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    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(02-02-2024, 08:28 PM)SteveII Wrote: In the US, 2820 total women have died in childbirth for all of 2019, 2020 and 2021 out of over 11,000,000 births. 0.0256% There were an estimated 2,700,000 abor...
Dancefortwo Philosophy and Ethics 1,312 54,513 02-03-2024, 10:01 PM
    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

Just dropping in to see if Stevie has rushed down and donated bone marrow to help save the life of this baby dying from cancer.  [Image: https://www.luriechildrens.org/contentas...eufdcr.png] How ab...
Dancefortwo Philosophy and Ethics 1,312 54,513 02-01-2024, 10:17 PM
    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(01-23-2024, 02:54 PM)SteveII Wrote: (01-22-2024, 08:11 PM)Dānu Wrote: I believe it's already been pointed out to you that as you define the terms, premise 1 is not necessarily true.  Thus your sy...
Dancefortwo Philosophy and Ethics 1,312 54,513 01-24-2024, 02:52 AM
    Thread: Weather: wherever you go, there it is.
Post: RE: Weather: wherever you go, there it is.

(01-18-2024, 09:24 PM)airportkid Wrote: (01-18-2024, 07:56 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: Funny that the East coast and Chicago gets all the weather news but when it comes to ice storms in the Pacific Nort...
Dancefortwo Off-topic 1,067 112,279 01-18-2024, 11:35 PM
    Thread: Weather: wherever you go, there it is.
Post: RE: Weather: wherever you go, there it is.

Three days of ice rain.  Portland is frozen.  I need some ice skates to get around.  Funny that the East coast and Chicago gets all the weather news but when it comes to ice storms in the Pacific Nort...
Dancefortwo Off-topic 1,067 112,279 01-18-2024, 07:56 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

I don't know where else to post this and I don't want to start a new thread but Fox Neubs got their panties all in a twist over this video of black tapdancers dancing to Duke Ellington's updated Nutcr...
Dancefortwo World News, Politics and Current Events 17,429 898,932 12-20-2023, 07:52 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(12-19-2023, 11:51 PM)Fireball Wrote: :thup: We need a bunch of states to follow this precedent and keep the chump off their ballots, too! Best news I've seen in days. Yes, New York and California s...
Dancefortwo World News, Politics and Current Events 17,429 898,932 12-20-2023, 04:19 AM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(12-19-2023, 06:39 PM)airportkid Wrote: I wonder how many of the MAGA base's parents and grandparents would be horrified by Trump's Nazi rhetoric - and horrified that their children and grandchildre...
Dancefortwo World News, Politics and Current Events 17,429 898,932 12-19-2023, 07:51 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(12-18-2023, 10:45 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Appeals Court tells Meadows to go fuck himself. Maybe now he can give back that folder he stole from the White House? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us...
Dancefortwo World News, Politics and Current Events 17,429 898,932 12-18-2023, 11:08 PM
    Thread: How do you explain NDEs?
Post: RE: How do you explain NDEs?

(12-18-2023, 06:54 PM)Huggy Bear Wrote: (12-18-2023, 06:31 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: Nope, you make the claim.  The burdon of evidence falls on you.   This is a psychology paper.  It's not evidence. ...
Dancefortwo Atheism & Theism 134 7,995 12-18-2023, 10:06 PM
    Thread: How do you explain NDEs?
Post: RE: How do you explain NDEs?

(12-18-2023, 05:53 PM)Huggy Bear Wrote: (12-18-2023, 05:25 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: All three of these people are psychologists, not neursurgeons and they are not using scientific methods AT ALL.  Al...
Dancefortwo Atheism & Theism 134 7,995 12-18-2023, 06:31 PM
    Thread: How do you explain NDEs?
Post: RE: How do you explain NDEs?

(12-18-2023, 05:36 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Huggy is probably very impressed with Kent Hovind's PH. D.  "dissertation" to a jesus freak diploma mill, too. I gazed through one of those papers posted ori...
Dancefortwo Atheism & Theism 134 7,995 12-18-2023, 05:50 PM
    Thread: How do you explain NDEs?
Post: RE: How do you explain NDEs?

