charleton

I know what he is saying. What I believe is not relevant; never relevant.

You cannot step into the same river twice. In fact you can't step into the same rive once. What you feel when you feel 'the same person' is continuity...

He's not saying that at all. And you know it.

Belief as commonly used. Means accepting things as true you know to be lies; at one extreme. and matters of irrefutable fact on the other. In a philos...

Yes. But it is those that I think we need to do without. If we know things and have a rigorous method whereby that knowledge remains contingent upon t...

You are making the confusion, by using a definition of belief which is basically meaningless, as it encompasses 1+1=2 as a belief, and I believe in fa...

No. I know that. It is not a belief at all. I can demonstrate and argue the case. What I am seeking here is a distinction between belief as a choice a...

But even Tacitus recognised that Rome prevailed. I'd put Tacitus in the camp of bigging-up your opponents to make yourself look good for conquering th...

Tea.

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Sculpting has not always been my main motivation. But it is what gets me out of bed these days. I it up after looking around for something new to do a...

i think the trick here is to not take the query of the thread too literally. How about what makes you life interesting, worth while. What gets you out...

Let's recap on what you were saying. You were comparing two things. 1) The roundness or flatness of the earth. 2) The rightness or wrongness of killin...

How about a reason not to die?

Yes. JJ Rousseau used the idea effectively in a political platform used to critique so-called 'civilised' society. With most caricatures there is much...

I try to live by these axioms, and by and large it seems to work, though attracts criticism. I don't think you can ban or outlaw belief, because you c...

I think your problem is based on a lack of basic knowledge. People who study h/g Society would not accept your caricature. In the world c 15kbp the en...

Sculpture mainly.

No I am saying exactly what I meant to be saying. You are confusing matters of fact with matter of opinion. Own it; deal with it.

I do not recognise the concept of sin. You ask why should I want to fix some mistake I made?? I do not think this warrants an answer.

I think the problem with God being omniscient is that he has to have known since the beginning of time what he was going to create when he created you...

I don't know what that feeling is. If I have done something wrong, it is not because I knew it was wrong at the time. Had I know it would cause me neg...

I was talking about cross-racial marriage in 1969. Not same sex marriage in 2014-5

You are confusing two completely different things; Matters of fact, and matter of opinion. It can never be factual that killing is right or wrong. Mor...

Did you not consider I might be agreeing with you? In the states were it was still illegal I wonder what a poll would have discovered. Probably more i...

Let's not forget that the US has a death penalty, which is morally repugnant in most civilised countries.

Exactly!! The German people brought Hitler to power, and his establishment determined that Jews were evil and the society would be better of by proscr...

That is quite a sobering thought. Utilitarianism might suggest that the harm to the bigoted 99.5% who thought miscegenation was bad, overruled a handf...

That is blatantly not the case ever. Not unless you live in a socialist utopia. Even if you could make that judgement, which I doubt. There are very f...

Given these two statements is seems to me that you have it completely backwards. As if you act towards your universal wishes you are imposing your mor...

We are mostly human culture. I don't think it is possible to distill what is human nature as it is so far subsumed by cultural logic, endemic assumpti...

One man's opinion about the utility and happiness of the many, is another man's hell on earth. How to judge?

None. You can decide but ultimately can never know how you decide. There is a deeper level of unconscious decision making that suggests itself. This m...

There are a series of variants to this problem. One is the option of physically throwing a fat guy onto the tracks to save ten people. Turns out that ...

Consequentialism Is more to do with "the end justifies the means". No one here is saying that. This has more to do with fate, against determinism. It'...

Join a party; get involved; run for party offices; become a delegate at conference; run for democratic office. Depending on the country you live and t...

It would be impossible.

Gay bars do not have a straight-bar. Just as Straight bars do not have a gay-bar. This means that you can have people of all sorts in all sorts of bar...

This has nothing to do with consequentialism. The Farmer is not damning anything. No one is justifying an action because of its consequences.

Risible.

I see no reason to accept that.

Memories are not inherited. Did you mean to say they are, or were you being careless in what you typed?

Do you have a point?

285. If someone is looking for something and perhaps roots around in a certain place, he shows that he believes that what he is looking for is there. ...

Why is that relevant? And in what way, exactly?

No that is not to say we have different memories at all. Humans more than any other animals are blank slates. We have NO memories of any kind, except ...

Objective either means true regardless of opinion; True whether or not any one even knows it is true; Or just some stuff that the establishment tells ...

If you cannot express a belief as a concept then you don't have a belief. How could you have a belief you cannot conceive of, let alone express? I hav...