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I knew the nuance in my argument would be too much for you to understand. Look above and read my comments again: I said this is a "human problem" I only pointed out the correlation to you to make you understand that if you'll blame religion for our dictators, my side can blame self-declared...

Make sure you pick up exactly where we left off You have to respond to every point no cherry picking now Bob ; )

. p.p.s. Also, to give an example of how even the most intuitively rational ("a priori") statements can be challenged, refer to W. V. O. Quine's argument that all statements can be revised and no statement is "necessarily true" not even something like "all bachelors are unmarried." With this...

. p.s. I should state clearly here that my opinions are not really reflective of any single branch of philosophers (as I seem to disagree with pretty much everyone, to some degree or another). I'm trying to understand the (very complex) inter-relationships between the Greeks, Avicenna...

I was just responding to your comment that you are certain of your own self as existing. I just wanted to remind you that this sense of yours is based in "intuition," as Locke described it, nothing more. Yea but I don't subscribe to that "western traditional sense" According to my understanding...

I haven't. Nor have I forgotten the massacre of Bengalis (or East Pakistanis) by my own Pakistani Army. This is a human problem and has nothing to do with religion. Just as has been pointed out to you, your own atheists have committed the biggest genocides in history, therefore, clearly...

p.s. is it just me or are there some threads missing today??? hmmm... i guess Brian decided to exercise the nuclear option, lolz

Is this who I think it is? LoLz !! I had my suspicions, but didn't care enuff to voice them. I guess now that fully explains why he's so obsessed with Islam-bashing and "c0de's ad hominems" (while blindly ignoring his own.)

much obliged : )

No, I didn't give you the response which you wanted. There's a difference. Sure, you've been repeating yourself all this time. Might as well start repeating other people too.

Hey could you do the same with Waleed's message that he just posted on my profile as well? He can't win in the threads, so he's spamming my profile now.

Go back and search my posts where I explained exactly why it is unnecessary to put that punishment to effect today.

repetition doesn't win arguments... effective counter arguments win arguments I said it doesn't need to be applied today. And if you think you "made me" say it, don't flatter yourself. It's a position I've held for a long time. This is exactly your problem. You think you "won" merely by...

You've said nothing important following that post of mine, which adequately deals with your objection. All you've done since is repetition. Again, I already dealt with this in my response to another poster, in some detail. You haven't made an argument for me to defend against dude. You're...

What argument did he have that I should've responded to? That people should ignore historical context, that's an argument? I already did... -historical context- The punishment he used was completely valid and was chosen by an arbitrator agreed to by the victims themselves. There was nothing...

. @ Diagoras + Waleed I guess academics are infected with the "Islam meme" too then, because taking the historical context into consideration is an academic requirement. Which is why people like you are considered bigots and never taken seriously. One word: Israel Not saying it justifies...

You've lost the argument already dude. You could even have tried a completely valid response to my counter-argument, but you just don't know enough to continue, so you simply stopped responding (and therefore lost, automatically). However, even that response to my counter which exists, I have...

muchos gracias muchachos : )

again with the moral equivalence... Keep the lexical stuff on the other thread please. Yep! ; )

"Barbaric" according to who? You're applying our standards to completely acceptable punishments for that time period. His mission was the delivery of the Quran. That's all that Muslims should be basing their behavior on. And there is nothing in the Quran which says that Muslims can not adapt to...