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@MisterChris
Has anyone considered a "ban from debates and forums" only ?
That way, a "banned" user could still communicate with people they know here through the PM function, so at least we could get their side of the story and perhaps find out if they post on some other debate site or blog or discord or something if we find them interesting and wonder why they suddenly disappeared.
Perhaps we could allow them to send "friend requests" and then only allow them to PM with people who accept their "friend request".
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@Theweakeredge
You have LITERALLY not engaged my point AT ALL.On a lot of levels humans and chimpanzes ARE the same - they are eukaryotes, they are vertebrates, they are primates! There is a DISTINCT genome which is UNIQUE to humans - within that UNIQUE genome or genetic code for humans - we know that there is MORE difference between black people as a population than between white and black people.YOU are attempting to say, "Well if the measure of difference in the genetics between two populations means that they aren't different, then your saying apes and humans aren't different!"INCORRECT - you are misconstruing the REASON I brought up this difference. You claim that there is a genetic difference which gives black and white people different performances in various fields, HOWEVER, the only way you could substantiate that and prove that those differences in performance aren't merely social differences would be to locate the SPECIFIC difference in genetics that Black people have from White people. HOWEVER, my point was to debunk that argument before you made it - AS if people performed differently BECAUSE of genetics, then CATEGORICALLY the two groups which are being compared HAVE to be different on that genetic level. SO the fact that the populations are actually more different against themselves means that the difference in performence CANNOT BE GENETIC.You have ignored, strawmanned, and continously been obtuse so as to avoid actually discussing my points. This will be my last explanation for you UNLESS you can actually adress my point in its completetion and not merely repeated yourself. Good luck.
Well stated.
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@EtrnlVw
Does God exist?Yes, no or I don't know?Next, give an explanation for what you believe is sufficient reasoning of your answer. Any explanation that claims simply "there is no evidence God exists" will be dismissed for lack of intelligent thought, in other words that explanation won't be good enough for this topic. Be creative and at least try and come up with an original thought that supports your theory. For this topic, lack of evidence is not evidence of absence. The indication that God exists is very strong, so there needs to be a clear indication of the contrary.There also needs to be clear explanation for why you believe God exists, to be fair. So if you want to be taken seriously you'll have to give sufficient reasoning. Those who don't know, you're not off the hook...please explain, with all the information available why you believe it's justified to claim you don't know.There's hundreds of people within this forum too, so every single one of you has one of the three options. I don't want just the same 8 people giving their opinion, if you have a brain you should contribute to this topic one way or another. This is a serious topic and one that applies to every single member.
PERFECT GOD = PERFECT WORLD
IMPERFECT WORLD = IMPERFECT GOD
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@Tradesecret
Do you understand how much you are encouraging him simply by posting replies ?
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@BrotherDThomas
Congratulations on reaching 124 comments.
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@ILikePie5
I have many times. But no one wants to listen to me
That's the trick.
Getting famous.
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@ILikePie5
How did you manage to reach that conclusion ?Anyone could do it
Are you certain ?
Why don't you give it a try ?
Heck, you might be the next Banksy.
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@Intelligence_06
Any object can be displayed by any person or organization for any reason.Should it though?
PLEASE PROTECT US
PLEASE PROTECT US FROM MEDICAL MISINFORMATION
PLEASE PROTECT US FROM FINANCIAL MISINFORMATION
PLEASE PROTECT US FROM RELIGIOUS MISINFORMATION
PLEASE PROTECT US FROM EMOTIONAL MISINFORMATION
PLEASE PROTECT US FROM SCIENTIFIC MISINFORMATION
PLEASE PROTECT US
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@oromagi
Neither audiences nor critics can know for certain what is art. No particular medium must be art or can't be art. Art is made art by the heArt of the artist.
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@ILikePie5
Dadaism is fake art imo
How did you manage to reach that conclusion ?
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@SkepticalOne
ILLEGAL DRUG TESTING IS NOT FEDERALLY MANDATED.Drug testing illegal? Nah. Why you screaming, bud? You okay?
Testing for illegal substances.