(12-18-2023, 05:00 AM)Huggy Bear Wrote: (12-17-2023, 08:34 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: I read the link you provided.  It was not peer reviewed nor was there any real evidence they were dead and came bac...
Dancefortwo Atheism & Theism 134 7,995 12-18-2023, 05:25 PM
    Thread: Cursive writing
Post: RE: Cursive writing

(12-17-2023, 10:06 PM)Dānu Wrote: When I lost all the fingers on my right hand, I lost the ability to write with that hand, which was my dominant hand.  I've only got my thumb on my left hand now, a...
Dancefortwo Off-topic 14 1,023 12-17-2023, 11:16 PM
    Thread: Cursive writing
Post: RE: Cursive writing

(12-17-2023, 04:21 PM)Aliza Wrote: I write in a combination of cursive and print in varying ratios based on my mood. I took several calligraphy classes and sort of got into that whole world.  I gene...
Dancefortwo Off-topic 14 1,023 12-17-2023, 09:14 PM
    Thread: Most effective way to stop global warming
Post: RE: Most effective way to stop global warming

We bought a electric car 6 months ago and it's been an amazing experience.  It's a KIA EV 6 Wind.  We've charged it at home and we can't really see much difference between our electric bill from last ...
Dancefortwo Science, Engineering and Mathematics 26 1,713 12-17-2023, 08:55 PM
    Thread: How do you explain NDEs?
Post: RE: How do you explain NDEs?

(12-17-2023, 10:05 AM)Huggy Bear Wrote: (12-15-2023, 03:46 PM)Dānu Wrote: The point is that you've got an argument from ignorance of the classic form, "You can't prove me wrong, therefore I'm righ...
Dancefortwo Atheism & Theism 134 7,995 12-17-2023, 08:34 PM
    Thread: They don't make em like they used to....
Post: RE: They don't make em like they used to....

(12-16-2023, 09:52 PM)Minimalist Wrote: This raises the question of "why did they throw it in the hen house to begin with?" Ha! The chickens wanted to learn how to sew??   Since they can't fly very ...
Dancefortwo Off-topic 13 397 12-16-2023, 10:20 PM
    Thread: They don't make em like they used to....
Post: RE: They don't make em like they used to....

(12-16-2023, 09:27 PM)brewerb Wrote: Cloths washing machines. Maybe they didn't have all of the selections like the new ones but they never died. My parents had the same one for over 20 years. I've...
Dancefortwo Off-topic 13 397 12-16-2023, 09:38 PM
    Thread: They don't make em like they used to....
Post: They don't make em like they used to....

Some of you might know that I'm a costume designer and professional seamstress and all that rot, so I have an interest in sewing machines of all kinds.  Today's new sewing machines are pretty much com...
Dancefortwo Off-topic 13 397 12-16-2023, 04:39 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(12-15-2023, 09:22 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Giuliani's asshole must be bleeding. Jury sticks the verdict up his ass. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/r...index.html Quote:Jury orders Giuliani t...
Dancefortwo World News, Politics and Current Events 17,429 898,932 12-15-2023, 11:29 PM
    Thread: You are God for 24 hours. What are you doing?
Post: RE: You are God for 24 hours. What are you doing?

(12-15-2023, 06:52 PM)adey67 Wrote: (12-15-2023, 12:14 PM)no one Wrote: Golf is not a sport. It is an activity. Just like swimming or running. Anything you can do by yourself is not a sport. I can...
Dancefortwo Off-topic 24 1,026 12-15-2023, 07:36 PM
    Thread: How do you explain NDEs?
Post: RE: How do you explain NDEs?

(12-15-2023, 05:28 AM)Huggy Bear Wrote: (12-14-2023, 11:57 PM)Dānu Wrote: No, it does not.  It could be that we possess clairvoyance and consciousness can't exist apart from the brain.  All this s...
Dancefortwo Atheism & Theism 134 7,995 12-15-2023, 05:18 PM
    Thread: How do you explain NDEs?
Post: RE: How do you explain NDEs?

(12-14-2023, 06:05 PM)Huggy Bear Wrote: (12-14-2023, 06:01 PM)airportkid Wrote: Lying isn't the right word.  Mistaken.  Reaching a conclusion unwarranted by the available observed evidence.  Reach...
Dancefortwo Atheism & Theism 134 7,995 12-14-2023, 08:27 PM
    Thread: You are God for 24 hours. What are you doing?
Post: RE: You are God for 24 hours. What are you doing?

First things first, I'd put Trump in jail.  I wouldn't have him executed....no...he needs to suffer for a while.   Make Republicans see what assholes they've been for the last 40 - 50 years. Make bi...
Dancefortwo Off-topic 24 1,026 12-14-2023, 04:37 PM