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  1. RestlessSoul

    Is it possible to conduct a war on terrorists without sheer overwhelming force?

    The British army fought a war against the IRA, as well as Loyalist terrorist groups like the UVF and the UDA, which lasted for three decades. If the UK government had even considered using the brutal and indiscriminanent methods the IDF are currently undertaking against the civilian population...
  2. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    Yes, physics works, especially when it tells us something meaningful about nature. But it doesn’t really tell us much about human nature, and nothing at all about how we should live. Physics is not the only thing which works btw. So does faith, as anyone who has relied upon it to see them...
  3. RestlessSoul

    Was anybody here alive during the cold war ?

    During years of Trade Union activism, I was frequently told “if you don’t like it, why don’t you eff off to Russia?” Which was a bit tiresome.
  4. RestlessSoul

    They made an actual film about Donald Trump

    Who, in the name of arse, would want to watch that?
  5. RestlessSoul

    Was anybody here alive during the cold war ?

    I remember watching the end of communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall on television. It was quite a surreal time, because my generation had grown up thinking that Europe would be divided into East and West for all of our lives. With hindsight, the collapse of the Soviet Union meant liberation...
  6. RestlessSoul

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Please show how consciousness arises from matter. And when you’ve done that, go and collect your Nobel Prize.
  7. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    Well yes, it would be egotistical to think the purpose of the universe were us; but I don’t think that at all. I think we’re all part of something far greater than ourselves, and that there is an underlying purpose behind the majesty that surrounds us, flows through us, and inspires us to wonder...
  8. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    It appears most unreasonable to me, to deny the astronomical improbability of our universe even allowing galaxies to develop, never mind sentient apes evolving on a planet somewhere in one of those galaxies. Had the critical density of the universe at the time of the Big Bang deviated by a...
  9. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    The deck of card analogy only works here, if every micro-state (in this case, every random arrangement of cards) results in a nearly equivalent macro-state (ie. a shuffled deck). But we are not talking about any shuffled deck; the universe we observe, is one in which the cards are precisely...
  10. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    Didn’t String Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity get lost in the weeds years ago? I’m pretty sure many of the scientists working in these fields have begun to intuit that they’re chasing ghosts… Yes of course intuitive insights should be tested wherever possible, as should all speculative...
  11. RestlessSoul

    Why is there anything at all?

    Robert Kuhn's PBS and Youtube channels are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of pure reason, to see how far it can take us in pursuit of truth. I've watched several episodes in which Kuhn respectfully interrogates philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, psychiatrists, theologians etc. The...
  12. RestlessSoul

    If We All Became Atheists?

    Well your response to my comment was a mini polemic about US foreign policy. So I responded directly to that.
  13. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    Yeah, this I think is one reason why, despite being unfalsifiable, various Multiverse and Many Worlds theories are taken seriously in scientific circles: Given unlimited events, statistical near-irrelevencies become inevitabilities. And given an infinite number of universes, a universe as...
  14. RestlessSoul

    Cursive Writing

    There was a radio DJ in England called Tony Blackburn, who had a lot of fun with the song Shagging by Ceelo Green. I guess you know what shagging means in England? Was a great tune btw
  15. RestlessSoul

    If We All Became Atheists?

    What do you expect from a nation founded by religious zealots and imperialist adventurers?
  16. RestlessSoul

    Why is there anything at all?

    Give me questions which can’t be answered over answers which can’t be questioned, every time.
  17. RestlessSoul

    If We All Became Atheists?

    Because without God’s help loving others, especially those who have harmed or threatened to harm us, may prove too difficult.
  18. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    Were they even slightly different, I likely wouldn’t be here at all. “Why did the universe start out with so nearly the critical rate of expansion that separates models that re collapse from those that go on expanding forever, so that even now, fourteen thousand million years later, it is still...
  19. RestlessSoul

    If We All Became Atheists?

    Obviously as an antidote to destructive behaviour, religion has frequently been far from effective. No argument from me there. My point was that the fundamental values on which most religions are founded, albeit values from which their adherents frequently stray, are generally benign...
  20. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    Two basic laws which govern the behaviour of mass and energy in space and time, perhaps. Not sure you can account for all of existence, without accounting for the great mystery which is time. But if all the delicately weighted complexity we see around us truly emerges from deep simplicity...
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