Artemis

I understand that perfectly well. It has nothing to do with the violent nature of extremism you were purporting.

Unsettling? Only in the sense of it being minorly annoying to try to have a conversation about x and then your interlocutor switching to y.

You're kind of all over the place here. It's one thing to call atheism extremism, another to imply there is a connection between atheist extremism and...

You present an argument against religious extremism, but I'm not sure that logic applies to atheism.

Anti-slavery abolitionists were also considered extremists. It's not always a bad thing.

You're confusing natural with normal.

You still haven't explained why in your view atheists should be embarrassed.

And if that's not your point, please explain how atheists would be embarrassed? Because it doesn't make sense so far.

The Jabberwocky, and Santa, and most of those mythical/made up beings supposedly possess supernatural abilities.

Only insofar as the atheist would be embarrassed having to justify not believing in the Jabberwocky.

Just recently I read a line in Tom Wolf's Tobias Wolff's "Old School" that some knowledge is felt in the back of your neck. Also, Harvey Siegel talks ...

I know you wish that was true.

If God were the mountains and the trees and the skies, then the geologists and botanists and metereologists would have found some proof of that by now...

Well, I'll be doggonned. Never thought I'd live to see the day someone on the interwebs listens to reason :rofl:

I reject your absolutism because I think it is narrow-minded and short-sighted. We can't have an egalitarian and equal society by tossing out the baby...

That only follows if a) the institutions are only getting their values from those negative conditions and if b) those conditions are 100% negative. Ev...

I agree with the second part of this statement, but do not know what it has to do with the first. At least, it is not clear what "institutions" you me...

To a certain degree it's true that we over-diagnose and medicalize states of mind that are actually perfectly normal, harmless, and sometimes even ben...

So basically, you're saying you believe in something you know nothing about, can't know anything about, and is unknowable generally. Gotcha. Most phil...

The AtL is like being in the bedroom and claiming that there is or is not an apple on the kitchen table without being able to see the kitchen table or...

You misunderstand how an appeal to ignorance works as well as how I was presenting atheism. 1. The AtI works only when you're appealing to ignorance i...

You got it the wrong way around. The Joe's show contempt for philosophy and so philosophy moves on without them. But you can start a Philosophy of Kar...

Not really. And still not. The people are voting on all sorts of issues without knowing why. But furthermore, you didn't answer multiple points/questi...

Have you been following the news lately? There have been more than a couple attempted and committed mass killings by white supremacists and more than ...

Correction: it already has led to extremism and violence.

That actually matters a whole lot to everyone, whether they care to know it or not. At least, if you want a fuctioning democracy!

People generally know more about the Kardashians than a single philosopher living or dead. Are you sure you want to pin importance on what the average...

You seem to be working with a pretty narrow (capitalistic?) view of what is important.

What contemporary philosophy have you read? And about what subjects?

Who? Where? You talking to someone else? Well, have fun with that. