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@Vegasgiants
Because they are out of rule for like 3 years. When they come back they'll be keep crushing us people inside and outside the US, like the democrats are doing right now, only saying that they are doing something different when in reality their utmost goal is to keep them rich geezers runnin' for some time.
We need a president of the people, instead of a president of the elite that claims he is the president of the people. At this point you know what, socialism isn't too bad of an idea compared to whatever shithole aspects we have now due to the presidents, senators, etc., being dumbasses, or at least not as intelligent as they can be.
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@Vegasgiants
That is what happens when you are the first of two major parties in the USA. Are they democratic? We may never know.
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Just nutted. Saw the title and immediately knew it was you.
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@Math_Enthusiast
So you are of the position that existence is subjective?
yees.
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@Math_Enthusiast
It is not that I am not interested. My view on this topic is that what truly exists is determined by you. Something exists to you just because you can sense it or can prove its existence(namely places that you have never gone before, etc). It does not matter any discussion on existence outside one's senses unless we are talking about ideas. Oh wait, ideas are still dependent on the minds of one.
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He trusted the world and its future way too much. Now there are still evil capitalists and greedy leaders and gangbangers running in society, Jesus did not die for that.
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@Best.Korea
"Oh so what he did was implausible for a human. Still let's believe in him and revere him as a savior or something."
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@FLRW
And choosing 1 makes you Jesus, apparently.
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@YouFound_Lxam
We used to think that earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, etc. are caused by the God. Now we know natural disasters are just matters moving around in extreme ways.
The point is, you calling this a god-involving miracle is not distinguishable from any other label of ignorance. We can't "prove" what the God is like, it is quite the opposite: what God is like depends on what we have now, and God just fills in the rest that we can't explain. We can't just assume there is a God without proof, and I do not think that is sufficient proof of God and God's miracles.
Do you think that is enough proof?
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@YouFound_Lxam
Well, we agree on the fact that neither us nor the entire scientific community really "know" what big bang actually is. We disagree on whether to consider it 'miracle' or not. I think we should not.
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@YouFound_Lxam
I wouldn't call it a "miracle". It is just an indicator that we don't understand the Big Bang itself quite well enough. We used to think that flooding was the anger from the Gods, but now we build dams and regulate our waterways instead of keep considering them supernatural.
My point being, science will not assume what the big bang really is in essence calling it factual and will not call it a miracle for the future possibility that it might just be understood.
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@Best.Korea
What does that mean? The debating leaderboard means how experienced and how good you are, the forums leaderboard just means how much of a spammer you are over the time.
Unless there is a leaderboard for like/post ratio.
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@prefix
Instead of a leaderboard, DebateArt should have an independent psychological group rate members on their behavior.I have noticed a number of members who seem to be borderline irrational in their comments.It may be better to drop the leaderboard, and replace it with an independent analysis of their comments.
Maybe remove the forum post leaderboard. That means naught. But the debating leaderboard that catalogues everyone's wins and losses, nah.
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@Savant
...or that everyone on earth had their lifespan reduced by a tenth of a second?
I say this one, simply because it does not directly ruin the life of basically anyone.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Science is not about forcing the world upon manmade assumption like many religious organizations do. Big Bang is a theory. We just have calculated the plausibility of such an event even though none of us are old enough to see it in person. And that is okay by scientific standards.
By no means are the scientific consensus saying that we understand what caused the big bang. We just assumed its existence because there are evidence towards it. Anything before are only theoretical and speculative and we have little evidence on that, unless the new report on internationally authoritative journals come out saying otherwise.
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@Math_Enthusiast
Yeah, disputes on maths are pretty much on definitions. If "infinity" is confusing and contradictory, just revise the definition or have several sub-concepts referring to different cases of infinity.
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@ebuc
Yes, might as well press the space key a bit more times, it is large and it is missing in some parts, namely between the first two words in a line.
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@Math_Enthusiast
We also had disputes on what "infinity" is, resulting eventually in the ideas such as "aleph null" and "aleph one".
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@Math_Enthusiast
Because whenever something is fundamentally glitchy in mathematics, we just redefine the system itself. Check Russell's paradox.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Well, mostly everyone is for the most part at least a little bit racist. The opposite of "racist", the absense of racism, would be a colorblind approach. I think letting race be a determinant even though not the most prevalent one is definitely better than if there is absolutely none.
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@zedvictor4
Try it on the Egyptian Pyramids for example.
The Pyramids have little to no room in it for anything more than a single Pharaoh, so I think it makes zero sense to call it a building. Heck, I think calling it a tower is giving it too much credit. I think it isn't a sculpture either as it looks way too sleek that it is more of a monument thing. There is a reason that it is puzzling to us modern educated people, because in our belief system, no one will just take large hunks of rocks from somewhere else and build a larger pyramidal hunk of rock that serves unknown purposes especially when technological advancement still hasn't progressed to such a stage.
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@zedvictor4
And what exactly differs the three?
I am not nitpicking. I just wanna know.
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Or how about we choose someone who is less of an old geezer. Like jeez, this guy is about to die in 2024. We can't just have him hang on a thin line for another four.
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So, the question: If a mountain is completely carved from inside out from the foot of the hill to the tippy top leaving just a structurally sound(and possibly reinforced) husk that you can go on, what is it?
