Carrot Flower King
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Me: the late, great Peter Jones as The Book in Hitch-Hiker's Guide (original radio series).
Merged The razor of Hitchens and the Spirits!
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Me: the late, great Peter Jones as The Book in Hitch-Hiker's Guide (original radio series).
Thermal
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James Earl Jones' voice would really bring it home, here.
I Am The Scum
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Thermal
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OK Dave!
Skeptics you need to consider the value of non-empirical knowledge and the dynamic nature of knowledge
Thermal
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We do. It's been mentioned several times.
JayUtah
Penultimate Amazing
We have. What did we tell you the last time you raised this issue?
I want to start the debate from scratch! Is it possible?
I want to start the debate from scratch! Is it possible?
I Am The Scum
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Only spirits are allowed to start debates over. Can you present one for us?
Thermal
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No. Just pick up where you left off. There's no point in going back to the beginning and repeating stuff.
No! You are very demanding with evidence!
why ?
Thermal
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Exactly why?
Roundy, roundy, roundy we go on our way to nowhere.
Why? Can you tell us?
Breach of rule 4, specifically posting unattributed text generated by AI.
Let us suppose that, by some circumstance, an entire people were to acquire the certainty that in eight days, in a month, in a year if you will, they would be annihilated, and that no individual would survive, that there would be no trace of themselves after death; what would they do during this time? Would they work for their betterment, for their education? Would they devote themselves to work in order to live? Would they respect the rights, the goods, the lives of their fellow men? Would they submit to the laws, to any authority, even the most legitimate: paternal authority? Would they have any duty whatsoever? Certainly not. Well then! What cannot be achieved en masse, the doctrine of nihilism achieves, each day, individually. If the consequences of this are not as disastrous as they might be, it is firstly because among the majority of unbelievers there is more bravado than true incredulity, more doubt than conviction, and because they are more afraid of nothingness than they try to appear: the title of strong-mindedness flatters their self-esteem; secondly, because absolute unbelievers are a tiny minority; despite themselves, they feel the ascendancy of the contrary opinion and are maintained by a material force; but if absolute incredulity were one day to become the opinion of the majority, society would be in dissolution. This is what the propagation of the doctrine of nihilism tends to do.
Mojo
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No, because everyone remembers what you have already posted, and the rebuttals of it, even if you can't.
If you want to start again, all you need to do is go back to the start of the thread and read it.
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Mojo
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No, he's too busy reading the whole thread again from the start.
Aren't you, Calderaro?
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