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Recent content by sandandfoam

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    Is Enlightenment a Choice?

    Absolutely. The choice mostly is conscious. Enlightenment, to my mind, is a belly laugh, a couple of pints, the outdooors, good company, or my team winning. Amongst many other things. I can't choose whether my team wins, but I can choose my team. I can't open the pub when it's shut, but I...
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    Is Enlightenment a Choice?

    I wonder whether independent thinkers are just another group?
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    They Are Coming For Your Guns!

    In fairness, mine isn't an argument. It's an expression of relief that I don't share space with eejits that own machine guns. It's also expressing my fervent wish that said eejits stay where they are.
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    Lying

    Lies are the glue that holds society together. 'Honesty', whatever that is, is overrated.
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    Can a Religious Experience of a God Produce Certain Knowledge of That God?

    Might your op have it the wrong way around? The example has a directional flow from experience to knowledge. Could it be that our experiences are a function of what we think we know? I'm inclined to thinks that when we (re)construct our experiences we are always trying to do something with...
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    Where Does a Sense of Humor Come From?

    Why a scientific standpoint? To paraphrase Jaspers, I think we have a superstitious overconfidience in science. It leads us to apply it inappropriately. A bit like trying to fix a puncture with cement. If I wanted to understand where a sense of humour comes from, I'd start with religion...
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    In Your Noble and Esteemed Opinion, What is "Enlightenment"?

    A couple of pints and a belly laugh
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    They Are Coming For Your Guns!

    Yikes. The more nuts the US gets the happier I am that NRA types don't like to travel. Why stop at guns - I think it's your right to have a missile, heck a nuclear missile. The governement have them and it's only logical that if you don't have one too there's nothing that will hold the mind...
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    In your limited life

    I'd have freedom of movement - no more passports I'd have equal access to education across the globe I'd dismantle all armies I'd ban guns I'd make sure corporations pay a fair tax
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    Does Publicly Talking About Sex Usually Embarrass You?

    I think evolutionary explanations like the one you cite are in the same neck of the woods as 'common sense'. Cover for people pushing some agenda. Repression isn't a good idea - look how it's been working out for the Catholic Church over the last few decades
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    The world is being taken over by fruitcakes. What's an appropriate response?

    Luis, I couldn't agree more. Nationalism is a cancer.
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    The world is being taken over by fruitcakes. What's an appropriate response?

    Trump is a nutcase. Theresa May is little better. Brexit is closing fast. Le Pen might get elected in France. Is it time to emigrate to Antarctica?
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    Kuwait Issues Ban Against Visas From 5 Muslim Majority Countries

    I feel better now. Kuwait is a worthy benchmark for the new America.
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    Faith

    The idea of critical thinking seems to comfort some without faith.
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    Faith

    I have little faith in facts. I do like stories though
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