TheMadFool

Yeah but I'd like to know in what sense do we play with words?

There's a clear distinction in meaning as @"Luke" pointed out but perhaps you wish to say it's distinction without a difference. Well, if whatever is ...

So, what, to you, is worthy of faith? :chin:

Too idealistic and impractical right? Yet, in this day and age, we live in a world where every city has high rises. If we were to take your position t...

You're just playing with words. It's fun to do. :smile:

That's fair.

I thought that's precisely why we should avoid them - why add fuel to fire and make the matter more complicated?. Let's consider the LEM and the PB wi...

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Just curious and you're probably the right person to ask this question to but are the religious fideists?

Yes, as we discovered to be the case.

That's not part of the stone paradox. That's something that came to light in our discussion.

Show me the contradiction is the stone paradox then.

No, it's not. The stone paradox has as a conclusion the non-omnipotence of God. It doesn't employ contradiction to make that point. The contradictory ...

But the fact remains that he (Thomas), unlike others who accepted the resurrection on faith, wanted and was given evidence. Well, I agree that there a...

Doubting Thomas

:chin: :chin: Last I heard, faith is to believe without evidence So, is reason fooling us or not? and Faith: requires no evidence Rationality: require...

The truth value of statements about the furure is controversial or so I heard.

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:up: This description of Heaven is, well, unsatisfactory because it doesn't mention anything about happiness. Contrast this to the fact that Hell is v...

That's a great question. In the case of a shark that attacks a paddling surfer because of resemblance to a seal when viewed from below, I think it dis...

Yes, I fully agree that some ideas were/are/will be far ahead of their time - impractical or too idealistic for the times they were born in. However, ...

Statements about the future are a different story.

Spit it out then...what does Heaven look like?

Of course they're different in content but not in spirit and in this case it's all about spirit - the questioning spirit. Agreed but the problem is th...

Correct. Sorry, I missed that earlier. If God creates that stone then he's not omnipotent. If God can't create that stone then he's not omnipotent. If...

:chin: Initially I was inclined to agree but can't the nth AI be as different from the (n+1)th as humans will be from the first genuine AI (capable of...

As always, great post.

Read below: It looks like there's unanimous consensus on what Hell is or could be like but none on the matter of Heaven. I and everyone gets what eter...

So, you're saying that you don't see the problem with shooting down good ideas based on the belief that they're too idealistic? While I don't disagree...

I'll give you a simple scenario to think about. I'm over at your place for the night. We go to sleep and are woken up by loud noises coming from the b...

(TRUE(p) v TRUE(~p)) = (p v ~p)

Is it possible that this can't be done within the current scientific paradigms? Something is missing - it may remind you of élan vital but that is pro...

I vote for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Khan#/media/File%3AKamala_Khan.jpg

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It's not about logical impossibilities but that the idea of god losing his power - becoming non-omnipotent - involves him beating himself and that doe...

There's no question. The stone paradox depends on the notion of defeat/victory but when a person plays against himself, these concepts don't make sens...

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:up: Philsophers are rain-makers. Wherever there's a parade, they make sure it rains and rains hard. :smile: Simulation Hypothesis

Loss/Victory if viewed in the context of a person playing against himself doesn't make sense, right?

Rationality imposes many duties on a person and one of them is to be skeptical in a global sense - everything must be doubted - and that includes rati...

Spookily, that description fits humans as well. :chin:

Reasoning is the same as Logic. You mentioned intelligence with regard to consciousness and going by how intelligence is measured (IQ tests) - memory ...

Either I'm out of my depth or there's something about the fact that all our reasoning, whether by a 5 year old toddler or the great Einstein himself, ...

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This is probably an oversimplification but what is consciousness but information processing and if it is that then any information processor must be c...

Firstly, in what sense do you mean inclusive or exclusive? Secondly, it appears that I'm guilty of loose terminology. There's rationality - a frame of...

Thus spoke Reason.

If what makes a man is a dick, does having a huge dick make you a non-man?

Yes, I agree and I admitted to that fact - the 3 scenarios do differ but the problem and point is they can't be discerned as so. There's a difference,...