John Dub

3. covered that pretty well. Thank you. Genus, your ending paragraph asks, “if we conceive”. As a thought experiment, that’s great. It’s an improvement over “I believe”. For me, it becomes an exercise in giving existing things different names. I’d rather just stick to the scientific terms. As for your thoughts on time, I can see they are in your…[Read more]

 we are perfect, so to me that just means that we shouldn’t strive for anything or to do anything.

Except, by nature, we strive. We aren’t comfortable doing nothing, so your logic doesn’t work. I said this a long time ago to you, just try doing nothing. Sit there, do nothing. We are perfectly designed to survive, propagate, and desire. You ca…[Read more]

He started the thread today and people have already called him out exactly like he was here.

Looks like a pretty decent forum. I wish them luck. I’m sad that he deleted his profile here and all his posts went with it, at least they could come here and see where he’s headed. I wonder if he’s done that anywhere else and is just desperately seeking…[Read more]

 Everything within the universe is quantifiable and predictable given enough information

That’s one of the most premises for the scientific method, but it’s just that, a premise. We can’t gather enough information to test this at large scales. We also might have found the limits of quantifying and can only get a probability for some things. The…[Read more]

Did you see this response from him? It was a question you had asked several times about providing examples of irreducible complexity.

If I’ve been silent on that question then its because you can easily find these yourself. I have no interest in digging these out and posting them only to whatch you then dig out purported refutations by “…

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Thanks for letting us know, otherwise that would be another forum violation. However, I said I would put you on 48 block, soooo, you kinda are violating that rule.

Take it as the ultimate enigma nut to crack – and cracking it is important because they (Trumpian faith-shackled flock) want to basically take everyone down to a Lord Of The Flies reality of chaos and he who has the gold makes all the rules, while dictating what reality we are supposed to bow down to.

This is exactly the opposite of the life w…[Read more]

Can someone explain why there was a general feeling Holmes needed to be banned?

Technically, this should be in the Issues and Complaints thread. That was one of the many violations he made, arguing with me about what was a rule. You can start here and see my comments in blue for other specific violations. I just saw that his user profile has been…[Read more]

I’m not clear on who you are quoting there Write4, although the language sounds familiar.

Being precise about this is usually where I see conversations go south. Throwing “faith” and “you can’t prove” are red flags. Even when I’ll agree that “faith” in some ways is accurate, I still get people not wanting to agree. The underlying problem always…[Read more]

Perhaps this procedure may help retaining posts in the thread, until the program has been refined to accept edits.

Many of us were composing offline then copying in because the old problem of being flagged as a duplicate. That was before I was a mod so I don’t know where those posts disappeared to. I’m hesitant to make suggestions for work-arounds…[Read more]

That’s pretty tight logic. Fewer plot holes than a Terminator movie.

And I just got 87 emails of all the notifications he ever sent. When the posts were reinstated, all the rules must have run against them.

This baby didn’t come with a manual, but I know not to hit that setting again.

Funny thing is, we spent a page or so on this discussion earlier, when I linked to the “Dear Emma” letter by PZ Myers. PZ not only explains how to ask questions, he answers the question that the young lady asked with sarcasm. It’s a letter that is referenced all over the web as an example of how to respond when someone is that confused. He goes…[Read more]

And they’re back. It’s a miracle.

But note the status “Blocked” under his name.

Sorry for messing up the thread Write4. Sherlock will live on in quoted text, but it’s going to look like we were all arguing with a ghost.

Apparently my powers are limited. I meant to temporarily ban Sherlock, but instead all of his posts disappeared. If this is a problem for anyone, feel free to flame me in the Issues and Complaints section.

And, you just repeated this argument again. If you are going to repeat that empiricism is faith, then you are not engaging in scientific discussion. I’m going to ban you for the next 48 hours. We’ll see how it goes after that.

A point I’ve been laboring to get across to you and others is that you seem unaware that your are empiricists and the s…

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Minor misunderstandings of words can easily be cleared up and should be handled with respectful dialog, not calling people “annoying” or accusing them of misreading your posts. We won’t ban you because someone disagreed about the size of a dog, but might do so for how you handled the disagreement.

Madam you have an annoying habit of misreading…[Read more]

Discussions about moderation will be strictly limited to the Issues and Complaints section. You have the thread you started title Toxic Environment, or start a new one.

I’m afraid I must disagree on that.

This is an example of a repetitive post. We know you think this. You know what we think. Move On.

Empiricism (which is what you’ve adopted as your world view) is taken on faith, you can’t use science to prove that science is
trustworthy as a means of discovering truth.