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@Fruit_Inspector
If I am giving general non-specific answers it is because I am given general non-specific questions.
I have no problem with any of the questions you have asked or how you have asked them of course. There is nothing wrong with asking big-picture questions just as there is nothing wrong with asking more detailed and pointed questions, so long as you know that you should expect the response to be on the same level as the inquiry.
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@Fruit_Inspector
I see nothing wrong with the idea that empirical evidence in favor of or against a particular claim ought to be taken into account when evaluating said claim, sure.
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@Fruit_Inspector
I mean, just as a random example I know that an ice cream truck just passed in front of my house. I was there and I watched it happen.
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@fauxlaw
When you think of the vast opportunity YouTube has to educate, it's such a shame that it doesn't.
You must watch very different YouTube channels than I do.
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@Fruit_Inspector
With varying degrees of certainty depending on the situation, yes. Absolutely.
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@Fruit_Inspector
That is sometimes correct. If you give a more specific example I could give a more specific response.
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@Fruit_Inspector
If there is evidence to support something and no evidence against it then logically it is more likely to be true than if there is no evidence to support it.
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@Fruit_Inspector
So, what method do you use to determine if something is true?
Evidence. If a claim cannot logically stand on its own without unnecessary assumptions then there is no reason to consider it likely to be true.
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@Fruit_Inspector
So...
1) You know that what Paul said is true because it was in the bible,
2) You know Paul's claims in the bible are true because the bible was inspired by a divine being,
3) You know the bible was inspired by a divine being because the bible says it was inspired by a divine being,
4) You know the bible was telling the truth about being inspired by a divine being because it says so in the bible.
I think I get it now.
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I would say it is not necessary to allow multiple accounts, though I can't think of any really compelling specific reasons to make one, if such were brought up I would be open to the possibility of rethinking my conclusion.
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@SirAnonymous
Yo, how long have you been back? Good to see you bud.
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@Bones
I'm not too sure what you are talking about, truth be told.
Conquest (n) - The subjugation and assumption of control of a place or people by use of military force.
My question: If settlers did not use military force to subdue the population, would they have ended up in control of the land?
A) Yes
B) No
Your answer: ______
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Here is the crucial point where your syllogism falls apart, which was pointed out to you in the last thread but you apparently glossed over: The European monarchies did not come into possession of American lands by right of discovery. They did so by right of conquest. Re-examine your argument under this light and you will see where it falls apart.
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@Fruit_Inspector
"I choose to believe the Bible because it is a reliable collection of historical documents written down by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of other eyewitnesses. They reported supernatural events that took place in fulfillment of specific prophecies and claimed that their writing are divine rather than human in origin."I italicized that last bit to show there is far more than a single human claim in determining how we know the Bible is inspired.
Your italicized bit basically says "the humans that wrote the books said the writing was inspired". You said these humans are right about some things and wrong about others, so what methods should we use to distinguish between which claims they are correct about and which they are not? Is it merely the fact that multiple humans made the claim that makes the claim irrefutable?
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@Fruit_Inspector
So we know that the books were inspired by God because the human writers wrote a passage saying that it was inspired. Were those human writters ever been wrong about anything?
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@Fruit_Inspector
Who decided what did or did not get to be recorded in the bible?God.
Knowing that all copies of the actual books themselves were physically written by humans after the death of Jesus, what specific method did God use to inform said humans precisely which books he had decided he wanted in The Bible and which he did not?
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@Fruit_Inspector
His message is authoritative because it was recorded in the Bible.
Who decided what did or did not get to be recorded in the bible?
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@Fruit_Inspector
Has Paul ever been wrong about anything?
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Thank you Oromagi for taking my suggestion to include both tied top topic suggestions. I think that your choice to do so will work out well, giving a chance to discuss the possibility of doing things like this in the future while simultaneously having an actual topic to look at in the form of username's suggestion.
Now to my actual affirmation...
