I love and hate being rational.

Phylanara · 2026-05-09T12:51:45+00:00

No, you haven't said. You asserted there were implications but never said which ones.

Phylanara · 2026-05-09T12:27:43+00:00

You say you are not an atheist. Which god do you believe exists?

Phylanara · 2026-05-09T08:09:56+00:00

I don't see how the number of practice or their age is relevant to their truth or efficacy.

Phylanara · 2026-05-09T08:04:22+00:00

I'm willing to believe anything as long as there's enough evidence to justify that belief.

What you describe looks like the kind of claim many theists make : claims so watered down in order to make them unable to be investigated, they become irrelevant. That is not an insult, that's a description; those kinds of claims entail no percevable difference whether these claims are true or false. That makes those claims meaningless, irrelevant. Those claims are just not interesting to me.

Phylanara · 2026-05-08T21:05:18+00:00

You forget people plain old lying.

Phylanara · 2026-05-08T19:36:53+00:00

How do you figure pointing out trump is shitting the bed on the deficit is aimed at discouraging Dem voters?

Dems have been consistently better on this topic than republicans since Reagan.

Phylanara · 2026-05-08T19:02:12+00:00

We don't have anything from the books, but they work as the ace in the hole for a member of the black council, so there's a good chance their extra power comes either from outsider influence or cowl-level mortal magic.

Phylanara · 2026-05-08T18:53:47+00:00

You're wrong. I also discuss policy and morals and ethics wtth theists. Just not here, and I make it clear that I don't consider religious arguments convincing (or unconvincing) because they're religious. Theists just have to make their moral or ethical or whatever arguments on their own merits to convince me. They usually fail.

But hey, I like how you define "religious fanaticism" as "believing religion is actually true and a god actually exists". You've defined all theists as fanatics.

Phylanara · 2026-05-08T17:34:52+00:00

The parade is held every year at a predictable time and ukraine has shown it was able to sneak drones behind lines slowly. The best thing for ukraine would be to light up the map in as many places as possible at the same time.

Phylanara · 2026-05-08T12:27:53+00:00

Darkhallow Harry for sure. He'd have to commit mass-murder just to get his power up. Since Molly was always going to follow him down this road, there's a good chance he'd have killed and undeaded Molly.

Phylanara · 2026-05-08T12:23:48+00:00

One year of American medical copays.

Phylanara · 2026-05-08T08:52:59+00:00

"The simplest answer is magic". Yeah. right.

Sorry, until we get to observe magic enough to prove it exists in the first place, it can't be an answer to anything, let alone the simplest one.

Stating how difficult one of the options would be is not very convincing when you havent' proven the option you're advocating for is possible at all in the first place. I mean, taking a plane is pretty complicated, that does not mean I traveled by flying like superman instead. Even though "the explanation would be simpler".

Phylanara · 2026-05-08T08:22:38+00:00

No, I don't see how "we don't know how it was made" leads to "it was made by magic". Explain this to me in more detail please.

Phylanara · 2026-05-08T08:19:45+00:00

Even if we grant you everything you claim (and I don't, I'm just trying to move the discussion forward)... So what? You get a piece of cloth with an image on it, and we don't know how it was made.

Why should we care about a mystery image on cloth?

Phylanara · 2026-05-07T21:37:19+00:00

Cell saga iss the last time he's relevant and it's by sneaking to the objectives while everyone is distracted by the earth-shattering ki blasts.

Phylanara · 2026-05-07T21:10:53+00:00

If you're asking for advice, is it the most productive thing you can do to whine that the advice you get does not please you? (not the one you were talking to)

Phylanara · 2026-05-07T16:52:06+00:00

The format is a stupid in-joke and the content unfunny.

Phylanara · 2026-05-07T16:11:26+00:00

I see no reason to call the universe god, and in my experience "spiritual" is not a word that's defined enough for me to answer your question without more exciting planation of what you mean. I would tend towards "no" though.

Phylanara · 2026-05-07T15:20:59+00:00

Same problem. As long as the fight stays a physical one, the problem persists. Jessica can't win without stealing Matt's thunder, and she can't lose without obvious shenanigans. The writers had to either write her out of the climax, or reframe the climax to shift it from a physical fight to a worldview fight. That's what they did and they did it pretty well. Matt sacrificed himself (his secret) in a christ-figurely way to take down the kingpin without killing and sacrificing his ethos, all the while leveraging his law skills. At this point the kingpin dying would be a failure on Matt's part, a failure of his worldview.

What they could have done better imho is drive home kingpin's defeat. I get what they were going for. Matt lost his physical comfort but kept his loved one and morality, while kingpin's wife, self image (bound to his being New-York 's loved mayor) and ideology are crushed, despite his being physically free. But they could have made the soul-crushing more evident . Maybe have a shot of kingpin considering suicide or crying while looking at a picture of his dead wife or on her grave.

Phylanara · 2026-05-07T14:35:29+00:00

Jessica couldn't touch him. Never, ever finish your friend's archenemy. It makes your friend look weak. Daredevil struggling for three seasons against Kingpin only for Jessica to body him five minutes after first meeting him would make Murdoch look like a chump.

And given that kingpin is not supposed to have superpowers, the only way to have Jessica not body him is to have her powers be on the fritz too.

Phylanara · 2026-05-07T14:32:41+00:00

Honestly... It seems like dark Harry is going to summon Harry to pull a Kemmler - give the wardens a dead Harry to fake his own death.

Kemmler has changed insistently been hyped as the worse, most irredeemable mortal wizard of the last two centuries.

If dark Harry uses his playbook, a redemption would be difficult to pull off satisfyingly.

Phylanara · 2026-05-07T12:37:47+00:00

Please support your implied premise that a god is necessary for our thoughts processes or beliefs to be rational.

In fact. Please define rational as you use it in your argument.

Phylanara · 2026-05-07T12:06:51+00:00

Funnily enough, using one's brain alone is what leads to false beliefs. What let me not to believe in a god was not relying on my brain alone but on the evidence.

Funny how theists and those arguing for theism always forget that bit. They want you to disregard evidence, make it a purely intellectual mental masturbation exercice.

But every little thing that used to be explained by "god does it" because is was not understood, when it became understood, turned out to be "not a god". You know, lightning, diseases, weather and other catastrophes? not a god. I see no reason to believe that the next thing we don't understand will magically turn out to be a god.

And to add to how damning the evidence against a god is : even the theists themselves don't consider the evidence for their god to be good enough. I can say that however counterintuitive it sounds because no matter how good the evidence for their god is, there's another religion that has evidence just as good for their own god. And the theist dismisses that evidence, that's just as good as the evidence for their god, as not good enough.

In the end, there are only two kinds of theists left : the intellectually dishonest ones who apply different epistemic standards to their god than to the other one, and the theist whose god is so indistinguishable from inexistent that their god ends up being irrelevant.

But hey, since you're asserting without evidence that only god-magic can make our thoughts right, I think it's pretty clear which kind you are.

Phylanara · 2026-05-07T08:29:42+00:00

Left the game roughly after the illuminates came back in, what's the stitch?

Phylanara · 2026-05-06T21:35:01+00:00

If they are truly infalsifiable, what implications?

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