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Well, I think @"unenlightened" has the right of it in the above with respect to the particular example you're giving. The middle I had in mind was bet...

I would like to be able to say that an omnipotent being can create contradictions. But there's a fair point you're making here about our willingness. ...

God doesn't conform to the law of the excluded middle -- after all, he is omnipotent. Why should he be contained by our preferred patterns of inferenc...

Heh. Welll... i can't give a favorable review on the true intention. I know there are people in it that are good people. And at this point in history,...

I don't think the tax status of an organization really changes the fact that there are already churches who are run by salaried professionals, just as...

The Bible is viewed as supplemental to the Book of Mormon. In a similar manner that some Christians view the Old Testament, so do Mormon's view the Bi...

I suppose my thought is that I find it hard to give a general answer. I see multiplicity. Even in current religions, of which we can participate and g...

Yes, exactly. It makes perfect sense. I'm not trying to disparage the practice of what works -- only to highlight how totalising capital really is, an...

I guess it depends on the specifics. . . but the general form of capital seems to perpetuate itself, at least in my experience. Though I'll admit I'm ...

I'd also note that not-for-profit is something of a in-name-only -- I'd say that the general critique of capital applies just as well to non-profit or...

I'll note that @"Mariner" has at least espoused polytheist views. I don't know where he is at now of course, but I've always read his posts on religio...

Indeed. The curse of bi-sexuality -- the indelible lust corrupting all friendships into an eternal tension between erotic pleasure and platonic love. ...

Well, it seems a bit strange to me whenever a human claims to know what God wants of not just themself, but of everyone -- but alas it's not logically...

And an athiest can believe that a human being has evolved to fulfill a particular role, making it justified objectively in their view. It appears obje...

Given the diversity of sects within particular religions, and how they develop through time, I'd say that even with an explicit set of instructions we...

If you believe there is no God, you could believe that there is a teleological element to the universe, if that's all that's required to establish obj...

There is no objective morality with God, either, from what I can tell.

Another way to put what I'm getting at -- If all you have is assertion P -- that whatever Allah says is good -- then that's not much different from as...

You think atheists who are moral realists are not consistent -- but the only reason you give here is that because moral realism can only come from God...

Well, it really depends on what you want from a demonstration I think. I believe I have a hint at what you're wanting from a moral system when you say...

The latter is what I was considering. I'm not as interested, here, in determining how we might know others -- only the conditions under which one migh...

I'm guessing that you're not referencing the first definition, because that's just silly. But if it's the latter then it seems to me that all we need ...

One way to acquire knowledge of orange juice is to taste the orange juice -- then you'd know how the orange juice tastes.

What's a basis? Is it the same thing as saying that morality is objective? So that your second statement is a restatement of the first? And why would ...

I wouldn't say that it goes either way just because I've heard stories both ways -- sometimes it goes away, and the reasons for that vary (from consta...

I should say that I think medication is great. That's what works for me. Though there is variability, the common prescriptions work great -- I started...

I honestly don't know. It could be complexity. It could just be cultural interest in curing bodily impairments (vision being one of the primary metaph...

@"Posty McPostface" -- Beebopping around the 'net I came across this interesting paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4314947/ reviewin...

True enough. I suppose my thinking was that in a way this double spectrum -- in the sense that you can go from left to right and right to left but nev...

What happens when you drop out language from your gradation? So we have -- Dance:Gesture:Poetry:Philosophy:Math Perhaps a bit heavy on the left and mi...

I'm not convinced that poetry attempts to be gestural. There are many formal techniques in poetry -- and those formal techniques are even language-spe...

I agree with you when you say that I feel a stronger bond with my old friends, as I age, and also that it is harder to make new friends again. Even so...

Definitely. Where's the downside?

You add quotations around the name after typing the @ symbol. So, adding spaces to demonstrate here, you would just type this out without the spaces: ...

Anyone have any good references on poetry books akin to the following: https://www.amazon.com/Poetic-Meter-Form-Paul-Fussell/dp/0075536064 I'm looking...

Alright, so if there were a law, say, that people could declare their gender-identity and it was written down then you'd accept the claims being made?

Not at all. Thus far you believe there must be some objective, measurable entity you can independently verify in order to take the claim that someone'...

What actions with respect to time lets you know if someone you met is the nephew of someone else?

The important thing here is that these aren't measurable quantities that you can independently verify.

Definitely!

This is closer I think. But what differs here is that these aren't physical quantities which are measured. There is a qualitative aspect to a relation...

I was answering your question, which you seemed to want. It's not an inconsistency at all. Interiority can be parsed in various ways through ontology,...

I guess I do have something to add here after all. I think that the difference between absolute value and price or exchange value is what allows surpl...

I absolutely agree that how people are treated is more important than whether or not what they say of themselves happens to be true. Intolerance, as I...

Ah, fair point.

This is just a metaphysical puzzle. What does it matter that we count them as qualia or not? Either way we know what it is to feel, and we know that o...

Eh, I think that's a bit of an overstep. I granted that Mary was not intolerant. I don't think you are intolerant. But just because one can reach a di...

I guess part of what makes the notion of a trans identity easier for me to accept, or has made it easier to accept for me (because I didn't always thi...

I guess my thinking goes like this -- because I am not a member of the group this is what it would appear to me to be a part of the group. I don't hav...

Because it's not simple and not settled. http://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15468 is a study I came across in the google-verse. There are others I had...