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The interesting question here, in my opinion, is how groups with a belief in some kind of transcendent, or higher, truth can acheive peaceful cooexistence with others in a society which doesn't fully conform to their concept of truth or the good. This is more or less the question of the latter...

Dumm ist der,der dummes tut.

You provide no argument for the statement that if something is the first cause of everything then it can destroy anything - intuitively this strikes me as plainly false. That X is the efficient cause of Y does not seem to entail that X has the power to destroy, or is omnipotent relative to, Y...

I semi-expect private providers to step in at some point (e.g. MQ potentially?), which would possibly please the government by (1) disempowering the colleges (glorified unions?) and (2) increasing the number of consultants, which could push down private fees given enough competition. It'll be...

I eat straw men for breakfast.

Sir, we regret to inform you that you have just breached your social contract. Sincerely, The Thought Police

Also, to the Mods, this should totally be merged with the Does God Exist thread.

In what way do you see the Euthyphro dilemma as implying unproved beliefs to be (potentially) destructive? I'm just going to be an asshole and call this out as rubbish probability. You could just as well say, given your relatively limited knowledge about me, that yesterday it is more likely...

Aye, the odds of the above sequence of scores is pretty unlikely (though possible, of course), which suggests that the test doesn't have the typical mean of 100 and SD of 15.

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has afforded me many a good nap.

It's pretty wild that this exists(?) as a social campaign. It's all rhetoric of course. Just as proofs against god typically only target a particular conception, or set of conceptions, of god, the argument in the advertisement only targets one such argument which itself targets a certain...

Re: Holy mother of dust storms Are you ready for the Rapture?

Yes-totally [/Heidegger]

Feeding the poor (gourmet).

I don't doubt that UWS could draw on the kind of population required to make such an average possible. However, given the intake stats on MSO from 2007 (indicating that there must historically have been a reasonable spread between 95 - 100) and given how many NSW 99+ students are sucked up by...

Fuck the police.

I'm suprised that the average could be that high with a threshold system given that analysis of ACER data by universities in the past has shown there to be a low correlation between UMAT subtests and between each subtest and UAI. This leads me to think that either there is a curiously strong...

It is probably a consequence of the aquatic lifestyle of the coastal mongoloid populations creating a selective advantage for hairlessness. Note also that seaports are the historical hub of commerce so it is unsuprising that such populations would come to be dominant in the asian region...

(1) I love how they managed to run left-leaning political and moral values with postmodern moral relativism (as though they amount to the same thing?). Granting, of course, that postmodernism does have a historical connection with critical theory, marxism, and so forth (which tend towards the...

Answered (not too unsatisfactorily, I hope).