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by animist
May 11th, 2020, 3:14 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: Predestination, causality, culpability
Replies: 1
Views: 15413

Re: Predestination, causality, culpability

Compo, much as I like you and wish you the best, it is posts like this which have deterred (well, more like demotivated) me from response for some time. But hey, my password seems to have allowed me to enter the forum again (I am tempted to quip that passwords have free will, but no, of course not)....
by animist
December 14th, 2019, 6:07 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: We live in an evil world
Replies: 4
Views: 12356

Re: We live in an evil world

but how could the world be "good"? If there were no death then all populations of all species would continue ad infinitum - yes?
by animist
November 21st, 2019, 1:49 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Election 2019
Replies: 3
Views: 13158

Re: Election 2019

coffee, your suggestion is virtually the opposite of the truth. Hung parliaments like the one just dissolved cannot effect change! It has failed to bring about Brexit, as you must surely know
by animist
June 19th, 2019, 12:57 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...
Replies: 127
Views: 100121

Re: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...

Deciding to leave without a deal means uncertainty will end. Businesses will know where they stand on October 31st. https://twitter.com/BillCashMP/status/1140863463973105664 Deciding to detonate a few nuclear weapons means uncertainty will end, but it's interesting to see you seem to have bought in...
by animist
June 9th, 2019, 12:43 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...
Replies: 127
Views: 100121

Re: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...

No deal no problem said the man walking to the cliff edge - in Deal :laughter: The one thing no Brexiter will tell you is what price he/she is willing to pay for Brexit. Nor are they concerned about what cost others will have to pay for Brexit. yes, what really pisses me off (well, one of the myria...
by animist
June 9th, 2019, 10:19 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...
Replies: 127
Views: 100121

Re: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...

coffee wrote:No deal no problem
said the man walking to the cliff edge - in Deal :laughter:
by animist
May 26th, 2019, 1:14 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...
Replies: 127
Views: 100121

Re: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...

having apparently failed to correctly predict that Soft Brexit would be the end result of the 2016 referendum, I now do the same for a relatively simple Parliamentary vote some time in October to revoke Article 50
by animist
May 26th, 2019, 12:59 pm
Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
Topic: Are you a vegan? If not, why not?
Replies: 14
Views: 11846

Re: Are you a vegan? If not, why not?

but Compo (and I sincerely wish I did not have to find fault with the thoughts of someone who is greatly morally superior to me), whyever would you bother to give me reasons to improve my lifestyle if you at the same time believe that I am programmed not to do so?
by animist
May 26th, 2019, 12:43 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: The movement for Proportional Representation for UK elections
Replies: 33
Views: 22346

Re: The movement for Proportional Representation for UK elections

No UK party has received a majority of votes since 1931. The Conservative Party is a minority party. The Labour Party is a minority party. All UK parties are minority parties. Why should a minority be allowed to govern all of us alone? #ChangeTheVotingSystem https://twitter.com/MakeVotesMatter/stat...
by animist
May 23rd, 2019, 8:32 am
Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
Topic: Are you a vegan? If not, why not?
Replies: 14
Views: 11846

Re: Are you a vegan? If not, why not?

Well, those are pretty loaded options, aren't they, Compassionist? How about adding (in no particular order): * I have the alimentary canal and dentition of an omnivore. * I find that a balanced high-protein, low carb diet is easier to achieve if I eat animal products. * I care about environment-da...
by animist
May 2nd, 2019, 9:31 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Why don't secular humans have more children?
Replies: 2
Views: 3946

Re: Why don't secular humans have more children?

maybe just too responsible to want to overpopulate the world with hoped-for versions of themselves
by animist
April 27th, 2019, 12:53 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...
Replies: 127
Views: 100121

Re: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...

https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2019/04/23/the-crazy-polling-of-soft-brexit interesting article on preferential voting methods in relation to Brexit and its four competing options - Remain, Soft Brexit, the May Deal, and No-Deal. The consensus approach, which I guess I think fairest, is...
by animist
April 26th, 2019, 12:10 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...
Replies: 127
Views: 100121

Re: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...

https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2019/04/23/the-crazy-polling-of-soft-brexit interesting article on preferential voting methods in relation to Brexit and its four competing options - Remain, Soft Brexit, the May Deal, and No-Deal. The consensus approach, which I guess I think fairest, is ...
by animist
April 22nd, 2019, 1:07 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Brexit News For Brexiteers, please see the link
Replies: 1653
Views: 304024

Re: Brexit News For Brexiteers, please see the link

What I have realised now is that Brexit does not mean Brexit, whatever else it means. When is Brexit Brexit? When is a deal a deal? Does all this help the seaside resort of Deal?


https://www.facebook.com/BBCScotland/vi ... 9225186674
by animist
April 22nd, 2019, 9:37 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...
Replies: 127
Views: 100121

Re: European elections is coming...The Brexit Party is coming...

Vote remain and they will let ALL immigrants in taking up your jobs, benefits, schools places, housing, water, nhs, services, build more roads that degrading the UK environment, use up all the UK resources and cause climate change by their sheer number. makes no sense. We do not let "all immigrants...
by animist
April 8th, 2019, 11:01 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Brexit News For Brexiteers, please see the link
Replies: 1653
Views: 304024

Re: Brexit News For Brexiteers, please see the link

here the prominent Conservative journalist Peter Oborne describes why he no longer supports Brexit:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opende ... ink-again/
by animist
March 16th, 2019, 12:40 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Brexit News For Brexiteers, please see the link
Replies: 1653
Views: 304024

Re: Brexit News For Brexiteers, please see the link

Alan H wrote:It's gone all quiet...
what has?
by animist
March 10th, 2019, 1:20 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Brexit News For Brexiteers, please see the link
Replies: 1653
Views: 304024

Re: Brexit News For Brexiteers, please see the link

The public are swinging behind a no-deal Brexit: Brexit News for Sunday 10 March https://brexitcentral.com/today/brexit-news-sunday-10-march/ :hilarity: :pointlaugh: :pointlaugh: :hilarity: luckily we will not be having a referendum on no-deal - at least not yet. It makes me despair of democracy th...
by animist
February 15th, 2019, 7:54 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Brexit News For Brexiteers, please see the link
Replies: 1653
Views: 304024

Re: Brexit News For Brexiteers, please see the link

“We look forward to sitting down at the negotiating table with the Americans after we leave the European Union to strike an ambitious new free trade agreement.” coffee, there is a contradiction between hopes like this and other frequently expressed intentions from Brexiters like Moggie and Hannon t...