About a month ago, I was cruising YouTube and came across the title “What is the Purpose of Freedom?” I enjoy taking deep philosophical dives of “What is X” and “Why do we have x?” so I watched the video.
It is only 4 1/2 minutes long. Good thing because…
Musescore is a free music notation program which allows us to write in musical notation like Word or Libreoffice Writer allows us to write in normal language.
It is popular because it is free and yet is able to be almost as useful as commercial software costing hundreds of dollars.
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Well, that's a lot of verbiage to a simple statement of fact. All of which you believe to be true.
But you got one thing wrong. The agnostic claims the question "is there a supernatural?" cannot be answered by humans. …
In one of those odd coincidences that make theists see the hand of God in action, after posting the comment below, the very next article I read contained the definition of "mumpsimus":
"A mumpsimus is someone who obstinately clings to an error, bad habit or prejudice, even after they have been decisively and unambiguously proven wrong."
The article can be found here.
I, like many Americans, appreciate the separation between church and state that has guided American thought and action, private and public, for generations.
Would you like this separation, this wall, to be weakened or would you like it to continue unobstructed? Would you like some government agency to have the power to dictate your religious observences to comply to its political whim?
No? Then perhaps you should refrain from attempting to inject your religious whims into our political lives. If you open a door, you allow traffic in both directions.
You are correct, the increase in wealth has little or nothing to do, directly, with a "look out for number one" philosophy. …
It may be, but is it? What evidence do you have? In the early 1990s, I read an article about this upstart Bill Gates. It made a dire accusation against him. It claimed that due to the direct efforts of Gates/Microsoft, there were now more than 12,000 people who had…
An interesting article, but not very helpful. While you give a list of the most reliable (according to your criteria) news sources, the "unreliable" ones are, to the best of my knowledge, all opinion sites. I would expect Jacobin to lean far to the left and Dan Bongino to lean…
I read the NASA report and it says no such thing. The global sea level is rising, but it has been rising at a very constant rate for as long as we have been measuring it, and as near as we can tell, as far back as after the last…
One might call it "Derrida'a Paradox." If the statement: "all language refers to nothing but itself in a circle that explains nothing about nothing" is true, then the statement itself is meaningless. And meaningless statements, being meaningless, can neither be true nor false.
Either way, it tells us absolutely nothing…
