Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science | Advocatus | Activity https://richarddawkins.net/members/advocatus/activity/ Activity feed for Advocatus. Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:40:49 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4f7494b16baedcbba82cae4ec35d00e9 Advocatus replied to the topic Meanwhile Trump is Guilty in the forum Politics and Social Issues https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/21768/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:25:28 -0400 Sometimes when I’m watching the news I like to switch over to FOX to see what their spin is.  Cuomo and Lemon on CNN mainly interview people on their shows, even Republicans.  When they’re stating their opinion, they making it clear that it’s their opinion.  I was watching Hannity last night on FOX and he was just doing his best to poison the mi…[Read more]

]]> 0 1931289bca7ee221abfc7d5218d7446f Advocatus replied to the topic Possible psychic??? in the forum Pseudoscience and the Paranormal https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/21597/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:41:14 -0400 Amazing!  I still drink my coffee from a mug — a Skeptical Inquirer mug, to be exact.  Too bad you didn’t visualize a dark blue ceramic mug with white lettering.  And I happen to have car keys in my pocket!  Astounding!  🙂

It’s not a coincidence, it’s called retro-fitting.  If you want to, you can fit almost any random image into your life…[Read more]

]]> 0 843cfc680e2491e7c6cbd1129d98047c Advocatus replied to the topic Riding Bike to Star Trek TNG in the forum Entertainment and Pop Culture https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/21445/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:06:13 -0400 Yes, “Emergence” was one of the last episodes of season seven. The Enterprise wasn’t what I’d called “sentient”, but it comes “alive” and produces a seed, which it releases into the galaxy. Then it just sort of goes back to normal. It was one of those “high concept” stories that I personally think didn’t made a lot of sense. In fact it was one of…[Read more]

]]> 0 239db5ffeeae419269afdfebde60e576 Advocatus replied to the topic Riding Bike to Star Trek TNG in the forum Entertainment and Pop Culture https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/21113/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:13:38 -0400 That’s possible except that she didn’t know the nature of his conflict; she only sensed that he had one and offered to talk it over with him.  Picard declined (this was the first season, remember; by season seven he wouldn’t have hesitated) and only later decided to visit the holodeck.

Anyway I stand corrected.  The next two episodes in s…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd910f391dad686a303fdfc5ee72267f Advocatus replied to the topic Another Drake Equation discussion in the forum Science and Technology https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/21112/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:08:01 -0400 Hey, Catman!  The Drake equation focuses on the existence of civilizations.  It assumes that we are doing the best we can to search for them, but our best is dependent upon the current state of our technology.  At one time SETI only had one radio telescope dedicated to searching for extraterrestrial signals, and that only part time.  Now I thi…[Read more]

]]> 0 6abeaf1176ed955e041c0291f267bd14 Advocatus replied to the topic Riding Bike to Star Trek TNG in the forum Entertainment and Pop Culture https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/20892/ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 13:55:55 -0400 If I remember the list of episodes I consulted, the next two in line would be “We’ll Always Have Paris” and “Conspiracy”.  Those were pretty good, too.  I saw the first one the other day on BBC America.  One interesting thing to notice is that at one point, at Troi’s suggestion, Picard visits the holodeck in order to work out a problem which is na…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d9837cb6d112ad3419df12f1dd520d3 Advocatus replied to the topic Islamophobia isn't a real thing in the forum Religion and Secularism https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/20705/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:07:05 -0400 I’m not defending Islamic beliefs, if that’s what you mean.  But I am saying we shouldn’t automatically condemn all Muslims because of what the extreme minority does.

