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Sex before marriage?


regg: Re: Sex before marriage?: Despite all the dramatic statistics regarding high divorce rates I remain optimistic about marriage. It will not become a eccentricity for minorities, we are not build to live alone and cohabitation... (19/02/2010 - 00:53)

Day One: A Sir Toby's Creation Myth


john doyle: Re: Day One: A Sir Toby's Creation Myth: I knew that the T.I. story hadn’t finished, but given the amount of open space currently available at OST I thought I’d use some of it. Your remark about my appearance suggests that... (18/02/2010 - 20:46)
peter wilkinson: Re: Day One: A Sir Toby's Creation Myth: This represents a considerable upping of the anti, a raising of the stakes. But should we be disappointing each other in destroying the mental image we had formed of each other’s... (18/02/2010 - 20:11)
john doyle: Re: Day One: A Sir Toby's Creation Myth: Day One, part two: the link is HERE. Part three to follow in a day or two… (18/02/2010 - 18:23)

Sir Toby Redivivus?


john doyle: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: “Odd,” said Dupin. “Proceed,” said I. “Or not,” said Dupin. (16/02/2010 - 22:16)
peter wilkinson: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: Yes, and Eremite (see previous post) is almost an anagram of ‘Emirate’. Significant? (16/02/2010 - 21:12)
john doyle: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: Perhaps the worthy vessel needs to hoist anchor and set sail for Al Wasl. (16/02/2010 - 18:43)
peter wilkinson: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: No, not at all. I have become like Scheherazade in the 1001 Arabian Nights. I have to keep telling stories to delay my execution. Or maybe to postpone the axe being applied to the website.... (15/02/2010 - 12:28)
john doyle: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: Just because we know the moral doesn’t mean the story is over, does it? (15/02/2010 - 00:15)
peter wilkinson: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: Clearly, the moral of this episode, prompting the unexpected  foregoing parenthetical literary divagations, and arising from the thwarted attempt of the three to find a theological treatise... (14/02/2010 - 20:10)
john doyle: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: Instead of the commentary, it was part of an imagined discussion between three dramatis personae. “How long now, Sage: a month? two?” The Old Man nodded noncommitally – it... (14/02/2010 - 18:19)
john doyle: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: “So we have arrived too late,” said Ben Gunn sardonically, leaning on his spade. “And what is the difficulty now?” I asked. “Nothing more in the assassination way,... (14/02/2010 - 18:11)
peter wilkinson: Re: Sir Toby Redivivus?: Beneath a crescent moon, in a clearing in the forest, two shadowy figures were wielding spades in a hole, while the third held a lanthorn aloft, the better to view their exertions. Sudenly, one... (14/02/2010 - 17:04)

Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith


john doyle: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: Then Elohim said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; and let them be for... (16/02/2010 - 15:19)
john doyle: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: What I found relevant in the episode was that the person who had suffered the stroke could still sense color but could no longer use color pragmatically as a tool in puzzle-solving. As we know, there... (16/02/2010 - 14:51)
john doyle: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: Well I must say that I’m intrigued by your project, Jacob. NT Wright considers himself a critical realist too, but I suspect that in matters of faith I’d be more in agreement with you... (16/02/2010 - 14:29)
Jacob: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: The point of the Neurological research is ultimately about usefulness, not truthfulness.  These scientists are trying to intervene, manipulate, control, and change.  It is superfluous... (16/02/2010 - 03:57)
Jacob: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: “As you say, Jacob, that’s the pragmatic point; my point is that there are limits to pragmatism. I’m suggesting that whether or not something exists or some event happened is... (16/02/2010 - 03:51)
john doyle: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: Here’s something apropos the discussion of pragmatic realism. My wife is reading a book called My Stroke of Insight, in which neuroscientist Jill Taylor describes her massive left-hemispheric... (15/02/2010 - 00:38)
john doyle: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: “What is the use in asking “did it happen?”  That is the pragmatic point” As you say, Jacob, that’s the pragmatic point; my point is that there are limits to... (14/02/2010 - 16:40)
Jacob: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: “If lions kill a giraffe and eat it without anyone witnessing the event, did it happen? If you say no, then aren’t you giving priority to the human perspective over that of the giraffe (... (14/02/2010 - 15:44)
john doyle: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: This thoroughgoing intersubjective pragmatism solves some problems while opening up new ones. It’s like the old “if the tree falls in the woods and nobody sees” riddle. If lions... (14/02/2010 - 15:09)
Jacob: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: “Thinking,” as Rorty would put it, doesn’t refer to anything in your head or mind.  It is a useful word that helps coordinate your action with those people around you.  ... (14/02/2010 - 02:49)
Jacob: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: I agree.  There is a value in making such distinctions.  As Richard Rorty nicely put it: “All the descriptions we give of things are descriptions suited to our purposes... (14/02/2010 - 02:38)
john doyle: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: “I am talking about a relational understanding of the world, not an understanding based on a subjective/objective dualism.” I realize that we reached a nice conclusion to our... (14/02/2010 - 00:34)
Jacob: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: Likewise.  Very nice discussion. (13/02/2010 - 04:49)
john doyle: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: Nice post and enjoyable discussion, Jacob. (13/02/2010 - 04:06)
Jacob: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: Being-with?  Of course, you know, it always depends on who you ask.  Don Cupitt has his take on the matter and so does John D. Caputo and so do others moving along similar theological lines... (13/02/2010 - 03:32)
john doyle: Re: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: “If you could leave off the “effort either to avoid or to compensate for subjective biases” we would be in agreement” I put that statement in purposely because it’s... (13/02/2010 - 02:54)

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." But what day?


regg: Re: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." But what day?: You have a very good point and this is not just on Sabbath but also in other important Holidays like Christmas or Easter. We live in an industrialized world, the owners of those restaurants are... (16/02/2010 - 00:21)
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