Whenever we are considering a position on TPF we are considering a determinate and static position. Thus "Benatar's position" within our conversation ...
@"schopenhauer1" Last night I had a dream that I was back in elementary school and on this day we were taking standardized tests. There was an oppress...
This is a good example of the non sequitur I referred to earlier. "Christians are divisive, therefore Mormons are Christians." The conclusion does not...
Why should I believe 3a or 4a? The other problem here is that most 2a's presuppose the falsity of 1a, whereas 2 does not presuppose the falsity of 1. ...
Because your quote was a dodge. I asked you why you would reconsider in that world and you pulled the escape hatch and refused to answer, instead chan...
Use the link I already gave you, which makes it super easy to navigate the discussion. You can make such a search more precise by searching for "schop...
- To be fair, many of my posts in this thread were written with the awareness that they are vulnerable to imprecise objections, and deification repres...
Yes, but it should go without saying that schopenhauer1 is the exception to that claim. :grin: I enjoyed your recent posts, beginning on page 32. I su...
- My two cents - I think the decision that was made was the right one. It's not ideal, but I don't see a better option given the current constraints o...
Yes, true. It's a bit like asking, "If you left the United States, where would you be?" Well, it depends a great deal on where, when, and how one leav...
- :up: My sense is similar, namely that anti-natalism is a kind of second-order malady rather than a first-order thesis. It seems to stand on the circ...
Sure, and because of that they might view Christianity the way Buddhists view Buddhism, namely as a vehicle that can be dispensed with once the destin...
Trying not to forget about this one: Okay. That makes sense. Okay, good. This helps me understand your thermodynamic approach with a bit more resoluti...
To say that something is and is not is a prima facie contradiction, and belief does not sidestep the problem in the least. What is required to solve t...
- I have seen you do little more in this thread than make arguments from authority. The authorities you appeal to are SEP and "science," and you misin...
Yes, and as you seem to imply, this is a rather different claim than Michael's. It is the claim that we should stop thinking of redness as a property ...
This is another example of the category error conflation between an object-predication-intention and an efficient-cause-intention. <"The pen appears r...
- Interesting. :up: I am surprised to find these views among an undergraduate in Australia. Are you abnormal within your cohort, or is the rest of you...
Right, "Aristotle says that Greeks are fit to rule," does not mean that Aristotle says that every Greek is fit to rule. Aristotle argues that the rati...
In your response <here> you entered directly into the Mormonism discussion, which is what I was responding to. The original topic between us, which yo...
I should have anticipated that introducing the term "blasphemy" would elicit moralistic non sequitur from a secular audience (which is also ultimately...
This strikes me as deeply confused, and I have no idea why you believe such a thing. Cutting to the chase, you think that ancients, including Christia...
Mormons think they will ontologically become an independent "God." Christians think it is blasphemy to say such a thing. But no biggie, right? No sign...
It is simply the question of what is meant by "God" in that sentence. And we don't even need to do a deep dive into the term. We need only ask, "Would...
Er, this is a quintessential example of vicious circularity. The fact that you can only answer such a question by giving a circular answer just shows ...
- :up: For sure. It helps remind me that one is not insane to question this stuff and that plenty of other folk are also questioning it. Perhaps that ...
- Okay good, that's what I figured. :up: I think you are right that there is a lot to be said once we get past the low-hanging fruit, and people are p...
Or if we want to go back to the horse's mouth: 1. "The point of this is that it is empirically proven that an internal, subjective experience can be e...
I will have to think about this post more, ideally when my head clears of Covid. I don't know that I disagree with any of it, but I also am not convin...
Okay, and it is no coincidence that you are choosing solipsism, here. Your presuppositions point you in this very direction. Where have I or anyone el...
Right, and we can run these arguments directly if we like: Given that the "empirical proving" is itself an experience, according to Hanover we cannot ...
Yep, I think this is surely correct as well. Similar to what I said earlier: To place the idea in an image: someone in Michael's group might claim tha...
Yes, and I might end up reading his book, but I'm guessing it will be a variant on things I already believe. I don't think an approach like Kendi's et...
Yep - Michael is begging the question and then falsely appealing to "the science." This has been going on for a long time now. --- This poor argument ...
Here is the translation for the hard of hearing: Christians believe in God. They do not worship a "God the Father" who has a human past. The Christian...
No one cares whether Mormons call themselves Christian. The question is whether they are Christian. The question is whether Christianity means anythin...
Where to start? As far as I'm concerned Mormons do not even believe in God. They think that "God the Father" was once a mortal human who, through Morm...
The number of Americans who see such claims as contestable speaks volumes about the American approach to religion. :sad: But if you follow the plurali...
The difficulty is that your thesis is so far beyond the pale. Beginning in the 17th century there emerged a historical school which argued for a low C...
On the contrary, English is my native language. Your approach to this topic is about what I would expect from the average American middle-schooler, bu...
I don't think this is right at all. It is not a coincidence or a conspiracy that Christians do not find Mormons to be Christian. The way that Mormons ...
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