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Robert that is good stuff. Growing your own shit requires more know-how than one might expect. It is super rewarding too and nice to know what you are eating and its mostly better than what ya can find at a market. Problem is your state may not be seaworthy.

Fleece the police. Increase without surcease. I hate you meeces to pieces. Rip Van winkle had to tinkle so he woke and spoke. His harridan wife had caused too much strife so he slept again until he was one hundred and ten.

When at one hundred ten he woke again he had no friend. They had died. He missed the ride. So he slept the eternal sleep. If…[Read more]

Science is what we have to peer deeply into the natural world. Everything else is dreck. Scientism is not a fallacy. That is purdy F’in obvious. Humans conduct science therefore it will be flawed but its nature is to correct.

On the other hand there is a deeper question relating to science-whether we and it can ever know ultimate reality. Is…[Read more]

Scientism is a fallacy because it states that if we don’t know whether something exists, it definitely doesn’t. That’s a fallacy. Says Simon and Simon says.

No clue where you got that idea Simon. The cosmos is the mystery of all mysteries and it is filled with the unknown. Hell we even have scientists who suggest that dark energy and dark matte…[Read more]

Simon says: in this special case, any kind of documentary evidence is inadmissable to most people. Therefore, evidence is almost impossible to come by.

That is simply untrue. The evidence is evaluated and rejected. Deniers or disbelievers are not putting hands to ears or eyes. They are not buying what the good place proponents are selling.

And…[Read more]

While a Black prez (at least half of him and perhaps the good half) does signal progress it might not be the most germane assesment. It would have been unthinkable not so long ago to have highest office occupied by a noncauc and even a non wasp was a big deal.

The bigger criteria is really how lives are impacted. Housing discrimination. job…[Read more]

I shall preface my comments by affirming my heretofore assault on all of humanity. Racism is all over the globe. We are as a species shockingly cruel and easily led. Those Milgram experiments are indicative of how we fold under questioning or shrink at appearance of authority even when our sentiments are opposed. Give the historical victims a…[Read more]

Plato’s cave first came to my mind too. But the a priori is another story.

Simon, how are you using the fallacy of scientism? In what sense?

Please make a case for life continuing after death. Any indications or arguments for its continuation? Cuz if what you are asserting is on a par with other unfalsifiable wish fantasies then it is pretty much worthless. Just because we can not know with hermetic certainty that it…[Read more]

Robert and Autumn are spot on.

I think the only reasonable position is to say we don’t know. SAYS SIMON.

Utter certainty is not within our scope. On the other hand it is an error in conceptualization to posit matters like god and life after death as fifty/fifty propositions. The you can’t prove it versus the you can not disprove it dichotomy i…[Read more]

Dictatorship? It is such a sad commentary on our species that there is no apparent effort to change our trajectory. How is it that we still have em? To give license to 1 person to cause untold damage is insanity. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim, Putin and on and on. They should have been emasculated. Nay, they never should have come to power. Without…[Read more]

Robert I assume you are referring to someone in a video as opposed to one of us. I can’t imagine anyone of us defending Putin.

Unseen, that last guy you linked made perfect sense to me in terms of the intentions of Putin invading other nations. I never bought that. And the case for it is much weaker now. The old cameo how history repeats itself is a generalization with some validity. However, this aint your ancestor’s Genghis or Alexander or Europeans fighting to outdo…[Read more]