]]> 0 dea8dc9a9089aa512b86110f238e75e2 Advocatus replied to the topic Riding Bike to Star Trek TNG in the forum Entertainment and Pop Culture https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/20702/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:59:07 -0400 I’m with you about the morality of the series.  For some reason a lot of people complain about the characters being “too perfect”, but to me that was the whole point.  Just the other day I heard about a university that suspended all of its fraternities and sororities because a student was killed in a hazing ritual.  I hope that by the 24th ce…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b7e34d359d3be9dd9fede6347e4c823 Advocatus replied to the topic Islamophobia isn't a real thing in the forum Religion and Secularism https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/20694/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:45:36 -0400

Tee Bryan Peneguy wrote:  “No. I don’t see how. No other group categorized in the area of religion or belief as feared and hated in America like the Muslims are…”

That’s only because people have been stirred up over the past 20 years to associate Muslims with terrorism.  Even though Jews and Catholics are at the top of the poll you cited, there…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0ad4b4087854e4d3858c7b458d82d9d Advocatus replied to the topic Riding Bike to Star Trek TNG in the forum Entertainment and Pop Culture https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/20531/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:29:47 -0400 Yeah, “Lonely Among Us” and “Justice” were both pretty awful.  Although “Justice” did deal with the concept of arbitrary “zero tolerance” laws  that were just handed down from on high as it were, and as such it could have been interesting — in practice it was a pretty silly story.  And those ridiculous costumes the natives wore were the ab…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f3fd41ba6f3eb60ca1833702947a635 Advocatus replied to the topic Islamophobia isn't a real thing in the forum Religion and Secularism https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/20529/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:06:17 -0400 I am enjoying reading the back and forth on this topic, but I don’t know.  Let’s look at a similar word, “homophobia”.  That’s obviously a real thing, and it’s not ethnic.  It’s not even religiously based.  It’s hatred aimed at people for following a certain lifestyle choice, whatever their race, sex, or religious/philosophical creed.  In my expe…[Read more]

]]> 0 c34762a72bc85fac649781786d023362 Advocatus replied to the topic Riding Bike to Star Trek TNG in the forum Entertainment and Pop Culture https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/20360/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 14:20:42 -0400 I remember the episodes by title and not by the number, so you would have to refresh my memory of which episodes you’re talking about.  Although I do recall that the first season of TNG did not especially appeal to me.  It wasn’t until the second season when Katherine Pulaski joined that I started enjoying it.

]]> 0 4e60c708733164a95366cd0d4c0c7b24 Advocatus replied to the topic Need everyone’s help on an aircraft me and my son seen land at a military base. in the forum General Discussion https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/20355/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:49:57 -0400 Hmmm, an aircraft shaped like a C, fatter on top?  Could it have been a cargo helicopter, carrying something slung underneath?  How far away was it when you saw it?

]]> 0 7414e8fdac3d63124447e7fb91c6aa5b Advocatus replied to the topic Seeing Very Bright Colorful Square Shape. in the forum Pseudoscience and the Paranormal https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/19931/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:32:31 -0400 My guess would be that the windshield of some vehicle passing by on the street reflected sunlight though one of your windows.  That would explain the square outline.

]]> 0 b61b9e83c9e7a16aa449edcf760e502b Advocatus replied to the topic Country Music on PBS in the forum Entertainment and Pop Culture https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/19083/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:54:05 -0400 One thing I found interesting was learning that it wasn’t called “Country and Western” music until the 1950’s.  Before that it was called “old-timey” music or “hillbilly” music, or just “folk” music.  About the same time that the term “Country and Western” came into vogue, the music industry also started using the term “Rhythm and Blues”.  Up un…[Read more]

]]> 0 c956cde78f9763bca3ed6ede202afb80 Advocatus started the topic Country Music on PBS in the forum Entertainment and Pop Culture https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/18793/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:14:52 -0400 Is anybody watching the Country Music series by Ken Burns on PBS this week?  There are a lot of great stories on there.

