Saying this is stupid is a vague expression and the words agnosticism and gnosticism, I believe, originated from academic philosophy. If it hasn't pro...
When was I talking about colloquial terms? Because I don't see the issue you are addressing. The analogy about the trillions of dollars was an analogy...
Philosophy ought not be to narrow minded in my opinion if you want to become wiser, even being ignorant of irrationality isn't the best approach. "Not...
In this website where it's a minority anyways, I guess not. However, I don't think it's very objective to just dismiss a group of people for just bein...
In terms of being rational or academic no, but that's my personal opinion. However, in terms of being realistic yes, Gnostic Theism has affected the w...
Religious people that made tons of money from publishing books, idk. Or people same age as you and me posting online. Some religious people think that...
Lol, you haven't met them yet. They are called gnostics for a reason and I'm primarily against them. Both atheists and theists. Gnostic theism is what...
Absolute certainty isn't a requirement for belief, obviously...it's a requirement for actual knowledge, not the mere knowledge one can day dream about...
Say I ask you if you think/belief if trillion of dollars is real or not? You cannot say for certain you know that trillion dollars exist because you h...
Can you define what GU and AU is? That would help me a lot because I kinda get what GU is. AU is a group that has no strong belief or disbelief, but t...
Common Christians that believe that the soul is born before the fetus is developed don't give a shit about this explanation. Have you actually explain...
Good question, in general I haven't thought about this much. I'll say, in the perspective of observing oneself, intentions are more important than the...
Ah, I gave an absolute example, so of course it's false, let me change it. Also, I had a science teacher that believed the world was 10,000 years old....
Well, if you compare humans to the universe, we are like a grain of salt. You are correct that the child's existence will most likely have no signific...
You said, "So a Christian would say that 'saving your soul' is even more important than surviving, in some respects - that, for example, if what you d...
I don't understand what you mean exactly. If it's not about survival then what is it about? Also, what is it, this thread or being sociable? I thought...
Well, being social with humans is very essential for survivability. Religions or spiritual beliefs helps with that. If you aren't social enough with y...
There are psychological reasons behind having religious or spiritual beliefs... There's research that shows that there's a section in our brain design...
I agree, I don't entirely understand it as well... Thanks for the information. I just don't understand why some folks don't believe that the soul of t...
Sorry, I can't understand your English. At least fix the misspellings and wrong word usage please. At least in the original post, there are some mista...
One issue I see with having females playing with males is that when the game gets sour and they start to actually fight each other. Hockey or American...
At first I didn't understand how someone can make strait-jackets out of selected texts, secularly (metaphorically of course). However, the more I thin...
You have a point. Other societies need to adapt and become more acceptable of Muslims in order for there to be peace in the world and peace inside of ...
Too bad we don't got an emote for that. :D It was an annoying emote, anyways. To be honest, I feel like people on philosophical forums do try to sound...
That's obviously more of a sociological problem than a religious problem. This is one of my main points in the OP. The Islamic societies need more hel...
I felt like you just read I lived in the Bible Belt and didn't fully read my OP. That's why you don't know what my point is, please fully read what I ...
Well, the Quran may have some bad things in it, but so do other religious texts from other religions such as the Christian Bible, which I pointed out ...
I actually lived in the Bible Belt mostly my whole life and I agree there's some social problems due to how the Christian churches affect the society ...
Not sure how this is relevant, but try to be more pragmatic. I like this part because it is possible to forget knowledge, which is also important to c...
True, didn't think of that, but the terms "restrain" and "power" are relative terms. If God wanted to, it could be too weak to lift a rock, but strong...
I think he is mainly implying can indifference be morally good? Which you didn't answer as well. Something can have the possibility of being amoral (n...
"I think romantic love is a necessary delusion." However, when does romantic love turn into true love then? Romantic love does come before the type of...
Unfortunately, I don't read much, but this discussion is really interesting to me and I have had the same kind of thoughts regarding this thread as we...
War is inevitable if the two or more parties lack understanding of each other, in my opinion. Empathy or simply the willingness to understand one anot...
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