GENIUS FORUMS

Probably done a million times here... let's make it 1 million and 1. :) I could be wrong but, with all of the talk about causality, I would assume the prevailing belief here would be determinism? I never gave it much thought until several years ago. I guess I was aware of determinism and the possibi...

I considered it a fallacy because I consider a fallacy to be when one purports to have won a debate without actually proving the other person wrong, and that is how this is mostly used. It is used as a method of saying, "You are wrong because you have provided no solution." Which is absurd...

I see this used so often to stifle dissent. That any criticism one provides that does not also include a solution is thereby rendered invalid. Would you consider this to be a type of logical fallacy? Certainly one could be an expert at observation and/or critique without having any ability to be an ...

The next question is: How do you plan to buy food, shelter and utilities? If you say they should just be given to you, then you are condemning another to a double dose of the fate that you wish to escape. Someone will have to work twice as hard to provide for you. Why shouldn't it be you (what if it...

Here's something I wrote years ago about this subject, if it's any help at all. "The last time that I took acid (next to last actually, the last time it didn't work) was with my brother. It lasted about 13 hours! Well, it was our first 'bad trip'. My theory as to why it went 'bad' was that we d...

How about circumcision equality?!

Erga wrote: In my experience, women like to comfort themselves with this myth. Could you possibly summarize the myth in case I don't find time to glean it from your 7 links? There's probably about 3 myths there: That men need women but women don't need men, for two. And, mainly, that men need women...

David, This will be the challenge for women in the future. Being composed of imperfect technology themselves, they will have to compete with superior forms of technology. They may well lose out. You just don't get it, do you? Still think women have something to lose? Why would we need men when we h...

turbatio wrote:The ideal thing would be to get a girlfriend of whom I could have as much sex with as I wanted.

Now that would be ideal! Where on earth would you find such a sweet deal?

. The New Welfare Bums Most of the lounge lizards are fully convinced that they have a problem that justifies getting a check. http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/welfarebums.html . "Yes, there are people who are, on the whole more disabled and there are those who are, on the whole, more able....

I'm guilty of thinking of the same joke as Trevor. :) But i'm aware of the value of maths even though i'm horrible at them. My brother is currently taking Trigonometry (having a tough time with it) for Architectural Engineering. I recently mentioned to him how much significance I see in maths and ho...

"The only thing that the atheist does is reject one particular source of these things. He still continues to indulge in other sources. He doesn't abandon the mentality entirely, which is what he should be doing if he had any genuine interest in truth." Now, this I can agree with. It's eas...

"I would say that this statement is not always true"

Agreed.

"From your post, it does not appear that you suffer from this malady, though."

I guess we shall see. :)

"I could be mistaken, but perhaps there is a little vanity in Kevin’s concern with the survival of the species, and his urgency to conquer space. You see, if the species ends, then so does poison for the heart, and all his fantasies of being remembered as a great man after he dies." I h...

"[...]have no belief system outside of a negation or criticism." So atheists have no beliefs except that they don't believe in God? "Which in itself is not a valid belief system." Atheism is not a belief system. It tells you what I don't believe in and says nothing about what I ...