TimB

Not to mention that the world was a little different 600 yrs ago.  That level of evil, against humanity, in Christianity is no longer, front and center, a part of Christianity.  But it still can be, and often is, in Islam despite our living in a world of mass communication, education, ease of transportation.

Seriously, why has the DEA been so intent for so long in preventing the re-scheduling of marijuana? It is ridiculous and immoral.  Every year lately there are rumors that it will be rescheduled soon.  It is always blocked.  Look at the requirements for a substance to be classified level 1 (currently that includes heroin, and insanely enough, ma…[Read more]

This problem stems from the fact that marijuana is STILL scheduled as a class 1 narcotic.   STILL!!!   We could have had decades of legitimate research done by now if it had been re-scheduled decades ago as it should be.

Look around guys.  The dickish have taken over the country.  There must be something to it.

Hey man. It’s in the Bible.  “There’s a time for every purpose under heaven.  A time to be dickish and a time to act like a pansy liberal.” or something like that.

You said “Neural Activity is a type of Phenomenon and the Experience of Redness is another totally different type of Phenomenon.”

What is this mysterious “Experience of Redness”?  How does it differ from “seeing the color red” or from “visualizing something red, or imagining something red” (all of which would have neurological correlates)? Is it…[Read more]

Ten Thousand of these Kurds that we have abandoned, died while fighting ISIS in the place of more of our own soldiers.  One of the special forces Americans said that this is the 1st time he has been ashamed of what he was doing in the military, now that he has left Kurdish brothers/sisters in arms to be wiped out.

This is a betrayal of epic…[Read more]

Interesting.  I imagine that Bonobos could be taught to do coordinated actions like that.  But it seems significant that they don’t do it naturally.

Tee,

Years ago on this very site (CFI FORUMS) I was making all of the arguments about Islam that you are.  My stance was that Islamic doctrine is unique in its likelihood of being interpreted to foster and promote violence.  As I recall, at the time, I tended to be the sole voice for that perspective.  I was faced with answering all of the ty…[Read more]

I reject this assumption:  “The thing is: A person can either be a dick or change minds, but they really have to choose.”

There are lots of people that I consider to be quite dickish, who actually do change minds and reinforce minds to maintain dickish beliefs.

My suggestion: Be a dick, strategically, but only against the dickish.

There are many thousands of ISIS fighters imprisoned in that area in Syria under the auspices of the Kurds.  Chances are the Turks will wipe out the Kurds and ISIS will re-constitute its caliphate in Syria. We won’t have the Kurds to die for us in taking them out this time.

Our POTUS is MAJORLY untrustworthy, and is clearly able to act on his…[Read more]

Correction noted.  We should all be regularly checking the veracity of each other’s claims, as well as that of our own.

Dammit.  That all sounds pretty crappy.  I hope you can start feeling better, somehow.

Hey, I was the arrogant SOB that suggested the ice cream.  Later, I thought, oh jeebus, I hope he is not diabetic.

I am not asking you to clarify, Tee.  I am aware of your knowledge on these issues. And I am in the same ideological ballpark as you close to 100% of the time. Your posts are a sanctuary of excellence.  But fortunately not always perfect.  (Else not much fuel for discussion. And you would probably be a Buddha and your time on this plain about do…[Read more]

If after the Mueller report showed that Trump benefited from the Russian interference, and we all saw Trump proclaim “Russia, if you’re listening… get Hillary’s emails.” We saw him proclaim this on TV. And now we see him on TV declaring that he wants Ukraine and China to get dirt on one of his potential 2020 opponents.  And we see that he…[Read more]

Wow that sux.  How about, instead, you get a dutch chocolate ice cream cone.  Or maybe 1 dip each of 2 of the following: Mint chocolate chip, butter pecan, &/or dutch chocolate.

When channel surfing, I may have stopped briefly on one of those goofy shows for long enuf to see the typical scene of the “researchers” in a spooky dark setting, and one of them suddenly gasps “What’s that? Did You hear that?”  The others immediately stiffen with apprehension, tho it is not clear that anybody heard anything. And in this moment…[Read more]

Steven said, “…The Neural Activity is merely the Neural Correlate of the Conscious Experience. It is not logical to assume that the Neural Activity is the Conscious Experience…”

That is all wrong.  1st off, the neural activity (aka, the neural correlate)  is ALSO the Conscious Experience (the “conscious experience” being whatever composite o…[Read more]