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Dennis Quaid about Trump: "People might call him an asshole but he's my asshole".

No it isn't because their potential to become "innocent humans" has to matter more than already-existing innocent humans for the sorts of restrictions pro-lifers want to put in place to be reasonable.

Yes indeed. The rate of abortions dropped from million/year in the 1980's to 90's, to the 600k range in the 2000's. (See link for the graph). Until 2023... After SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade and the states starting banning abortions, the number went up over a million again. (See this link for...

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A slightly careless sentence now and again is going to happen, even with excellent writers like you and pood. These are conversations not essays. The reader/responder has a duty (to the 'debate opponent' and all other potential readers) to understand the other person's post as well as they can...

Ok. So? :shrug: Hm, but maybe I can answer that question myself... I've remembered a thread about using the "tu toque" fallacy for a debating strategy: https://iidb.org/threads/tu-quoque-effective-debating-strategy.22852/ You joined in, enthusiastic about the idea. As I remember, in that...

You're pretending the mere label "religion" wipes out the differences between religions. It's like dismissing the comparison of movies by saying "movies" -- ignoring the extreme difference between (for example) The Godfather and Manos, the Hands of Fate. Or like pretending all foods are the same...

It's how they used the word back then and too many persons still do. Probably most atheists are spiritual but few would use the word. IMO if they're able to be selfless and rapt with wonder at nature, science, art, et al, what more's needed? I rarely encounter a spiritual christian though...

No he wasn't, he was one of the enlightenment's "founding fathers" of secularism and atheism. Don't believe the people that come here telling you what Spinoza said. They don't know either. Spinoza used the word "God" utterly differently from supernaturalist theists. One aspect of his project...

...They start with the premise that physics is true. So for a phenomenon to "really exist", it has to be accounted for in physics. Else it only *seems" to exist but doesn't really. (Nevermind that physics isn't designed to know all reality, cuz they also assume positivism is true and positivism...

Here's a petition, signed by over 100k people so far: https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/forms/sign-the-petition-judge-aileen-cannon-must-recuse-herself-from-trumps-case-2 There are half-dozen other petitions around. This is the one getting the most sigs.

After your personal info, here are details needed for the form: Name of Judge: Judge Aileen Cannon Court: US District Court for the District of Florida Does complaint concern behavior of judge in a particular lawsuit: (check Yes) Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Florida (put this...

If you're pissed off that Aileen Cannon postponed Trump's documents case and feel powerless, there is something even we mere citizens can do. Glenn Kirschner explained the process of downloading a "Complaint of Judicial Misconduct" form and filling it out. Mr. Kirschner's video explaining it...

Why bother matching "the system around us" (do you mean the ecosphere?) to any theism classification? What's in-between atheism and theism? They're an absolute binary. IMV these terms describe people, not systems in nature. If you believe in gods, that's theism and so you're a theist. If you...

Are brain tumors in children 1) part of "everything that happens" or 2) not part of "everything that happens"? It's one or the other. What would Christians model their God on if they didn't have examples of intention/agency within the universe? No, your answer was and is God created the asteroid.

Inclined doesn't mean want. The relevant definition here for "inclined" is "have a tendency to do something". Like you, mistaken people aren't inclined to want to know that they make mistakes so they often get defensive about it instead of try to learn from their mistakes. No it isn't. You...

An effort at reason is being asked of you... why can't you answer? Are people wrong to assume you have some reasoning that goes along with the assertion? Or is blind faith belief the only justification?

So? Look who said there's scientific evidence for God:

Our mental picture of what nature is determines our attitudes and behaviors towards nature and one another. What we think of the world is how we treat the world. As we all know, thinking a God exists has its effects on the believer's behaviors. Humans are believers, what they believe determines...

Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I knew a kid who was EXACTLY like Arnie when I was a kid. All the same hyper-ness and most of the same little quirks. DiCaprio so entirely embodied that, down to the tiniest details (like blinking out of sequence a couple times, for one example)...