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I don't think the expectations are unreasonable. Why do you think it is unreasonable to expect a God to do for what I criticized Him for not doing?

That covers one of the two possibilities. "If it comes to that". And what is your stance on the issue should it not come to that? :-)

Man, your reading comprehension skills really have a lot of room for improvement. What you quoted as something I allegedly have said, is something I n...

Both of your questions were so worded that they defied a reasonable answer. First you appealed to me to perform a job a deity can only do (to your cre...

I have to admit that my values are more precious to me than reputation. And I do proselytize my way; the religious do it their own way. I do it by fig...

God is His name. Not His title. I am not dodging anything. You may refer to God as His job title, or occupation name, which is not quite the same as "...

I think the mad fool made the "given" that lying is bad, or evil, and saying the truth is good. That is a condition, to which we must stick if we are ...

The god has no title. God God. Or the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord is not unique to God. So you are appealing to something I missed which does not even...

Budai is actually NOT the Buddha. It is Budai. It's like mixing up Himmler with Hitler. Your fact is totally dead on true, but is unfortunately irrele...

Well, if I were a god, I'd try. But I am not. So... why do you ask Sir2u to perform a task which only gods are required to do? This is like asking a s...

It is extremely hard to predict the future and you ask whether it can be done. In my opinion it can't. If you plan long enough into the future, scient...

I replied to you saying that Budai and its variations are not the Buddha. I meant this application of logic seriously, but nevertheless mine was a fun...

Ahem. A circular reasoning is one in which the assumption or premise plays a vital role in the system. All systems depend on premises and logic. The s...

I replied to you, Wosret, but my reply is apparently under "probation". I close this discussion. I don't tolerate senseless and unnecessary censorship...

Every mention of philosophical merit is ultimately circular. The only variation is the size of the radius.

Only God could play dice, and win every throw. That is actually true. Jesus was notorious for winning at the races, and at Dirndle and at Russian Roul...

I happen to be Chinese today. The Laughing Buddha is not a Chinese God. Maybe it's not the Buddha, but I think it is, because it is called The Laughin...

This sounds so much like "spare the moronic boredom and spoil the kid." I like to laugh; and what about Nirvana? Is that not equal to "nothingness"? a...

When I originally created my post, to which you referred two or three posts up, I said "technology is at most 2000 years old". Then I thought of the p...

This thread reminds me of how fondly people place the nobility and serenity of nature above man's achievements, and how incongruously quote irrelevant...

Is the name of Buddha less recognizable than that of Einstein? Are the names of Marx, Aristotle, Schopenhauer, less recognizable than those of Newton,...

I see philosophy, when I talk of giants and lions, as pure, unforgiving, cruel logic applied. People are scared to think that there is a real world of...

Nature had billions of years to perfect itself. If you listen to materialist atheists. But man has toyed with hi-tech for only about 70 years. It's ti...

your posts raises the question what the difference between a Buddhist atheist and a material atheist is. The Buddhist believes in reincarnation, and t...

Well... from an implicit atheist stance, strictly speaking, there is no salvation. Buddhism is a transition between theism and atheism... that's why B...

Jancanc: this is how christianity avoides the paradox (I am quoting Sam, no imput by me): In Christianity, to attain salvation, all you have to do is ...

I continue my quest of watching this long, boring, drawn-out, but well acted movie. I am up to the point where he returns the tux and cloak to the ren...

I think Jancanc is trying to come from a Buddhist source, but he did not say that (I don't know why.) There is a Buddhist route to nirvana/salvation, ...

You mean, I should run for president when Trump gets ambisecrotancted.

Thanks, :-)

Thanks, Sapientia. Okay, everyone, please feel free to carry on as usual. I shan't be accepting posts from here on, but that is only a time-saver, not...

I am abandoning this thread. Posts I accepted in the past are marked as to be accepted again. It is a tedious and unnecessary process. I don't know ho...

Well, according to Christianity, you ought to turn your other cheek (to the Indians, to the French, to the Loyalists), and which the Americans never d...

Can somebody help me? Do I need to click on "Accept" and then click on "view Answer" to make the posts appear to you all? I have been doing that inces...

Thanks, Posty, I was wondering about that myself, but I slid over it lightly.

READ my lips: if they don't read the bible in the first place, they don't know what's in it; and they can get the same information form other sources....

I dunno, man... the rich can't eat more food in the same life span, can't have more orgasms, can't have more laughter, can't have more drinks than a p...

You asked a straight question and I'm going to give you a straight answer. The space dust that has fallen on Earth is 8 followed by 14 zeroes. In Kilo...

why he should disregard the bible's teaching despite the teachings being useful? Not because the atheist is irrational. But because he never reads the...

Augustino, I could not accept your post, because it involves a movie clip, and I never play movie clips for fear of catching a virus. So... I can't ac...

I did not write this... it is nonsensical. I don't know how it got there into the opening post. Absolute mystery to me. Okay, I get it: I need to acce...

They are not nihilistic. They are just counter-intuitive. Show me two, just two average Americans who have done this and called it the American Dream....

You should love everyone is a proposition. But it's not an imperative sentence. "Love everyone" is an imperative sentence, and it is not a proposition...

Well, you are right, everything in the bible is social conditioning if you don't believe it is the word of god. But if you believe that the bible is t...

Does ignorance about Buddhism also cause suffering? If you are fine, praxis, then you just proved the Buddha wrong.

What I am getting out of existentialism. What? I AM getting out of existentialism.

Thanks for the explanation, Testosterone!! It makes sense to me now. I had this sort of pleasure in my life, too, albeit I was a child then: I played ...

Will work if X is everything we know. If X is a table, instead of everything we know, then a "What table is not " is a chair, and yet we know things a...

My old friend, Paul Spenser, suggested one day that they should set up counselling for the poor to help them deal with their hunger. Paul's joke was a...

My favourite expression (because I created it) around ignorance is "ignorance is power". You can't be defeated in an argument if you don't understand ...