UNCONVENTIONAL DEBATE FORMATS SUCH as THAT in THIS THREAD SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED
Back in the days of DDO I remember often struggling through the debate section to find some debate topic that had not been used fifty times before. For a site founded, as DDO was, on the principals of maximizing ad revenue while minimi... *ahem*... I mean on the principals of provoking intellectual discussions of topics between people of disparate cultures and ways of thinking, seeing four copies of "God is Real" or "Socialism vs Capitalism" on your screen at the same time was plain disheartening. In that respect the difference between what I remember of DDO and what we see today on DART is noticeable, and all for the better. However, if users better utilizing the tools provided to them to formulate new discussions is something to be commended then how much more commendable for them to fashion entirely new tools of their own? Oromagi and his Thumb Wars are not the first go at such a thing either. User-organized bracket tournaments and community-driven live debates are just a few examples of unique formats that have encouraged user enthusiasm and participation by 'spicing things up a bit'. The Thumb War idea is particularly notable however for existing exclusively on the forums, which happens to also be where many users spend the majority of their time on the site and so is more likely to garner participation thus helping to achieve the goal of preventing stagnation of the site and it's user base.
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@Stephen
It is not too hard to work out for yourself if one reads what Mathew says about the Sabbath?
I could work out some basic arithmetic without it specifically saying the word "Friday" or "Sunday" etc. if it gives some point of reference to go off of which I assume is what you are hinting at, I am not sure what you mean here though when you say 'what Mathew says about the Sabbath?'... could you be more specific? What does Mathew say about the Sabbath?
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@Stephen
Because according to the gospels, Jesus died on Friday and ` rose` on the following Sunday
Interesting if true but I don't remember a day of the week being given for all these events. It has been a while since I read through it so maybe I just forgot, could you give me the verse where it says he died on a Friday and the verse that says he rose on a Sunday?
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@Reece101
Now I’m wondering how much heat would be generated by the explosive decompression.
That can be calculated given the volume of air displaced, which would primarily depend on how much the person in question moved and how much pressure the air he moved through was under along with some other minor factors.
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@Timid8967
Why water by the way? how does that represent Jesus' blood - in the new covenant?
I mean, there is the saying "it's the thought that counts". For a being that has knowledge of all your thoughts that would seem to be more relevant than ever.
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@fauxlaw
Now, whether it figures into my ranking, I have no idea. I've asked Ragnar, but he won't answer to that specific question.
He probably doesn't know. As long as the debates were unrated they have no effect on elo no matter the outcome but I am not sure myself what the system would do to elo for rated debates ending in invited ties.
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Definitely agree with 1 and 2, not sure on 3 and 4. R M says 1 is already in place though...
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@n8nrgmi
(no drug causes people to hallucinate elaborate afterlife stories)
I am curious, have you tried to find such a drug and failed or simply assumed it's non-existence?
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There are two points of view on this particular issue: the people potentially being spied on and the people potentially doing the spying. As members of the first category our first instincts may be "I do not want this to happen (which is reasonable) therefore this is a valid concern."
Does this conclusion hold up to reasoned scrutiny though? To answer this first put yourself in the shoes of the people that actually get to decide whether this happens, which is the other category of people we mentioned before. The people potentially doing the spying. People in that position either care about your privacy or they don't. If they do, no worries. They are not going to try to violate your privacy... but if they don't care about your privacy then that means they care about something else. What goal could they care about that is helped by seeing the point of view of some bird on a completely random flight path?
Basically, random bird spying has the effect of breaching privacies at random, which is an effect that we consider negative and the potential spy does not consider negative if they don't care about your privacy. But for them to actually commit to such a project and it's costs requires that they get some positive benefit from it, they aren't going to implement any random idea they can think of just because there are no negatives for them. So what positive benefit is there for them here?
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@fauxlaw
But the ask was completely ignored by you, particularly by RM; y’all skip directly to assuming I actually committed assault
Your exact quote was:
Then I asked her if I could knock it off her face. She was offended. She didn't think that was funny at all.
To which I replied in post 4:
Do you mind if I find you and assault you while you are out shopping?
All I did was ask, but my ask was completely ignored by you fauxlaw. Ironically, you didn't think that post 4 was funny at all.
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"Person A did something mean to me so I am going to be a dick to person B, amazing how person B can dish it out but can't take it."
Riiiiiight.
