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"No good reason" is tangential here but as for the question "does God exist" no human/conscious creature can arrive at the negative position.

I think it's definitely possible. Sex could be an opening towards it (as in tantric sex) and definitely love still.

I mean you have to define gods to fear them and people, even if it's a fear-worshipping cult, don't fear them all equally. Fear is definitionally a pr...

I would say pyramids are a development of the burial cult stage with developments past animism towards paganism. Some spiritual traits about pyramids:...

I get your point but I'm just here to talk about philosophy and I try to avoid conversations that are dead-ends.

Sure but it's hard to speak about love or charitability in fear except at most on a shallow level. It's much easier to speak about charitability in te...

Primal fears are logical or are properly consequential or derivable. I wouldn't say primal fears can meaningfully speak about religions in anything le...

I think you're using very colloquial useage of the term wise (which is really a general word anyways). I'm using it more trivially in the sense, "man ...

Yeah I would agree with that and similarly I'd charitably apply it to theists. There's some logical reason they believe what they do so "belief" is a ...

Sure, it entails knowledge to do anything epistemologically and ontologically.

I 100% agree otherwise you're saying something trivial (nothing is nothing, which without anything to parse meabs nothing) which is immaterial to bein...

I think that's a method but I don't think it's practical as we would just all have to forget that God(s) exist whatsoever and probably spiritualism to...

I think it's putting the cart before the horse in that one needs to separate out abstract chewing from physical. There is a fundamental aspect of perh...

So you just want to talk about the writers thoughts with not much reference outside that?

They only reference the kleptocracy of russia in the first essay (and once in the third) and never "kleptopia" (which is a much larger discussion). So...

You certainly do, appreciate the conversation.

I can only comment and say these aren't really fruitful objections for either of us. Some of its handwaving and others are just negating the point wit...

You said "the way forward?" and "how do we deal with that?" and I explained the limit of any meaningful "way" or solution. Again I'm not even sure wha...

I'm not sure what you want from this situation. America and the west are purely countries within an order and time and place. The question is more wha...

Yeah it's not a problem. Logic itself isn't really a meaningful statement with no predication. Classical logic, which you may be referring to, asserts...

Yeah I agree with that entirely. For wittgenstein it wasn't use itself but use from a language someone used. I disagree with that but yeah I see no wa...

Sure but you would say aristotle's prime mover is valid for God like Aquinas did no? The cosmological argument would include aristotle's prime mover.

If that's your preferred way of thinking then I don't want to barge in on that. That being said you asked two questions which would attack my ontologi...

You seem to be showing even more how inaccurate saying "theism is just belief" is or you're showing a worse claim "theism cannot be a purely linguisti...

They choose what they think is the wisest track which may be, for a child, the easiest and most shortcut-y path.

Lol anyways you were the one saying we could find it from the subject as a foundation. Keep in mind that was just an epistemological track not an onto...

That seems so odd to say that 'positive confidence level' idea. In any case that would be so awesome if that's all theism was (just getting epistemolo...

I meant that the study of wisdom naturally applies to all of us in every action and state (we're always and only seeking to do the most wise thing eve...

Sure I get your point but even saying competence and critical reading (both words that necessarily apply anywhere, kinda weasel-y words) in the tradit...

You're effectively saying "a philosopher is a person who philosophizes correctly (philosophically)". You'd be using the same word in the definition wh...

Calling a philosopher someone who has expertise in philosophy offers no real explanatory power. It's weird how you said that first paragraph bit then ...

Your teacher is just gatekeeping. Natural philosophy became science so very technically doing science is doing philosophy. Reapplying this to all that...

Yeah but that's circular which is why philosophy must be defined in general terms and not specific (what we call philosophy either academically or not...

I thought you were being serious lol If you have antipathy to philosophy then pick up a logic book or a math proofs one. In any case, you were definin...

Darkness is an object as well and "qualify of" it is a predicate of darkness. If "quality of" is determined by the subject then darkness itself is sti...

Sure but that never accounts for the object. Your perception can miss a carriage going across the road and you may still get hit by it (the objection ...

It's completely obvious to anyone who has been studying philosophy for awhile that you referred to late witt's language games which is why I reference...

You did not understand wittgenstein's language games when I referenced it. He says meaning is derived from the languages which instantiates the senten...

I'm not one to tell people the signs of a potentially abusive person but they are as obvious as people make them want to be.

Where does a word get its specific meaning then? You need a word with meaning from wherever you think they get assigned meaning. There is no possible ...

Yes the world is so big and vast once you learn a new word that others must been in the same position as you. I intuited you meant language games and ...

Words are clearly dependent on meaning based on the language that instantiates it for him. The 'use' is the application of the language.

I'm not sure what private headspace is but for later witt language determines meaning and language can be private or social. In any case it's what det...

Between wittgenstein, nietzsche and godel's incompleteness (followed at a distance by hume's induction bit) are very overrepresented references which ...

I literally said language games. Yes he's referring to the designated language is what is used to give meaning to a word so the meaning of the word re...

Language games? From philosophical investigations? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_game_(philosophy)

He would be saying what I would. You would find the reference in the language game but he very specifically speaks about everything having a reference...

I like getting past that dichotomy too but in my experience we can only perceive objects (whether they're hallucinations/simulations/etc or not). Dark...

You need a reference for king. You've already said that. You also need one for America (again already said). How they are conjoined dictates another r...

Okay so you have to refer to America and a king of a certain sort (in a monarch position of government etc etc). Them conjoined implies a reference. T...