I think you are acknowledging the problem that this sentence presents, but I am not sure. To me context is important. Being skeptical as an activity, ...
I suppose it is possible confidence is problematic is one is specifically waxing philosophical. But in general there are many situations where confide...
If you pay taxes, as an adult, then you know that that money is more than likely going to be used, at some point to kill people. Could be via black op...
He said it here....IOW simpler to assume consciousness is a facet of matter in general rather than an emergent property of some matter. We lack, curre...
That's certainly part of the truth. And education and parenting also play roles. All part of how people are raised. But the media are making money off...
LOL but it's your net confidence and how well your confidence fits the context - your skills in particular area, you ability to assess threats and mor...
It seemed that way. But I think simply labeling something woo is rude and contentless.I think that could have been shortened to 'I think consciousness...
Matter is interconnected in life forms, and perhaps other batches of matter. A body functions as a unity. Of course perhaps on another level it is con...
The cognitive functions need not persist. This likes memory, or that this particular batch of atoms, all together, is conscious as a unit, end, but th...
And they do have traits and abilities that differentiate them. But consciousness may not be a trait in this sense, it may merely be a facet of what ge...
Odd that you liked that. You bring anger directly to discourse as an agnostic. You seem very angry. I was criticizing in this thread his approach, whi...
That was a thoughtful post on my part related to your posts, me trying to get what you are doing in this thread, given the many approaches possible fr...
I haven't read his posts, but if the idea is to defuse tensions a post like this is a bad approach. You are telling someone that they are not a true X...
I guess one possible source of anger - which some on both (all the) sides engage in, is poorly supported generalizations. In a thread with the intenti...
What if over the long run this heuristic is detracting from life, but it's hard for you to notice because your focused on the trees and not the forest...
Did I? What did I say it was not relevant to? or that it was not relevant to whom? I did make a very specific suggestion to a person when he or she (n...
I don't really understand what you are saying here, nor how you are taking my quote which was about a specific response to a specific type of situatio...
Well, with that definition of fundamental, yes, it's not fundamental,with most other current cultures. I just look out at a world no where near agreem...
If someone is publically identifying as an atheist and then talking about religious people or religion, then they are likely to be angry because relig...
I don't see those as exceptions, I see them as fundamental disagreements. Ghandi, certain Buddhists, MLK, Quakers have fundamental disagreement around...
Not in war time, at least for some. Others see no reason to create an exception when a government decides X is the enemy and must be fought. All sides...
I think it is better to say universal morals. Your sense of what you mean may be fine, but moral truths sound like objective things, to me at least. O...
Sure, you are. But people use the term in a couple of ways, so there is no reason for him to accept that label when he has a perfectly good label. If ...
I don't think so. Language is not a machine. Yeah, that's where I've been disagreeing with Mr. Apisa, and in part because of that, I think he can defi...
Oit really seems to me you are not reading me carefully or paying attention to the context. He said, originally to me thatGet it? he is talking about ...
I didn't say it was too broad, just that Christians would find it too broad. I doubt vast majority would ever identify first as a theist and see if th...
OK, good. I did a trace back through our posts and I think it was your use of the phrase 'moral truths' coupled with the mentioning of objective proce...
I did specifically mention that one can work with objectivity once one has subjective axioms. So I acknowledged that facets of working out a morality ...
I think most Christians, for example, would find theist way too broad. They'd want to get specific fast.I would resist their labeling you that way. I ...
Not on my part. But I did want to point out what would be subjective and what is subjective. Subjectiviity is the best part of my life. Not relevent i...
I don't know, you wanna get rid of people using the word belief, but you write a lot of absolutely certain seeming text , that is without qualitificat...
No, in reality even if we could agree on core values, how we see these playing out and prioritized are going to have individual and cultural differenc...
Just thought I would throw in that we have the Quantum Zeno effect now... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Zeno_effect and this is actually used ...
The objectivity could be said to be in the deduction from subjective desires and preferences. The axioms in the system you describe would be subjectiv...
Not if you think that every belief needs to be criticized. That is, the quote I have quoted. That is an utterly unrealistic demand. I just don't see t...
Fair enough. Resist. There are some who would say that atheist agnostic is possible. But I think that agnostic has a particular meaning, generally aro...
as an addendum some words in philosophy that often need further clarification: theist - which religion, pantheism, polytheism, panentheism...I can't t...
As I said, there are many words that have several meanings and require further clarification in some situations. Atheist works fine in a great deal of...
Let's assume your analysis is correct. IOW that the reason it changed was due to certain motivations amongst some people. To me that doesn't matter. T...
But the moment you actually start criticizing it's infinite, call it regress or progress. You will have to stop (to make dinner, to live) before resol...
Beliefs don't have to be certain - as you've said yourself, one can be open to revision, but they are still beliefs -, nor are they in justification o...
Right, I got that. But if you decide a belief might be a problem, then you generate beliefs. First, that it might be a problem, then that you evaluati...
There is a difference between surviving and what you wrote....Please show me how my reasoning was off given that it was based on your assertion. So yo...
I am utterly compelled to say that it does matter and that I am free. (but there was something that felt out of my control in my urge to say that, per...
That's how words are defined, by how we use them. There is no other authority beyond us to define them. Etymology might lead one to believe X about th...
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