Children are irrational. Big news.
What I find more pathetic is the worthless twat siblings who antagonize the kid and pass it off as some cool viral internet video dismissing MySpace while still rocking a scant facial hair and douchebag glasses. Way to go, champs.
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It's a set... not "an infinity" as per your rules reject... it just happens to contain that as one of it's elements :laugh:
Surely it goes against their ToS, but crafting a plain text URL is questionable as far as legality. A friend from Europe sent me this same link earlier and said he tried but it did not work. I am guessing this has spread to many thousands of people ... I do not think they would go after that...
I got both of mine framed for ~$80. What do they do? Sit under some papers on my desk. I always thought hanging them in your office looks kind of dorky.
"...I don't care what happens.. you know... it aches and if I fall down I have no fear of fainting in a gym because I know it could happen... I threw up many times while I was working out, but it doesn't matter... because it was all worth it." (@ 5:20) :laugh:
The Vangelis soundtrack is amazing as-is the whole environment with the movie. The grit feel like a detective movie but placed in a scifi future is just awesome.
There was a great documentary on Google Videos about the making of the movie and the trouble it went through. A really...
Says you.
Your personal opinion. I sense you are making a very obvious value judgment here because I was hinting at the fact that they both fit the generic definition I gave and that is all I was stressing, while you seem to suggest something more all along (ie one type of faith is 'more...
And what does empiricism rely on? Observation. And what does that rely on? Technology and apparatus in labs to carry out experiments, and the collection & interpretation of the collected datas. Are you suggesting that these don't rely on math in a foundational way? If they do, then I would...
How can I be any more clear or willing? In my view faith is a "firm belief in something for which there is no proof". I think you are somehow imposing or suggesting that my view leaves everything open to faith. That is my position. You subsequently may interpret that as a problem or have all...
What do you mean by the pronoun "I" at the start of your post? Saul Kripke has an interesting lecture on the first person.
Now I am obviously being facetious but I hope you get the point. We could go into a regress on language and definitions of everything.
Are there different sub-types...
This conversation has gone too far off-topic. Unfortunately Gödel gets invoked too much in discussions, and that was not my intent. I firmly believe that faith (a belief in something without proof) is a strong part of every atheist's life in fundamental ways.
I'll humor your interest...
No, I was basically saying that that axioms and postulates, regarded as self-evident, are ultimately faith-based (we assume them to be true without 'proof'... I see that as faith). Self-evident and faith-based are not one in the same or interchangable. Sorry for the confusion if that was what...
You will quickly learn, then, that axioms and postulates cannot be 'proven'. They are 'self-evident' (read: faith-based).
In the context of this discussion we were not meaning to say the limits to human knowledge insofar as the expanse of different fields--but the foundations itself (logic...
Jagec is not attempting to disprove reason. He is attempting to show the limits of human knowledge and 'proof' that some are so self-assured is concrete.
There is no circularity in what he did. Any mathematician worth their salt will acknowledge there are mathematical truths that cannot be...
It depends on your interpretation of the word 'atheism'. Atheism just means a lack of belief in deity. Unfortunately there are people who overstep the weak atheism boundary and state explicitly that 'God does not exist'.
Weak atheists (mislabeled as agnostics) do not have 'faith' god exists...
That is quite the assertion. How do you know your beliefs about your knowledge of reality aren't themselves wishful thinking?
(Not saying this insultingly, but it comes back to certainty and whether or not it exists.)
I guess it all comes down to what you deem as justifiable knowledge. Some modern theologians would argue that you can rationalize a God and claimed knowledge of said God in a perfectly justifiable epistemic system.
Whatever floats your boat at the end of the day.
Right....but where does that lead you? Solipsism is cool in theory, but I don't find it all too pleasant as a belief system.
Where do you draw the line and how do you justify one position over another? (That's what I'm getting at; how can you criticize others if you are not an extreme...
Can you qualify your question by suggesting which strands of faith you're asking it of?
Militant atheists (weak atheists/agnostics are far different) often use evolution* as their strongest 'tool' against those of faith. What, though, will the militant atheist turn to when evolution does not...
For those unfamiliar with Wanderlei Silva, look on youtube or elsewhere for videos of what he did to Quiton 'Rampage' Jackson :D
Edit: hell, look at the clips of his other Pride fights where he literally stomped faces in :Q
Ontario has The Independent Learning Centres where you can take day school or night school or independent/correspondence based courses to get additional credits (particularly the prerequisites you need) for high school.
The Learning Centres are subsidized in part or whole (I forget) by the...
Are not the axioms of predicate logic that a naturalist would assume for debate just as much faith based as is my own personal belief, just a different variety?
Back on topic: the whole point is that I was never arguing for the existence of qualia from an objective and scientific point of...
Faith.
I think you misinterpreted what I was posing to you: why is the consensus that the two are one in the same, though? Are they type-identical and if so, why?
Chalmers actually talks about Kripke's argument in his book The Conscious Mind (the idea that phenomenal mental states are...
Is not everything that is 'real' also measurable in our physical universe? Does it not dance into the realm of supernatural to say that there are things that cannot be measured in our objective, physical universe but still maintain that they exist and are 'real'?
If humans are essentially machines with programming then what difference does it make?
Don't we already sleep with and marry robots (that is, robots atop a biological substrate) ?
I never stated determinism precludes consciousness. I *did* discuss them together further up in the same post, but did not say that one (consciousness) necessarily requires the other (free will). I am stating that a great many well-respected scientists and philosophers believe that...
What is more likely to be correct: science or your singular mind? A great many scientists and philosophers would suggest you are in fact *not* conscious and that there is nothing to consciousness other than an illusion. Many reputable people believe this.
Further, how is it obvious that you...
Contrasting social sciences (so-called "economic laws") with something that almost every sane person on earth asserts the existence of (not too many people dispute the existence of consciousness) is not the greatest choice of approach IMO.
Anyways:
Science can know your own mind better than...
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