charleton

You mean I might apologise to spare another's feelings? Yes I might, but I don't like to do that as it gives me the moral high ground, and that's not ...

I too mature to take anime as some sort of moral guide. Why don't you at least TRY to grow up?

I never apologise as to do so would be an admission of guilt. If i had intentionally committed this transgression then I would not want to apologise; ...

The only way to approach this subject systematically is to consider the history. Start with Russell's History of Western Philosophy. https://www.amazo...

I don't think he would say this.

The first sentence is both ungrammatical and a misquote. Sentence two is either incoherent or intentionally backwards. And so no. 3 cannot follow.

Thanks.

I see. I thought this was a philosophy website?? We can be try, I suppose.

Obviously it is a necessary condition to have intelligence to achieve innovative things, but not a sufficient condition as intelligence could lead to ...

Then please read my post. "selective bias" Evidence only points you to smart people who have achieved something. You then conclude from limited eviden...

This is not necessarily the case. In recent times the money supply has been so restricted that banks were talking about negative interest. But soverei...

But you can't give me a list of the invisible people with high intelligence that are not remembered as they achieved nothing despite their intelligenc...

This is classic selective bias. Since you only know about the productive people that have intelligence, and have no historical information about the v...

If there is no time for god, then he cannot exist in time, and therefore does not exist.

Why would I be angry at myself? At any given time I act to the best possible decision that I can make at that moment. Why would I beat myself over the...

Since he is a religious zealot then I bet he welcomes such people to write to him. But personally I don't waste my time on people promoting mysticism.

Since god is the creator of all; omnipresent, omniscient, then every thing that happens is the will of god. Hence there can be nothing that is not in ...

All the time you have been working and studying there are thousands of your fellow country men and women that have increased their wealth without doin...

The landing of a single dice is stochastic too, yet utterly deterministic.

So in other words you've not got the first idea of what you are talking about, and have just repeated some shit you have heard. Why not just answer th...

Ignorance of antecedent states do not invalidate determinism. All QM experiments are reliably replicable and so assert a deterministic universe. When ...

This is a contradiction of the definition of the Classical God; so self refuting.

Perhaps you'd like to explain that!! Oh can't ?? Never mind!

What Zoroastrianism? It was before Christianity. It's where the Greeks got their ideas from, as well as numerous other examples of virgin birth, gods ...

QM phenomena are all replicable. That makes them deterministic. It is no impediment to determinism if science has not got its model right. Determinism...

this is gibberish.

Yes, not just anthropocentric but either arrogant, naive or both.

Life's purpose is to destroy itself, and the best way to do that is to create intelligence with no interest in preserving life. Since the most efficie...

No. All causes with partially known effects. The more simple the more effects are predictable. But the predictability is constant in all cases equally...

No, it's somewhere in between.

Sin does not exist, and so there are no consequences to it.

Yes. In other words reliable understanding of cause and effect - i.e. determinism.

You are missing the point. The history of the concept of determinism is not relevant here. I did not say that. The development of science relies on an...

"Life itself". Are you kidding? Life and its evolution has always depended on killing as the ultimate act of competition which has given us the evolut...

It makes a good job of that itself. It needs very little help. https://www.facebook.com/anonews.co/videos/1881403061871244/

These are all good ideas, but not very practical as they stand.

I just got home. My dog ran round in circles at the sight of me; grabbed her plastic squeeky pig and teased me to try to take it off her; after a tuss...

Did you mean this one? https://www.artfinder.com/product/the-telos-of-all/#/

The Christians got their ideas from Zoroastrianism.

If you are going to be silly there is very little point continuing. All science including those falsified laws depend on necessity. You can't get out ...

Rubbish. It's concept. Without the concept there would be no experience of it. Even if you could prove that, it would not make any difference since ev...

We've been over this old chestnut a hundred times. It was rubbish 2000 years ago and it remains rubbish.

Free will can be totally incoherent. Determinism can be utterly and unexceptionally correct, and it also be true that our lives are not mapped out. Si...

Why would you say that? Free will is not a concept carried by the genes. It's a conclusion drawn from experience and expressed and reproduced by logic...

Lord of the Rings has more truth when it comes to matters of friendship, loyalty, and duty, than the Bible. I'd never use the bible for moral guidance...

Evolution doesn't care. It allows an infinite possible number of traits. Evolution is the result of a process in which useful traits are promoted by s...

I seems to me that the power of suggestion, and the power of the mind to invent memory is equal or stronger than the ability of the human mind to comp...

Some of us remain content to point out its many failings, contradictions, and immoral suggestions in the hope that others now enslaved by the myths it...

I do not think this is true in any sense. Whilst is it almost impossible to describe determinism, or simply to talk about cause and effect without usi...

And yet... The Bible is a book almost exclusively designed to elucidate God's intent and to exhort his followers to act accordingly.