(2018-06-29, 11:07 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]So a potential business deal or potential investment opportunity is one that's never realized? Lol.
Good to know your weaknesses in science and philosophy extend to the English language though.
The problem with your analogy is business deals do happen and happen regularly and are well documented according to the law and the tangible monetarily fruitful results. Unfortunately for psi apologists tangible results are severely lacking as you've so astutely noted or not.
Laugh all day long, but you'd rather hide here a whine about skeptics then to actually engage them to see how and why the rank and file type see things. I think you have no "testosterone" Sci, but perhaps you'll prove me wrong. You know this term "promissory materialism" often thrown around. You've done the same by using that word "potential" which is synonymous with promissory immaterialism.
(2018-06-30, 12:43 PM)Steve001 Wrote: [ -> ]The problem with your analogy is business deals do happen and happen regularly and are well documented according to the law and the tangible monetarily fruitful results. Unfortunately for psi apologists tangible results are severely lacking as you've so astutely noted or not.
Laugh all day long, but you'd rather hide here a whine about skeptics then to actually engage them to see how and why the rank and file type see things. I think you have no "testosterone" Sci, but perhaps you'll prove me wrong. You know this term "promissory materialism" often thrown around. You've done the same by using that word "potential" which is synonymous with promissory immaterialism.
Heh, from Trump analogies to accusations of lacking testosterone...the classic ad hominem strategies of the internet tough guys inspired by Dawkins. I can just see the "skeptic" playbook sitting at your desk -- Can't you just admit you tried to jump the gun to insult me regarding the use of the word "potential" and made a fool of yourself as usual?
As for the difference between potentially leading to something and promissory materialism, the former is an acceptance that something like fine-tuning or Orch-OR isn't hard proof while the issue w/ promissory materialism is how it's used to negate something like NDE evidence on the grounds it conflicts w/ a materialism that hasn't been proven.
(2018-06-30, 05:31 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]Heh, from Trump analogies to accusations of lacking testosterone...the classic ad hominem strategies of the internet tough guys inspired by Dawkins.
Yeah that atheism/unbelief = less manly shtick as is as old as the Victorian era.
But, damn, maybe Steve is right after all...
Men with high testosterone are less religious – and more antisocial, study suggests
http://healthmedicinet.com/i2/men-with-h...religious/
(2018-06-30, 05:31 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]As for the difference between potentially leading to something and promissory materialism, the former is an acceptance that something like fine-tuning or Orch-OR isn't hard proof while the issue w/ promissory materialism is how it's used to negate something like NDE evidence on the grounds it conflicts w/ a materialism that hasn't been proven.
If he can't grasp the meaning of potential I doubt that he will come close to understanding your accurate distinction here.