dimreepr

Indeed, although I had to read your posts in the truth conversation twice, once with me spec's off. I think Nietzsche spent his life, once he lost his faith, trying to find a replacement for God, for the athiest.

Sounds like "a brave new world"...

You could just spit it out, but that would be rude... 🙂

Because you're talking about it, instead of grinning... 😉

Which is what we've all argued against, several times. Imagine you're just minding your own business, going about your daily routine, not necessarily happy but content to survive on the floor, where they've fallen, until a Samaritan offers a helping hand. What your offering, is a contract that state's "if you can't get yourself off the floor, it's the hemp fandango.". Don't imagine that you're immune to life.

No one is asking you too, it's up to you if you want to aquire a taste; so, why are you still arguing about it? If you don't like it, don't taste it; but you'll have to accept a certain amount of societal pushback, think of it like your mother saying "if you don't eat your greens, you can't have any pudding.": the other side of the coin, so to speak, IOW sometimes it's better to just grin and bear it; it's not a poison, it's just yuk. 😝 See above. 🙄

I doubt I can teach you anything, but it's worth a try...

The merits of eugenics is as specious as your argument... 🙄

Well, it's certainly biased...

Well, I'm guessing that you're employed, boss...

So what happens when you run out of work? It's like saying, no work no value; and we all know where that ends... 😉 In answer to the OP, every person should be included, just in case they're valuable. 🤞

Reductionism fails because of tomorrow and becomes less and less relevant with every succeeding tomorrow. You can't reduce consciousness, mostly because we can't understand the concept beyond ourselves; but also it's binary, because at the middle the spectrum consciousness is a switch and therefore it's a binary question; how do you reduce a binary question?

Yup fair enough +1, I read his post through the lense of my bias, sorry @Genady...

Don't worry, you'll only get into trouble, here, if you use bad faith arguments 😉 or insult's (in this context). It does in the context of the thread, assuming we consider a geologist is a scientist and therefor is considered rational in their beliefs; scientifically it's not rational to believe the earth that old. So @Genady suggesting that, is conflating that one belief with religion; it's like saying science isn't rational because of phlogiston.

And that just begs the question... 🤔

You're scraping the barrel, with that argument in the context of this thread.

I thought I did... What about the idea of karma, do you disagree with?

The next bit, you know, the context you ignored "why would a geologist believe the Earth is 5 thousand years old?", for a working geologist to believe the world is 5 thousand year's old, would require some serious weed. But for a geologist to believe in karma, would just require a little thinking...

I disagree, why would a geologist believe the Earth is 5 thousand years old? You don't need to believe in anything specifically, to believe in an idea... +1, please teach me your eloquence.

No it's not, nothing of what I've said in this thread AFAIK, is conflating anything. Edit. I understand what you're arguing, what I don't understand is why you're arguing it.

Agree, because it's happened before and we seem profoundly blind to yesterday. Disagree, if you mean part 3 equal's mutually assured destruction.

If the playing fields are level then I would agree with you, but they're not; so the problem occurs when we're on the down slope; in comedic term's it's punching down, and in this fora it's a valid discussion because we all get the joke. The problem is, not everyone gets the joke; so, just saying "I don't <insert dislike>" in public just keeps the ball rolling towards their goal; we need a better defence...

The "Lord of the flies" require a monster. Then why pick up the conch?

Quite, the other day I saw a women, who in both size and shape was the spitting image of Hagrid (seriously); my mate and I had a good laugh at her expense, but not with her knowledge.

Then @iNow is right to be annoyed with our bickering.