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Davis replied to the topic Sunday School March 8th 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 6 years, 3 months agoYeah the article on academic freedom is an extremely mixed bag there. On the one hand I couldn’t agree anymore…letting a professor go because of public outcry is a stupid bullshit thing to do. The timing was pretty terrible. Having said that…just about EVERYTHING in that rationalwiki is a fair summary of his work. He skirts white supremacy and…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School March 8th 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 6 years, 3 months agoThanks, Reg! The pesky US clocks went forward last night so here I am at 10am feeling 9amish and ready for education!
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Davis replied to the topic Sunday School March 1st 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 6 years, 3 months agoI gave multiple quotes and sources specifically to you and you dismissed them as entirely reasonable despite their over racist, sexist and homophobic nature. If you want to cover your eyes and plug your ears and go la la la it’s not my fault. I’m not wasting my time posting it again so you can dismiss it because of your boner for this guy. Search…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Sunday School March 1st 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 6 years, 3 months agoFeminism has only partially liberated men and women from toxic-gender roles, extreme double standards, rape-culture (especially rape denial) and biases against women. Many people think the hard part is over. It’s bullshit. The extent of rape denial is only now coming out of the closet, there still isn’t a single openly gay player in NHL, NFL, NBA…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Sunday School March 1st 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 6 years, 3 months agoChild free life is spectacular. My friends’ children are a mixture of cute little things I can enjoy for a moderate period of time…as well as extremely obnoxious spoiled attention whoring selfish loud screaming monsters. The method my friends usually use to raise their kids is one of incredible freedom, few limits, no repercussions, think…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Sunday School March 1st 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 6 years, 3 months agoI’m not posting all this information about Peterson again. You can look it up in the forums
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Davis replied to the topic Sunday School March 1st 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 6 years, 3 months agoSimon I’ve already given you examples and we’ve gone over this before. He isn’t a liberal by any definition. He’s a sack of shit pseudo intellectual who should stick to the subject he was educated in. Your denial of his dark side is both helarious and sad.
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Davis replied to the topic Sunday School March 1st 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 6 years, 3 months agoJordan Peterson has said all sorts of homophobic bullshit and really vile sexist things that are unforgivable.
His “taking on the silly left” are usually cases full of strawmen, cherry picking, heavy generalising and extremely well edited videos. For instance he only shows YouTube videos where their opponent doesn’t know how to respond (sometimes…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School March 1st 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 6 years, 4 months agoI’m studiously licking my pencil tip and removing you all from my Christmas card list.
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School March 1st 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 6 years, 4 months agoThanks, Reg!
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Davis replied to the topic Sunday School March 1st 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 6 years, 4 months agoThat podcast was a little painful to listen to. After that description of the soul…the only meaningful interpretation you could give is “animacy”. That is something is “animate” if it is an active organism that isn’t dead. Yes…that’s a quality that non-living things don’t have. Is that because of a ghost in the machine or is that simply…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Songs you think more people should hear in the forum Small Talk 6 years, 4 months ago
I actually know a couple unpretentious hipsters. They’re modest, naturally kooky and their way of being and dressing really fits them. Their hipsterness is a convincing expression of who they are. That’s two out of hundreds and hundreds I know. The rest are pretentious flaky douches.
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Davis replied to the topic Confused in the forum Advice 6 years, 4 months ago
Reminds me very much of George Carlin…who could not have put it more brilliantly:
But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money!”
My favorite answer to this is this joke which I don’t think should be taken as a joke:
A guy w…
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Davis replied to the topic What did Wittgenstein mean by saying that in the forum Science 6 years, 4 months ago
Pure laziness Jake.
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Davis replied to the topic What did Wittgenstein mean by saying that in the forum Science 6 years, 4 months ago
At this point I’m completely beyond bothering with those whose response is: “I can’t see how…” If you don’t get the analogy…you just don’t get it. If you are content to draw such absolute conclusions in a sea of ignorance so be it. Beyond analogies you’ll have to do your fucking homework and pick up books and start reading theories of mind and…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic What did Wittgenstein mean by saying that in the forum Science 6 years, 4 months ago
A worker ant may not have what we consider free will, but it still carries out the will of the colony, unlike a pile of pebbles.
You’re sort of touching on what I think is the best approach to the answer. You should note how Reg framed the question:
Just how free are our choices
In other words the answer is not necessarily one of: yes we…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic What did Wittgenstein mean by saying that in the forum Science 6 years, 4 months ago
You don’t need to rely on a series of improbable events to avoid making any absolutist argument. The laws of physics can have an aberration, pause, change, go out the window. If we are a simulation a glitch can happen or the programmer can tweak whatever it wants. Some insane 4 dimensional intervention can happen. Or some inexplicable phenomena.…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic What did Wittgenstein mean by saying that in the forum Science 6 years, 4 months ago
Reg gave an extremely good explanation about considering predictions of “obvious” cause and effect as fact. I’m just nitpicking here but “psychological justification” is probably not the term you’re looking for. It confuses the matter a little. “Justification through human nature extending the extremely likely into certainty”. I know it’s wordy…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic God's brain in the forum Theism 6 years, 4 months ago
God’s brain and Satan’s penis
Jody. Why-ever would you believe that Satan has a penis. That simply lacks creativity. Satan has an appendage that is obviously far more incredible and magical than we can possibly imagine.
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School February 16th 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 6 years, 4 months agoThanks, Reg!
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