]]> 0 7ae298a2e30e84364db2ac4cf2f01d65 Advocatus replied to the topic Are libraries obsolete? in the forum General Discussion https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/18792/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:02:53 -0400 I’m also one of those people who can’t afford a high speed internet connection, not to mention the heavy duty anti-hacking shields you would have to buy these days.  If it weren’t for my public library, I wouldn’t be on the internet at all.  The library also has the community groups and after school programs for the kids as Pi-rat mentioned e…[Read more]

]]> 0 75463c058baa92281697658c8abea7c2 Advocatus replied to the topic Since a scientific explanation has been proven to be a logical impossibility in the forum Science and Technology https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/18500/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:39:48 -0400

Write4U wrote: “Since when has a scientific (rather than a biblical) explanation been proven to be a logical impossibility?  Can we start with that, please?”

As I understand it, Sherlock believes that the universe originated from literally “nothing”, which he defines as the complete absence of anything having any quality whatsoever. From this he…[Read more]

]]> 0 9512a5b977b06424aa396f70fc5306f7 Advocatus replied to the topic Famous Paranormal Mysteries in the forum Pseudoscience and the Paranormal https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/17868/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:59:03 -0400 Having seen two more episodes of “Mysteries Decoded”, it is a major disappointment. In the episode on “Roswell” for example, Marshall takes it for granted that the photographs of Major Jesse Marcel holding the wreckage of the “weather balloon” were a government coverup. The only investigation she does is take photo to a photoanalyst in order to…[Read more]

]]> 0 0bb5437469faeec8468daf03c3e7b368 Advocatus replied to the topic Where to post “religious” crop circles in the forum Introduce Yourself https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/16942/ Sat, 31 Aug 2019 14:01:15 -0400 I would think it depends upon what the post focuses on.  If it focuses on the crop circle as a crop circle, it should probably be under Pseudoscience.  But if it focuses on the religious message you garnered from it, it should be posted under Religion.  Whichever, welcome to the forum.

 

]]> 0 be61612720a54b1dba55707230574681 Advocatus replied to the topic Famous Paranormal Mysteries in the forum Pseudoscience and the Paranormal https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/16804/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:35:31 -0400 There is a relatively new program on the CW channel called “Mysteries Decoded”, hosted by actress Jennifer Marshall (who is actually a licensed private investigator in real life).  There have apparently been five episodes so far, but I only had the good fortune to catch the latest, on the “Montauk Project”.  Watch it quickly because I doubt if i…[Read more]

]]> 0 49544b4040546e1936a30989924e0b21 Advocatus replied to the topic Need help to turn off psychic abilities in the forum Pseudoscience and the Paranormal https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/16556/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:00:03 -0400 You say that you can sense things about your friends and that you’ve have visions of spirits.  I just want to ask what makes you so sure that this gift has anything to do with what’s happening with the stove?  How do you connect these two completely separate things?

]]> 0 b7509be6f58bd34c0077645c6fcf5593 Advocatus replied to the topic Mommy, Is something wrong with that man? in the forum Politics and Social Issues https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/16555/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:58:25 -0400 One good thing about Trumpkochka is that he is teaching me self-control.  Every time I see his face on television, I have this very strong urge to slap him.  But he’s just an image on a screen, so I have to rein in the impulse.  I thank him for that.  🙂

]]> 0 3f4fdb36639a4e1a7282009a2f65ae33 Advocatus replied to the topic who's your pick? in the forum Politics and Social Issues https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/16554/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:52:31 -0400

Player wrote:  “Advocatus  – i am asking you what do you mean by Warren being to shrill and arguementative?”

I don’t really mean anything by it except maybe that it should be possible to get your point across without attacking your opponents.  But it was a debate format after all, so that I really shouldn’t complain about that.  I guess the point…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e852bf5887d79a841208b36194131dc Advocatus replied to the topic The falsity of sleep and sexual desire in the forum General Discussion https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/16372/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:44:15 -0400 If you had actually read the article, you would see that the author is not saying that sleep and sex are “false”, he is merely coaching the initiate on how to avoid being distracted by sleepiness and sexual desire while meditating.  Oh but wait.  Now Xain will be along to tell me that I read it wrong.  Whatever you say.  🙂

]]> 0 5906645fca723f9d1bef8a317963c278 Advocatus replied to the topic who's your pick? in the forum Politics and Social Issues https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/16371/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:34:02 -0400

Player wrote: “Advocates – too argumentative ? Thats your decision making criteria on this? Can you make a case at the policy level?”

