Agent Smith

True that. Fine distinctions you're making there. Kudos. I used to follow New Atheism, but it's kinda lost steam over the years with the most vocal me...

In a sense war/destruction/death/decay/decomposition is part of the game. Our world seems to be based on a conflict model i.e. it's adversarial - all ...

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That's ok.

Indeed. Atheism mistakes spiritual with religion. The idea of nonphysicalism, a philosophical view, is indistinguishable from religion to the atheist....

As a lack of belief, atheism let's itself off the hook - no longer is there a duty to justify itself (no belief, no justification needed).However, one...

:ok: She cares not whether humanity survives or tapeworms survive - we're not exactly her pet, oui?

(Momma) nature is red in tooth and claw, eh mon ami? A taste of her own medicine :love:

https://youtu.be/QiZNSzWIaLo

Yoi're well-versed with the rules of the game mon ami.

1. God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived. 2. If god is not real then God is not that than which nothing greater can be conceived. Er...

If it were true it would make your god is everywhere inconsistent, oui? God being everywhere is inconsistent with hell, as I already explained. Howeve...

We're doing it anyway, oui monsieur?

First off, agree that what I call the God hypothesis is, wonder of wonders, testable (re the problem of evil & Epicurean riddle) i.e. it's a scientifi...

:up: The immune system itself turns malignant (leukemias, lymphomas) sometimes, oui? Have you ever wondered - are we (humans) a highly virulent cancer...

Well, if one asks for a reason, atheists are big on reason, the only one that seems to me appropriate is to withhold belief until such a time as stron...

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Interesting. There are testable claims pertaining to god (predicates) and as the Epicurean riddle demonstrate, none of the attributes of god pass the ...

:fire: :clap: :pray: To tell you the truth, I quite like what bylaw is getting at. The Buddhist recommendation to end suffering by extinguishing desir...

https://youtu.be/b23wrRfy7SM God seems to be a model worth looking into.

As @"180 Proof" regularly reminds us, getting it right, especially all the time, is nigh impossible; ergo strive to reduce error. The guy who gets an ...

Apologies if you're offended. Believe me I'm not in the habit of hurling ad homs at other people. Look up my post history and be satisfied. In fact yo...

There's only one way to attain power and it's the same way you retain it, via corruption, in colloquial terms you have to be the biggest jerk in town....

:lol: He was well-prepared ... fled at the first sign of trouble.

I misread you - I thought you wanted to discuss regulation of ideas. If yes then censorship is one way of doing it.

In my universe, possible means consistent although not necessarily true à la scientific hypotheses. Omnipresence is consistent with god being in all w...

I wonder what's up with autoimmune disorders? Do you have any idea whether they're linked to cancers? I know diabetes type II (some kinda immune-media...

Rain has always been viewed as bad luck - picnic cancelled, game cancelled, concert cancelled. It's the classic case of Murphy's law in action - rain ...

:up: Danke for correcting my error. I also didn't know IQ could be negative. So you think it's possible to make ourselves more intelligent by tweaking...

In me humble opinion, via negativa is one apposite approach to emergence. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts (holism). Emergence is not ju...

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:lol: That, of course, eventually backfires, oui?

Something like that. Have you come across via negativa?

The laws of chance are merciless, true mon ami! When it rains, it pours, oui?

So then desire isn't a cause of suffering. :chin: Can you tell me why you think that is so. Should the dog who's sniffing your testicles bite one/both...

El Rachum mon ami, El Rachum, and Muslims say Allah rahim!

I think you're denying a truth that stares you in the face every single day. It doesn't matter though, it's a phase in understanding.

I vote for censorship. Good people rarely speak anyway. :zip:

Well, isn't desire a, if not the, cause of suffering? :chin: Remember the "desire" to shut down the limbic system is proportional to the intensity of ...

Just trying to make sense of it all mon ami. That's all.

Humans think, or do they?, that god is just the best human.

I feel you've grasped the wrong end of the stick mon ami. The Buddha was driven by intense suffering i.e. he was, if not a good thinker, a deep feeler...

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Can x make y more intelligent than x? It seems possible , base matter (inanimate) has an IQ of 0, but humans, on average, have an IQ of 130 and the la...

Intriguing! Belief is irrelevant insofar as truth doesn't depend on it and we don't know the truth. 1. God exists or does not exist 2. We don't know 3...

You could be more clearer (if you wished to). Your argument from omnipresence is a good one; after all by that we can infer god's existence in all pos...

I thought "Our God in heaven" for a good reason. What contradiction? You mean to say god's everywhere doesn't entail a contradiction in any world? But...

:rofl: I've been wondering about the possibility of intelligence explosion. I've seen many students surpass their teachers for instance, but is that b...

Blame it on Brahma who, as per legend, descended from heaven with a retinue of other gods, and begged the Buddha to turn the wheel of the dharma. Budd...

I believe I got it now - there's no justification either way i.e. belief is moot. Why should I believe god exists when it hasn't been proven and why s...