charleton

But you ought to understand that all experience is received by the brain. This has to include anxiety.

Please refer to the remark I made above.

Childish??? LOL When you stop using pathetic strawmen I might be more inclined to repeat myself. Until then I'll just leave it up to you to pay attent...

What is a fact? Philosophy's job is to begin by unpacking those taken for granted things like facts. Philosophy ought to, and does, challenge endemic ...

Is that all??? Urummph!! I've been doing this for at least 18 years. I passed ten thousand posts years ago. I was probably studying philosophy when yo...

On the face of it I have found this to be true in many instances. "Belief" and "Faith" are like sacred words which atheists tamper with at their peril...

Indeed. I not sure what the OP's critics think they are achieving here. So, commonly on such forums people seem only to keen to nit pick and attack fo...

Try it before you knock it. What's the point of all this philosophy if you don't put any of it into action.

I do not regard typing to idiots like you as "everyday speaking" obviously.

Personally I have rejected the use of 'belief' from my everyday speaking. If I think a thing is true then I either hold that as knowledge, or I just f...

So you agree that belief is used as taken as true regardless of evidence. Since belief IS USED that way, that is exactly why it needs to be abolished,...

Since you are talking bollocks we'll just have to leave it there.

And so we learn even without a reference to ancient Greek that Socrates did not actually say what he is commonly reported as saying.

I think your idea that you can treat the brain as separate is simplistic. But worst than that you seem to be suggesting that you can do without the br...

You are trying to draw a false distinction. FYI Greek Gods, like entanglement are constructs.

Depends what you mean by ubiquity. One thing is for sure repression does not work. Agusty's problem is always the same. He thinks God has made us ill ...

Rich is determined that QM is true!!!

All emotions are primarily generated by the brain.

I think the religious types would disagree. And that is another reason why the abolition of belief is a good idea.

De facto, de facto, de facto. I'm not pretending its a definition. I am simply insisting it is a fact. As any fool can see, by the context. Cars take ...

Line 3 is where you fall down...

If people know anything about Socrates, they know that. But what did he actually say, and where is it reported?

SO is pain. It's all in the head - what's your point. People still get anxious when all those needs are met.

No. There is no confusion. What I said was de facto correct; 'belief is used for taking as true regardless of evidence'. e.g. I believe I am Napoleon,...

QED hate speech works. Hitler had over 36% of the voters with 13 million behind him. The Nazi party numbered 800,000 members.

Please cite. "much" is subjective, and I would imagine that the degree of this "muchness" would depend on exposure. I know many parents who "don't kno...

The US seems to be in a most tragic decline. I just watched David Letterman's latest. He interviewed Obama for his first programme. This is no reflect...

Is this evident? Or are you just making it up?

Dah, yes. Hate speech gives people license. Rhetoric works. Hitler did not get to power because most of the German people were rabid antisemitic, nati...

Yes this can be most debilitating. When I lived in the US near my Dad in the 80s, he would all of a sudden just get anxious. He found himself gripped ...

I don't forgive either. If people deliberately try to stitch me up then they do not deserve forgiveness; if they had no intention of wronging me then ...

Depends whose asking. But as Socrates says, no one knowingly decides to be a bad person. Even Hitler justified his actions as doing the right thing, f...

Indeed. Anxiety may not relate to any knowledge, belief or information. It can come seemingly uncaused, but due to chemical factors in the brain, or c...

If by 'that' you mean belief as a wished for, no. It may have nothing whatever to do with bias. If by 'that' you are talking about knowledge, no. Ther...

yes, but... Belief is also accepting as true regardless of the facts. Whilst 'belief' is a marker for such a huge range of meanings it makes sense to ...

I think I answered the question. Guilt is for children. Growing up is about learning to forgive yourself for things you are never going to be. It is k...

If you don't know then I suggest you gat some remedial classes.

Yes, what indeed so you have to do with anything!!

Then why call it free will?

It's for me to decide where you seem confused. And immortality is that area

I have no doubt religions exist.

Clarify your immortality???

What has this got to do with anything?

It's called knowledge and requires no belief.

Yes true. religious evidence is evidence that people are gullible and generally stupid.

OF what, exactly is it free?

Neither, just a bit confused by the sound of it.

Surprise, surprise. Agusto is a Trumper.

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It's called induction. And despite its failings, as taken humans from primitive animals to technological experts, masters of the world. I have the ent...