Yes, I know you're impressed. You'll have to come over for dinner some time and we can discuss it further. I'll provide the main course and you can br...
Speaking of Protestant Europe, do you remember when it went to war with Catholic Europe? I wonder what that was about. I seem to remember reading some...
Alright then, how about the 918 people who died after drinking poison in the Jonestown Massacre, some of whom were forced? Or was that badly reported ...
Maybe not everything, but let's not forget that Socrates was literally made to drink poison as a result of being charged with impiety and corruption o...
You say that from a position of privilege. In another place or time, you probably wouldn't be so fortunate. And this privilege didn't come out of nowh...
Good point. You know, I almost added, "especially for a philosophy enthusiast", but then I remembered that, in some ways, philosophy is a parody of it...
Indeed. It's beyond belief that some people actually think of faith in that way. The lengths that some people will go to in order to rationalise the i...
Party B is wrong. You can't know anything by faith. Faith is a means of achieving peace of mind, not a means of obtaining knowledge. If you want truth...
Yes. What now seems like a curious phenomenon might have helped us outcompete other species in the past. Theism and other such beliefs might be a quir...
I think that it's not so much that there aren't enough of us to fill these gaps in the job market, but more that there aren't enough of us who are wil...
Lol! You're kidding yourself if you believe that. Your right wing views stand out like a sore thumb. And you seem much more like the UKIP type than th...
:roll: It's consistently rated as number one in terms of accuracy and reliability out of UK news sources. I'm curious, who do you think you're arguing...
There's a lot of criticism against that argument. See here. Firstly, it makes no sense whatsoever to say that a mystery suggests theism. A mystery sug...
To me, that's pie in the sky romanticism, unsuited to the questioning, critical discussion, and rational argument associated with the philosophical me...
I don't think that that's such a big mystery. It's difficult to forgot what's around you. That would be a bit like trying to forgot politics or the en...
Predicable. I must remember to take you less seriously the next time it seems as though you're looking to challenge me. You've shown that as soon as t...
The rest of your post makes no sense, and completely ignores my reply which exposes the faulty assumptions in how you're attempting portray my positio...
Why on earth should I refrain from those discussions? That makes no sense. I'm challenging the claims of theism as unjustified. I'm not merely saying ...
You seem to be stuck in your own little world and do not seem to be accounting for what myself and DingoJones have been saying. You have beef with pos...
No, it's not an example of that fallacy. It's not fallacious, whatever the topic, to justify an absence of belief because of an absence of sufficient ...
There's a difference between known unknowns and unknown unknowns which is of relevance here. That claim you refer to above is rightly categorised unde...
If the ignorant refers only to those who have an unconscious lack of belief, then we aren't necessarily in disagreement. I get the argument for exclud...
If you had've clarified sooner, you would've gotten a different answer from me. Instead, you keep pushing these insidious suggestions about dishonesty...
I think that it's very important to think about meaning in relation to life, and I also believe that there are a number of similarly important questio...
After all that, that's what you respond with? So be it. I kind of feel like you've wasted my time. I was under the impression that you were trying to ...
Oh the irony. You don't like my answer, so you respond with an ad hominem. I highlighted the wording which makes it a loaded question. Before we can t...
It is so for thinkers in comparison to my kind of atheism. It's the difference between stopping at the edge of a chasm and taking that extra step whic...
Yeah. Could it be that he's getting all defensive because he takes that as a slight, or maybe he's making the mistake of assuming that "they" are just...
Even if I were to accept the exclusion of those who have an unconscious lack of belief from the category of atheism, it seems wrong and futile to excl...
That is not implied by what I said. You would be reading that into my comment. That depends on what parts matter and how they're interpreted. That's a...
You seem to have answered your own question. From what you've said, it doesn't have a unique role. And we have already past the turning point in histo...
No, not necessarily. If everyone realised that the answers that science provides are better, then that possible consequence would make sense. But sadl...
But in reality, that probably ain't gonna happen, because most voters vote for what they're for rather than what they're against, and the two major pa...
Are you both non-Tory and non-Labour? If so, that would make sense. A system other than first-past-the-post would be an advantage to the minor parties...
That we already have the option for what's known as a blank, null, or spoilt vote, and in light of the potential for this: I don't think that it's a g...
It should be obvious that that doesn't really clarify anything and still leaves a lot of ambiguity. Healthy according to who? Or according to what cri...
No, it's not possible to be certain of the future, except psychologically for some people under the right circumstances. But it's always possible to b...
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