Ok, so you can hate those attitudes and beliefs, but the people, they can still be loved and respected. Is that what you mean? Because that is what I ...
Then there is no reason to say “because you are a man” (which you did) as an explanation for something bad/wrong someone says? Which is my simple poin...
But using all of the same terms from the flip side, the problem of evil says our experience of God changes with or without suffering. The argument say...
That is the irony of the problem of evil. The argument assumes the existence of God, assumes moral objectivity and normativity (suffering is evil), ju...
There are two moves made in this statement. First, liberals have no idea what a conservative thought process is or how conservative ideals can be rati...
An idea qua idea is made in the mind and exists as an idea based on the existence of the mind in which it exists. There is the ontology of ideas. But ...
I get the issue. Kant is fundamental. Mind-independent reality is provisionally acknowledged. But what could distinguish the ontology of "theory" from...
Who are we all talking to if not something independent of our minds? What do I think can or will respond to my question? Why do I bother to ask, if I ...
I agree that music and poetry are under-appreciated and misunderstood forms of truth expression. Plato downplayed the significance of art and just did...
I'm not. I like thinking for myself. I like knowing that class distinction is accidental and unimportant. I like democracy. Just not at the expense of...
An unwillingness to engage in a rational discussion. I'd say the fact that a person is being irrational is grounds to write off their views, their arg...
And how are people to know or trust that what they want is what will lead to happy good lives, when liberalism teaches that only gray or illusory or s...
That’s where I would have gone with the experiment. What is the difference between a framework and an objective measurement? You are not being careful...
Any objective moralist who claims unequivocal, rigid “good” or “bad” is a fallacious liar or pathetic ignoramus. Is that what you are saying? Because ...
The fact that people keep making inquiry of morality, to me, is a reasonable basis for a hope all of these same people who even ask “yeah, but is it g...
International Law has no enforcement mechanism. It gets enforced when countries agree to enforce it, and the same law can be ignored when countries do...
Hello Mr. Murray, (16 years of Catholic school and that’s the only way I can address high school teachers. And it was because of my senior year Englis...
Yes vined are better. I meant they are so good practically any type of small tomato will do, but vines are the current front runner. We cut them in ha...
Achilles takes one step. That’s a physical event. You need to add concepts to this picture to say whether he has moved a fraction of some other step, ...
A guy chooses to eat vanilla ice cream instead of chocolate. Instead of asking the question “was that choice free” which looks at the situation before...
Really? You’ve conducted this survey and know that’s a fact? I know a bunch of real softies, no danger at all, who would say they know what God wants....
What affront? Are Abraham or Isaac complaining? All were safe and sound at the end of the story. Sounds like you just can’t stomach the brutality of h...
I said the story was about obedience. It was a test of faith that required obedience or it would not play out. God could have tested obedience many wa...
On a surface reading, the lesson would simply be obedience, like when teaching this story to a child, because a child is thoughtless or incapable of r...
Anything anyone thinks without balancing it with their own experience, without reason, is foolish. That’s not good faith. Magnanimous of you to say. D...
I agree. Not all acts done in faith are good. I’m not saying an act is good because it is an act of faith. An act is what it is. But if some acts done...
I think that’s right. I don’t like using the word “will” as a noun. Willing is the thing, not the will. There is only one place to find freedom. In co...
You just stated it. You didn't argue it. You haven't addressed mine. Why fabricate ethics, good, and laws at all? Why do you do that if you can only b...
That is all off topic. Law speak is more akin to science. You need reason to sift through laws and commands, like reason navigates us through physical...
How about just one good person, who believes in God, has faith, and is a rational, good, fun, functioning, contributing member of society? Ever met on...
That's precisely correct. So I have to assume nothing tells you what to do, since you are a man of science, and since you can't use faith to build aut...
That's all true. Barbarity and false virtue, blessed in the dogmatic mask of some religion, happens. But is that all faith is to you both, or just som...
It would take faith to believe in something one’s own reason found to be impossible. I only mentioned my belief because there’s an open wound right no...
Seems like there would be a different answer to that question for every believer. The same place for a belief that a miracle ever happens. Just last w...
If you make an orchestra playing music a metaphor for a human body living and conscious, then yes, I guess an orchestra disbanding would be like a hum...
Who did the paying? Investigate that. So some idiot pays a claimant too much money and before proving enough suspicion to obtain a warrant, that idiot...
As far as I can tell, all life is inseparable from the physical body. Life is a function of a certain physical arrangement. Why would my life be diffe...
His approach to science - the gay science. Meaning, each step towards "knowledge" must be made with an awareness that we are likely fooling ourselves....
We ARE the presence of faith, the existence of faith, in life. The bridge threw me off (ironically) your point. I like the tightrope over an abyss, be...
Basically I like it, especially recognizing the abyss, but I’d chop down a bit. Faith is a self-structured principle, that paves a path forward in the...
I never responded to you on the other thread. I think we are on the same page but I’d name the moving parts a bit differently. Believing is found in a...
Sounds like a person with the ability to reason who won’t use reason when it comes to belief. It sounds like a mental problem. So if a person of faith...
I call it all part of the gay science. Again, the picture that creates is the picture I see, but the words you use to paint it I wouldn’t use that way...
Oh my God. Faith sounds terrible! Those people must be insufferable, just real douchers. Am I really a doucher and I just never applied my reasoning t...
So the same Pat can hold both beliefs at the same time. Got it. According to non-confusing Banno. Sounds like someone else is confused. Probably Pat. ...
Or you don’t have an explanation as to why it makes sense to you to say “a belief is holding a proposition to be true, but when that proposition is ‘G...
That’s cool. Once Anselm attempted to use logic to prove God exists, he was not being faithful to what faith is anymore. I’ve said it fifty different ...
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