unapologetic

It saddens me that a generation of young men are being led up the wrong path by rapey misogynistic influencers like Andrew Tate.  These young men are ripe for exploitation because they don’t necessarily know any better.

According to the theory of patriarchy that I follow, it’s a method of reproduction, at men’s convenience.  Men need women in o…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
Scientism isn’t a fallacy.

How is it not a fallacy, to say that what we know is all there is?

In this special case, any kind of documentary evidence is inadmissable to most people.  Therefore, evidence is almost impossible to come by.  That doesn’t logically mean there’s nothing there.  Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Unseen wrote:
I don’t think so-called scientism is even a fallacy.

Here’s what Wikipedia says about it.

Unseen wrote:
I think they’re behind the USA in that regard, and racism is far from extinguished here. We had a black President after all. I think the most prominent nonwhite in UK government is Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London and, when it comes to actual skin tone, he’s almost white.

It’s true that there is systemic racism in the UK.  But it’s…[Read more]

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

I take it to mean the idea that what science can’t currently explain, logically therefore doesn’t exist.

I’m not coming up with an argument in favour of life after death.  I don’t need to, because the degree of uncertainty is so great, that something or nothing…[Read more]

I’m calling it a fallacy, that you can be so certain about it while not actually knowing.  It’s the fallacy of scientism.

It’s a logically different uncertainty from knowing whether or not God exists.  The case for God is riddled with logical flaws, as well as being redundant.

jakelafort wrote:
People who don’t believe in life after death say there is literally no evidence that would convince them. SAYS SIMON. Who the hell says that? That would be the atheist equivalency of dumbass theism which is all theism.

You’re right, I should have said, no second-hand evidence.  Atheists have said that to me.

Yes, the babies can hear muffled sounds, including voices, and see light and dark from the womb.

People who don’t believe in life after death say there is literally no evidence that would convince them.  They also say, it’s impossible, because it doesn’t fit any known scientific paradigm.  All in all, the evidence against life after death a…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
How is it that we still have em?

Sadly, people are enchanted by narcissists and “strong men”.  Even seemingly sensible people can fall for it.  Then, they give power to coalitions, and the coalitions do their dirty work of keeping themselves in power.

I guess they tell people what they want to hear.  For example, Trump co…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
It is so sad that they have done the exact opposite. I honestly thought Britain was not a racist country but I guess I have a lot to learn lol

The British press gives everyone a hard time.  I think the couple have to acknowledge their parts in all this.  It seemed that they (or at least, Harry) were super-defensive and prickly a…[Read more]

I try not to follow it, but living in the UK it’s impossible not to.

Harry’s main problem with everything is that as he sees it, the UK press killed his mother by hounding her to death, and now he wants to protect Meghan from the same fate.  Apart from that, he thinks the Royal family doesn’t like Meghan, (*because she’s mixed race*) which is…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Russia is not losing because it has inferior military hardware.

Maybe I should have said, fire power.  It is a larger force, surely, than the Ukrainian army, with physically more weapons.

Ukraine is winning with the help of Western military hardware.  Russia is not losing because it has inferior military hardware.  In most respects, it would appear to be an inferior fighting force, including the calibre of its leadership (Putin).

Here’s an article from Reuters which reports on some Ukrainian war crimes.

https://www.reuters.com/world/un-finds-russia-responsible-vast-majority-potential-war-crimes-ukraine-2022-10-18/

Unseen wrote:
When you think like that, it helps to explain Russia’s behavior.

Since when did torturing and raping civilians become a reasonable response?  Putin is a humiliated bully.

PopeBeanie wrote:
morality without religion

As far as I know, the fairness that has been observed among animals is self-directed – “that is unfair to me” – rather than other-directed – “that is unfair to you” as we see in humans.  I think this is because humans are so much more interdependent, so they care about how their cooperative partners are doing.