So, you're an American and you started a politics thread, and you're saying you don't know about Q-anon? — RogueAI
Well the thing is that science does not purport to speak any truths. I'm assuming by "actual truths" you meant scientific theories. — FlaccidDoor
we didn't switch out those presumed truths, when actual truths emerged. — counterpunch
"More liberal than thou" liberals can be vicious, vituperative vipers. — Bitter Crank
My point in bringing up Q-anon is to contrast myself with Trump supporters because you kept claiming I might be ignorant about Q-anon being wrong — RogueAI
To me, this seems similar to saying something like, "Those [insert race] is so stupid. They are all the same and wrong about everything." — FlaccidDoor
So, to sum up, no, I'm not wrong about any of the above, it's all bullshit, and I don't want to have anything to do with the people who are stupid/crazy enough to believe that stuff. — RogueAI
Better to learn how to argue than to learn how to shut up. — Bitter Crank
My family is terrible. We all agree on everything. Our arguments are all about who can be more liberal. I tend to be the most conservative person in the room. I'll say something conciliatory about supporters of President Trump and I get beaten to a figurative pulp. — T Clark
Is it a theory that the earth orbits the sun? Or is that the truth? — counterpunch
If you think there's a better word than truth that I can use, please - suggest it. We both know that science does not claim absolute truth [...] But are you saying then, that science has got nothing right? — counterpunch
Actually, my brother's Trump supporting South Carolinian parents in law are the most conservative when everyone is there. At our last reunion, someone allowed my outspoken liberal sister and daughter to sit next to them. It was painful and inconsiderate. My sister often doesn't think before she speaks. Actually, she does. That's probably the problem. — T Clark
"don't take life too seriously." — TheMadFool
Yes it is a theory, — FlaccidDoor
Have you ever been in a spaceship, and watched the sun, moon and earth move in relationship of each other, — FlaccidDoor
"truth" should be called reliable ideas, if not just scientific theories, however, in practice, they can be close to "truths." — FlaccidDoor
There's little reason to think about events that only happen .001% of the time in real life after all. — FlaccidDoor
But people at a forum like this typically are not friends or family. We're not a community.However the philosophy forum is filled with people with just that, but even seem to be happy to continue butting heads for exactly that reason. If a community exists with only irreconcilable differences in opinion to bring them together, I don't see how they can't be accepted by friends or family. — FlaccidDoor
That is an intriguing idea. I have a hard time thinking of anything that is worth taking more seriously than life. If we don't take life seriously, can we take anything seriously? Conversely, if we can't take anything more seriously than life, can we take life any less seriously?
So I guess my question is, what do you mean "don't take life seriously?" Should I be considering suicide more (joking)? — FlaccidDoor
You haven't said anything that "sums up" to showing that you are not wrong about any of the above. You never actually talked about the contents of the topics you mentioned.
Did your sister and your South Carolinian parents hate the experience? or was everyone else who had to deal with it the most hateful of the situation? — FlaccidDoor
bored me out of my mind — FlaccidDoor
I'm not completely sure what made me think back to this from what you mentioned. — FlaccidDoor
It depend on what you mean by spaceship. Is not earth a spaceship? I have been on earth, and able to deduce by the movement of the planets — counterpunch
Yet I imagine, you - as a committed leftie anti-science bigot, think that's somehow significant when talking about the death of black people as a proportion of arrests, yet cite the same number as something that would otherwise go unnoticed [...] I should apoologise, for responding whilst drunk, but ... I'm drunk! — counterpunch
But people at a forum like this typically are not friends or family. We're not a community.
Discussing issues in a philosophical-ish manner is not conducive to friendship. [...] "You shouldn't discuss politics or religion in polite society." — baker
Do you really need me to go over the Sandy Hook shooting to convince you it's not a "false flag" operation? No, you don't. Good day. — RogueAI
My sister and my brother's parents-in-law were not talking to each other. My sister was just expressing her opinion forcefully to the whole table. They just sat there in silence. — T Clark
I was raised as a Methodist, although my mother wasn't as devout as your family sounds. — T Clark
I have no memory of this....
Was I hacked? — counterpunch
No, what "holds a philosophy discussion forum together" is a measure of commitment by its members to a very specific tradition of discussing things in a specific way.However if a community can exist with only disagreements to hold it together — FlaccidDoor
Sure, friends and esp. family sometimes are not "polite society", but they are not intended to be a philosophy discussion forum and don't serve that purpose.why can't it simply exist in friends and family? I personally feel like friends or at least family is far from polite society.
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