universeness

A fairly accurate description of love in my opinion. I didn't want to waste space by quoting the whole article. I wish the turn of phrase used by thes...

:naughty:

Even though physics shows that such a bullet path is impossible, hence the use of the word magic? Now there's a good example of the boiling pot callin...

I don't know those guys but they sound interesting. So much I would like to read, Just not enough time. Come on you wonderful science geeks, get that ...

Sounds like a pretty well-balanced approach to me, although I think the influences are from more ancient storytelling as all the Christian stories are...

I don't think you are mentally ill Joe, just a little confused about 'what it's all about.' Spend a couple of weeks back with the monks. Your God migh...

Dark energy is posited as a reason for why the expansion is accelerating not as a reason for the initial singularity starting to inflate and then expa...

Just as a point of interest, have you read Caesar's Messiah by Joeseph Atwill, or Creating Christ by J Valliant and W Fahey. Both these books posit th...

Ok, sorry about the crossed wires, I don't think our positions are changed by your update.

I don't, I think he is hurting, who knows why? I am sure he will reject my suggestion due to pride. So don't be surprised if I get an 'aw f*** off!' r...

Anyway, again, thanks for the interesting extension to our initial exchange. I will make room for @"Tom Storm" as he can take you on a more philosophi...

An interesting viewpoint Shwah. I cant perceive the path you suggest myself without the 'termination'/oblivion threat. I remember a line from a poem. ...

What exactly are you saying is definitely possible? That gods may not be considered/needed if we were immortal (which transhumanism and future technol...

Ok then let me try another angle. Do you think humans would consider the existence of gods if we did not die (immortal, if you like) or do you think g...

:rofl: I consider you a joy to exchange views with!

All interesting points, but I am not convinced that you do not attribute most ancient and even some modern burial traditions with human 'hope' for a f...

Are you sure your not a secret panpsychist EugeneW? Ok, at least you have always sounded pantheist which is my favorite flavor of theism, if I had to ...

I suggest you do your own running Joe. If you drop your disrespectful commentary then I will take my finger off the trigger as well. If you can't do t...

What about the Egyptian Pharaohs are their large memorial pyramids. Do you think they had such built out of aspirational love or primal fear of their ...

Do you think only humans experience and dispense love as we define the various manifestations of it? If an animal can experience and dispense love, th...

But could they be a source for the human need of god as a 'benevolent protector' from primal fears. Why would such be 'shallow' if they are so deeply ...

Why do you need any such interaction when you receive direct revelations from your god? Stay Mello Joe, you are displaying too much ungodly emotional ...

Do you reject out of hand that its a response to primal fears?

Sorry, I had intended to respond to this side point you made, but forgot to. Do you compare love between blood relations with a feeling of 'biological...

Thank you for your kind, supportive reply. :smile:

I have nonetheless enjoyed our exchange here. You can take some credit perhaps in that the more I read the points raised by the 'philosophy' angle (fo...

I appreciate that as your philosophical analysis of my statement and I fully endorse the rigor of the scientific method so I can't complain when you e...

Although the exchanges between folks on this forum can be heated at times, the first most important concern is that we all stay as healthy as we can, ...

:rofl: A good build-up EugeneW, be careful you don't over-reach.

I appreciate your rigour from the standpoint of pointing out to me, philosophical rules that I must contend with when I make the statements/comments o...

I have commented to you before about the many times I have personally challenged the god power since I was 15. I almost reached a stage where I quite ...

Just listening to the Sean Carroll Mindscape podcast in the background as I work on one of my oil paintings, in-between posting comments on this threa...

The story of Alice in wonderland is another fable, Joe, it didn't really happen! Have you placed your degree in philosophy next to old pictures of you...

Yeah, even though based on the logic that you employ, you should not be doing so. You have no belief in the spaghetti monster so you cant reference it...

I think that sometimes, a philosophical approach to the application of logic (as an epistemology) can be too literalist and at other times, not litera...

It's just my attempt to calm the disturbance created by the belief/non-belief or believer/non-believer wave machine. I think you are confusing theism ...

Matt Dillahunty gives a very good explanation of atheism in his gumball machine analogy. The number of gumballs in a machine is either odd or even. If...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Sorry Gregory A, but I am still laughing at your logic. I will stop now.......:lol: ....sorry!

I am sure that all of the deep thinkers on this forum are duly impressed by the logic or what you have just typed above, or perhaps not. I will leave ...

No, because you just told me you don't believe in the 'flying spaghetti monster.' Why did you do that is your logic demands your silence on that which...

I was looking at the latest YouTube offerings. Sean Carroll has this: https://youtu.be/boFa4Z9BT8Y This is a 3 hour session where he answers questions...

:rofl: So, this is your logic? The left and the right make a whole. So the left is half of the whole. So the left has at best, half of a chance of bei...

This skewed logic of yours is pure sophistry and as I have already stated, insignificant. You just string nonsense together and hope you can get near ...

With all due respect, you need to read a response more carefully. So I have already answered your second sentence above but not under the condition of...

I agree and I hope you do get a response, eventually. Perhaps he is still reading through other emails, who knows what his workload is? As I said befo...

Well, it was good of you to have a look at the article anyway. Your response to it marries with your views on theism and you already know my views on ...

I will look online at the ways available to contact Sean Carroll. He certainly does YouTube podcasts where he answers questions submitted to him. Did ...

Belief is just a 'measure of confidence' that a proposal is true. I have no problem with your 'positive level of confidence,' that god exists. A harml...

So how do you categorise mermaids? Obviously they are not 'natural,' or at least they have never been physically discovered anywhere yet on planet Ear...

I highly recommend the following musings of Sean Carroll, titled 'Why (almost all) cosmologists are atheists' https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/wri...