Well, I do know specific examples of these religions, and they are not faith based. You look at ideas in the religions, decide that they cannot have b...
Well, good that we generally agree but I think faith doesn't not work for religions that are empirically focused like Buddhism and many types of HIndu...
It seems like you are disagreeing with me, but you're not, as far as I can tell. Yes, our conclusions about why things fall, etc., are beliefs. Unless...
That's the situation I find myself in. My conclusions are subject to faults and mistakes, and this is true as far as I can tell, even if i base my con...
It sure seems like what we call objective is some idea, conclusion, explanation that is (seems) well justified, AND we don't know of some other idea, ...
But then, if you start convincing people that you are correct, then many of them will feel bad - for having children, that their parents were immoral....
Newton believed in the occult. Who knows what he would have thought a TV was. Well, I suppose a psychic might know. A psychic who can read the minds o...
Aren't there all sorts of beliefs we have based on intuition, guesswork, habit, childhood experiences (and I mean, everyone) that guide our actions. L...
So far haven't hit a citation from Russell, but here in Standford's encyc, it refers to the term as Russellian https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russ...
Pets are treated differently than inanimate property. You can't torture them and you can't have sex with them, for example. Property, as others have p...
From your own link: And look at this, mindreading. You are claiming to have knowledge of our internal mental states. All of us. And that last bit: are...
And those replies led to criticism also. Which is, of course, fine. But your sense that your replies were appropriate might be biased. That's what dis...
I don't appear to claim that. Which is you saying and claiming things about what I think and precisely why I started responding the way I did with 'yo...
There's the real, which can also be called the natural. If there is a God, God is not supernatural, but part of the real, part of nature or all of nat...
I think the distinction can be useful but I do think they are interwined phenomena. I just find the idea that we would be better off without emotions ...
People without emotions would not be people. We are social mammals that have limbic systems. Further people without emotions wouldn't have goals. They...
I can't see what you wrote has to do with what I wrote. And I really can't see where you demonstrated my post was inauthentic. I don't really see it a...
Evolutionary theory is specifically and clearly non-teleological. You said Now perhaps you weren't really thinking of what words you were using, but y...
This is going to take a long time. People gender each other from an early age and are gendered. It's at a level of learning much like grammar. IOW it ...
I see no interaction here with what I wrote. I do understand what your position is. Rewording it is not necessary. Things like this... have nothing to...
I didn't say you did say it. In fact you didn't respond to what I wrote in that post here. And emotions do not just increase speed. In fact I am not s...
Are we talking about fiat banking? I am so glad we both consider it odd that banks can create money out of nothing and lend it and expect a full retur...
People will suffer pain in a world without emotions. Would you rather there is no one alive, which is the ony guarantee of no suffering, or one where ...
Seriously, this is confused in a number of ways 1) Science cannot believe. Scientists can. 2) Please show that scientists believe there is a single no...
This is teleological. 'were never meant' attributes intention to evolution. It meant this, it didn't mean that are nonsensical talking about evolution...
Science doesn't beg to differ. Emotions play a huge role in what we do and how we experience. Determinism says nothing about emotions. If that's what ...
Sure I am. You're treating the fetus like it's a tabula rasa. It is not. It is striving to live. You haven't made a creature that might not want to li...
The organism is trying to live and grow. That is what it is doing. It is not neutral, sitting in the womb being forced to live. EVery cells is working...
I get that. It seems to me you are making a victim out of an organism that is completely aligned with the choice the parent is making. The organism is...
No, its biological. From its cells any organism is striving to continue to live and thrive. The only possible organisms that one could argue are not i...
I am not arguing that all urges are good. I am saying that if you choose to have a child or have one via the urge to have sex and decide after not to ...
The only creature you can give birth to is one that wants to live and thrive. If you could somehow drag someone out of life's waiting room who doesn't...
But one doesn't merely do that. The only someone is someone who is complicit. You cannot create someone who is not complicit in that yearning for life...
A difference is one can move into a house, move into a neighborhood with implicity, down to ones cells be striving to be in that neighborhood. A part ...
Yes. And here is a tricky point in these discussions. If you talk about it this way, anti-theists (as opposed to non-theists) will jump to the epistem...
I'm no expert on Catholicism (bit one one on one part of Hinduism though I am not an adherant) but both those traditions include a great deal of ritua...
There seems to be sweet spots with challenges. IOW I think we actually do feel best when challenged. But feeling one must repeatedly stuff down emotio...
As far as I can tell I have at least as much doubt about my conclusions as non-theists do about their intuitive conclusions about all sorts of things....
I think the word supernatural is nonsensical. Of course that can be due to my ontology. But if it is the case, it is not supernatural, it is natural. ...
Sure, but that's a different issue. And most people, heck I'll stick my neck out and say all people, make decisions based on subjective experiences an...
I think it depends on what facets of the work we are talking about. Clearly the better scientists are not going to assume they don't need to do the re...
Not through theoretical proofs. Via experiences. Via working with a tradition and finding that much of what I have been told is the case, and things n...
I think it can be an advantage, even, especially if you are good at something or have the potential to be. If the goal is never to make a mistake, the...
WEre you just thinking about belief in God or would you apply this to all beliefs? I work with a vast range of beliefs that I am convinced enough to m...
If we take agnosticism as one cannot in any way experience a deity if there was one then it would be extremely odd to be an agnostic theist. If howeve...
Well, there are agnostic theists. Further you might believe without thinking that the existence of God can be known. IOW, as an example, you participa...
I think N was against pity, with its inherent condescension and dishonest secondary gain - feeling better than the other person, feeling proud of expr...
Well, without a god, all things are permitted also. Really it is, if there are humans, any sort of interpersonal or group violence or mistreatment wil...
I think it is even weaker (or confused) than you are pointing out (correctly). God could be good, but not all powerful. There could be complicated dei...
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