Davis

Davis wrote:

To be honest, many breeds should be banned for health reasons including many kinds of pugs which suffer terribly with respiratory and/or bone joints issues. It is grotesque that any human being kept breeding a dog that looked this kind of pathetic ugly cute despite fully well knowing it would lead to mass suffering and that selfish…

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Our “masters” think they have free will. Don’t tell them they don’t until after dinner. Are we all agreed?

So causality has no ontological status…

The lack of a question mark at the end of the above sentence has caused me to consider ransacking a library. Wittgenstein and his sentences on the meaning of words!! If only I had some a priori information of the question would its effect be lessened or if not would it have caused a greater lesson?

I experience a sense of awe and wonder every night when I walk the dog and look up at the night sky. I experience it when I contemplate the vastness of the cosmos, the smallness of an atom, the power of an atom, the amazing mechanisms that make us humans, the mechanics of the human eye. I experience emotion’s akin to elation and euphoria when I…[Read more]

Strega wrote:@bellerose hey! We don’t all use you! Well, we use your posts to cheer ourselves up because they’re great :). Let it go, honey.

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Strega is right, Belle. I appreciate who you are and I enjoy your posts. A lot of us do.

And here’s the irony…New Frontiers sent back more data on Jupiter (and had far and away the best camera ever sent there) than it will for Pluto, because near Jupiter it was able to transmit much faster, and it could therefore flush its memory buffer and refill it a few times. Pluto is roughly seven times as far away as Jupiter (the ratio is…[Read more]

@Bob – I don’t believe in magic sky zombies. That would be silly.

Of course. You just “believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very G…[Read more]

Marianne wrote:Yo, Lars. I’m glad to see other Scandinavians here. My impression is that we are too content with status quo. The fact that Norway even has a Christian Party that holds seats in Parliament is a blight upon our democracy.

If I read Wiki right, they have 5.5% of the seats. One of the effects of a proportional representation s…[Read more]

@Davis. Madeira has great bananas

I see lots of stuff written about it, but where is any concise definition of Free Will? I can only think of a few sources from which one can draw any potentially credible definition or conclusions, and unfortunately, those sources cannot agree.

Christian: It’s a divine gift that incurs personal responsibility and accountability.

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@DrBob, if the bible is just one book out of thousands why not take the good bits of out it, put them in a new book and ditch the wretched thing. You’d think Christians would want to do this to stop silly atheists like us quoting all the nasty bits. And yet the bible is retained as some kind of special tome. You can’t argue surely that most…[Read more]

Hi Pam, I think changing attitudes to homosexuality and more atheists sticking their heads above the parapet are related. As the world becomes more connected and less parochial minority groups benefit. There is less opportunity for those desperate to maintain the status quo to silence those they consider weird or different.