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fruitvilla

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  1. I see, there is fog on the channel; Europe is cut off.
  2. FIFY Do you live in a country where you get real snowfalls? I do and my Ford Focus, at times, just does not cut it.
  3. That is true for aspects of the left too. Critical Theories for example.
  4. While I agree with this ... I remain agnostic ... ie I don't have an ideology or doctrine regarding gods. Nah - people cause it - under the banner of religion Nah ... evil (and good) are social constructs ... literally, they are figments of our collective imagination. Also, I think you mean theistic disaster, rather than theological. Or perhaps religious disaster.
  5. Tomorrow morning, I'll get up in a leisurely fashion around 8 am. And watch a recording of the game. During which, Mrs FV has promised to make breakfast. We 'spring forward' tonight so not going to sweat it. I will avoid VT before watching and if we don't get at least a draw, I am staying away until Monday. Enjoy the game.
  6. How much of that £5 is tax, the actual cost of the drink, plus there will be sundries like filling and cleaning the delivery machine, extra insurance, etc. Extra security, extra janitorial requirements. I don't think the calculation is as simple as you make out.
  7. I was thinking American Woman
  8. It is Gretzky's "You miss a 100% of the shots you don't take."
  9. Most days ... go over to my neighbour's garage around 4 pm and a few other neighbours get together for a happy hour. Believe it or not, boulangeries came up in the topic of conversation today.
  10. Neat. The 11 bus route was the closest to where I lived and I routinely caught the 50 (and then hopped on to the 54) to get to school. Other local bus routes were 48/49 that went into town and the 2 and 27 routes that headed off in exotic (Stirchley) directions. Can't place the 1 route. The cream and blue livery was a classic.
  11. I get that. To me, it seems a logical position. Yet you have described yourself as a Catholic. I am not understanding something here. Do you see my disquiet? Again this seems contradictory to me in some sense. You know something exists but you are not aware of its supposed properties. Being lazy is a strength.
  12. Interesting. What is the purpose of thinking of yourself as a Catholic?
  13. More or less agree, but I would not ' blame' it all on Paul. While this is likely true for you, it is at the heart of Catholicism and much of the rest of Christianity. It is a side story in Islam, not core other than that everything is true in the Quran. You seem to say it is not even true, never mind a core story? While the Gospels can be taken as a parable of how to lead one's life, fair enough. But I am sure there are more up-to-date books that require less creative interpretation that can inspire us. This leads us to the properties of the God that you 'know' exists and I presume occasionaly pray to.
  14. I don't particularly care about the authenticity of the story. I don't think it is authentic. I do wonder how people might come to such a belief though. But this 'story' is a core belief of mainline Christianity. This of course includes Catholicism. So, if one does not believe in this story then the bits that follow including the crucifixion and salvation make little sense. So without this particular belief in this "big miracle" then I don't find the whole thing particularly coherent.
  15. Well if we are talking of hypotheticals ... sell them equipment/technology for digging up the gold and canalization of the water ... in exchange for some of that water. The more interesting question would be what would happen if the nation with gold and water were inclined to philosophical agnosticism?
  16. Pascal anticipated this question. We are told he did an extensive study of various religions and came to the conclusion Catholicism was the best bet. By an amazing coincidence, this was the religion of which he was already a member. But I do wonder how Pascal would have modified his wager in light of the Bayes theorem which was published a hundred years or so later.
  17. Possibly true, but it is difficult to reconcile philosophical agnostics starting wars. We're not sure but let's start a war anyway?
  18. The thing I don't get in this day and age is the belief that an angel came to a woman called Maryam (Mary) and foretold of some kind of divine birth, possibly parthenogenic. This belief is mostly true for two of the major Abrahamic religions, Islam and Christianity. I don't have the skill set required to hold this belief.
  19. The problem with Pascal's wager is that he puts zero negative value on living a lie. Also, if we wish to take Pascal, hook, line and sinker, we would likely choose to be Catholics. In my personal experience, I don't choose to believe stuff; more that I grow into beliefs or wake up one morning finding myself holding a position, I might not have admitted to the day before. Have you read any Joseph Campbell?
  20. I know what you mean ... I get taken in by essentialism sometimes ... I'm thinking of my lost father's penknife.
  21. I'm a bit like Bertrand Russel with respect to this ... Philosophically agnostic but pragmatically atheist. This diagram I think helps describe the positions. Of course there are other takes:
  22. Yeah ... some people like their pet speculations. When it comes to individuals and groups, doing science is really hard work. Personally, any horror I might create I blame on my brain chemistry. And should I conjure up a demon or two, in my saner moments that too would be my brain chemistry in action.
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