Quran or Bible, if you burn the whole thing, you're probably just trying to cause trouble. Burning a specific part means you have a specific concern. ...
Yes, it is. Humans are more important. In some bizarre scenario in which a human is about to be killed, some glorious natural wonder is about to be de...
There doesn't seem to be a conflict between the two groups in your scenario. The LGBT people are pointing out that certain verses are evil, and should...
That's why the difference between being able to judge and not being able to judge is more philosophically important than the difference between the el...
Maybe those who have no ill regard for the LGBT community should reconsider their cherishement of certain verses of Paul's Letter to the Romans. Maybe...
There is a philosophical difference between being able to judge and not being able to judge. Is there a philosophical difference between the electron ...
I haven't read too much of this thread. But I've seen a lot of wrong ideas. Try to imagine being on fire. All the time. Jumping in water doesn't help....
It happens all the time. It was the defining characteristic of American law for a very long time. Many will argue that it still is, and they have a ca...
Just this one thread? SPS (Smarty-Pants Syndrome) is everywhere. The whole site could be given a fresh start. It would be good for all. We all need to...
Certainly, morality is relative. But I'm suggesting there's a common reason for all morality. All have the same goal, but have different, even opposin...
You absolutely do not stay with her until she is ready for separation. That would often mean you will never be allowed to go. Sometimes because she is...
I think people often act out of things like fear and low self-esteem. The things they do do not make sense, but are done to punish themselves, or sabo...
I hadn't expected anyone to take what I said to mean above in relation to Earth's gravitational pull. But if that's the example you want to use, the v...
Someone created the site by purchasing the domain name and setting up the operating system. Someone, maybe the same person, pays every year for the do...
Bill Clinton is an excellent example. Who in the world is being watched more closely, and has less reason to think they can get away with anything, th...
I agree with the idea that people of like mind should be allowed to discuss something in depth, to explore it fully, without having to justify the pre...
Yet people do things that do not make sense all the time. Indeed, things that are very bad for them, things that ruin their lives, and even things tha...
Well, I didn't mean everything everything. I meant the things he had said in his last couple posts. Factually accurate, but I think a different interp...
I believe this is the accurate option. I agree. I never said there is an objective judgement of what is good and evil. In fact, I suggested there is n...
You're right about everything. But I think it all needs to be viewed and/or labeled differently. Humans evolved in the universe, through the laws of p...
Subjective judgement might be redundant. What is an objective judgement? Humans are natural. Humans judge good and evil. Therefore, nature judges good...
We cannot not be part of nature. However, we have qualities that, to our knowledge, no other part of nature has. I don't think it's out of line to jud...
If anything made by a human is a natural object, then everything is a natural object. We usually differentiate between natural and human-made. Humans ...
My interpretation of MoK's sentence is that, if what we call thought is the interaction of matter and forces, then it is not different than the freezi...
But if the agent's aims, beliefs and reasons are nothing other than the resolution of an incalculable number of interacting physical events, then it i...
I see people talking about going back in time and doing things differently. I assumed your question, to phrase it in the present, is: Given multiple o...
"Quentin, I think the oak is shedding," said Pat. Possible Quentin thoughts: "Pat thinks the oak is shedding." "I think Pat thinks the oak is shedding...
There are any number of examples of continuous sound being heard, then a new sound is heard at the same time. The new doesn't whether from silence. Ev...
What about people who don't see or hear words in their head? And wouldn't "reflexively hear/see the word" be better? But how is it different after man...
I don't know how to answer the question, because I don't know the difference between the way I can think and the way I think. If there are different w...
It seems to me learning language played a pretty big role in his ability to think in ways he could not before. Yes. I still don't know where I'm sugge...
I wonder if Ildefonso now thinks in ways he could not before he learned language. I'll have to think about that. But even if language did not make him...
Indeed. Seeing a damaged hand does not mean the hand hurts. No damage does not mean the hand does not hurt. Only the bearer of the hand can know if th...
It does seem to be a bit of a bother. But many things are worth the bother. Did you mean a type of evidence of self-awareness or self-consciousness? O...
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