Tom Brain

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@wendelltalks Our communities and wider societies have agreed some basic rules to enable them to function - ie we have collectively agreed certain obligations to one another. We could have agreed different ones, and that’s why different societies have different rules.

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@Tsar_Martyr Reasoning, please.

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@EveKeneinan 1 The purpose of prisons is rehabilitation
2 Prisons are very bad at rehabilitation
3 ∴ we should make prisons better at rehabilitation

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@mitchellvii By this logic, you presumably believe that North Korea (The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) is a democracy.

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@faithapologia How would that work, exactly? “Objective human value” either is, or is not, a thing. If atheism can “remove” it, then it was never objective in the first place.

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@darwintojesus If I decide to act a certain way because that’s the way that I would like others to act towards me, that’s not arbitrary, but it is subjective.

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@Oiarjunrathore Pretty sure Obsession’s been out for longer than Odyssey. Might as well compare Odyssey with Titanic…

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@darwintojesus What do you mean by “all life can be explained”? Just so that we can avoid any equivocation…

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@Shrike_DeCil @HermanPHunter1 No doubt, but that’s a different conversation…

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@luisbaram In other news: bears found defecating near trees

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@David_Kicinski Do you even know what the appeal to majority fallacy is?

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@darwintojesus I’m fairly sure that this post of yours quite clearly demonstrates that the argument is not the evidence; the argument is about the evidence. Maybe you might like to try again to prove your point?

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@TheHistoryGuy07 Interesting: are you saying that in order to question your explanation of anything, no matter how complex and uncertain, I have to have a coherent explanation of my own? Aren’t you presuming that there is such an explanation and rhat we are capable of knowing it?

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@Austin_Mathew_ Blessed are the cheesemakers

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@anchoredsoul0 Pretty sure that’s a massive spider. You’ll need to explain why it’s also evidence for god…

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@darwintojesus This isn’t quite true: subjective means “dependent on mind”, so it applies to abstract concepts like numbers and morality as well as feelings.

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@AgainstAtheismX If satanism were one of the dominant world religions and a de facto national creed across much of western society, and Christianity were just a minority cult, you’d probably see a bit more anti-satan commentary from atheists…

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@fadule_ Tenet? Insomnia? Don’t these films exist?

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@MartinTweats To be clear, then: are you claiming that God exists in the same way as those concepts that you cite (logic etc)? Ie “God” just has conceptual existence as a means of making sense of the universe. That seems like a much more limited idea of God than is typical in most religions.