I say that my brother is psychologically hurting many of the girls. Part of my evidence is that mothers who have daughters would overwhelmingly agree with me — Tree Falls
the argument that the sex is defensible on the grounds that a person of suspect competence — tim wood
Here's another perspective: can I screw all the women in your family? Who knows, they might find it an overwhelmingly positive experience. On that chance, maybe I should screw all the women in your family. Indeed, if you think it through, you'll realize their views - and your views - on the matter don't matter! — tim wood
With all due respect, whether or not a girl of 16 yrs old "likes to have sex" is irrelevant when you are speaking sex with a man over the age of 40 yrs old — ArguingWAristotleTiff
We had a pretty close, but argumentative relationship before his arrests. Since then, hardly any relationship. — Tree Falls
Two of the girls complained to the police — Tree Falls
we just feel hunger and that informs our motivation to seek food. — charleton
It's a very useful too but in the case of those who consider themselves mystics it is a tool used to simplify their process of thinking to a degree that is quite astonishing. — Magnus Anderson
No, he says that such a conception falsifies the reality of time. — Magnus Anderson
Meditation is the holy grail of mysticism. Why is this so? Is it not because meditation is a form of denial? — Magnus Anderson
Bergson is opposed to any conception of time as a succession of moments. — Magnus Anderson
What makes them different from the automatic consequences of inanimate cause and effect is that outwardly the choice emerged from an agent whose condition is unknowable to an observer. — charleton
David Hume is wrong. Empiricism is wrong. — René Descartes
He'd have said it was obvious if you decide that triangles can exist across 3D space, or on the surface of spheres. — charleton
When I make a decision, or act in any way it is determined by who and what I am; and through my needs, motivation and volition.. — charleton
One way of arguing is that our intuition is still Euclidean. So in spite of non-Euclidean geometry, our form is Euclidean.
Another way of arguing: you could say that our intuition of space is actually non-Euclidean (or whatever happens to be the correct geometry of space, supposing non-Euclidean geometry is superseded), and Euclidean geometry was merely an empirical concept of that form. — Moliere
There is no compromise. Just one choice, one probabilistic (or random choice), no matter how small, destroys determinism. — Rich
According to Kant, the a priori synthetic truths must be certain from the perspective of the phenomenon and our experience. One repercussion of this is that you could not do a physics experiment which did not obey the laws of geometry. — Agustino
Kant aimed to say that the propositions of geometry don't derive their CERTAINTY (because he took their certainty for granted) due to the law of non-contradiction (hence the synthetic part). Rather they derive their certainty from their a priority, rooted as they are in the pure form of sensation, space. — Agustino
Perplexed by name; perplexed by nature. Seems you want to keep your deterministic cake but want to eat the free will topping too. — charleton