God Delusion Debate 3/11: Dawkins vs Lennox

“Proof in the strict sense only comes in mathematics”, says Prof Lennox. Except, of course, mathematical logicians love to equivocate between:
(a) proof consists of deduction by a valid rule of inference from premises assumed to be true
(b) the above proposition, plus the premises are necessarily true
When one asks how (b) is [...]

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Jizz In My Pants response: “Puke In My Mouth” – MsTaken.com

“Forget a rubber, go get a vasectomy”, that one is going straight into my Handy Little Book of Ice-Cold Put Downs.
Very funny vid, ♥ andrea

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Destination

Dear Emily,
I like this vid. It’s not quite that the observer and the observed are the same thing. Rather, it is that:
(a) we inhabit the same realm of existence, and hence dualistic models of external reality and internal consciousness are false. Dangerously false and paranoid, which is why theories of solipsism [...]

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Re: Where is heaven

Dear Jonisdaman, being just a simple XX-chromosomal-type, feminist, atheist philosopher, I like to ask simple preliminary questions:
(i) is there a difficulty in specifying a real world location and properties for this place called hell?
(ii) if there is some difficulty, what excuse is being offered to those who would dismiss [...]

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The Transgender Manual – Gender Identity Vs. Sexual Identity

Dear Lea,
Thanks for a nice vid. May I offer some thoughts of mine?
Before you have either “gender self-identity” or “gender role” or “sexual identity”, you need an idea, a feeling, of F or M, or as one might call it, an impression of Sex-and-Gender dimorphism. Or to put it even more [...]

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