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I agree, but I see that as entirely impersonal. Each individual arguing about the merits of their lives doesn't really touch the discussion too deeply...

I don't think those are in any way accurate encapsulations of options for evolution of society.

Its not a metaphysical assertion. The explains a huge amount about hte dullardry you're putting forward. No. Because I didn't intimate this was the ca...

I note that all attempts to outline somewhere that is 'better than democracy' currently, are describing violent theocracies in the main.

Anyone who votes this cycle is clearly not capable of a rational thought.

If it feels good to hear this, you're welcome: Silence is not violence. You can be without, rather than with or against. Not acting is literally not a...

Congrats :) This is a bit sleight-of-handy. That's not what's happening here. They are informing the interpretation of the argument. That, to me, is b...

Then you're flat-out wrong because the second part is false. I don't care. You're stubborn in your incoherence so this is par for the course.

I don't disagree, but I don't think its relevant. This could be the case,and it would still logically be incoherent to claim belief without knowledge....

Generally, there must be an 'actual' near death-ness to the experience. However, there isn't a 'typical' experience so it seems pretty shoddy to even ...

THIS WAS SITTING IN DRAFTS. IM NOT ENTIRELY STANDING BEHIND A LOT OF THIS This is true, but where we are dealing with non-existent people this is not ...

I take it you're not reading these responses thoroughly: If there is no evidence you are married, the marriage doesn't exist. This has nothing to do w...

I think claiming belief and not knowledge is paradoxical. The claim to 'faith' is, to me, an indication of dishonesty or delusion. + If these two hold...

Quite clearly. It also seems you’ve not understood it. But this just adds to the pile..

point taken, but ironically - it’s case by case. Religious groups, for instance, can quite reasonably be profiled given some very cursory case-specifi...

You can rearrange this sentence to adequately respond to most charges of racism/sexism/transphobia etc.. Generally speaking, that aspect of the person...

As best i can bring myself to adopt a label, its emotivism. There is nothing coherent about claiming a belief and not knowledge unless you also claim ...

This is definitely the most arguable aspect of the whole thing. I actually do sometimes swing on this one, but as a living person it hits me as patent...

No. This is a complete misunderstanding. If there is literally no evidence of hte marriage the law does not hold a position on it. It does not exist. ...

I can adequately respond to this one. As a precursor, though, all the data in this area is preliminary and you can't particularly take seriously un-re...

Ill leave off the quote and go forth: 1. an adult is one who has reached sexual maturity. However, given that we're trying to argue about definitional...

(thanks Leontiskos - I had missed this) A flight of fancy doesn't exist. Yet it occurs. Plenty of things occur without existing. Including causal rela...

The ethics are to do with our actions now. Not unborn people. The potential suffering itself is not hte moral crux. The action that (on the balance of...

Hoo boy, this is going to be fun. There is a patent difference between not knowing the identity(and potential value) of the people, and knowing the id...

I see this thread has once again gone entirely off the rails into territory it neither should be covering, or makes for sensible exchanges. *sigh*. Th...

In turn: A. You're going to need to overturn orthodoxy to establish an orthodoxy. It is orthodox in the Abrahamic's to know God through his works. Not...

Obviously. Not sure what the inference is though so apologise for the stark reply lol

It is not. A state of affairs is that against which somethign truth apt is held to standard. The state itself is brute (in any sense that can actually...

Usually, we do not 'know' our values in any meaningful sense. It would be helpful to elaborate what you mean here. It seems prima facie absurd. Values...

This ignores what he's actually said. In the OG scenario, you have no idea about differential value. You couldn't employ such a principle. IN the subs...

I think this is possible with groups small enough to everyone, on average, is aware of everyone else, in some either direct or minimally indirect way....

...........Yes. lol.

To be clear, he's quoting me here. I can't entirely grok from you where you sit, but I think we're seeing hte same issue with that quoted passage in r...

Presentism seems the only one with anything even approaching any evidence behind it. The rest are entirely speculative, or interpretive - meaning not ...

I think is entirely dependent on S's use of the word 'reality'. The way i use, it is expressly apt to delineate between a simulated, and a non-simulat...

I'm unsure that's true. The fine-grained nature of the world we live it might just be a function of adaptive creative algorithms which feed off of pas...

Havent recently jumped back into the Hobby (though, think "autistic obsession") of analyzing, noting and systematizing the ranges and catalogues of va...

The asshole being the deceased?

Everything in this response further entrenches the clear fact you are confusing cognition and experience. They are patently separate events. The charg...

Very much so. It would be ...bizarre... if we weren't. Huehuehue

The Sun's formatting is too bizarre to make the page readable, unfortunately. But Murray rarely misses, despite being a bit of a dick.

This explains so much about your comportment.

I think, Vera, you are for some reason insisting that what people say about God is all there is. Given you've acknowledge the wide breadth of what's s...

I don't particularly care to, personally.

Literally nothing he said indicates this. A grift can be in service of a legitimate cause. And it does undermine the credibility of the movement. If i...

False. Much of this response confirms. You do not understand what you're talking about given the above. You're conflating the activitiy in the brain w...

Ah ok, this clarifies. Thank you. LMAO yes - this might be the more intractable issue. Perfectly reasonable, IMO. It does seem to exist by definition,...

Do you not think this could just be a result of 'mistake'? That there really is possible 'evidence' for God which is 'true' regardless of how any part...

I'm not. This follows from what i take to be your (rather extremely) misguided conception of cognition in relation to phenomenal experience. It seems ...

Not to re-bump that extremely frustrating argument from earlier this year but this is a common problem with misusing the word 'atheist'(or, at least, ...