Arcane Sandwich

That doesn't solve the problem, though. Which of the two resulting ships is identical to the original one? The Mended ship, or the Reconstructed ship?...

How do you solve the problem of the Ship of Theseus, then? Unlike an inorganic object, the identity of an organism arguably requires the spatiotempora...

Well, but it's an odd thing, you see. The French Guiana, for example, is not an independent country. It's literally a French colony, still to this day...

And what's wrong with that? Is that 'Orid Stuff, to use a phrase that I read just here, about some beer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QCgqQdmr0M

Let's look at this from another angle if you don't mind, @"Moliere". I notice that you give quite a lot of importance to events. Why? Events are argua...

The OP asks: How can one know the Ultimate Truth about Realty? And I ask: How can one realize the Ultimate Truth about Knowledge?

I've never heard of the first two, let me look them up at Google in just one second... I see... and how about the other one? Hmmm... Ah, so you believ...

Kierkegaard didn't believe in the catholicity of reason, he was a protestant from Denmark. He was essentially a Christian Viking, from a theological P...

Of course. I've debated this topic before, though not with you : ) Your position on this topic, I believe (and I could be wrong) confuses history with...

Don't take that personally, I misread what everyone says.

Why not? There's a lot of quantitative content in history, already. We have numbers for the centuries, for the years, even days and the minutes and se...

I think it's unfair of you to assume that the people that don't agree with you are "intermediate" and that we have not read about "these kinds of topi...

@"Count Timothy von Icarus" what's your opinion on what I said ?

Kierkegaard makes the point (in Fear and Trembling, precisely) that God told Abraham to do something irrational when he ordered him to sacrifice his s...

But then some things will be more difficult and/or they'll take more time, such as the construction (or discovery) of a way to meaningfully quantify o...

Top row: Denmark, no idea, Norway. Middle row: Sweden, Iceland, Suomi. Bottom row: Faroe Islands, no idea, no idea. I looked up the three that I didn'...

Sure. It's like my example of the caterpillar that turns into a butterfly.

I read that concept of his as the "gentleman of faith", comparable in some sense to Nietzsche's "over-man", at least in an existential sense. He makes...

Beyond the Horizon Over the Next Hill That's where we make discoveries That's the Next Frontier https://youtu.be/tKjbHv_0KKY?si=sRlaVJsg-nOO5w2r

Of course not. Why would they? Secular nations delegate the monopoly of violence to a particular group of people (I.e., law enforcement). Those are th...

Yup, it's trollish behavior.

There is a theological difference between a religion and a sect, which is why there is a theological difference between religious behavior and sectari...

Some Muslim scholars argue that jihadism, understood as the violent overthrow of a non-Muslim state, is not compatible with Islam, and it is therefore...

Unless it's not a religion to begin with, which is why this is not an entirely private matter, it is in part a public matter. If public entities (such...

Tell me what part, or parts, of the following definition and characterization you don't agree with: EDIT: Furthermore,

I think that Heidegger is just a watered-down version of Kierkegaard, to be honest. It's Kierkegaard but without the Aesthetics and the Ethics.

Then by all means, clarify the confusion, I'm all ears.

What I find ironic is that most of the AIs out there can probably do a billion times better in an SAT test than a human, it probably has like a trilli...

I don't think so. It's a fictional creature that, like any other fictional creature (i.e., Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes) does not exist, and will not...

Then that is the difference between a Christian and a fanatical Christian. A Muslim will tell you that Muhammed could not be considered a jihadist eit...

And a jihadist could ask you the following question: couldn't Jesus be considered a Crusader?

Sure, but not in the same way that chess is a discursive convention. You don't do math because you want to win some math tournament. You're doing basi...

My take on that is that chess is a game (or perhaps even a sport, though I personally don't think so) while math is not a game. The very expression "l...

Best joke of the week :up:

The uneducated, I would say. It's more politically correct than feeble-minded.

I will consider your argument for reincarnation once I am finished bringing myself into existence as Roko's Basilisk.

You folks wanna talk about Roko's Basilisk?

Yeah, it's magic saliva. And maybe you have no brain, have you ever seen your own brain with your own two eyes? Nope, you can't, that's by definition,...

I mean...

Is that a political question, or a theological question? If it's neither and it's "just a simple question", then someone might as well ask (due to par...

Well, that's what they were told, initially. It's what every sect gets told, because it's the simple truth: no state or country recognizes such a grou...

Right, but the topic of Pastafarianism specifically did end up in court, so it's not a complete hypothetical:

Sure. But suppose the following, just for the sake of argument. Suppose that you tell me that you believe in a Flying Spaghetti Monster, and that this...

I've arrived at the conclusion that the simplest, most practical solution is to just be a reductionist about this. How so? Like this: In other words: ...

I'll just share my theory. 1) Hegel was right when he suggested that History itself ended with the Absolute Spirit. 2) If so, then Hegel is History's ...

But that's one of my other points: no state in the West, no country in the West, prohibits the free exercise of religion. It only establishes a distin...

It is when the IRS has to recognize the religious status of a new religion, if only for the purpose of federal tax collection. Not just in the US, but...

Ok. You might want to tell that to the Basilisk then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut-zGHLAVLI

It is my understanding (and I could be wrong here) that any organization that claims that they want the state to be based on their religious principle...

Easy: You let the Federal government decide that. They have to, otherwise the IRS wouldn't have the bureaucratic power that it has.