john may
-
Davis replied to the topic Sunday School 17th October 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 4 years, 8 months agoYou cannot conclude from the highly contested results and interpretations of Libet’s experiments that decisions precede awareness. A critical thinker should be able to see past the folklore of the Libet experiment, which is by today’s standards, ancient in neuroscience timescales. Educate yourself on those experiments, there are numerous valid…[Read more]
-
Davis replied to the topic Sunday School 17th October 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 4 years, 8 months agoJake it seems like you are nitpicking. Yes, once you are very familiar with critical thinking and/or have analysed texts critically, you can, to some extent, engage in critical thinking without consciously doing it…and yes, in every day life you may be able to apply scepticism and quick analysis of claims that people (and activity on online…[Read more]
-
Davis replied to the topic Sunday School 17th October 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 4 years, 8 months agoCritical Thinking should be taught in schools
It is absolutely outrageous that it is not a mandatory subject during every single year of school.
-
Davis replied to the topic Sunday School 17th October 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 4 years, 8 months agoJake, humans don’t reason reasonably. The fallacies are very necessary. After properly studying them, it very much changed the way I reason, catching on to flawed arguments I thought were reasonable until I realised how and why they were flawed. I still need to review them from time to time. But you are right, you not only have to consciously…[Read more]
-
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School 17th October 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 4 years, 8 months agoThanks, Reg!!
-
Davis replied to the topic Israel vs Middle East in the forum Politics 4 years, 8 months ago
Jake…the British occupied of the Levant was imposed on Palestine, they were not welcomes with open arms and would have happily had their own state after centuries of foreign rule by other powers. Or did you think that Palestine invited a massive migration of people from another continent and then suddenly changed their minds?
I am not picking a…[Read more]
-
Davis replied to the topic Israel vs Middle East in the forum Politics 4 years, 8 months ago
No it doesn’t Jake. Replace the Tib etans with native Americans. Imagine the Chinese withdrew from an improveished Connecticut and armed and funded native Americans, , invited millions of native Americans to join the few natives who still live in Connecticut, and when inevitably tensions arose amid a massive influx of uninvited migrants amongst…[Read more]
-
Davis replied to the topic Israel vs Middle East in the forum Politics 4 years, 8 months ago
So yeah, Imagine somehow China managed to occupy the United States. And when it pulled out, it also decided to compensate the Uyghurs and Tibetans which the Chinese had persecuted, by letting them have a homeland in the United States. So, specifically, through funding and political pressure by China, they take the state that YOU personally live…[Read more]
-
Davis replied to the topic War with China over Taiwan. Inevitable? in the forum Politics 4 years, 8 months ago
Jake, I do not know a place on Earth that would welcome an influx of immigrants which would come to double their population, all imposed by a foreign power who funds and arms these immigrants who rapidly change the face of society, forcing people to give up their lands and homes and make concession after concession. Somehow, this is pretty much an…[Read more]
-
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School 10th September 2021. in the forum
Sunday School 4 years, 8 months agoThanks Reg!!
-
Davis replied to the topic Israel vs Middle East in the forum Politics 4 years, 8 months ago
The main thing that makes Israel such a great nation is that it has the dynamic culture and free institutions to make change for the better possible.
With the sole exception of “gay marriage”, I could say the very same thing about Turkey and Lebanon. They both have dynamic culture and they both have free institutions to make change for the better…[Read more]
-
Davis replied to the topic 80% of Canadians Would Vote For Atheist PM in the forum Politics 4 years, 8 months ago
Israel has anti-racism laws, but that doesn’t mean they are remotely enforced. There is even pernicious racism towards African Jews which leads to terrible police violence and discrimination against them (despite there being laws on paper against that). There are multiple arab countries which have “in theory” anti-racism laws protecting Jews,…[Read more]
-
Davis replied to the topic War with China over Taiwan. Inevitable? in the forum Politics 4 years, 8 months ago
For the sake of Secularism and Freedom in the Middle East [blah blah blah Israel]
Hearing the word secularism and Israel together is cute. While they have a superficial secularism, religious racism is embedded in their laws and policies. Muslims do not serve in their military. Jewish customs take overwhelming precedence over Christian and Muslim…[Read more]
-
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School 3rd October 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 4 years, 8 months agoThank you, Reg!
-
Davis replied to the topic Sunday School 26th September 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 4 years, 8 months agoCreating a law that oliges massive social media sites to adjust their algorythms so that they do NOT push dangerous and harmful misinformation in people’s faces is NOT an attack on free speech. It is absolutely beyond my comprehension why governments aren’t already doing this. Every day they let this keep happening will = many many more days of…[Read more]
-
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School 26th September 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 4 years, 9 months ago@unseen are you telling me you’ve never yelled “Open Sesame!” as you pressed the garage door remote?
oh, just me then. Never mind 🙂
-
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School 26th September 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 4 years, 9 months agoThanks, Reg!
-
Davis replied to the topic Interesting legal question with philosophical overtones in the forum Small Talk 4 years, 9 months ago
When it comes to punishments, you are either in support of it being used (for whatever reasons, including limited ones) or you are against it. In terms of the morality of “using a method of punishment”, when to use it is irrelevant to the discussion of whether that punishment should ever be used. The same goes for torture. I am not in favour of…[Read more]
-
Davis replied to the topic Interesting legal question with philosophical overtones in the forum Small Talk 4 years, 9 months ago
While I understand that people are trying to present a nuanced opinion on “I am against the death penalty in general except for…”, to me this is not different to saying “I support the death penalty”. You either support it or you don’t. All forms of homicide which are easily avoided are inherently immoral. It makes human beings disposable which…[Read more]
-
Davis replied to the topic @Enco remind me: Why do we need multi-billionaires? in the forum Politics 4 years, 9 months ago
I am all for taxing any non-government organisation which is non-profit that has more than say, three employees who make more than $100,000 and ANY employee that makes more than 200,000. That would cover mega-churches, the catholic church, charities with overpaid directors etc. This is either an incentive to stop overpaying people (a serious…[Read more]
- Load More