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I'm not trying to be a kill-joy. I'm trying to understand the differences (between my own mind and the mind of others) when it comes to the recollection of dreams. And the recollection part is important as, when being able to describe a dream we are awake, not dreaming. For some people, they can ide...

I've long wondered about this, and a recent news item renewed my interest in exploring it further. A new type of eye-surgery (for a specific eye problem) involves the connection of a low-resolution light-sensitive array to the optical nerves... giving the patients a very limited type of vision; a lo...

I'm getting mildly disenchanted with watching you fling accusations every second sentence, entertaining though it is. No the Saxons didn't cause the European Dark Ages, Yes they were major factors in the breakdown of the social order that led to a Dark Age in England . I mean, how hard is this for ...

Except I wasn't talking about race I was talking about culture. Liberals are still fighting the race-based arguments of the 20th century. So, then. Culture. Is it a static thing or an evolving thing? Around the same time as the Germanic warriors decided to "invade" this Romano-British lan...

these Romano-Britains - AKA French-Italians Just a wee correction to a relatively minor point, but referring to the Romans as Italians is more than a little off the mark. As the empire expanded, citizenship was within the purview of the newly-conquered... by serving time in the army. The Roman troo...

What percentage of UK paedophiles are Christian? I'm using "Christian" as a synonym for "white" because those Asian men sound nothing like Muslims. There are (naturally) concerns and doubts about BNP claims of Asian grooming gangs, because they concentrate on the Asian element mo...

If you can't remember it, Google "GM Frankenstein Food". You will only get more recent hits, but the phraseology has been there from near the very beginning. With the rapidity of a hammer-to-patella and an up-flung-foot. My gripe wasn't so much about anti-scientific-progress campaigners, a...

I remember when I first heard about GM technology. It was an exciting idea... that we had access to some of nature's blueprints and could actually make changes to them - circumventing the aeons required for evolution to finally get there (if it ever did). Then the media found out about it and labell...

Frank wrote:Tickling - immoral?

Yes. Yes it is.

Oh, hang on... giving or receiving?

Macgamer, over the Summer period, please take the time to read John Stuart Mill's On Liberty . It's just one book (most likely including some of his other writings) and not a (particularly) controversial one. You should find little in there that would offend you. You may well disagree with some of i...

Perhaps I misjudged how much progress I had made and I wasn't ready to give a full defence and account of myself before RedCelt69 in particular... far more persuasive than RedCelt69... Debating with RedCelt69 has not brought out the best in me What!? Don't go turning this into something about me. Y...

Adding spices or flavouring to food, does not prevent me from gaining sustenance from the eating of it. So, you're borderline starving then, yeah? You've never eaten for the pleasure of the flavours... only for sustenance, every single time? We should be able to play your ribs like a xylophone. Unl...

I do not see how I am being irrational by holding the view that the evolved function of sex is reproduction. Oh, now, why should anyone accuse you of a lack of engagement. You held that same view 8 years ago when you joined TheSinner, didn't you? You've certainly held that same view for the 4 years...

I did say "not here, not now" didn't I? The following is an extract of what will appear on my site. Follow the intuition pump to the end (of both timelines) and take it from there. The Nuham thought experiment You find yourself in the possession of a number of eggs. When they open, you fin...

I've observed your disputation about humanism in this thread and elsewhere and you still have failed to convey what you understand by humanism, or you have not at least offered a view of humanism that anyone here finds particularly attractive. Sell your humanism to The Sinner. Not here. Not now. Th...

Indeed, but can biochemistry or neuroscience explain consciousness or love? Can it explain it? Science isn't limited by tense. Saying it cannot explain something is not the same as saying that it will not explain something. The brain is like a little box of magic... except, there is no such thing a...

This would have been posted in the old forum for stuff found on the internet.

Worth a look: The Scale of the Universe

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth... ...sex is the motion of flesh on flesh. It is a handshake; a slightly messy handshake, as we are but a bag of chemicals that sometimes excrete. Of course, sex is a very enjoyable motion of flesh on flesh, but joy is merely a trick of the mind - the release of chemi...

The Cellar Bar, no wall of text that you offer will make any difference to macgamer's position. He worships the church, not Jesus, and his church is built upon St Paul and Aquinas. The Vatican and macgamer find it difficult to change their position; dead men can't change their minds.

Why? Give sound and valid reasoning why I should expend even more time explaining my position. To you. Because, at the moment, I have zero motivation to do so. I've already said that some instantly understand my position; while others don't. Of the few who contributed to the previous discussion, I'l...