Apollodorus

It's monopolism window-dressed as "socially conscious" economics. Concentration of financial, economic, and political power in the hands of self-inter...

I think you are making some very good points there. Marx was an authoritarian, domineering, and argumentative person from the start. He studied law an...

Yes, some Platonists do appear to do that. Of course Socratic arguments may sound like speculation but they tend to be rational speculation and they s...

Of course you're not questioning it but you're questioning it all the same. I would suggest you read the well-known scholarly criticism and then we ca...

Correct. @Pinprick doesn't have a clue. He is substituting imagination for fact. The fact is that there is nothing in the Gospel text to suggest that ...

He didn't. He was about to die and was reciting from Scripture, Psalm of David, Psalm 22:2 http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2622.htm

I wouldn't say the Chinese are inferior to Europeans. In some respects they may even be superior. However, my personal impression so far is that The P...

Have you been living under a rock in China for the last 50 or so years? "The inconsistency allegations have been a prominent feature of Marxian econom...

I think people should be free to take or reject the vaccine. Governments may pressure people to get vaccinated to show that they are doing something b...

"BlackRock, the world's largest investment manager, has become an increasingly influential Wall Street player in Washington, DC as a poster child of t...

No particular reason, to be honest. However, seeing that non-Christians or anti-Christians can sometimes be a pain in the neck and make up all kinds o...

lol But he didn't, did he? Is that your "evidence"?

Everybody or most people know or should know BlackRock. I know people who work for BlackRock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock

There was no Trump attack on China though, was there? The fact is this, there were at leas 12 (twelve) virus lab escapes from 1963 to the present. Tha...

Not at all. The argument is that the possibility can't be excluded, therefore it shouldn't be excluded. The counter-argument is "it happens rarely, th...

The question that needs to be asked is cui bono? Obviously, in a dictatorship like Communist China, the state has the means to keep an epidemic under ...

Of course. The Australian article is obviously pro-China propaganda.

"Extremely rare" is relative and in this case totally misleading. There are viruses escaping from labs every now and then: 1 H1N1 Influenza in 1977 3 ...

True. Classical texts use a similar analogy where a lump of gold assumes the form of different pieces of jewelry. But in the Trinity case all three ex...

There was no personal attack, just a statement of fact. I don't need to "defend" the rationality of the Trinity because there is nothing irrational ab...

Correct. Some religious or philosophical systems hold this to be the case, viz. that we exist within, and are a product of, a universal mind that hold...

One of the associated belief systems that are unquestionably not logical is Marxism. It has long been demonstrated to be inconsistent, ambiguous, and ...

Given that according to at least one moderator The Philosophy Forum considers Christians and other believers to be a "blight", I think we can imagine ...

It looks like he's trying to wriggle his way out already:

It's all "me, me, me" all the time, isn't it? There is no "problem of the Trinity" whatsoever. There was some discussion regarding its precise philoso...

Personally, I've got the feeling that 180 has lost already. But I think it might prove difficult to find impartial moderation on this forum. I could b...

This thread is about the Trinity, not about you. I think you are confused.

It seems to me that the misunderstanding lies in the unwarranted attempt to interpret Platonic texts as "speculations" which can only lead to nihilism...

Is that really the case? Where exactly are the "reasons"??? Your article says: "Our investigations concluded the virus was most likely of animal origi...

Nobody is preventing you from doing that, so you can calm down now.

Yes, but this might be the case only in the beginning. Subsequent generations would get used to it and take it as a fact of life. And would that perso...

If it can be shown that the "irrational" is rational then it ceases to be irrational. But then you've spoken to Jesus or he to you and you know better...

Well done, in that case. But to go back to your cuboid, spherical and pyramidal objects. How about taking (1) a circle/sphere to represent God, (2) a ...

That's what I thought, too. As long as they are excellent, who cares about "bad"?

Yes, maybe a triangle would be an apt illustration for the Trinity. Maybe the Trinity concept isn't quite so "inconsistent" after all.

Yes, and it makes sense to me. But would you not have to put it to theologians in mathematical terms? On the other hand, if there is no other solution...

At origin, yes. But it has become Christian in the meantime. Although, as I said, Christians not unnaturally tend to pray either to God the Father or ...

Good try. However, whether Christians would be entirely happy with reducing the Holy Trinity to numbers, seems uncertain. But you can never know.

I agree that it sounds like a category error. I just thought that God is, by definition, sui generis. He isn't an ordinary "object" or comparable to a...

I also find that, by training and sometimes by intellectual inclination, academics have a tendency to take an "impartial" approach to their subject th...

You mean your misattribution.

Well, there is a thread on the Trinity. Starting one and then attacking people for posting comments seems a bit irrational to me. But I could be wrong...

Do you even know how to read?

You only posted one or two statements on the Trinity. Do you expect me to make some up for you?

That's where you're totally wrong. I never said I was a Christian. I was only defending the Christians' right to interpret their own beliefs without b...

So how can you discuss the Trinity on a thread about the Trinity without quoting Christian beliefs? Plus, your own statement was this: That doesn't so...

Not at all. I only asked out of curiosity, to see if you hate other believers as well or just Christians.

I think it's the other way around. I was right on the topic which is the Trinity when the Foolo started to claim that Jesus told him that he doesn't b...

I don't think so. Statements like "Jesus would have been appalled" aren't arguments. just unfounded speculation IMO. And are Muslims "a blight" as wel...

Fine. Then it would be more honest to ban Christians from the forum. Plus, belief is belief. I don't see atheists subjecting their beliefs to "rationa...