But this claimed 'loss of freedom' would have to be justified in a global system where all stakeholders can take their basic needs for granted, for fr...
I have been involved in discussing many topics in this forum, AI, Politics, Physics, Cosmology, Logic, Socialism, secular humanism, theism, religion, ...
Nonsense! Stop just spitting at me for the sake of it and debate me instead. Give me examples from the torah or talmud OR ANY OTHER SCRIPTURAL SOURCE,...
Is that personal wrestle still on going in your head or is the fight settled and buddhism or it's 'zen' variety won? I can only insist that I am! Exac...
Do you accept all of 'the story' as true? Did moses spend 10 years in a pit, as the captive of Jethro, before he marred Jethro's daughter Zipporah? Di...
Dictates/commands about how to live, delivered via uniformed humans in representation of their chosen organised 'faithdom,' is rejected by many as per...
:up: Good, keep asking critical questions without fear then sir. I hope your god has the decency to answer you and does not decide to burn you in hell...
I like even the more base considerations. Not for any chance at mockery, but from a purely human curiosity. For example, Did Jesus fart, urinate, defe...
No, they are both cars and we can agree that a bike is not a car, although you can create a hybrid between the two. Variations in the attributes of go...
I am trying to understand your style of post. Is your quote above, a request for me to comment on your statement above? or are you just indicating a r...
I don't understand that argument if the proposal is that this divinity BECAME mortal man and the trinity remained FULLY connected so that what one exp...
Well, that's an interesting pair of examples to choose and compare. I think emulating the actions of a beaver by building something like the hoover da...
One persons truth is another persons lie, is a fair definition of subjective truth, but I think if your epistemology is the scientific method or scien...
Careful Tom! Think of what folks could throw into that statement and by doing so, claim justification in declaring any lie or evil act, 'natural.' The...
This is just the basis for the Kalam Cosmological argument, yes? Which has been fairly convincingly debunked, yes? Do you think that it does not matte...
A tyranny? Can you give me an example of what you think their main complaint might be? Yes, as a final resort, and if you are under attack or absolute...
The bible/religious scripture, seems to teach many folks, that god has no existent because many of the claims therein, are so flawed, irrational, impo...
All substance abuse is a fake or synthetic experience in the sense that they don't produce a natural high. A religious high, is the same imo, if god h...
I fully believe that the human race can and will create a civilisation that is better than any human civilisation that has ever existed in the past. C...
They do say travel broadens the mind. Most Scots I know would be glad to know an altruist such as yourself. All the military empires of those times wi...
I don't value or garnish anything compelling from your depiction of optimism or hope in the way you present them in the above quote. This approximatel...
I think it's about reducing injustice and creating a more equitable and balanced experience for all humans from cradle to grave. For most or perhaps a...
No , I commented earlier on a balanced viewpoint you posted. So, I am asking about YOUR interpretation, that YOU label 'confront the reality of the tw...
In a cosmic calendar scale, we have only been here a few seconds. You honestly don't think we have achieved much in the small time we have been here??...
FREE AT LAST! Now, we just have to rid ourselves of 1. Money 2. Capitalism 3. Preoccupation with the primal fears we experienced via natural selection...
No, logic can be abused and used out of context, just as you sometimes do. Don't avoid it, just employ it correctly/honestly. Perhaps It's your dallia...
Oh we have many many millions of years, not 5 more years (Hear D. Bowie below). So how about a 100 year or thousand year or ...... year plan? We just ...
But surely that is exactly what it would have to be, even people who suffer from multiple personalities have some 'realisation' of that. Joan of Arc m...
Yeah, maybe if I was in so much pain as he was claimed to be in, then maybe I would talk to myself out loud as well. I know that if you do so in most ...
The USSR, and China are just another two failed attempts to 'get it correct.' If the people at the time had managed to recognise and kill/stop a perso...
Yes, I would agree that my pushback here IS against the argument from theists/religious groups, that atheism MUST dictate a return to amoral human beh...
As a democratic socialist, I am forced to broadly agree with your quote above but how do you suggest we prevent such horrors and such horrific final s...
No, It's not, it's yet another example of a human's wish to kill off any competition to their own rise to god status, in the minds of their followers....
I enjoyed reading the article you linked to. That's the biggest benefit I get from TPF in that I can take such small steps, in improving my knowledge ...
In REAL life, not philosophy, your values come from what you experience and what you learn. If those values are based on lies peddled as divine truth,...
Of course it matters! It remains almost critical as interpretation of what non-existent gods want, has plagued our species since it came out of the wi...
I know what secularism is. How about the tribes that lived by the seasons, and had pagan based celebrations? What are you calling a state? The early c...
No secularism before Jesus Christ? Really? :rofl: Did every human on Earth that existed before Jesus Christ (who himself probably never existed), beli...
I am already quite familiar. He weaponised religion and USED religion as aid to his narcissistic rise to autocracy. I already highlighted that use of ...
:grin: Well, they seemed to, on the cross, when Jesus is supposed to have exclaimed, "Father, why hast thou forsaken me?" "And at the ninth hour Jesus...
Good Morning! Well, afternoon here! We broadly agree on that, as I hold the opinion that such a 'state' as 'nothing' does not ( nor ever has had) an e...
I have an alcoholic neighbour who is a Christian, who gets angry with his god at times ( when shit happens in his life) and he goes on a bender, and b...
Your grandmother must have been a 'tour de force.' I can't see that at all. Perhaps I would have fought with them/for them against the Romans, but tha...
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