It appears that we need to appreciate the difference between us, mere mortals, and God, a perfect being. The gap between humans and God is HUGE and th...
I have an 10 year old nephew (K), 2011 model, who does (some) things backwards. His father shared an incident involving a guitar. The chords are easie...
Hopefully none! I don't advocate regulation on opinions. I quite enjoy the subjective nature of opinions - not always though but on the whole, the ben...
Mind and body age differently. They ain't always in sync. That's what IQ measures I suppose, (mental age)/(Body's age) * 100, if memory serves. This s...
@"180 Proof" Here's an interesting thought. Physicalism: Mind -> Biology If so, Mind -> Biology -> Chemistry -> Physics -> Math -> Mind This gums up t...
I only meant that the chain of explanations (answers to why? queries) has to terminate at some point. The usual way explanations proceed is the comple...
It's likely that I'm wrong about points and geometry but that doesn't invalidate the "point" I was making viz. deconstructing objects systematically c...
You have your opinions, others will have theirs. That's a fact. Whether people should be allowed to have opinions is a different issue - it begs for f...
There's no such thing as "infinite energy" as far as contemporary physics is concerned, nor is it sensible that an object could attain light speed by ...
I watched a very interesting video on Geometry - the basics, nothing fancy - and it "begins" in media res, exactly the situation we're in. So, the aut...
Ash/clouds, the effect is the same - no sunshine! Venus is closer to the sun by the way, that must surely mean something. Anyway, read up on some scie...
That's a non sequitur - Venus is Venus, Earth is Earth. Also, look up Year Without A Summer - volcanic ash clouds over the entire earth caused global ...
How do you know that? A lot of that liquid water, a predicted outcome of global warming, means more clouds, more clouds means less sun, less sun means...
Why not? All climate-change-is-real believers (what do you call 'em?) talk about is extreme weather. Ergo, if it snowed heavily (6 - 10 ft) all day fo...
It's all got to do with vagueness. The boundary between art and not-art is fuzzy and it's a Herculean task to tell the difference. Good art, on the ot...
I was talking about the climate, not the weather - global cooling in the form of worldwide snow, freezing temperatures in (say) the Sahara, and so on....
I have a simple question to ask. First off the climate change/global warming claims need to be made clear. I recently had a conversation with my broth...
I'm glad to know there's still hope for Wikipedia! I want to bounce something off of you. Scenario A (This universe): 1. Speed limit: 186000 miles per...
The first six questions are all about power - "Can God...?" The 7th and last question is about goodness. Could the two be related? Let's find out. Fir...
In "linear" universe, the heat death would mean the end of life for all eternity. Not so in a "cyclical" universe which basically presses the reset bu...
Banno says so is an excellent justification because Banno says so. Logic says so is an excellent justification because Logic says so. Circulus in prob...
That means, our esteemed Buddhist brothers and...er...sisters have got the wrong end of the stick for the past 2 millennia. That means, not only did s...
There are two, how shall I put it?, levels of symmetry. One is qualitative symmetry such as hot - cold, good - bad, up - down and so on. Asymmetry ain...
The rule (aka law) can be there are no rules (laws). The Paradox of Rules (Laws). The Law Of The Jungle! Deathmatch! Free-For-All! No-Holds-Barred! Yo...
Quid pro quo. I'm glad you find it interesting. You've given me quite a few insights, Jack, truth-seeker. TheMadFool makes a mental note of this comme...
Left/Right, doesn't matter as such but once one of them predominates, complications arise - I'm talking about right/left handedness which I suppose se...
:fire: :fire: :fire: Not to split hairs but the reasons for dismissing the other gods may not suffice to dismiss the one God we're in a tizzy about. T...
God's defined as, inter alia, omnipotent which basically means fae can defy logic. Thus, in the context of your argument, God both can make mistakes a...
I had similar thoughts a couple of years ago. It all depends on the so-called Technological Singularity. I envision that to be a point wherefrom intel...
Before we get to beliefs, atheism being one, we need to take care of the issue of justifcation, specifically are justifications any good. 1. Either th...
Thereby hangs a tale, a very important one. Thales of Miletus, the first philosopher in the Greek tradition Mythology evolved into Theism as we know i...
I've noticed, assuming my powers of observation are any good, that the word "agnostic" has become a general term for uncertainty e.g. people say, "I'm...
My argument gets to that part in lines 1 to 4 which basically states that If good justifications exist then, if Agrippa's trilemma doesn't matter then...
As a school in my locality likes to point out. Wikipedia isn't what it used to be. Quality deterioration over time is the norm rather than the excepti...
Ignoramus Et Ignoramibus In 1880 Emil du Bois-Reymond delivered a speech to the Berlin Academy of Sciences enumerating seven "world riddles" or "short...
:rofl: It got too technical. Sorry, my bad! It doesn't matter because it wasn't as good an argument as I'd hoped. Let me see... You're saying God does...
A short(?) argument for your reading pleasure Argument A 1. If good justifications exist, Agrippa's trilemma doesn't matter 2. If Agrippa's trilemma d...
Deep interpersonal connections are a myth. So, if you keep at this, it's not going to end well with you. Why the deep qualifier for interpersonal conn...
Why reinvent the wheel? Why waste a good idea? Good in the sense appropritate for the occasion. Your argument nested in My argument 1. God's omnibenev...
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