John Dub

Que?

This starts out talking about work but moves to talking about being happy in your relationships after a minute. The whole thing is only 5 minutes.

Its not a woe is me, when you are ready to love beyond your myopic view of reality we can talk.

Whoa, that was out of character. Did you mean “look” instead of “love”? Either way, you have never presented anything here that shows you have some wider view of reality that none of us have. You have consistently shown a distorted sense of what you…[Read more]

I often wonder about electronic voting being secure. — William

This can be confusing, since I hear of studies that say a handful of actual voting fraud cases have been prosecuted. There is no evidence for massive illegal ballots. On the other hand, I have not been convinced that a purely electronic system has all the proper accounting trails. I’m…[Read more]

In my grade school we learned a lot about Russia, about how they were our enemy and communism was pure evil.  How did that work out for us?

I was open to the idea of communism, in it’s purest form, but as I got older I realized it’s pretty hard to implement in a pure form. But I think I knew that from the beginning since Marx and Lenin addressed…[Read more]

What?

I forced myself to listen to a little bit of a Rubin Report the other day. He was interviewing Coleman Hughes who is a philosopher academic and Quillette writer, happens to be black, and grew up in a liberal environment, but now questions many of those assumptions. He gets a bit uncomfortable, because he does a thought experiment on just how much…[Read more]

I’m looking for a less cherry picked review. This one in the Guardian is interesting. His case is that Dawkins failed to discuss why someone might attempt to create meaning in their lives. From his summary of the part of the book that discusses evolution, it’s possible that it’s in there, but this reviewer missed it.

Dawkins didn’t say what the headline says he did. He’s discussing an experiment that has been around in various forms for some time now. It’s a psychology experiment about how we react to images, nowhere does he say God informs morality. If anything, this article perfectly shows how Ken Ham knows this about people and is abusing it to claim God exists.

In regards to what you said about reality

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality

No let him research. Another story, I’ve told before here somewhere. One of the first atheist shows I got hooked on was Austin’s Atheist Experience. I was sure that I could study Matt Dillahunty’s arguments and find flaws in them and prove him wrong. In the process of preparing to call the show I convinced myself I was wrong.

They aren’t real, despite what you think or what I want to be true. –Xian

It’s been an interesting exercise in logic to have these conversations with you. I’m sorry that for you it’s so personal. In a way, you are right, the common use of the word “real” does not actually reflect reality as physics describes it. But more importantly you are ver…[Read more]

I read this book and for about 2 years I believed there was something to it. It took a few other books and some podcasts to sort it out. It happens.

And whatever “quatlooms” are!  I want them BECAUSE I don’t know what they are!

They are redeemable on Triskelion, but only to place more bets and win more of quatlooms.

I hope you don’t mock me.

I’ll restrain myself, but I can’t speak for others. If you think you might be mocked, don’t you think your position might need to be re-thought? If you pr…[Read more]

I’ve been tracking some follow up to this on their website and see this getting used as some awesome defense of the existence of God. I remember seeing similar summaries before I looked in to the details of Craig’s arguments and I was terribly disappointed when I finally sat down to review Craig in detail. There are better philosophers than him…[Read more]

My second guess was a multi-page analysis of ghost stories and NDEs throughout history, all with a common thread. I guess that one’s out.

I bet 10 Internets it’s an offshoot of Kirlian Photography.

100 quatlooms says it’s anecdotal evidence, something a family experienced.

Unless reality is wonderful and awe inspiring

which one is the most reliable to acquire scientific knowledge?

Those are two different things. You don’t need to pick just one. Empiricism is about using your senses to gather data, but we’ve expanded our ability to “see” things by using telescopes and spectrometers. Rationalism is about using evidence and logic to arrive at a conclusion. Each…[Read more]

Sorry, VB.Net is my high point. I took a C class, but never applied it. It’s too late for me to be discovering whole new platforms.