Billie M Jones

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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The truth will set us free, so..set us free!

I thought it was the aliens who built the pyramids who blew up the Nordstream. So confusing sometimes. Gee, I just don’t know who to believe these days.

_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]

_Robert_ wrote:
Let’s try this a third time. I didn’t say we did not do it. I said I hope we did. I have seen no evidence.

I’ve not decided either, lacking a verifiable source. I’m doing my part to not waste time on pushing an opinion so strongly on one side. What’s actually lost by admitting “I don’t know”, compared to the cost of strongly enc…[Read more]

Indeed Jake! I have always respected Unseen, even when I disagree with things (and this is only from time to time) in a flabbergasted manner. Same with Enco (who I tend to disagree with a little more often) but I see as a contributor in good faith. I have felt the same way about some Christian apologists who have come by and debated with us in…[Read more]

Tell me, what happened to Unseen? He seems to have been replaced by a Republican doppleganger. Now he thinks that scientific debate happens on YouTube and Twitter (and Lord help us, Facebook!).

Dr. Bob. You are a snake of a troll. I am not going to help to talk trash about a member of this community. While I disagree with some of the things he has…[Read more]

It’s curious therefore why you insist on trying to cast billions of Catholics throughout history into some monolithic, personified straw man. Institutions and belief systems are not people.

No…we are referring to the claims that you have made about the Church Dr. Bob. Stop deflecting. You claimed that the Church eventually embraces social c…[Read more]

Okay Dr. Bob that is weird because Simon was convinced you were a professor in a University who we know to have passed away. Many members offered their condolences. So either you have claimed to be someone you are not, or Simon must have misunderstood something. If it is the first, that is a little deranged and you owe everyone an apology for…[Read more]

Wow, you guys have really degenerated quite a bit, eh?  And here I thought atheists were supposed to be rational sorts.

Groan. Nothing changes. Dr. Bob…perhaps you could clear up the whole story of you being a professor which passed away?