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Achilles

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Posted in: Absolute Fact / Universal Truth
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 7:37 PM
#92
It's not possible since you can't prove "wet" really exists. PROVE ME WRONG!...  [Read More]
Posted in: Absolute Fact / Universal Truth
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 6:59 PM
#89
You have no idea....  [Read More]
Posted in: Absolute Fact / Universal Truth
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 6:54 PM
#87
Let me pose a question to you, Achilles. Have you ever considered that, throughout this entire debate, your styles and etiquettes of debating might not be correct?"Correct" compared to what? That you may be wrong in how you are approaching...  [Read More]
Posted in: Absolute Fact / Universal Truth
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 5:58 PM
#84
:words:Okay see you bye bye...  [Read More]
Posted in: Absolute Fact / Universal Truth
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 5:21 PM
#81
That sounds like a challenge. :D How about the 'fact' that burning releases the phlogiston in a substance?This one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory)? The phlogiston theory <snip>, first stated in 1667 by Johann Joachim Becher,...  [Read More]
Posted in: Absolute Fact / Universal Truth
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 4:10 PM
#78
Well Achilles. I don't know what to say. People are proving you wrong, and your creating a string of exceptions.I'm simply pointing out that what you think a fact is and what a fact actually is are not the same thing. I've invited you to provide a...  [Read More]
Posted in: Absolute Fact / Universal Truth
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 3:35 PM
#75
Ah. Your argument is based on exceptions. And your rebuttal is based on a lack of understanding the difference between a fact and a model. All of your examples are models of understanding. None of them are facts. "That bird is black" is a...  [Read More]
Posted in: Absolute Fact / Universal Truth
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 1:44 PM
#73
Facts can be absolutely true. Not always, but they can be ;)Perhaps I could better understand the argument if you could provide an example of a time where a fact was false. Not an example where we misunderstood a fact and had to revise our model afte...  [Read More]
Posted in: Absolute Fact / Universal Truth
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 1:11 AM
#69
Burden of proof = debate etiquette.Sophism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophists) And with that, I'm finished. The last word is yours lest some resurrects the discussion with something worth discussing....  [Read More]
Posted in: Absolute Fact / Universal Truth
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 1:02 AM
#67
My friend, we have reached an impass which you cannot further disreputate my argument...At no point has that been my job. Burden of proof (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof) ...without running the risk that I am right and you are wrong.....  [Read More]
Posted in: Absolute Fact / Universal Truth
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 12:29 AM
#65
Achilles, are you completely ignoring what I'm saying?Not at all. How could I possibly find the flaws in your arguments without actually reading them? It's a human concept, and human concepts have the same possibility of being right or wrong.No, not...  [Read More]
Posted in: Absolute Fact / Universal Truth
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 12:04 AM
#62
Human concept. So is the concept that everything is nothing more than a human concept. Ignore your own rules at the risk of your credibility. QFT, but after college philosophy, I still agree with True_AveryI had to take quite a bit for both my grad...  [Read More]
Posted in: Israeli/Palestinian Conflict MEGATHREAD
  Achilles
01-07-2009, 11:18 PM
#137
the pope didn't say the concentration camp lineNope, sure didn't, but his administration did. and (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/08/aid-ceasefire-gaza-israel-palestinians) i'd (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/07/gaza-israel-obama...  [Read More]
Posted in: Israeli/Palestinian Conflict MEGATHREAD
  Achilles
01-07-2009, 10:57 PM
#135
See post #131. Whether there is anything there or not, I imagine that the Israelis might be sensitive to the comparison....  [Read More]
Posted in: Israeli/Palestinian Conflict MEGATHREAD
  Achilles
01-07-2009, 10:10 PM
#133
Especially coming from the "Panzer Pope". :pYou read my mind. Added by edit: The plot thickens. Iraq's Sadr urges reprisals against US over Gaza war (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/01/iraqs_sadr_urges_reprisals_against_us_ove...  [Read More]
Posted in: Israeli/Palestinian Conflict MEGATHREAD
  Achilles
01-07-2009, 8:52 PM
#130
"Look at the conditions in Gaza: more and more, it resembles a big concentration camp." What an unfortunate choice of words....  [Read More]
Posted in: Israeli/Palestinian Conflict MEGATHREAD
  Achilles
01-06-2009, 2:58 PM
#124
Israel shells near UN school, killing at least 30 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090106/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians)...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Official Obama debate thread.
  Achilles
01-10-2009, 10:20 PM
#60
Emaciated...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Official Obama debate thread.
  Achilles
01-10-2009, 8:59 PM
#58
Fine. I'll throw in your choice of an autographed 8.5x11 of Monica Lewinsky or Ann Coulter. The actual Ann Coulter....  [Read More]
Posted in: The Official Obama debate thread.
  Achilles
01-10-2009, 8:48 PM
#56
and Dennis Kucinich never invaded a foreign country....  [Read More]
Posted in: The Official Obama debate thread.
  Achilles
01-10-2009, 8:32 PM
#54
I'll trade you my 1991 George H.W. Bush for it. Mint condition....  [Read More]
Posted in: The Official Obama debate thread.
  Achilles
01-10-2009, 8:20 PM
#52
I wonder what a Bill Richardson card will be worth.... 2 Mike Gravels and an Alan Keyes....  [Read More]
Posted in: The Official Obama debate thread.
  Achilles
01-10-2009, 7:37 PM
#50
However, trading cards are just a little over the Topp. Well done. :) I'm not sure which sickens me more: the knowledge that some people are so blatantly trying to cash in on something that should be above this type of crap or the knowledge that th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Atheist Slogans on Buses
  Achilles
01-08-2009, 7:32 PM
#45
I'm rebooting this discussion because the ad campaign has drawn a complaint... from a Christian Group. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7818980.stm)*gasp* "There is plenty of evidence for God, from people's personal experience,subjective "t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  Achilles
01-10-2009, 9:09 PM
#4824
Hookers and blow...  [Read More]
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