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- Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:46 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will/Determinism
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6429
Free Will/Determinism
Probably done a million times here... let's make it 1 million and 1. :) I could be wrong but, with all of the talk about causality, I would assume the prevailing belief here would be determinism? I never gave it much thought until several years ago. I guess I was aware of determinism and the possibi...
- Sun Dec 06, 2015 12:46 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Don't Criticize if you Have no Solution
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9001
Re: Don't Criticize if you Have no Solution
I considered it a fallacy because I consider a fallacy to be when one purports to have won a debate without actually proving the other person wrong, and that is how this is mostly used. It is used as a method of saying, "You are wrong because you have provided no solution." Which is absurd...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 4:49 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Don't Criticize if you Have no Solution
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9001
Don't Criticize if you Have no Solution
I see this used so often to stifle dissent. That any criticism one provides that does not also include a solution is thereby rendered invalid. Would you consider this to be a type of logical fallacy? Certainly one could be an expert at observation and/or critique without having any ability to be an ...
- Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:04 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Employment is unethical
- Replies: 44
- Views: 17736
Re: Employment is unethical
The next question is: How do you plan to buy food, shelter and utilities? If you say they should just be given to you, then you are condemning another to a double dose of the fate that you wish to escape. Someone will have to work twice as hard to provide for you. Why shouldn't it be you (what if it...
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 12:02 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: LSD and group mind experiences.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13707
Re: LSD and group mind experiences.
Here's something I wrote years ago about this subject, if it's any help at all. "The last time that I took acid (next to last actually, the last time it didn't work) was with my brother. It lasted about 13 hours! Well, it was our first 'bad trip'. My theory as to why it went 'bad' was that we d...
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:26 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Gender Equality
- Replies: 45
- Views: 8896
Re: Gender Equality
How about circumcision equality?!
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 4:33 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How can women be sexually appealing...
- Replies: 162
- Views: 28137
Re: How can women be sexually appealing...
Erga wrote: In my experience, women like to comfort themselves with this myth. Could you possibly summarize the myth in case I don't find time to glean it from your 7 links? There's probably about 3 myths there: That men need women but women don't need men, for two. And, mainly, that men need women...
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:24 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How can women be sexually appealing...
- Replies: 162
- Views: 28137
Re: How can women be sexually appealing...
David, This will be the challenge for women in the future. Being composed of imperfect technology themselves, they will have to compete with superior forms of technology. They may well lose out. You just don't get it, do you? Still think women have something to lose? Why would we need men when we h...
- Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:58 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To QSR: Is There Peace in Enlightenment?
- Replies: 126
- Views: 9774
Re: To QSR: Is There Peace in Enlightenment?
Now that would be ideal! Where on earth would you find such a sweet deal?turbatio wrote:The ideal thing would be to get a girlfriend of whom I could have as much sex with as I wanted.
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:57 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Unemployment: Best Indicator of Integrity
- Replies: 475
- Views: 36181
Re: The New Welfare Bums
. The New Welfare Bums Most of the lounge lizards are fully convinced that they have a problem that justifies getting a check. http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/welfarebums.html . "Yes, there are people who are, on the whole more disabled and there are those who are, on the whole, more able....
- Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:05 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: pre cal for geniuses - lets play
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7310
Re: pre cal for geniuses - lets play
I'm guilty of thinking of the same joke as Trevor. :) But i'm aware of the value of maths even though i'm horrible at them. My brother is currently taking Trigonometry (having a tough time with it) for Architectural Engineering. I recently mentioned to him how much significance I see in maths and ho...
- Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: A Challenge to Atheism
- Replies: 60
- Views: 8330
Re: A Challenge to Atheism
"The only thing that the atheist does is reject one particular source of these things. He still continues to indulge in other sources. He doesn't abandon the mentality entirely, which is what he should be doing if he had any genuine interest in truth." Now, this I can agree with. It's eas...
- Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:14 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: A Challenge to Atheism
- Replies: 60
- Views: 8330
Re: A Challenge to Atheism
"I would say that this statement is not always true"
Agreed.
I guess we shall see. :)"From your post, it does not appear that you suffer from this malady, though."
- Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:01 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Survival of Wisdom
- Replies: 25
- Views: 16291
Re: The Survival of Wisdom
"I could be mistaken, but perhaps there is a little vanity in Kevin’s concern with the survival of the species, and his urgency to conquer space. You see, if the species ends, then so does poison for the heart, and all his fantasies of being remembered as a great man after he dies." I h...
- Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:54 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: A Challenge to Atheism
- Replies: 60
- Views: 8330
Re: A Challenge to Atheism
"[...]have no belief system outside of a negation or criticism." So atheists have no beliefs except that they don't believe in God? "Which in itself is not a valid belief system." Atheism is not a belief system. It tells you what I don't believe in and says nothing about what I ...