TheMadFool

I beg to differ. In the absence of essences to dogs or whatever else is the topic, there can be no further discussion. Can you tell me what "dog" mean...

Well, a couple of things: 1. There seems to be a huge body of work on the limitations of logic, math, science, almost every subject we can conceive of...

Well, I'm approaching the issue from a Doestoevskyian point of view, the view that "if god didn't exist, anything would be permissible" which, in esse...

You maybe right but I doubt whether there is a well-defined line of demarcation between the two. To my reckoning, the fact of the two being, in a sens...

The word "ancient" has two meanings that are, in my humble opinion, absolute and relative. I concede that the word itself has no precise definition an...

Well, it's a philosophical take on empiricism which itself, as far as I know, is the foundation of the sciences.

Well, this in no way proves that believing in God is, in and of itself, a moral act in the same category as saving someone's life or helping the poor,...

I don't know if this amounts to anything but science seems to be a poor yardstick to study the topic of possibility/impossibility because of the probl...

The situation maybe slightly more complex than either of us assume. I was simply pointing out the absence of any clear-cut statement in scripture that...

I'll give it a look. Thanks.

I'm second-guessing the Buddha's rationale behind his "no comment" attitude towards God here but take a close look at the situation atheists and theis...

Sorry to have wasted your time then. I've bitten off more than I can chew. G'day.

I don't know how meaningful what I'm going to say will be in re your question's import but my approach will be from the other side of the coin of poss...

I'm in your debt. G'day

:up: :clap: It's true that science, in its present form, seems to be only half the story if we look at it from an Aristotelian perspective on causalit...

Explain this difference. My high school math knowledge informs me that these are the same thing. A thousand apologies. :smile: As far as I know, Godel...

Yeah, science and even math, in certain respects, seems to have come full circle. Both had origins in occult practices (grain of salt recommended), al...

:up: You brought back memories of my fairly recent and very superficial encounter with 15th, 16th natural philosophers (scientists) and mathematicians...

There seem to be some kind of a paradox hidden in this part of the philosophical universe. Scientific reproducibility, as understood in the obvious wa...

:rofl: :up: :clap: :up: I want to run something by you if you don't mind. I've always been fascinated by science and math, not so much by religion exc...

Well, to be frank, humans live, at the most, up to 70 years, give or take 5 years on average. The lifespans were much, much shorter back in the day wh...

Overpopulation is the easy target here. I remember doing a back-of-the-envelope population, factoring in things like average family size, ideal living...

Well, I don't think fear alone, as you seem to be suggesting, is the reason why society, excluding the occasional disturbance to peace, is able to fun...

You can say that again. Camus, despite what his detractors, if any, say, was, in my opinion, a success story, no? Plus, built into his philosophy is t...

How so? Going down that road, naive it may sound, leads to the rich get richer and the poor get poorer "quicksand" you seem so eager to wade into.

Really, fear? Fear of what? As I mentioned the police forces are spread thin over large urban settlements - it would be quite easy, in my humble opini...

How exactly do you think the world runs its cities? How is the peace maintained in towns, cities, megacities? The police force is, by my reckoning, ju...

How exactly, may I ask?

I just realized that the hypotenuse isn't just its length, there's also slope to consider and the slope of the hypotenuse does have meaning - the goin...

If an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good being was on your side in a battle, wouldn't it be silly to question faer commands? Of course, assuming such...

Seems like cherry-picking to me - you've got few instances in which being moral would likely be a fatal error but you're ignoring what must be instanc...

Judith N Shklar kind courtesy of @"Banno". Only a woman's heart could've penetrated the dense fog of male power struggles to see what's really going o...

So, it's all in my head...and heart...then?

Do you see a better way of approaching the issue of the now official position of those who've peeked inside the box of meaning/purpose and found none ...

What do you recommend for a person down on his luck?

I don't want to contradict you but isn't that like saying "I don't mean that I want god to exist but I find that life without god rings hollow" A dist...

I've been trying to figure out whether or not there are actual infinities in the universe or not. However, that seems rather ambitious for finite bein...

Sorry to hear that. You come across as more than capable of coming up with a good response. Too bad. Thanks.

Some would probably think differently. Would you feel your life were enriched if you came to know that, as someone, I can't recall who, said: ?

I feel the same way you're feeling, maybe we're in identical situations. All I can say is you're coming at the issue from a rather conventional point ...

I think I get what you mean but you must surely have had the experience of not being able to say "no, this is impossible" to someone, someone you love...

:up: What I find intriguing is that polytheism with a pantheon of quarrelsome gods seems indistinguishable from atheism. In both cases we'll get the s...

All I can say is that I'm talking about Descartes and you're talking about Descartes' father. We're talking past each other.

Thank you, as always. The etymology part about the word "deva" is telling indeed. I wonder how the concept of god evolved over time. My guess is that ...

I'm going to rework my presentation in order that you may better understand my predicament. Please keep the explanation simple as I'm not a mathematic...

As far as I can tell, from my own personal experience that is, music has the power to stir up all kinds of emotions, from joy to sorrow and everything...

I don't get your joke. We have two items in our list: apples and dollars, each of them forming a side of a right triangle. What's the hypotenuse in te...

I don't want to split hairs but devas as gods seem to be a misnomer of sorts for they are nothing like the god we encounter in the Abrahamic triad. I ...

All that went over my head. If memory serves, Pythagora's theorem works only for right triangles and yes the axes that I used are perpendicular and ye...

How do people get rich? I can't quite put a finger on it but there must exist an asymmetry in the exchange between, say, buyer and seller, for such a ...