TheMadFool

I agree. There's an exchange - belief bartered for security, comfort, relief from meaninglessness. That is my point. Some of us want God to exist. The...

For the present moment all I want to know is your desire vis-a-vis god's existence. This god is the creator of the universe and all that it contains -...

My argument, if at all it is one, is that the rational thing to do is be agnostic about God. The obvious existence of theism and atheism goes to show ...

Are you referring to the 3 omnipowered god by ''Laws of Nature''? If you are then yes.

There are two antagonistic views on God, to wit theism and atheism. Why? Each contradicts the other. That there's such a situation can only mean the a...

If there's enough wiggle room in christianity to allow pro-choice then I guess the debate is internal (within Christianity). Atheists should simply re...

I don't believe in Santa yet, for the sake of children around the world who think he's real, I'd want him to exist. Theists may believe in Satan but, ...

But do you want God to exist? Why?

And yet they ignore this perfectly reasonable option and become theists and atheists. What is the cause of this? Are theists a cowardly bunch afraid o...

And may I ask how they circumvent the murder accusation.

And may I ask how they circumvent the murder accusation.

Well, killing the baby amounts to murder which I hope is forbidden in Christianity. Atheists don't think abortion amounts to murder.

I don't think it's a question of logic. Why? Because, one thing we do know is that evidence for and against god is unavailable. The simple reason for ...

But how do you feel when you know that somewhere some poor child is starving to death? Do you still think of God?

Thanks for the post. Do you want God to exist? Why?

Your choice, even if it seems whimsical, IS relevant. It could explain why some believe and others don't. Obvisouly theism and atheism can't be explai...

I can see that forum members aren't interested in God-debates. Is it because it doesn't lead us to anything concrete? That's why I specifically avoide...

Decide, even if only in play-mode.

Sorry. I had in my mind the Omnibenevolent, omnipotent and omniscient god.

Is there such a thing as human nature? If there is then violence is surely one part of it. Islam, any other religion or idea for that matter, is only ...

''Islam'' means surrender. Isn't it ironic then that Islam serves as one of the most potent hotbeds of violence? If God exists, is this divine comedy?

Yes, I've noticed such types of questions. They appear to somehow circumambulate the 7 questions but these can always(?) be redone with some combinati...

Isn't this, in the least, an attempt to do just that - to step outside one's conceptual schema? The mind has evolved over time and despite some hiccup...

But all the words you've listed, even if they're used to formulate questions, are redundant - we can always rephrase them in terms of the 7 questions

ok:)

There's not one system of government that hasn't failed - monarchy, aristocracy, communism, dictatorships and even democracy. By fail I mean the inabi...

How does necessity and possibility bear on my question, which is simply ''what do you think is the 8th/7th/etc. type of question?"

Indeed, questions seem to depend on the evolution of our minds as I said in my OP.

Oh! I see. You mean the questions in the past and present tense are unique questions in themselves contra the present? But I think all questions can b...

That's interesting. It appears that ''could'' or ''would'' or maybe others too are different from the 7 questions in our bag. However I think such que...

Perhaps I chose the wrong words. What I mean is that we can, from sunyata, realize that to do good we shouldn't have an ulterior motive e.g. attaining...

Then what is the right view?

I think something unique to Buddhism is at the level of sunyata philosophy everything is acceptable - a no-holds-barred game. Enlightened people/bodhi...

My answer limits itself to the context of morality you, rightly, brought up.

Yes I'm looking for a new/novel/unique perspective to reality via a new type of question over and above the 7 I've listed above. Till date everyone se...

How would you explain the concept of sunyata to a child? To me sunyata (name itself derived from sunya which means zero?) means nothing - nothing last...

For a long time now humans have been trying to categorize experience into neat little boxes, crisply delineated domains. However, nature hasn't been v...

God is, in essence, a hypothesis aimed at explaining the universe, its origins and workings. If you walk into a room that is clean, neat and organized...

Madhyamaka has a mathematical counterpart, to wit ZERO sitting exactly in the middle between positive and negative numbers. And doesn't that resonate ...

The Bostrom trilemma pre-empts these constraints - notice option 1 (the fraction of civilization having the means to simulate our reality is close to ...

This is the exact attitude an advanced civilization may have re us and our reality.

It's not an exaggeration to think that we may be to a sufficiently advanced civilization what animals are to us. We ignore the ability of animals to s...

Well, to draw from our experience - animal experimentation - I don't think advanced civilizations will have any qualms about conducting tests that, pe...

That's a dim view of our reality. Do you think morality would have progressed in proportion to technology. Looking at the way things are technology is...

I considered that thought. The short answer is even if there were multiple realities, each would run more simulations than itself, ultimately, there w...

One of which could be running simulations

There can be only 1 reality but there can be many simulations. So the probability of being in a simulation is greater. If the so-called laws can be ma...

And one wonders how we must have faith in such an important issue while demanding proof of what is comparatively trivial.

I don't understand. Isn't a population composed of individuals? The collective drama must be, invariably, played out at the level of the individual. A...

Perhaps I haven't worded it as well as I would have liked. I guess the point I'm making is that given genetic mutation is random, it is inevitable tha...