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  1. Curious George

    Drug and alcohol addiction

    The answer is no. You cannot reason away diabetes. And alcohol use disorder is similar to diabetes in that they both represent a disorder where your body is not physically functioning as it had prior to the disorder.
  2. Curious George

    Convention of States - Article V

    Thank you for that, it was meant as a joke but one of those with a slightly serious undertone. The idea being, in this technological age, a campaign need not cost nearly as much as it does to create voter awareness. I of course understand that rallies and paying writers and all the other...
  3. Curious George

    Convention of States - Article V

    That is possibly the worst limerick you have ever submitted to RF
  4. Curious George

    Convention of States - Article V

    That doesn’t compute. You asked, I answered, no reason to be a stick in the mud, embrace the change.
  5. Curious George

    Convention of States - Article V

    We live in a new era. They can make tik tok videos for free.
  6. Curious George

    Jesus in an Indian Village

    The book of Harry. It’s in the apocrypha.
  7. Curious George

    Convention of States - Article V

    I think this is one of those good in theory, not so well in practice ideas. If everyone had civil engineering education like @9-10ths_Penguin , we might be talking a different story, but there are a lot of things that make a city, let alone a country work, that others would be less likely to...
  8. Curious George

    Convention of States - Article V

    I guess it is a good thing that we don’t get to determine how much we individually pay. As far as your things to agree upon, lol… I wouldn’t be in agreement. Each one is nearly a thread in itself. But maybe I would be in agreement with term limits for Congress….maybe.
  9. Curious George

    Free will deniers

    Agreed. I think the argument of freewill revolves around determinists asserting that humans have zero control, and people who believe humans have some degree of control. This control is often spoken about as the ability to have done otherwise. This only suggests that there is some degree of...
  10. Curious George

    Free will deniers

    I don’t think anyone maintains that one can do things outside of their control with “free will.”
  11. Curious George

    Free will deniers

    But now you have placed “choices” in quotes perhaps because you see the problem. There is no “choice” if we live in a deterministic world. On one level you can say that bob was “chose” oatmeal, but he didn’t really- we would just being saying this for convenience. Bob did what bob was always...
  12. Curious George

    Drug and alcohol addiction

    Can you reason away diabetes?
  13. Curious George

    Free will deniers

    What does it mean to choose if you could not have done otherwise? Can you choose to sneeze right now? Can you choose to stop your heart from beating? I wonder if you have played a semantic game in your head in order to misunderstand what is meant by “could have chosen otherwise.”
  14. Curious George

    Free will deniers

    I am not sure that this is possible with denial of free will. I think the conclusion of denying free will is the conclusion that one can exert no control “on the goings-on.” Any claim of control, however slight, asserted by the ego would lead to a conclusion of free will. You cannot both...
  15. Curious George

    Free will deniers

    That is interesting. I think lack of freewill is an incoherent concept, and I have never met a person who acts as though freewill does not exist (despite the opinions they profess).
  16. Curious George

    Drug and alcohol addiction

    It is a long process. First a person needs to detox. Many will often need assistance for this. For some substances there is chemical assistance as well. Next a person needs to build their knowledge of their addiction and how they are impacted by it. A person will likely need to build up...
  17. Curious George

    Drug and alcohol addiction

    Except in this case dopamine is synonymous with motivation, and when a person is addicted to many substances their bodies are physically incapable of creating the motivation they would have but for the addiction. While it is not impossible for some people to quit, it is impossible for others...
  18. Curious George

    Do atheists believe in the distinction between Good and Evil?

    I think this is true for some religions but not all.
  19. Curious George

    Drug and alcohol addiction

    Substance use disorder is a major problem in our society. It impacts so many facets. Investing in addressing this problem should be a paramount concern. I would say that the best way to address this problem is complex and will take the me. This is not surprising because the problem did not...
  20. Curious George

    Conservative Court strips protection of wetlands

    That is not quite what I meant
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