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What I mean is, Can you make a logical argument that using logical argumention is valuable, without begging the question? 'Modus ponens' for example is a syllogism. Can you use a syllogism, to prove that using syllogisms, is valuable without begging the question that using syllogisms is...

Also every Democratic senator. The whole Democratic party.

In Catholicism any evocation encouraging or effecting emission with the informed consent and with the conscience is illicit. Cf. post 32. OP in the thread says life's great because of voluntary emissions, except that, as he says in his posts, his life's actually a trainwreck. I'm not saying...

That is good news. Some of those blurbs could have come right from American founding documents.

All the while arguing that their position is ethically neutral! It is NOT.

That's awful Marke.

It's barbaric. We're not concerned because we're Americans, we're concerned because we're moral. We're Americans because we're moral, and this is morally outrageous, and wicked. We would like to do something more directly but the Russians 'have us over a barrel' because of their...

The whole "right-left" thing is fraught. As far as I'm concerned right means minimal, "night watchman" style government, and left means lots of government services like schools, healthcare, curbside trash pick-up, etc. Sometimes people just mean Democrat and Republican by left and right...

We've done what we can, which is to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who are 'in a nutshell' "originalists". Also I believe six of the nine justices are Catholic, fwiw. We're all waiting to see what they can come up with. There's no way this isn't just murder.

Figures the one liberal (in a good way) thing about him is with abortion. smh at the idiot.

What I was getting at was that using logic to argue for God's existence is invoking logic, which begs the question whether logic itself is a created thing. It's kind of assumed to exist on its own, when making a logical argument for God's existence. idk. Could be making something out of nothing.

Yeah this is all 'self-existence' stuff, which I believe. Logically, God existing implies these things simultaneously, like they all 'come into existence' at once, like 'a package deal', or, and this is what I believe, He is 'self-existent' and there never was any 'time' (see below) that God...

Assuming all the continental crust is basically uniform top-to-bottom (from the mountains all the way down to the mantle, iow assuming the continental crust isn't 'on top of' oceanic crust, like in 'layers'), and because it is on average about 1 km above sea level, it is much thicker than the...

That's true, but that's more of a 'bulk density' reasoning, and what I'm reading is that the continental crust is not just 'bunched up' rock that has a lower bulk density as a result of the 'bunching up', but that it is inherently less dense. It's constituted differently from oceanic crust...

Isn't it like 7-10 km thick though?

Ah. "Broke up", I hadn't thought of that. The 'first', antediluvian crust "broke up" during "Rupture". That provides another 'degree of freedom' in this inquiry. For you I'll clarify that I mean to with this thread provide something akin to the inverse of my 'alternative theory' to Christ's...

So as I ponder the global Flood, that a great mass of water was covering the whole earth, one of the first things I think is, Where did all that water go? And I think, maybe nowhere? Maybe it's all still here? Is there like a boatload of water just sitting around here somewhere? Maybe it's...

Whether or not it leaves a mark doesn't matter. Child rapists don't tend to leave marks. Felony case perjurers neither. It doesn't have to leave a mark to be violence, rape is one of those cases where it might not leave a mark, but it's 'mala in se' violent crime 'prima facie' 'ipso facto'...

If it's wartime. If it's wartime. And if it's wartime, then we're all going to face the music. Pray for peace, as always. So do you go to Mass?

Can we give him a second chance then? Can we move this thread to "...and the Rest"? I'd prefer to welcome every TOL user without exception to participate in this thread, as I'd like to come to a conclusion on the matter if possible, and any TOL user might make the key point that we need that...