Recent content by nathan71088

Oh sorry, I thought the question was "simply. why should Israel exist?" as in " Quote: Originally Posted by BigPole You obviously don't understand the situation there. If the Palestinians weren't murderes they could live in peace with the Jews. They're coercing themselves out of Israel. your...

I get the "it should not exist" part and I even get the "fuck Israel" bit mainly because you keep saying that. Well, Fuck AIDS, Fuck poverty, Fuck war, Fuck death and while we are at it Fuck greed, Fuck organised crime, Fuck unorganised crime, Fuck child abuse, Fuck inequality and you know what...

It is not MY duty to do YOUR research. all books that are in favor of Israel are on the basis of the UN resolution 181 and the way Jews were treated in Europe. "ALL books..." All? Surely you don't expect people to believe you have looked at every book, every article, every journal, every...

bigboyjames: why should israel exist There is literature on this. If you really want to know the answer to this question, that I am sure is asked by many, then this is the wrong place to be asking it. For a well researched and sensible answer go looking for it, but I am pretty certain it will...

"we have been lied to" "institution" "corrupt" These words...along with "greater good and the truth " often point towards some kind of conspiratorial pre-constructed notion. I am not challenging you as a person but the idea of: "zionist institution in this world are at the bottom of the dirt...

It's good to see you thinknig and being passionate about your position. Complaceny of the mind is often a major cause of disaster. We are all rational people here. I don't really want to go into the religious side of things because that always turns ugly, besides, that dance has been done...

In the past I have tried to argue for Israel. I have tried arguing against the UN identified terrorist acts of groups in Palestine as well. I have even tried defending Israel's military actions. It is now clear to me that these avenues of argument are only effectual for those wishing to DISCUSS...

Quoting her again: I would say that the idea that "murder is wrong" was the simplest form of empathy possible, and a value that we had to hold in order to survive. It could be from many reasons; we need to survive as a group of numbers, we are an incredibly social species, and death was...

I would say that the idea that "murder is wrong" was the simplest form of empathy possible, and a value that we had to hold in order to survive. It could be from many reasons; we need to survive as a group of numbers, we are an incredibly social species, and death was something quite real, and...

I will try to respond as conciscely as possible in three aprts to your three part response. 1) Burden of proof- I have seen much talk on this issue and I haven't really thought much on it. I know by Board of Studies definition "Discuss" means to bring points for and/or against. So I think it is...

These axioms merely allow us to say we exist, there are other things which exist, we can make observations about most of these things which exist. It's a matter of what is needed to begin any basic sort of investigation of anything and not to just fall into a completely nihilistic hole. I like...

Your points are good. I would like to post responses to each but I believe you would have responses to those and I personally hate it when a thread degenrates into a tit-for-tat where people just go on forever so I want to respond to one major point of what you have written. "however I do think...

Ah, yes, you do act a certain way by what you believe...but I ask you this, say the world WAS going to end tomorow, say there WERE NO other minds but your own: would you act differently? Your answer should be obvious because you just said " We can only base what we believe upon what we observe"...

This notion of pixies seems to be an argument that comes up frequently. It is fallacious though. The link between pixies and god is constructed on the basis that we do not have proof that either exists. People feel comfortable making this comparison because the claim is that both have powers...

This argument is what's known as: The Levers theory. Simply put your argument is: "The world exists in such a way that the only possible explanation for why everything 'works'...is god. This notion produces whats known as the lottery fallacy. In a lottery a 100 trillion people may enter the...