Exactly which part of “I’m far from decided” didn’t you understand?  🙂

]]> 0 957d19a19324f400ac59be412741d3b5 Advocatus replied to the topic who's your pick? in the forum Politics and Social Issues https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/16370/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:32:10 -0400

Correction:  “I’m far from decided.  I like Lieberman, but he just seems too old.  Warren comes off as too shrill and argumentative.  I’ve seen her on The View a couple of times too, and she seems like someone you’d want to have in your Cabinet, but I don’t know if I’d want her in the big chair.  I heard a lot of good ideas in the debates, but n…

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]]> 0 e8f4d3e0e88e4101f3d8ce06ced64c1e Advocatus replied to the topic who's your pick? in the forum Politics and Social Issues https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/16053/ Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:04:14 -0400 I’m far from decided.  I like Lieberman, but he just seems too old.  Warren comes off as too shrill and argumentative.  I’ve seen her on The View a couple of times too, and she seems like someone you’d want to have in your Cabinet, but I don’t know if I’d want her in the big chair.  I heard a lot of good ideas in the debates, but nothing that rea…[Read more]

]]> 0 605f5379a81ddb2b104ef82e85ccfe9e Advocatus replied to the topic Living an Authentic Life in the forum General Discussion https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/14875/ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:02:31 -0400

Xain wrote:  “I’m not entirely sure this is what a genuine life is. I don’t believe we humans have a true nature like it says and what they mean by a genuine life sounds like more of their own opinion rather than what actually constitutes it.”

Xain, you keep going back to these Buddhist sites as if deep down inside you truly feel that they have…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3afcd1da484cf61afff450d40c5ddad Advocatus replied to the topic Strange triangular lights in Clarkdale AZ in the forum Pseudoscience and the Paranormal https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/14668/ Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:41:47 -0400 But you are definitely closer to the flagpole in the second shot, and it looks like you turned your phone from landscape to portrait.  Couldn’t that have made the reflection move?

]]> 0 21fa109c47cb346a1099c927c2e63a41 Advocatus replied to the topic Are thoughts "real"? in the forum General Discussion https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/14667/ Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:27:19 -0400 When I read the article you cited, it seems to me that the author is not saying that thoughts aren’t “real”; she is merely cautioning us not to get obsessively caught up with them to the point to the point that we ignore the reality around us.  We’ve all known people who get caught up with one idea (whether it be global climate change or some…[Read more]

]]> 0 91323347f39bcd5bce6992547bf435dd Advocatus replied to the topic Technology That Can Make Someone Hear Voices in the forum Pseudoscience and the Paranormal https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/14491/ Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:51:29 -0400 Here’s a link to a Skeptical Inquirer online column by Kenny Biddle which might answer your question.  Scroll down to the one titled, “Groundbreaking Experiment Breaks No Ground”.

