Belief

Originally posted by FMF
If you think he's "condescending towards other religious people", then you go for it. Don't come to me for reassurance or support or analysis.

Don't flatter yourself. What makes you think that I would ever even consider coming to you for reassurance, support or analysis?

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
Don't flatter yourself. What makes you think that I would ever even consider coming to you for reassurance, support or analysis?

You were asking me why divegeester was [INSERT YOUR PERSONAL OPINION ABOUT HIM HERE]. If you weren't looking for either [1] my reassurance, [2] my support or [3] my analysis about your personal opinion about him, then why on earth were you asking me about it?

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
Yes agreed if he is just taking the piss then he fittingly deserves a spot on your lap.

My lap?

Originally posted by FMF
My lap?

It's a play on words with the literal meaning of 'lapdog'.

Originally posted by FMF
You were asking me why divegeester was [INSERT YOUR PERSONAL OPINION ABOUT HIM HERE]. If you weren't looking for either [1] my reassurance, [2] my support or [3] my analysis about your personal opinion about him, then why on earth were you asking me about it?

Most questions I ask you turn out to be 'rhetorical' since you have a tendency to dodge them. 😉

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
It's a play on words with the literal meaning of 'lapdog'.

So you're making the "lapdog" gag here again?

Originally posted by FMF
So you're making the "lapdog" gag here again?

Since it's your lapdog you might as well go ahead and gag it. 😉

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
Since it's your lapdog you might as well go ahead and gag it. 😉

No it's fine by me if you want to use the same borrowed joke over and over again. There are a few others posters who do it too.

Originally posted by FMF
No it's fine by me if you want to use the same borrowed joke over and over again. There are a few others posters who do it too.

I'm sure you groom him well, but I really think the blue cooling coat would suit him.
http://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/pets/dog/dog-coats-and-clothing

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FMF has groomed you well, he must be proud. Yet again.

Originally posted by apathist
Originally posted by DeepThought... [b]We produce an instant instinctive response, in so far as free will is involved it can only involve training our instincts in advance.
Sometimes that's the case, yes.

Essentially what you've argued is that we choose what we find plausible,
Sometimes that's the case, yes. We all do this, by deciding what sort of justification to accept.[/b]

I'm not convinced by this notion of 'deciding what sort of justification to accept'. Any such choice is severely constrained. People are more or less coherent entities, we do not accept one level of justification on one occasion and then drastically change our evidential requirements on another, similar, occasion. The justifications any particular person will accept cannot be inconsistent with their world view. To change that one needs a justification consistent with one's current world view to accept some type of evidence or argument, so there are constraints on what one can talk oneself into believing.

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
FMF has groomed you well, he must be proud. Yet again.

Groomed?

Originally posted by FMF
Groomed?

A lapdog is 'groomed', no?