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  1. joe1776

    An Unusual Day at the Races

    On a perfect Autumn day, I chucked my office work and headed for the racetrack to watch the beautiful thoroughbred horses run and to spend the day in the sunshine. I was leaving the grandstand, headed for the paddock (saddling area) when I felt a presence within me. A very quick "newsreel"...
  2. joe1776

    Reverse Engineering Judaism.

    Jill Bolte Taylor, who was doing brain research, had a stroke which shut off much of her left side brain function. She was left with what might be that oceanic feeling you are referring to. The left side of our brains, which may be responsible for our ability to reason, might be blocking the...
  3. joe1776

    Reverse Engineering Judaism.

    That wouldn't be possible for me. The position you adopted requires faith. My brain is incapable of faith. On important matters, it requires evidence. If faith was possible for me, I would have accepted Catholicism when offered at seven years old..
  4. joe1776

    Reverse Engineering Judaism.

    John, I'm an agnostic who gave up on my family's Catholic tradition as a young man. I regard all the sacred texts that you and others believe to be divinely-inspired as the work of well-intentioned men whose morals reflected those of their time and place. I doubt they were divinely inspired. I...
  5. joe1776

    Do rights come from God?

    I allow the possibility that a higher power might exist but I don't follow a religion. Since societies are cooperative endeavors, citizens can be expected to trade in their right to do as they please in exchange for greater benefits. Fairness is crucial to success. A society in which a White...
  6. joe1776

    Fact vs Truth?

    Yes Yes No, the claim "it is raining" is false. As I wrote in Post 23, Facts are always true. Claimed facts might be true or false.
  7. joe1776

    Fact vs Truth?

    I think facts must be true. it's an essential qualification. If it's not true, it's not a fact. I'll change my mind if you can give me an example of a fact that is not true.
  8. joe1776

    Fact vs Truth?

    Facts are always true. Claimed facts might be true or false.
  9. joe1776

    How It Is That Bad Cops Are The Majority Of Cops

    You may be overstating the problem since it's likely that we will only read about malpractice. However, there's not much doubt that effective oversight is necessary. But how might that be accomplished? There’s no national police force in the US, where policing is organised on a state and local...
  10. joe1776

    Should we be disrespectful towards the Bible?

    I wrote of conscience (the intuitive ability to discern right from wrong) not consciousness. We don't agree on this. If we learned right and wrong from our society, moral attitudes would not change. We would still have world-wide acceptance for slavery. The intuitive sense that we call...
  11. joe1776

    Should we be disrespectful towards the Bible?

    Since the scripture, written so long ago, reflects the immoral attitudes of the writers who lived in ancient cultures, doesn't that lead to the conclusion that human morality has been trending upward? And, can't we also conclude that the upward trend was certainly not caused by the sacred texts...
  12. joe1776

    now interested in the paranormal

    So, if the paranormal exists, such experiences would surely have happened to you? Okay.
  13. joe1776

    now interested in the paranormal

    My standard for believability in the paranormal is the evidence of one surprising experience with telepathy and another with precognition. I can't replicate those experiences, so I can't prove them to you. However, the fact that you haven't had such experiences is not evidence that they don't...
  14. joe1776

    now interested in the paranormal

    Forgive me, Amigo, but you don't know what you're talking about. The mere fact that you haven't had an experience with the paranormal is not evidence that such experiences don't exist, nor is the fact that most of the people claiming to have such powers are phony.
  15. joe1776

    Did I Do the Right Thing?

    "Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories". Paul Bloom
  16. joe1776

    The "Kangaroo Court" Debate Style

    An argument makes a factual claim supported by reasons. If well-made, the reasons ought to persuade minds unbiased on the issue that the claim is true. A debate ensues when the argument is challenged. The best reason to make an argument on the Internet is to have your argument challenged to see...
  17. joe1776

    The Angry President Problem

    Absolutely. I am optimistic. We are smarter than we used to be and I see that trend continuing, perhaps even speeding up because it doesn't take good ideas years to cross the oceans as it once did.
  18. joe1776

    The Angry President Problem

    The strong need to feel superior to others drives the strong ambition for power. It also drives the abuse of power if obtained and a quick, angry response when their innate superiority is challenged by people they deem inferior -- which is just about everybody. Basically, if they really want...
  19. joe1776

    The Angry President Problem

    The designation "one party rule" isn't limited to communism. There are 37 states in the USA under one party rule: Democrat or Republican.
  20. joe1776

    The Angry President Problem

    I see nothing wrong in that. If they believe they are right, that's what every faction SHOULD want. The governing process has to be designed so that the majority should rule but the minority should be fairly heard. IMO, the problem we now have in the US is that the system allows the minority to...
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