TheMadFool

Hi there. My two cents: 1. God is omnibenevolent 2. Satan is evil 3. If God is omnibenevolent then belief is unnecessary for goodness 4. If Satan is e...

I don't want to bother you anymore. I'm satisfied with how much I understood. I read the other thread you started asking for a logical perspetive for ...

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Ok. Belief is the problem. I'm probably going around in circles here so humor me. What name would you give to the message of your OP and all that you'...

I don't think that's completely accurate. It seems you agree with the uncertainty of induction. I'm not an expert but Hume is probably suggesting an e...

Am I right if I say the above statement summarizes your thoughts? If yes then I should have read your post more carefully. It makes sense when you con...

it is true why? tell us, do it happened before it'll happen therefore chicken, "I was fed every morning" today my family mourning what is induction? f...

This I read with childish wonder. I mean it makes sense within the context of beliefs being a source of the world's problems and Satan is the personif...

I'm afraid I don't follow you all that well. I think your sweeping criticism of the very idea of belief as the wellspring of all ills is true but not ...

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Really? Wikipedia says they have a statue of him in Iran and the UN. I wonder if there was a posthumous fatwa. Like Asterix used to say "These Romans ...

Free speech naked on the beach hate speech for the towel reach between the towel and naked skin something lies unseen it's air that fills the gap you ...

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I wish you had distilled the essence and then presented it here. The post and topic is a subject in and of itself. I, sadly, lack the time to read all...

I think... If philosophy is a school, metaphysics is the playground where children do their thing - play, only the toys are ideas. Imagination has a b...

This is relevant to me! Thanks. I actually think it's good practical advice. I can't lift the Earth but I sure can wash off the dust in my eye. What a...

The task of describing God requires a describer who has seen/perceived God. Conventional descriptions depend on our physical senses and this is out of...

While religion stands out for its organized discrimination of gays and women I think the root of the problem has more to do with the male psychology t...

Yes, that's the Mexican Standoff I was talking about. What I think is that the means available to maintain peace suits the circumstances of the people...

Virtue sought to know the ought Vice shed peace when dead there are rules rigid fools never say never always whenever one nor two will ever do all tog...

I can't quite remember where but there's the problem of universals. You might find that useful. The name suggests a link.

How exquisitely beauitful that you infer a miracle. :starstruck: :starstruck: Reason bounds Faith bounds Choose one? nay, the two are one

I don't know. Are you suggesting something I'm not aware of? Am I missing something? Self-proving or obvious starting points? I'll answer this from a ...

Oh ok! Better the tree that stands in the storm than what's inside it, the cozy worm but...some say to bend and flex to the wind is the way there is g...

This is a veritable paradox AI will best us at everything Yet it will be surely born of nothing By the dextrous hands of man who convinced himself he ...

Why would you say that? Why didn't you say so? Both are common in normal day-to-day existence. Everyone, including me, has these questions asked of th...

Sorry but the there's still tomorrow.

I'm confused. Why would you criticize God and then be open to a god? If you don't like "G"od then why stop your attack at "g"od? Wouldn't it be better...

I want to leave because I write more than I read. I want to stay because I learn more by listening than by writing. Thank you all.

Yes, I think that's a better name for humans. Humans, being rational and yet, "exclusively" capable of stupidity, must stand out from the rest. How ir...

That's something I hadn't thought about and again consequentialism sucks. Thanks. However, that's not real peace. Would pointing guns each other like ...

There's a book I haven't had the time to read: Just six numbers by astronomer Martin Rees.

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Where have insects committed suicide?

I'd like to say "that's beautiful" but that would downplaying the suffering of the many who've ended their lives, unable to face pain.

I think we shouldn't use any characteristic that is supposedly highly developed in humans but still present, to some degree, in others. Cheetahs are t...

Again the word "rational" includes animals like apes and dolphins, etc. It may be that language ability has peaked in humans but notice I say "peaked"...

The rationality of clams may not be so obvious as that of an ape but that doesn't matter. Apes are rational and if we define humans as "homo sapiens" ...

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Your definition based on self-awareness is a good one but I think some apes pass the mirror test

Thanks for the link. It appears that the cases of non-human suicide are caused by parasitic brain infections. The believable stories are anecdotal so ...

Suicide in insects or rationality in insects? Tou probably mean the latter. I think insects are capable of simple logic bu which I mean we might find ...

Oh! :sad: Einstein!!!!! :angry:

I just want to ask a question though? What do you make of Zeno's paradoxes? Zeno of Elea was a student of Parmenides and his paradoxes are supposed to...

That's one of those times when someone is so intelligent that they sound stupid. The converse may be true on other occasions. Humanity, it seems, is a...

How true. It seems creation and destruction are dancing together and the universe reflects their moves; tears and smiles, spring and winter.

I agree. Reminds me of Cardinal Richelieu. which translates as: This is why consequentialism as a moral theory sucks. We may have some idea about imme...