Some I am curious. Most of the discussions about God just assume God as a supernatural being with qualities of omnipotence, omniscience, and omniprese...
If you are going to call on Jefferson, you should remember he thought the constitution should be torn up and rewritten every generation.:smile: Perhap...
We all believe in "things" that we cannot measure empirically or directly study with science (love, beauty, value, subjective experience, etc). God is...
Part of the problem is that human language is inherently anthropomorphic and anthropocentric. Common theological language is often even more problemat...
"The smart man bets on God" little to lose, much to gain or so some summarize Pascal's wager. In fact religious belief does play a valuable role in ma...
Perhaps your conception of God is just a bit too limited and too anthropomorphic and anthropocentric? Perhaps you could start with something like Till...
I hope what one looks for here is discussion not debate. The difference being in debate the goal seems to be winning or scoring points and in discussi...
I wonder if you think there are any conceptions of the divine (God, holy, sacred, numinous) which are both theologically adequate (for worship) and in...
I think I am going to just accept the "reality" of an external independent world as an axiom, a hard core common sense presupposition inevitably invol...
Except any mathematical realist or devoted theist would take exception with the notion that God and Numbers are just "abstractions of the mind" as wou...
I always take issue with the notion that divine omnipotence is a useful religious concept. I don't think it is. Some professional theologians and phil...
I don't think Freud is entirely wrong. Many of our motivations are primitive and not necessarily known by or acknowledged by our conscious self reflec...
I simply do not believe that the universe in all its complexity, beauty and creativity is entirely the result of purposeless, meaningless, valueless p...
Language is merely our effort to record or communicate our experience of the world to others. We can acquire direct experience (thus knowledge and mem...
Well "maths, numbers" are clearly a useful "abstraction of the mind" concept or universal. Whether numbers "exist" or are "actual" generally tends to ...
Paper money is backed by the full faith and credit of the issuing agency or government. In the U.S. paper money is no longer backed by gold or silver....
Do you believe there can be an actual infinite? The way the question is phrased invites and argument about the reality of numbers. Essentially it woul...
What do you think about this? ABSTRACT—Does moral behavior draw on a belief in free will? Two experiments examined whether inducing participants to be...
Most "news" these days seems to be speculation and opinion. There seems to be a dearth of reporting involving facts or giving background and historica...
And that would seem to leave plenty of room to regulate firearm ownership and to regulate the types of arms or weapons available to the public. What i...
In general I do not find the concepts of divine omniscience and divine omnipotence to be of much religious value. Omniscience creates an immediate pro...
"Little appreciated, in an otherwise greatly appreciated opinion, is Justice Robert Jackson’s lyrical rejection of originalism in Youngstown Sheet & T...
There was no standing army at that time, so a militia was necessary for defense. Furthermore advanced weaponry might have been a rifled musket, capabl...
I think it is probably the other way around, God is created in man's image (anthropomorphic and anthropocentric). Religion and sacred scriptures are h...
if one is doing abstract or theorectical math one always thinks in terms of the "abstract" number or you will fail the class (you won't be dead, you j...
https://www.upworthy.com/20-years-of-data-reveals-that-congress-doesnt-care-what-you-think Put another way, and I'll just quote the Princeton study di...
I have always felt that Christianity the religion (and its metaphysical speculative grounds) was quite far removed from the teachings and example of J...
It seems to me a particularly good way of viewing it. Universals are "real" but do not have "causal efficacy" until they ingress or are incorporated i...
This seems the old debate between “nominalism” and universals, forms or eternal objects which seems to have been ongoing for at least the last 2000 ye...
Not that you are going to get any general agreement on this but I would say you are on the right track. Change, process or becoming is fundamental and...
This again is political correctness taken too far. We have to group or categorize to talk meaningfully about larger numbers. If we wish to compare ave...
https://rectorspage.wordpress.com/2014/06/29/the-binding-of-isaac-two-interpretations/ "There is an ancient, alternative rabbinic interpretation of th...
This seems to imply that time could be constructed from events of zero duration, which is about as sensible as space being composed of points of zero ...
If by noise, you mean they introduce questions of experience and values into discussions about the "true" nature of reality, then by all means. “A phi...
It is in thinking that our mathematical models represent the complete "real world" that we commit the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness". Such models...
His book on the Universe of Things Speculative Realism is also good. I have Stenger but I got stalled trying to read it. David Ray Griffin reads well ...
Also it is not clear if Clinton herself played any direct role in hiring Steele, although later use of the dossier under her knowledge and direction m...
I don't think hiring a foreign national is the problem as both campaigns probably had several foreign nationals working on or for them. It is more hir...
For Whitehead reality is a continuous creative becoming and not any form of static being Such notions are the common theme for process philosophers. I...
There are to be sure parallels between Whitehead and Pierce. Fundamentally they are both process philosophers but they both invent their own terminolo...
Whitehead’s philosophy is not anti science. As far as it goes scientific analysis and explanations are useful and pragmatic; it is just that such expl...
I'm still waiting for the polygamists to take their case to the USA Supreme Court cause after the Obergerfell ruling it would take some convoluted leg...
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