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@oromagi
If someone slaps you, turn to them the other cheek.
If someone wears a mask with letters you dislike on it, offer to do the slapping yourself.
If someone wears a mask with letters you dislike on it, offer to do the slapping yourself.
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Or was it a metaphorical question?
It is a satire of the following thread in the S+N forum which somehow devolved into an argument regarding the existence and nature of demons:
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@fauxlaw
Instead of responding to words that people say to you you choose to go on some side tangent. You are the only one here talking about rights. I don't think you are incapable of responding to what people say to you, I think you are intentionally choosing not to do so.
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@fauxlaw
You ignore my question. Let me rephrase it in an easier to understand way. A simple fill-in-the-blank.
In the above incident when some person removed my hat from my head that person was doing a _______ thing.
A) Good
B) Bad
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@fauxlaw
my hat was summarily removed, by assault, by another indignant woman.
You ignore my question. Let me rephrase it in an easier to understand way. A simple fill-in-the-blank.
In the above incident when some person removed my hat from my head that person was doing a _______ thing.
A) Good
B) Bad
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@fauxlaw
Do you mind if I find you and assult you while you are out shopping?
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Edit: Actually also tied with post 4,
Post 3*
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@oromagi
I'll pop this up for a few more days but it looks like I'll be picking from Username's suggestions, the way things currently stand.
Post 13 winning so far (tied with post 1)
Edit: Actually also tied with post 4, didn't see that. What happens in the case of a tie? Maybe do both?
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@zedvictor4
........And Lidl and Aldi.
Or Avis and Hertz.
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@janesix
You are absolutely correct. The field lines flow out from the northern polarity and into the southern polarity. In the case of the magnetic field generated by the Earth's interior the field lines flow out from the magnetic pole in Antarctica and into the pole in the Arctic.
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An English translation of the original dialogue between Socrates and Euphyphro as written by Plato:
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@janesix
Magnetic fields are split into two sides called "poles", each of these poles have one of two different "polarities". Every field has one polarity on one side and the opposite polarity on the other side.
These two types of polarities are arbitrarily called "north" and "south". If you ever played with magnets you noticed that they sometimes attract and sometimes repel, this is the reason. Two poles of the same polarity pointing at eachother repel, two poles of opposite polarity pointing at eachother attract.
The Earth produces a magnetic field in it's interior. Like all magnetic fields it has two poles, one of these poles contacts the Earth's crust in the Arctic and the other pole is in the Antarctic.
Like all fields one of the poles has a "north" polarity, the other has a "south" polarity. Again this is a trait of all magnetic fields, not just the Earth's magnetic field. It so happens that the pole in the Antarctic has a "north" polarity while the Arctic pole has a "south" polarity.
The phrase "north magnetic pole" generally refers to the magnetic pole that is in the north. This magnetic pole is near the geographic north pole and has a "south" polarity.
The phrase "south magnetic pole" generally refers to the magnetic pole that is in the south. This magnetic pole is near the geographic south pole and has a "north" polarity.
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@janesix
Are you asking
or are you asking
"Where is the magnetic north pole?"
or are you asking
"where is the magnetic pole that has a north polarity?"
It seems like you are asking the first question but most people are answering the second question.
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@Reece101
There are causes for everything.
If I flip a coin and it randomly lands on heads would you ask why it didn't land on tails? If it randomly landed on tails would you ask why it didn't land on heads?
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@Reece101
Why don’t we view and draw Earth’s geography upside down?
If we did so then you would still be able to ask this question.
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@Benjamin
Well, I actually agree with you. That's why the topic of my actual debate is an alien invasion of Earth's surface. In that respect, I think nukes kill space fleets.
There are advantages and disadvantages for both sides in a space fleet vs planetary force battle, but realistically such a scenario is only going to happen in the case of some human vs human conflict.
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@Sum1hugme
@Benjamin
Either of you want a debate on the topic? My position is that with a sufficiently advanced infrastructure a hypothetical alien race could destroy humanity without even coming to earth, minimal effort and no more advanced an understanding of physics than that which we currently posses, meaning no magic "cuz I say they have it lul" technology. Any takers?
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