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Fuck humanity. We garden slugs are the endpoint of evolution. You only miss this truth because you're not a slug. Can you retract... -
You are the one rejecting reason for irrational fantasy and a baseless belief in telos and in some undefined “ultimate.” Man is an...
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bilby replied to the thread Define God.In rejecting flight, the ostrich tries to revert to a bird state. It is not, however, a bird, and in trying to become one, it destroys...
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bilby replied to the thread Define God.Evolution isn't the kind of thing that has an endpoint. You are making a category error. All species not yet extinct are in a dead heat...
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Evidence? This is the conceit of humankind, that we are special and that there is a telos to reality and we are at the center of it. In...
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^It is a flight from truth. The truth is that mankind is eternal and is destined to attain to reason, moral autonomy and unity with the...
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It still happens to be true.
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To answer this question, let’s start with something else, not a human tragedy, but the death of an elephant. Another elephant from the...
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It is the destiny of mankind to go extinct.
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bilby replied to the thread California Doing California Things.Well, I am forced to agree with you there, that's monumentally stupid. Even a total blithering idiot should know that there has never...
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As an aside, let’s look at this appeal to authority stuff. Such an appeal is when you say, ‘x is an authority in his field, so what he... -
Take the death of a child in an accident. We can explain how it happened, the physics, the sequence, the medical cause, but there’s no...
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bilby replied to the thread Define God.Yeah, the idea that things generally have meaning or purpose strikes me as so absurd that I forget that many people genuinely believe...
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They got rid of you, didn't they? You think that the UK is terrible. So you moved to California. Which you also think is terrible...
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bilby replied to the thread The Remarkable Progress of Renewable Energy.I can think of vast numbers of use cases, if these things can be mass produced very cheaply. That "if" is the killer. But never say never.