Richard Robertson

Simon,

Have you ever heard of ‘Crime of Passion’ laws?

In France in the 19th century a killing done in a jealous instant rage, for example, like catching your lover in bed with another and killing them, was actually a valid defence and you’d get off altogether.

Ahh the good old 19th Century, when jealous men were entitled to kill their betra…[Read more]

‘Disowned’ sounds a lot better than stoned to death or another sort of ‘honour kill’. And I imagine if you choose not to have an arranged marriage which is a core expectation in your family, it’d be you rejecting them.

Sikhism is not evangelical. It’s the opposite. They give whatever you need and don’t ask your religion. If you want to know about their religion, you can ask, and a teacher will be found. It is not exclusive – all are welcome to believe in the Sikh way. They’re one god, reincarnation believers.

If I was going to choose a religion, I’d pick the Sikhs.

These guys live by the standards their religion proclaims. They feed the hungry and clothe the needy of any or no religion. They have enclaves where food is given to everyone, no questions asked.

They literally live their lives the way their religion tells them to. They’ll give shelter to…[Read more]

Matthew Vines gave an incredible speech about this very subject. The link below is a transcript which is well worth a read.

Transcript

I’m most certainly not a scriptural expert, and I’ve no inclination to become one. I think that interpretations of any kind of scripture have been given credibility based on whoever happens to have the power to bestow authority to those interpreters or to theirself. So, I don’t feel too short on wisdom by being ignorant of this kind of history.…[Read more]

Simon, how was it condemned in  the OT?

Unseen wrote:
I think the fact that there’s little apparent interest in investigating the matter is the best indication that we did do it.

My intention is to withhold conclusions until there’s sufficient evidence. All “evidence” so far is circumstantial. I’m so disappointed with the online trend to draw conclusions without evidence, while c…[Read more]

I’ve objected to the misuse of the word hallucination enough to just ignore writings that center around it, unless it’s about imagining something that’s actually not there. Even though “red” is a human construct, it has meaning when communicating to other humans, and it seems meaningless to argue that “red” is not there. As Autumn said, a…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Well, if all you had to read as an introduction to Philosophy was Thomas Nagel, you would have to ask: “Well, what does it all mean?” and you would think it was a waste of time.

Fortunately, I had some better texts to introduce me to Philosophy. Frederick Copleston’s Philosophers and Philosophies (I think that was the n…

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michael17 wrote:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRth17BJ/

An unmanned Tic Tac UAP shot down with no visible signs of propulsion

I’ve mentioned a possible answer before, but in this case there’s a chance we’ll get to study this thing if it’s found. I’m not jumping to any final conclusion, in spite of masses of people who tend to do that.

I thought of…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
If someone wants their First Cause, there it is.

Only if The Big Bang didn’t have a cause. Multiverse consideration seems popular among cosmologists now. While yeah, whatever may have caused The Big Bang may never be knowable, at least it’s as good a reset/reboot process to assume until we learn more.

rhonjon wrote:
For some time…

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_Robert_ wrote:
You made a statement that Everything I know about Covid is wrong and you have shown me that nothing that I know about covid is wrong.

My very first take on that topic title was “clickbait”, and not necessarily a true representation of Unseen’s fleshed out opinion. Superlative. But with possibly good data in the discussion, anyway.…[Read more]

Trivia: In a typical online video session, you’re not seeing the same image of yourself that others are seeing. That’s because you’re shown your mirror image, the kind of image you’re more familiar with, and you would likely feel disoriented if shown your own image from the natural point of view of other people.

At your next video meeting, hold…[Read more]

My bigger-picture Occam’s razor is that if Putin isn’t stopped or at least discouraged by what it costs him, he will continue to keep his people in the dark while throwing tens of thousands of them at Ukraine as fodder. If USA blowing up the pipeline is a war crime, it still pales in comparison to Putin’s war crimes. If his nuclear threatening is…[Read more]