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@SkepticalOne
NOBODY IS REQUIRED TO FEDERALLY REGISTER AND PROVE AND CARRY A CERTIFICATE FOR SEATBELT AND OR HARNESS COMPLIANCE.Nobody is required to federally register, prove, and carry a certificate for covid vaccinations either.
This is the proposal under discussion.
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@FLRW
And from Rockefeller University:
There are several potential reasons that memory B cells produced by natural infection might be expected to outperform those produced by mRNA vaccines, the researchers say.
It is possible that the body responds differently to viruses that enter through the respiratory tract than those that are injected into our upper arms. Or perhaps an intact virus goads the immune system in a way that the lone spike protein represented by the vaccines simply cannot. Then again, maybe it’s that the virus persists in the naturally infected for weeks, giving the body more time to mount a robust response. The vaccine, on the other hand, is flushed out of the body mere days after triggering the desired immune response.
Regardless of the cause, the implications are clear. We can expect memory B cells to undergo limited volleys of evolution in response to mRNA vaccines, a finding that may have significant implications for the design and rollout of booster shots. A booster with the currently available mRNA vaccine would be expected to engage memory cells to produce circulating antibodies that are strongly protective against the original virus and somewhat less so against the variants, Nussenzweig says. [**]
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@FLRW
Unlike vaccines, which use an antigen of the disease you’re trying to prevent, the COVID-19 injections contain synthetic RNA fragments encapsulated in a nanolipid carrier compound, the sole purpose of which is to lessen clinical symptoms associated with the S-1 spike protein, not the actual virus.
They do not actually impart immunity or inhibit transmissibility of the disease.
In other words, they are not designed to keep you from getting sick with SARS-CoV-2; they only are supposed to lessen your infection symptoms if and or when you do get infected.
From MODERNA'S OWN WEBSITE:
Our mRNA Medicines – The ‘Software of Life’
When we have a concept for a new mRNA medicine and begin research, fundamental components are already in place.
Generally, the only thing that changes from one potential mRNA medicine to another is the coding region – the actual genetic code that instructs ribosomes to make protein. Utilizing these instruction sets gives our investigational mRNA medicines a software-like quality. We also have the ability to combine different mRNA sequences encoding for different proteins in a single mRNA investigational medicine.
We are leveraging the flexibility afforded by our platform and the fundamental role mRNA plays in protein synthesis to pursue mRNA medicines for a broad spectrum of diseases. [**]
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@FLRW
The only function of a vaccine is to give your body a very mild case of the disease it is designed for.That is not true.The mRNA vaccines do not contain any live virus. Instead, they work by teaching our cells to make a harmless piece of a “spike protein,” which is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19. After making the protein piece, cells display it on their surface. Our immune system then recognizes that it does not belong there and responds to get rid of it. When an immune response begins, antibodies are produced, creating the same response that happens in a natural infection.
You're not describing the J&J vaccine.
Also, mRNA delivery systems are not technically vaccines.
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@Double_R
In other words,GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENTNo, those are your words and your message, having nothing to do with what I’m talking about.
You are guilty (of spreading deadly disease and wreaking manslaughter and or murder) unless you can PROVE you are INNOCENT.
THEREFORE, we must invade your medical privacy and your physical body with the jab.
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@sadolite
You haven't said anything beyond what I have responded to.
I see.
So, your initial response was NOT a response to something I posted ?
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@RationalMadman
Creating threads to call-out specific users qualifies as targeted harassment, as does obsessive attempts to derail unrelated topics with impertinent grudges. However, criticising statements within an ongoing discussion, is fair game.
I can't seem to locate the "exception" you suggested exists for "moderators".
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@RationalMadman
To anyone who actually is a socialist of any kind, yes, but you have even struggled to say the Holocaust happened until forced to take a side after still hesitating so really I got nothing to say to you.You're just someone who thinks they're so smart because they fail to conclude a single thing. Your indecisiveness isn't intellect.
Whether or not a particular historical event happened in one particular way or another is NOT important.
Why YOU specifically CARE SO MUCH about one "atrocity" and ignore the practically endless number of other historical "atrocities" is a much more interesting question.
