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First, you seem convinced of a lot of facts that are based solely on anonymous sources from agencies to newspapers to Twitter to the Q to the QQ. I would not recommend putting too much weight on those facts Sure. Let's think about this, Binger. Forget about Trump for a moment. Do you think that at ...

The reason why DCP can't be consistent here is because whether the word is "meaning" or "purpose" or synonyms of these words, there are competing impulses to see meaning as something to do with objectivity, and something to do with personal tastes. It would take some serious reflection to sort this ...

Trump ran on a platform of increased security over classified documents. He increased the penalty for mishandling classified documents to a felony. He then proceeded to mishandle classified documents in the most egregious way. The sensitivity of the documents is a secondary concern. The primary conc...

around the same time, somebody died in a car accident even though wearing a seatbelt and working airbags.

Thank you for that, Marcus, I hope I didn't burden you excessively. MG, sure, he's steering clear of ultimate judgement, but I'm curious if you have any examples of techniques or defenses that escape Rick's criticisms? The word "many" doesn't preclude "all", it just doesn't necessitate "all". If the...

I don't know much about the music industry, so I may be getting ahead of myself, but here's a thought. Do record labels stand in relation to music listeners in a similar representative fashion as elected representatives in a Republic? If so, then the victory of social media over record labels (at le...

I agree Marcus, Rick is a legend. I haven't been able to follow this entire thread, have you followed it enough to tell me if MG has responded to any of Rick's posts?

A phil Phd friend from a long time ago told me that in today's parlance, "nihilism" is meaninglessness, as PG said, the result of an account of meaning or purpose failing to secure the objective. Nietzsche embraced nihilism explicitly, but I think that's a dated way to use the term. I think it would...

I honestly wish I could understand the difference between our response to that situation and a believing member’s response. Because I don’t think for a second that DCP is a cynic and is pretending to believe. I think he honestly found a way to convince himself that nephites really existed. It’s suc...

Good points professor. Sure, some sow others reap, but across all apologists, we’d expect to see the reapers who used Mopologist tactics.