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I did respond and please take what I said to heart and think about it. It's not something I usually tell others but I am 99 percent sure of what's coming and I mean it's imminent.

Yes and Yes.

Hi Ana, Can you give me an example of a self-refuting axiom. It may be the case that we have a different understanding of what an axiom is. I hold that true axiomatic statements are conceptually irreducible, and identify a fundamental primary fact.

Your first point is spot on. Creationism is guilty of equivocation. We Objectivists would call it package dealing. A package deal is when two disparate ideas are packaged together in the same concept. I challenge every creationist on this forum and in the world to present evidence that...

Can I get an atheist amen? On a side note, That woman's children will not die from climate change. The single greatest threat to the world, more dangerous than nuclear war, more dangerous than covid, far more dangerous than any other threat that we face other than a large asteroid strike, is...

I've used all three. I use Linden when referring to the tree and basswood when referring to the wood. I use it sometimes to make shavings for packing material in my packages. It smells nice and lemony to me. I also use Butternut and Aspen. Aspen grows all around me and there are plenty of...

If it's all an illusion, there's nothing that is right or wrong. Those concepts presuppose the primacy of the object.

You do so by affirming the primacy of consciousness. Christianity explicitly affirms the primacy of consciousness and in doing so it performatively affirms the primacy of existence. It's a contradiction at the beginning of knowledge. Most Christians and people for that matter don't know that...

I said or anyone who denies a basic axiom. You deny the axiom of the primacy of existence.

Yeah, I don't hold discussions with solipsists, anal. Phil., Subjectivists, or anyone who denies a basic axiom. There's no point. But I'll leave you with this; you are at least fully consistent as a Christian with your subjectivism. You are the only one I have met that is. So you are the...

We don't share it. I live in a different universe than you do, apparently and we have no basis for a discussion. Enjoy your illusory world but I will not interact with you further.

I see. Well, that may be true for you but it's not true for me.

Uh......No. consciousness is consciousness of something. Are you a solipsist?

Morality is a type of knowledge and as such it is contextual. Objective moral principles do not exist in reality apart from the mind and they do not exist in the mind apart from reality. They exist in the relationship between the mind and reality, hence their basis in the primacy of existence...

And I can answer your why in every case. Why do populations of living organisms evolve? Because of the interaction between the environment and genetic variation. Why is there genetic variation in populations? Because DNA changes over time and these changes get passed to the next generation...

That's all, fifteen million? I would have thought it was a larger number.

It really is and check this out. I want one. Why isn't everyone doing this:

Exactly! But don't expect a second-hander to accept this.

I've just recently read an article about a start-up that is proposing to do just that. Their plan is to use fusion-powered lasers to drill down 10 miles and harness the heat to generate electricity. My question would be if we have working fusion reactors why not just use that? It seems like...

It doesn't matter what the current culture thinks is good because cultures don't think individual people think. Why bother to comb your hair in the morning, it's just going to get mussed up again. Why bother to eat if it's just going to turn into poop and be eliminated. Why bother to brush...