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Pope Francis has made a number of comments about faith. This one refers to an episode in Luke where a sick woman reaches out to touch Jesus's garment ...

I just think of law as something everyone is subject to. There's no enforcing body in that sense.

There's no enforcement of any of that, though. We could say Russia broke an agreement, but would you say they acted illegally?

I don't think there is any law at that level of action. That would require a global government.

Hasta luego.

You recognized yourself that he's commenting on the behavior of a few. Your conclusion that this few, which we identified as "true believers" are the ...

Begging the question.

Learning that the sky isn't a rigid dome changed ideas about God, yes. People who had faith that God resides in the sky changed their views based on t...

He is wrong. I explained why.

This paragraph is wrong. As conceptions of the earth and sky changed, conceptions of divinity changed. If Kenny were right, this couldn't have happene...

You pointed to this to show that Kenny believes that faith overpowers negative evidence. This quote obviously doesn't say that. It is therefore your i...

It's worthwhile to understand faith since it's an aspect of human creativity and potential. I encourage you to look again.

I don't. I gave you a heads up that you misunderstood it, the portion you quoted, that is.

If you have small children, that's definitely true.

How do you know you didn't dream it?

Can't do that in dreams either. You're fully capable of constructing a world and inhabiting it, following it's rules as you go. That's what games are,...

Probably about as much good as it does everyone else.

"Putin, speaking with students on Thursday after visiting an exhibition about Peter the Great, Russia's first emperor credited with making the country...

All judicial systems fail sometimes. This is a case study in a UK failure: https://youtu.be/CuKY_XBfsKM

In practice, the president ends up being above the law, especially if he's very influential like Trump. Does Trump's failure to be impeached reflect a...

Even poverty stricken homeless people philosophise.

"Germany doesn't want to be 'too successful' at replacing Russian natural gas because it wants to move away from the fuel in the long run, economy min...

Is this how you are interpreting the above quote from Kenny? Or did he go into this issue of evidence to the contrary later in the speech?

Faith is definitely unwarranted belief. It has this in common with many ordinary beliefs. The element of will is the distinction. Faith is not belief ...

Argument as in: explain what Augustine and Kierkegaard meant by faith?

I've read both Augustine and Kierkegaard. No need to be testy.

If you could present the part of Kenny's speech that produced your impression we discuss that. If you're at all familiar with Kierkegaard, you'd alrea...

It really isn't a commonplace that faith is belief in spite of evidence to the contrary. You've misunderstood.

Kenny?

Where did you get this definition of faith? It's in conflict with every usage of the term I've ever heard.

I sometimes look at trees and imagine a brontosaurus peeking around or a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

It's not so much about how outgoing you are. It's more about how you make decisions. Introverted people tend to rely on their own reasoning vs externa...

That's the hard problem.

I've been immersed in Bloch's philosophy of hope lately, so I come at it from a different direction. I think the realistic attitude is say that we don...

What makes you pessimistic?

Would you agree that most living philosophers accept the hard problem in some form? Maybe the conflict is over whether it is solvable at all?

Correct.

Yes, China is also trying to make its economy sanction-proof.

It's metaphysically possible.

Yesterdoom: we made it!

Of all possible worlds, maybe 10% have gods. I can't see why they're needed.

For us as well. The Fed is expected to slam the breaks on the economy. China is still ailing from covid. Russia is... well, Russia. The EU isn't looki...

I don't think many countries make their goods all the way up from raw materials. Maybe China does? But I get your point. Manufacturerung isn't their f...

Glance at the Britannica article.

They don't export a lot of manufacturered goods, but they do a fair amount of manufacturing. Britannica

I hadn't thought of that. Jamie Dimon has said the US is headed for an economic "hurricane", so we may all be hurting shortly.

I meant if he died, Russia would probably go back to what they had before the war. I don't think anyone will have a grudge, except Ukraine, which will...

They still have oil and coal. I guess the tsar/oligarchs system will just reset?

The CIA thinks he's got cancer and that there's a scramble going on in the Kremlin to find his successor. They don't want to put to much weight on tha...

Cynicism is prayer to a godless universe: look at me, I'm hurting.