TheMadFool

I agree that it's quite arbitrary that the ''dark'' connote evil. I don't know for sure why this is so. Perhaps it's an ancient intuition - the dark h...

That's exactly what I mean (couldn't put it as well). So, given that interpretation, don't you think evil personalities (Hitler, Stalin, etc.) have in...

That's odd. The prescription is determined by the description, don't you think? Otherwise, given human propensity for lofty things such as meaning of ...

How about Buridan's Ass paradox?. Given two equally attractive options, rationality fails to provide, as you put it, a solution.

Perhaps your question is loaded with prejudice. I would ask ''Is the universe rational?" Paradoxes are aplenty. Has rationality provided solutions to ...

Al least we're in agreement that contradictions are logically bad. What is natural order? Rules and laws that govern all phenomena in the universe (ev...

Let us suppose for the moment that you're right and that there's nothing weird going on. Why is it that most people need miracles to believe in God? W...

Ok. I get the autopilot analogy (other posters have more or less said the same thing). However you said: Why is it that miracles are considered ''stro...

Indeed. Politics has a way of degrading anything it touches. I don't like politics but I'm not saying this from a higher moral ground. There are good ...

As other members have also pointed out. It appears to solve the problem as expressed in the OP. However, natural order and miracle are contradictory t...

Well it seems I have to go into much more detail into the logic of the issue. By natural order I mean the laws of nature, which is currently the domai...

And that basically tells us to avoid extremes which can then be extended, I think quite reasonably, onto the good-evil duality(?)

So, you don't find anything wrong with a game in which heads I win and tails you lose???!!

So, if I were to play a coin game with you the condition being heads i win and tails you lose, you would accept??!!!

Isaac Newton was a religious scientist and he was satisfied with discovering the laws of nature which he took to be the work of god. However, Christia...

My question is why are two mutually contradictory states (ordinary laws of nature AND miracles - breaking the aforementioned laws) taken to be evidenc...

Knowing you to be a theist it seems like you want myths to be true. Perhaps to justify your own beliefs?? Personally I think there are elements of tru...

Again you've shackled your mind into thinking that irrationality is the only other option. I'm not too sure but the word ''conjecture'' is quite commo...

Is causality that simple?

Why then are people unbelievers - waiting for, well, a miracle to happen? Why aren't people satisfied, so to speak, with the ''evidence'' provided in ...

And how does one go about making the distinction?

Isn't this self-defeating? If everything is of equal value and the act of valuation is simply subjective then Nihilism too is nothing more than a matt...

How shall I say this now? Plato needn't dismiss the accounts of god(s) as lies in the first place. Perhaps he wasn't familiar with the notion of crazy...

Another paradox to shock rationality.

This seems like an oxymoron. How can ''myths'' ever be true.

I sympathize with you. There are cognitive states that cannot be accurately described in words. Brings to mind the following conversation (authentic?)...

I agree that science is a continuously expanding domain - gobbling up other disciplines, even art and music, like a hungry shark in the middle of a sh...

You're too quick to judge. If memory serves, Einstein's ToR was initially dismissed as ''nonsense''. It seems you're satisfied with the current versio...

Strawman. The ''disagreement'' in moral issues not simply a matter of opinion. Each side claims to be right and reasonable despite some cases leading ...

I think the whole issue of abortion is sad and bad. This is the 21st century and people have unprecedented access to a whole plethora of pharmaceutica...

I understand you suggest that we do philosophy in some sort of ''game-mode'' - fun being a part of it. I also realize that the issues philosophy deals...

I think the notion of fairness is older than logic. IMHO it arose among ancient cultures simply as a social attribute that enhances survival of the gr...

I wonder WHY - all of us, sharing the exact same experience - there are so many different denominations when it comes to religious belief. Are atheist...

I fear you may be mistaken. Emancipation doesn't have a rational origin. It's got more to do with emotion. The anti-slavery movement wasn't based on r...

I don't know how far this is relevant but, if I recall correctly, there's a psychological notion called ''loss aversion''. People prefer not losing to...

Well, if there's one word to describe my life, it's ''BIZARRE''. You don't know how reasonable ''chreograph a dance'' sounds to me. Also, the proposit...

Maybe I exaggerated a tad. But you will agree morality has not yielded definitive answers on a rational foundation. In fact, I think moral precepts we...

I simply question the overrated value of rational thinking. As you said, philosophy is about rational analysis of issues whatever they may be. And as ...

All I know is rationality has failed in some fields of philosophy. What other modes of thinking are available? I don't know. Personally, I'm leaning t...

It's something like physics. Isaac Newton's theory held out till Einstein came along and added a hogher degree of precision. Likewise the current vers...

Some would disagree. Thus the ''failure'' of reason in the field of morality.

Google paradox

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Perhaps you misunderstood yourself. As far as I can see one is driven by emotion - happiness and sorrow being prime motivators.

Isn't this just another angle on the ''paradox'' of philosophy? While we seek knowledge because it is, to say the least, ''interesting'', the realizat...

I agree that thinking ''too much'' which I'm translating as excessive physical exertion is harmful to bodily health. However, one doesn't need to thin...

From a religious point of view, life is a "gift". It's supposed to be lived out in service of the divine - not just in some abstract manner but throug...

Indeed. The universe is not obliged to make us happy.

I think there's a distinction to be made between eating/drinking too much and thinking too much. In the former ''too much'' has a meaning - there's da...

There's no correct answer to Mew's queries. In other words it's just a matter of opinion and speculation. Isn't that why there's ''difficulty agreeing...