https://skepticalinquirer.org/authors/kenny-biddle/

]]> 0 982d27bdddeefbf2233489d32042fdfe Advocatus replied to the topic I guess I have been abducted? in the forum Pseudoscience and the Paranormal https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/14319/ Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:21:51 -0400 You mention an “exhaust leak”, but it’s not clear from your post if you were driving that same car.  The symptoms you describe — “I kept falling down like I was drunk” — do sound like the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning.  I don’t know how you would have gotten back into your car and driven home again, unless you just did so and then f…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d6f6abb5af430da56551f39a7fdbfd6 Advocatus replied to the topic How do we move past a statement that cannot be proven in the forum Introduce Yourself https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/14317/ Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:59:27 -0400 True; the argument from personal experience is probably the most compelling to the person making it, but when it comes to convincing others, it’s the weakest.  Consider that when the first European explorers in Australia discovered the platypus, naturalists back in Britain and America didn’t believe them. They thought it was a hoax. Photographs…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f6c9995ce3e812d0f0b3a6f65102aa2 Advocatus replied to the topic Technology That Can Make Someone Hear Voices in the forum Pseudoscience and the Paranormal https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/14108/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:56:09 -0400 Not as far as I’m aware of.  There is a toy, the Ouija board, which can give the illusion of contact with “other voices”, if you enjoy that kind of thing.  But it’s a trick.

]]> 0 33c421d677c973a986df92605380d6de Advocatus replied to the topic What is Pseudo-skepticism? in the forum Philosophy https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/13693/ Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:07:00 -0400 Marcello Truzzi defined a skeptic as someone who was 100% Neutral, 100% Agnostic on the paranormal. A believer can believe in the paranormal, but a skeptic who doesn’t believe in the paranormal isn’t really a skeptic according to him; he’s a “pseudoskeptic”. That sounds good in theory, but in practice if you study a topic for long enough, you come…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb23932df04e2e31f3d896bd3fab7851 Advocatus replied to the topic Spiritism in the forum Religion and Secularism https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/13691/ Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:52:44 -0400

Sofista wrote:  “From time to time, science discovers that something is trustworthy and
true, even if scientists do not know precisely how or why
it works. Let’s consider the law of gravity. We experience it all
days when we jump from a vehicle or down a ladder. Physical and
engineers made tremendous progress in studying the effects of gr…

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]]> 0 74144f3abad2fb3457443c5be689e5da Advocatus replied to the topic What is the cause of Human Transsexuality? in the forum General Discussion https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/13686/ Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:35:39 -0400 I would go along with the conclusion that the “cause” is more psychological than hormonal, but I would hesitate to use the word “illness”, unless you’re willing to say that nearly EVERYBODY is psychologically ill to some degree or another.

Although I am trying to accept transgendered individuals, I am old-fashioned enough to ask them to cut us…[Read more]

]]> 0 9aaa74f7e06625d3cea56f785394bba2 Advocatus replied to the topic What is Pseudo-skepticism? in the forum Philosophy https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/13526/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:36:42 -0400 Ah, so you’re a disciple of Marcello Truzzi!  Sofista, I have a funny feeling that you have a point to make with this, but you’re doing it in a roundabout way.  Please just come right out and say what you think.

]]> 0 657400606bd4f6838c9676ef253da28f Advocatus replied to the topic Spiritism in the forum Religion and Secularism https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/13522/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:25:21 -0400 Skeptics in general are not very much interested in a person’s religious beliefs.  If it comforts you to think that the spirits of your loved ones continue to exist on some other plane, that’s perfectly fine.  Some skeptics — most notably Harry Houdini — have looked into séances, mediums, and other physical manifestations, and have generally co…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e8467e58b32e3d447d5eb9b51fa58cf Advocatus replied to the topic Future of the Scientific Method in the forum Science and Technology https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/13520/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:16:00 -0400

Sofista wrote: “we can’t see radio waves, electromagnetism, air, gravity, magnetic force, etc. but they exist anyway, it is logical to assume that there are other things that could exist but aren’t yet measurable. Our technology may not be up to the level to measure other things that could be there.”

