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<blockquote>While you're at it, send my regards to Sir John Franklin. </blockquote>I shall, next time I visit the islet off Cape Felix where we buried him.
I hadn't even heard of The Wager until happening across your post just now. Looked it up via the wikipedia article on him.
<b>That</b> film I am <i>very</i> much looking forward to!
Also looking forward to The Killers of the Flower Moon as well.
<blockquote>I don't know what DEI means</blockquote>Diversity Equity Inclusion
<blockquote>I can just say whatever nonsense I want under the guise of "well, it's 'metaphysics'" and all is well? It honestly sounds like you're just trying to be an apologist for his irrational beliefs, by moving them into some netherworld which has zero falsifiability.</blockquote> Exactly. What can be asserted without evidence can be refuted without evidence, and if your argument fails--for that or any other reason--to hold up to scrutiny, then you have no authority to put it forward.
<blockquote>[H]is point about facts and feelings are that feelings don't trump facts in our physical world, but religion or lack thereof is an area with no facts at all.
Besides, can we be sure that Shapiro's belief isn't in fact true? There isn't any more evidence disproving his faith as there is to prove it.</blockquote>Shapiro usually backs up his arguments with facts and evidence, but when it comes to his religious ideology, he refuses, or fails, and fall on the tired old Well-you-can't-DISPROVE-my-claims crutch.
Anything that can be asserted without evidence can be refuted without evidence.
And such intellectual cowardice flies in the face of every other mode of argument he undertakes.
I think what the OP is getting at is that religious people believe the things they believe because believing those things makes them feel good.
If Shapiro was sincere in his facts-don't-care-about-your-feelings philosophy he wouldn't indulge in wish-thinking.
Meriwether Lewis
Captain Sir John Ross
King George V(father of the man whose life was the subject of The King's Speech)
Eugene Cernan
<blockquote>hate speech has no place in the public discourse.</blockquote> Define "hate speech".
If by "hate speech" you mean simply a dissenting opinion, then by definition you admit to being in favor of censiorship, thereby proving CraigC's point.
Tommy stabs Morrie with an ice pick, that's why it slides into and back out of his neck.
I'm sure, being a made man who had just done six years in the can, Batts had done far worse things than make fun of a junior gangster's shoe-shining days. So yes, I'd say so.
Dr. House and Father Brown!
Two Sherlock Holmes-esque characters, one a doctor, the other a priest.
Getting schooled by a pack of dogs.
Doesn't get much better than that.
<blockquote>The last couple of albums were a bit below average. </blockquote>Oh, I beg to differ. I think Delta Machine and Spirit, and especially Memento Mori, are the strongest albums they've done since Alan's been gone. Plus, I have a suspicion that Alan has evolved in *his* journey(though I haven't been following what he has been doing the last fifteen years or so) such that his musical sensibilities would probably no longer be a good fit for DM.
RIP Andrew Fletcher
And like everyone else, I sure as hell was not expecting him to be the first to go.
The Edge, with Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins who spend much of the movie being stalked by a bear that is clearly on coke.
He was on cocaine, that was why!
Mystery solved.
Are you wrong?
No.
You're welcome.
By the way, I just took a quick look at some of your other posts and replies on other forums here on MovieChat.
You seem like a reasonable guy, HarveyManFredSin, and sure do seem to be on the same page as myself when it comes to modern liberalism/wokeism and other matters.
It does.
And incidentally, when I first saw the headline of your post, I thought you were going to argue that physically repulsive people cannot get laid and thus are so desperate for sex that they would be willing to force themselves on a child if it means getting some.
But what you said also follows.
<blockquote>Are you judging?
</blockquote>Not you, though I certainly am judging your assailant.
I'm just making sure I understand.
I appreciate you weighing in on my OP with a thoughtful, nuanced, and mature response by the way.
<blockquote>As someone who's been on the receiving end of a few assaults</blockquote>You're a guy who has been sexually assaulted by women?
<blockquote>If you mean that the government had clear warnings that an attack akin to 9/11 was imminent, </blockquote>That's exactly what I mean.