my mind, except for it...

[quote=""DMB""]Aren't migrating birds supposed to navigate by magnetism?[/quote] They are supposed to be able to detect magnetism. But migration in practice is much more complicated than using magnetism to derive a course to fly, and fly it. In most species, anyway. There is no '...

Yesterday I was feeling so shitty, both metaphorically and actually, that all I managed to do was write down a couple of paras in Wordpad. Today, on the other hand, well, this afternoon at any rate, I am feeling empty, and the process of becoming empty has taken a lot out of me, in every sense of th...

My reasonably well thought out post has disappeared in a cloud of constipation based discomfort. But a couple of thoughts based not so much on what I was going to move onto next, as on my thoughts reading through the train wreck of a thread that started out as a question about purpose in life but ha...

[quote=""MrFungus420""] I just cant completely rule it out as a possibility. Unlikely? Yes. But not impossible. Last Thursdayism: The idea that everything was created last Thursday with the appearance of much greater age, including our memories. I can't completely rule it out as ...

[quote=""Tubby""] prophet compound virgin Those are words that tend to cluster together in reporting on cults, eh?[/quote] As do profit, and compound interest. Or is that virgin on the ridiculous :evil: Sometimes it depends on the degree to which the cult leaders are also victims...

[quote=""Tubby""]David Koresh is my go-to guy when I think of some modern person whose character and personality overlap well with that of Jesus.[/quote] Years ago, before SC was thought of, some of us had some interaction with people who had escaped the clutches of Wayne Bent ak...

Right, so I have three devices. I have my new win 8 laptop with loads of disc space, and all my pictures on it, though not very well organised as the last 2 years were uploaded in haste as one folder. Not a prob - can find things by date. I can't see how to do a simple copy/paste of an image in win ...

Before continuing I thought I'd write a bit about another mistake, which dates back to my brief period of studying philosophy formally, before I lost patience with it. I think my losing patience with it had a lot to do with how it was taught at the time in my neck of the woods. It seemed to me more ...

Looks like Gadwall drake to me

David

Pity about all my computer problems that have led to hiatus in my crossword clue thread, since freewill was one of the topics I'd meant to touch on there. And still will, remarking in passing in the meantime how freewill is another of those topics that tend to generate more heat than light, even amo...

[quote=""Dr.Park""]I admit, the point of the post was to stir up some controversy but also get my view that discounting a God completely is as ridiculous as saying there is a god.[/quote] That would depend, don't you think, on the definition of the putative God? A couple of examp...

I see from the Indy via the NSS media feed that Clegg is trying to be all things to all men, but does in the end back Nawaz. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nick-clegg-will-not-drop-lib-dem-candidate-maajid-nawaz-who-tweeted-a-cartoon-of-the-prophet-mohammed-and-jesusclegg-will-not-dro...

Dr Park your post requires a definition of knowledge that no one actually holds and is rather silly.

I'll let you figure out for yourself why.

Would you claim that it would be totally irrational to deny Last Thursday Ism?

Go Figure!

David

Feeling a bit sore inside after yesterday's exertions, but it is wonderful to feel empty again. Back at how we know things, think we know things, and make errors in knowing things, a couple of little stories. Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a little boy in school, and, sometime around C...

Is it true?

David

Right, back to the crosswords. And some answers and explanations for those who didn't bother with them. 'Pretty girl in crimson rose (8)' Another word for 'crimson' is red. 3 letters Another word for 'pretty girl' is 'belle' 5 letters If we put 'belle' in 'red' we get 'rebelled' 8 letters. And the c...

And while on the subject of girl bands.

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David