That’s a good point.  But all the things you…[Read more]

]]> 0 371a1d070ed53ed8cc81b8e933bacb74 Advocatus replied to the topic What is the cause of Human Transsexuality? in the forum General Discussion https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/13518/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:05:13 -0400 That is a really good article, Lausten.  At my age, it has been very difficult to grasp the idea that sex and gender are not the same thing, but I am slowly coming around.  Sex is basically the physical equipment you’re born with, but gender is more the sexual role you identify with, and the two may not coincide, or they may coincide sometimes b…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c5157649ec55c86c45c4547ee766414 Advocatus replied to the topic UFOs in the forum Pseudoscience and the Paranormal https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/13368/ Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:14:44 -0400 To me the strangest thing about the so-called Nimitz incident is the fact that the Navy apparently had no interest whatsoever in investigating it.  They didn’t even debrief the pilots on what they saw!  The incident was totally forgotten until 13 years later a documentary suddenly appears.  By the way, I unintentionally misstated the case ab…[Read more]

]]> 0 081175c50fde2793e3a02c88674d65f9 Advocatus replied to the topic Perfect Icebreaker TBD in the forum Introduce Yourself https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/13367/ Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:03:35 -0400 I used to play several role-playing games years ago — Dungeons and Dragons, Marvel Superheroes, James Bond — but I don’t have enough friends these days who enjoy that kind of thing.  I agree that it’s no fun playing with somebody who memorizes the rules and calculates his moves for optimum advantage.  The rules of a role playing game (or the i…[Read more]

]]> 0 dfdf8f3df14f890aace4d0c7d2610f22 Advocatus replied to the topic Hello people, I'm glad to be here. in the forum Introduce Yourself https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/13264/ Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:44:59 -0400 Even so, we’re always up for an interesting conversation.  If you glance down at the “Paranormal” section, you’ll see we have a few topics on UFOs.  Feel free to add your thoughts.

]]> 0 7d56e4931c90e4f7775d34ca23195086 Advocatus replied to the topic UFOs in the forum Pseudoscience and the Paranormal https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/12953/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 13:50:46 -0400 I agree that the Nimitz incident seems totally puzzling.  I have a hard time believing that the Navy has super-advanced technology that they would be testing out there without telling their own pilots about it.  I also have a hard time believing that a Navy officer would cooperate with some civilian making a documentary about the incident (15 y…[Read more]

]]> 0 595a20a247f27fb117c3f6c145968050 Advocatus replied to the topic what would I need to convince me of God? in the forum Religion and Secularism https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/12826/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 14:16:24 -0400 Back when I was making the transition from agnostic to full-fledged atheist (which is just a state of mind really), I used to worry about this.  What if, without meaning to, I had closed my mind to the evidence for God’s existence? What if I had hardened my heart too much?  But then I reasoned this way — even if I was no longer sure what it w…[Read more]

]]> 0 e20863cb695bca5450bb6f8e021d8fe7 Advocatus replied to the topic Trump Running For Re-Election in the forum Politics and Social Issues https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/12587/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:50:13 -0400 I think LoisL is absolutely right.  Trumpkushka’s supporters would LOVE it if he was impeached.  It would prove how “desperate” his enemies are to stop him from “fixing the country”.  I think that’s the main reason Ms. Pelosi is soft-pedaling that idea.

]]> 0 d6c65ca901d04564c06f8350e1b785c8 Advocatus replied to the topic Doctrine of Creation in the forum Science and Technology https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/12583/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:32:43 -0400

Sherlock Holmes wrote: “The example does not allow you to conclude that every “thing” exists because of a preceding “more complex thing” it doesn’t lead to that nor did I say that.”

Yes you did.  I was sitting right here.  You were so eager to prove that Lausten and I were “wrong” about something that rather than simply point out the slight ambi…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f1746d59e15d03bfd699326b4483226 Advocatus replied to the topic Are nouns illusory? in the forum General Discussion https://richarddawkins.net/activity/p/12578/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:25:19 -0400 Don’t let Player bother you, Xain.  Most of us have learned by now to ignore 80% of what he says, and take the rest with a grain of salt.

This idea reminds me of a beautiful story by Borges, “Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius”.  It’s about a totally fictional planet that was invented by a group of scholars.  The language of Tlon was said to have no no…[Read more]

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