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  1. Nous

    Jussie Smollett Hate Crime

    Why or how does something here give a black eye to news sources, talk show hosts and politicians? Feel free to name names.
  2. Nous

    the Alantic: Scientists are totally rethinking cognition

    Yes, fer God's sake, non-human animals are conscious. We just have difficulty imagining what the conscious experience of an ant, a frog or a dog is like. I find the persistence of the idea that consciousness is somehow an effect of something happening in brains to be quite interesting and...
  3. Nous

    Coincidence? What's That?

    No, you have understood my offhand comment entirely; that's good enough for me. Of course, I think I have seen data on the frequency of shared death experiences. I might use the phrase "not uncommon" to describe them -- merely in order to irritate those people whom that would irritate.
  4. Nous

    Coincidence? What's That?

    I have never seen any data on how "normal" it is for persons to dream of a parent. But it doesn't matter, because that has nothing to do with the topic here -- of trying to "explain" highly unusual occurrences such as described in the OP by claiming that it was a "coincidence." You might become...
  5. Nous

    Are Age Restrictions for Buying and Possessing Guns Constitutional?

    I was just commenting on @james dixon 's comment. He doesn't seem to have minded.
  6. Nous

    Moral Nihilism

    Actually you are who doesn't seem to understand what moral nihilism is. I've quoted 2 sources defining the thesis. And the purpose of my comment about your making statements about what people should or should not do was to point out your inconsistency with moral nihilism. An actual moral...
  7. Nous

    Moral Nihilism

    What does that mean? You didn't give any reason by which to conclude that the quoted thesis of moral nihilism is a true proposition. Correct?
  8. Nous

    Moral Nihilism

    The title of the thread is "Moral Nihilism," and the OP and you have tried to suggest that there is something logical about the thesis. I asked you to state an argument for the thesis and for what the OP advocates about feelings. What's wrong with that!!!???
  9. Nous

    Are Age Restrictions for Buying and Possessing Guns Constitutional?

    Even the "recreational" use of weapons such a nuclear bombs is too unsafe to allow the public to possess. The same is true for a lot of other weapons. Don't you agree?
  10. Nous

    Moral Nihilism

    So you're not able to argue for the thesis of moral nihilism or for allowing one's "feelings at the moment" dictate what is moral or immoral? There is no reason to try to avoid admitting the facts about moral nihilism here.
  11. Nous

    Moral Nihilism

    Sheesh! The irony is that thesself avowed nihilist is issuing shoulds and should -nots because there is something wrong about doing or not-doing the things.
  12. Nous

    Moral Nihilism

    But as already noted several times here, moral nihilism is the thesis that there exist no objective moral facts or true moral propositions. It isn't the claim that one merely hasn't come across a true moral proposition during one's daily routine, or haven't seen an objective moral fact through a...
  13. Nous

    Coincidence? What's That?

    Thank you. So when you use the word "coincidence " here, you mean that there is just a non-zero probability. Is that correct? If so, does a non-zero probability of coinciding events happening necessarily eliminate other explanations? See the example of the 9/11 hijackers. Wow! Yeah, "the...
  14. Nous

    Coincidence? What's That?

    I bet I've read more on the issue of the reliability of memory than you have. Note that I prefaced my questions with "So . . . assuming that Lisa and her husband didn't just fabricate all the above . . ." If that assumption upsets you, then you are free to not post here.
  15. Nous

    Jussie Smollett Hate Crime

    One would think he would be more careful and clever in his plan, in doing things that could and certainly would be so readily discovered. The purchase of the rope, the acquaintance, the multitude of videos! He's going straight to that TV show about dumb criminals!
  16. Nous

    Coincidence? What's That?

    George, for a long time I've wanted to mention to you that I don't like the word paranormal. No offense.
  17. Nous

    Coincidence? What's That?

    I definitely conclude that one should evaluate occurrences such as described in the OP in accordance with our best evidence and logic. @George-ananda described the shared death experience as "paranormal" (I don't like that term -- I think it's prejudicial), other people might say the OP...
  18. Nous

    Coincidence? What's That?

    Thank you for sharing that. Were there any other oddities that you can note about these dreams -- besides their vividness and conveyance of precognitive information? I've had only one precognitive dream that I remember -- since I had a particular "explanatory" dream in my early 20s, I remember...
  19. Nous

    Coincidence? What's That?

    I think my friend would agree -- such an explanation did cconflict somewhat with her worldview. But since then, she seems to have become very fond of the holographic principle, and eats up all evidence that is consistent with that thesis. (Her son-in-law, a physcist at CERN, helps her to...
  20. Nous

    Coincidence? What's That?

    I agree, at least insofar as "coincidence" is defined as something more than two events temporally coinciding. And that's really the issue that I wanted to raise here, not how one might otherwise account for the conjunction of the events. I think it wouldn't be uncommon for people to assert that...
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