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@RationalMadman
posing as a libertarian socialist.
Would you be kind enough to explain to everyone what I "really am" ?
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@RationalMadman
You're actually even friends with MGTOWDemon, not just Mesmer, despite posing as a libertarian socialist.
Is any of this some sort of "crime" ?
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@RationalMadman
I thought we had a rule somewhere that strongly suggests "NO CALLOUT THREADS".
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@sadolite
I don't have any questions, "You" have said nothing to respond to.
Really ?
So why have you posted three responses ?
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@sadolite
I think so. Why respond to someone who is to lazy to even say what it is they want to discuss and what their position or thought is.
I already made it clear that I'm perfectly willing to answer any questions you might have.
I don't want to inject any bias into and or in any other way potentially contaminate your own virgin opinion of any linked content.
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@sadolite
Posting links that give no description or what they are about is kinda lame. I personally never kick on them, why would I?
IMPECCABLE LOGIC
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Any object can be displayed by any person or organization for any reason.Should it though?
PLEASE PROTECT US
PLEASE PROTECT US FROM MEDICAL MISINFORMATION
PLEASE PROTECT US FROM FINANCIAL MISINFORMATION
PLEASE PROTECT US FROM RELIGIOUS MISINFORMATION
PLEASE PROTECT US FROM EMOTIONAL MISINFORMATION
PLEASE PROTECT US FROM SCIENTIFIC MISINFORMATION
PLEASE PROTECT US
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@RationalMadman
Present the fake as real and prison will show you the difference. :)
Mentioned in the lyrics of Jay-Z, Dapper Dan clothed gangsters, athletes and rap royalty in counterfeit, "swaggerized" street-style versions of Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Fendi brand logos through the 1980s until the fashion giants used the courts to repeatedly raid and then finally close his Harlem store in 1992.
Now the relationship has come full circle. These days, it's the big brands who are appropriating Dapper Dan. Louis Vuitton teamed up with Supreme to release a line inspired by his designs. And Gucci this summer felt the opprobrium of black Twitter after it copied a classic 1989 jacket that Dapper Dan made for the Olympic gold medalist Diane Dixon.
"There's bootlegs, there's knock-offs and then there's what Dapper Dan does — knock-ups," Dapper Dan told an audience at Chicago Ideas Week on Monday night. "I don't only sell a garment — I sell a piece of history." [**]
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@Intelligence_06
Why do we need to exhibit something we can easily see everyday, especially since it can literally be seen, felt and used a few hundreds of feet away?(museums, especially ones that display "famous" works, like this, should have bathrooms).This "fountain" is no different than the normal one you use in the bathroom, except for maybe a few signatures. If anything, it is WORSE at being an urinal due to it being an old model and new designers have came up with more ergonomic designs. Why do we have to appreciate this one thing we consider as art when we can see equivalent-artistic things, but more useful, in the bathroom? What more artistic value does this one bring when you can't even use it(you will get fined and get kicked by the guards if you attempt to pee in this one artwork)?The fact is that most urinals we see in museums qualified enough to exhibit this artwork is as artistic, if not more artistic than Duchamp's fountain. If we are appreciating a certain fountain just because someone signed on it or someone touched on it, aren't we straying away from the message it is trying to convey?
Any object can be displayed by any person or organization for any reason.
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@Double_R
Vaccines reduce your chances of contracting, spreading and becoming severely ill from COVID.
The only function of a vaccine is to give your body a very mild case of the disease it is designed for.
(IFF) you've already had the disease (the news reports widespread "asymptomatic and mild" infection) (THEN) the vaccine is POINTLESS
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@SkepticalOne
If you have a driving job, your employer can certainly require you to wear a seatbelt. If you drive a cherry picker, you will 100% lose that job if found not wearing your harness.
NOBODY IS REQUIRED TO FEDERALLY REGISTER AND PROVE AND CARRY A CERTIFICATE FOR SEATBELT AND OR HARNESS COMPLIANCE.
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@SkepticalOne
So? Besides, companies require drug tests on a regular basis. Some jobs might require a physical...
ILLEGAL DRUG TESTING IS NOT FEDERALLY MANDATED.