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@IlDiavolo
but it was conceived initially by a sculpting process at a model scale and by a sculptor, so it's a sculpture in every sense of the word.
So is every single building, every brick is essentially carved out of some marble mining site either by machine or by our working hands. Also, every building is also sculpted in its concept stage, at least for the landmark ones, because you know, you need planning for such grandeur structures.
What is the fundamental difference between the statue of liberty and for example the Empire state building?
I really don't know much about it, but if it has spaces in it to be used, then it's a building.
True, but then you would be calling a telephone pole a building because people can go up there and while not recommended by any means sleep there in a sleeping bag. Heck, you would be calling Mount Rushmore a building if you use up all the rock space in the mount, for example.
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@IlDiavolo
By that definition, the statue of liberty should be classified as a building as it is built from shipped copper panels, not carved from a copper mountain on the liberty island.
What do you think? I mean, I am not a professional to define, it is perfectly fine if somehow the curriculum changes the statue of liberty to a tower and the Eiffel tower a tower-shaped sculpture. Nothing more than that it looks off.
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I was reading the materials the school gave out during this summer and apparently they classified the great pyramids of Giza as building but the Sphinx as a sculpture. Similarly, they classified Eiffel Tower as a building but the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore as sculptures.
If I seal every tomb chamber from every pyramid, would that make them non-buildings? If I build free warehousing inside the statue of liberty, would that make it a building?
The Eiffel Tower is unusable as a building except a few decks below and a nearly-inaccessible-unless-with-great-sums-of-money apartment at the top with no one living in it usually as of now. How much of a building really is it?
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Much more if you dig the core through. I have copies of sci-fi talking about this.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Your interpretation is certainly more believable although I think the word "absolute" is a little too strong here, but believe it or not there are real living people that believe the entire biosphere is created within a 144-hour period after the solar system even has anything in it at all.
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@YouFound_Lxam
People used to like to have colorful tattoo thingies on them, and their VW van to show that they are hippie. Really, culture.
Is it good? I guess my ol' richard is not broken yet, and they don't break naturally unless you have some sort of gene problem or car accident or mill lathe accident. So, the point is, I think no.
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What specifically harmful is how people in Christianity revere one interpretation as "true" and "holy". I mean, didn't grammatical shifts occur when you translate a language from another more than 100 years ago? I am no expert but I am pretty sure semantical K's are immoral according to God in all translations, which is a much more solid message, much less likely to be away compared to whether God created the world in 6 literal days or in 6 stages with each longer than a day.
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@YouFound_Lxam
It is only a matter of interpretation and it is especially harmful the deliberately anti-science interpretations. Like "literally believing" God made from the core to the biosphere in 6 days, because all evidence would be circular reasoning, as it would have come from nowhere except historical scrolls and organized transcripts from them.
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@Best.Korea
Then grow a pair or at least strap on a pair when you go. Easier solution than to have yourself whining for not being potentially discriminated against by the locals there.
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@Vegasgiants
Well, I don't think he is a soldier.
An FBI cyber-spy, maybe.
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@Best.Korea
Oh really. All these educational initiatives on killing the American soldiers and when one comes he is praised for being what he is. Wow.
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Certainly he could have gone to China, it is much easier to get a scholarship and a girlfriend there. (sobs using genuine chinese) (curses using genuine chinese)
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@Best.Korea
Spanking - to hit a child with the hand, usually several times on the bottom to cause pain as a punishment.
There you go, that is why I disagree with the delegalization of spanking. You see, some hit their children with a paddle or a whip, or their belt with the metal shackle on the anterior, which is what my dad used to do until he was educated on the harms of doing so. The point is, removing "with the hand", and I would agree more with what you agree with.
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The centre of life is producers. Without them, life cannot persist as the primary consumers will die, then the secondary consumers, then the tertiary, etc.
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Wow, you are both back.
Just a generic hi message, but a hi message nonetheless.
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@Best.Korea
*laughs in ocean current flow*
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@Best.Korea
Though I must say that 3,000 posts in one year is the kind of achievement. I did that in like 2 and a half.
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@Best.Korea
"Abortion shouldnt be legal"
Or his case could be merely built on semantic interpretations of this. All he needs for interaction is to console you that it doesn't matter.
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@Best.Korea
Plus, some topics dont allow much semantics, especially with rules "pro must prove X is true. Con must prove X is not true".
Wrong, if the topic is specifically phrased like this, "Con must prove X is not true" is where you will work your semantics.
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Yes if you managed to build your case on the semantic analysis of the topic itself. It is never against the rules, but it may be desirable and that is the real reason we rarely do so.
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@Dr.Franklin
That is due to the difference in what we consider as "efficient".
For example, an AI completely disconnected with the human morality system might consider a solution that reaps the lives of all humans in a 500kmx500km area the most efficient, but an AI built to take into consideration human morality might not. And to humans, for how immoral such an act is it wouldn't be "efficient".
Though, I think dropping atom bombs on Japan is one of the lesser immoral options, beating the prolonging of Japanese warfare for several years by a long margin.
Should we build AI systems so that it thinks like an augmented human?
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Well, transgenders are not the transgender doctrine, that's for sure. The latter labels some queer children as trans prematurely and without solid-enough proof and think they are correct.
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Well, people also bully people to the point where they develop dysphoria. But I do agree that the children deserve to be, you know, not bullied.
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