Ennui Elucidator

So apparently you aren’t interested. I’ve already told you that my moral reason says that a community can do things in contravention to an individual’...

Let’s try this again. In what circumstance can a community assert an interest against an individual interest? Forget the evidentiary nature of your re...

I’ve already linked several of them. The gift of the existentialists to some extent is that modern people could use the same language/customs/rituals ...

I don’t deny you know something, I simply disagree with your conclusions. I haven’t asked you a single epistemology question, I’ve asked you about com...

What is tedious is that you somehow think that your assertion of rights (that you don’t actually mean as rights as generally conceived) based on some ...

So people say my moral intuition is that slavery is fine (they were Romans after all) and that is good evidence that slavery is morally OK in Rome? Or...

And for the record, you may want to consider something called “moving the goal posts” in your quest to be logical. I simply pointed out you have no kn...

So you aren’t advocating a rights theory, you are just using rights language badly to cover up a majoritarian hurrah/boo theory of ethics as expressed...

If you spent as much time googling as writing wholly speculative posts, you might have learned something by now. Founders are long since dead and gone...

Why should I accept that rights theory is meaningful in this analysis when not one word you uttered was about anyone but the rights bearer? A society ...

I found the more philosophy I learned, the less well I could communicate with people. In part because I started being explicitly aware of assumptions ...

This is excerpted without attribution because it is an old joke that involves all sorts of Jews. It can be told better or worse. The point of the stor...

Here is a simple one on Reconstructionism. You are welcome to read about theology in that context if it interests you. But I am not trying to push Jud...

I almost posted the Oven of Akhnai for them, but then I didn’t. Actual religious thought is too much trouble to understand prior to criticizing it.

And even atheist Orthodox Jews, but who is counting? What is understood is that you are making ahistorical claims about what people believed over 3,50...

If only. But maybe he will listen to you if you try to explain the non-literal parts of “Judaism” and the long history of reading the opposite of what...

One time I was answering some questions on halakha from non-Jews online and some people started yelling at me and asking me to disavow Jesus. It was s...

I’m glad you were amused. It is crazy how the religiously ignorant non-orthodox world has bought the orthodox sales pitch hook line and sinker. Just w...

I don’t think he cares, but maybe he will read about Jewish pluralism in the modern world. Much easier to simply treat “Jews” as a monolith. The synag...

Everything for you is an argument. Who is justifying what to whom? Actual members of the religious community don’t have to justify to you. And interna...

. According to whom? Sources. Pick any ya reference you want and trace it through time or refer to someone that has. I’ve already referred to Maimonid...

What sort of evidence would you like? Do you want to read a few chapters later how god learns things? Or how god makes mistakes? Or god creates evil? ...

This is the part that is most disingenuous. What evidence do you have about the “founders” intentions from 3,500 years ago? Tell me the basis/evidence...

Wrote a long thing about conversion, but then deleted it because no one cares. The Omni god is a GREEK invention largely attributable to Plato/Aristot...

P.S. The Greeks screwed it up for everyone.

I just don’t understand stuff like this. Christianity is not Islam, Judaism, or the Israelite understanding of God. The beardy head in the sky as crea...

This just doesn’t feel like a good faith question. Are you asking to be educated, being rhetorical, or being dismissive? The statement was I’ve mentio...

The issue here isn't so much one of what "I know" means as such, but whether we justify our internal states to ourselves. I am responding a bit to wha...

This is likely a distraction, but what happens with the past tense? Say you don't generally justify that you know you are dreaming (you are asleep aft...

But there are religions besides Christianity that have to confront sacred myth and the recognition that it isn't "fact" in that way. So as those relig...

Religions do admit it. Some religions don't. If you want to argue about what Christians believe, argue about Christianity, not about "religion."

This is is more a historical debate and so is far too involved to really resolve. I'm going to suggest that early "Christianity" (after the word had f...

For those following at home: Logical necessity/entailment. also a bit of relevance logic. And the ideas of semantic vs. syntactic consequence.

I expect @"180 Proof" to pop in at any moment and dismiss everything I've said as the prattling of one those people who wants to play at religion and ...

Turns out I can't delete my comments, so I guess this is just an ill considered place holder until I can flesh it out.

The difference between us, Baker, is that you probably don't know the religious people that I know. It is tough to have a serious conversation about m...

I get it. I've just talked to Christian Ph.D. in theology kind of people who believe that Christianity survives a mythic Jesus and focuses on Jesus' m...

I agree with your sentiment about some historical religions being more or less tolerant than others, but I disagree that there is anything inherent ab...

I'm not sure what is intended by your remark, but you can flesh it out if you feel like it. I am personally familiar with these religions being friend...

As an aside, this is a problem for religions interested in applying to everyone everywhere. Religions that are happy to constrain themselves to insula...

As long as we agree not to engage in a game of what is a true Scotsman? Unitarian Universalists A variety of liberal Jewish movements: Reconstructioni...

If only. But then I have my name for a reason. On some level I would like to think that those most willing to do violence are not the progenitors of o...

Blame god, I suppose. But really, your reckoning is coming. Those naughty cell-biologists are on track to convert any cell back into a stem-cell and t...

The parties aren’t some abstraction, but actual groups of people who work towards their common betterment and have entrenched power structures. The ty...

A mole (or other cancer cell) is alive, genetically different, and not a person on your account. You are the one that says life is not personhood.

Nah. Your topic. I will leave. If people want to know my thoughts, we can start a new topic.

Philosophically or pragmatically? Pragmatically I defer to the experts and rely on the system as constructed since it generally gives me stuff that I ...

:up: Not that I am pro-parliament. But supporting one of the two parties seems the only rational choice unless you want to be a protest vote.

So syncretic religions don’t exist? Or pluralistic ones? Is that you are unwilling to consider anything besides regressive Christianity/Islam or that ...

I don’t understand what I have written well enough for me to know if I agree or disagree. I was hoping @"Banno" would tell me. SEP on Facts and Truthm...