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@Double_R
Vaccine mandate’s are about public health, so the question at hand is whether one who refuses to reduce their potential to contract and spread the virus should have the complete right to expose themselves to other people.
In other words,
GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT
ILLEGAL SEARCH
AND,
(IFF) I'VE ALREADY HAD THE PLAUGE (THEN) I AM JUST AS "IMMUNE" AS SOMEONE WHO HAD THE JAB
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@ebuc
4} less significant and less relevant outside
Well stated.
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@n8nrgmi
TOTAL MORTALITY
EXCESS DEATHS PER 100K PEOPLE (since first 5 covid cases were reported)
USA = 241
KOSOVO = 227
LATVIA = 215
JAMAICA = 9
JAPAN = 2
CUBA = (-1)
SOUTH KOREA = (-11)
AUSTRALIA = (-12)
NEW ZEALAND = (-45)
yeS, there are quite a few countries who report TOTAL MORTALITY (numbers that are impossible to fake) BELOW EXPECTED MORTALITY (based on previous five years of TOTAL MORTALITY) in the time between when their first 5 cases were reported and NOW.
CDC.GOV confirmed the updated age-specific survival rates: 0-19 years old, 99.997 percent; 20-49 years old, 99.98 percent; 50-69 years, 99.5 percent; and 70 years old or older, 94.6 percent.
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@949havoc
every single conception preventative has a failure rate but one, abstinence
Implicit coercion may or may not qualify as "force" but it certainly begs the question of "purely voluntary".
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@SkepticalOne
It's not illegal - there is precedent. Eg. Seatbelts in our vehicles.
Buckling a seatbelt is not a medical procedure.
AND,
Your employer does not require you to present a certificate declaring your "100% seatbelt compliance" as a condition of your employment.
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@n8nrgmi
he's requiring it on large businesses. i might be wrong but i think a person doesn't have to get the shot if they get weekly testing.if ya'll idiots dont care about the people you're killing by not getting vaxed and wearing masks when needed, why should i care that someone is illegally trying to coerce you into doing the right thing, what you should have done all along?
What's your core moral principle ?
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@zedvictor4
You're confusing internal reality and external reality.
QUANTA must be empirically demonstrable and or logically-necessary (and emotionally meaningless).
QUALIA must be private, unfalsifiable, personal, experiential, GNOSIS and or functionally indistinguishable from a dream (and emotionally meaningful).
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@Wylted
That's actually called agnosticism. There are agnostic atheists, but you seem like you are calling all atheists agnostic here.
There are also GNOSTIC atheists (Alan Watts).
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@Barney
Has anyone considered a "ban from debates and forums" only ?
That way, a "banned" user could still communicate with people they know here through the PM function, so at least we could get their side of the story and perhaps find out if they post on some other debate site or blog or discord or something if we find them interesting and wonder why they suddenly disappeared.
Perhaps we could allow them to send "friend requests" and then only allow them to PM with people who accept their "friend request".
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@drlebronski
But how did people get on DDO??
It's pretty well indexed by the google.
I found DDO when searching for arguments for and against solipsism.
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@Kagutaba
This started with a few active users who became disillusioned with debate.org
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@ludofl3x
you can't really cite Occam's Razor
Occam's Razor only really works properly for mathematical proofs.
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Atheists believe in Satan but no gods, lol.
SATAN is (EITHER) A GOD (OR) AN AGENT OF GOD
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@Wylted
1. God told this guy to murder. (Unlikely that God has any interest in seeing this guys family die)
Alternative hypothesis,
SATAN told this guy to murder.
GOD made SATAN (with the full omniscient knowledge of everything that SATAN will ever do and even exactly when they will do it).
THEREFORE, GOD indirectly told this guy to murder.
Alternative hypothesis,
A brain malfunction told this guy to murder.
GOD made this guy's brain (with the full omniscient knowledge of every function and malfunction this guy's brain will ever do and even exactly when they will do it).
THEREFORE, GOD designed this guy to murder.
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@Wylted
We already agreed it was probably not God telling him to do it,
How did "we" reach this "agreement" ?
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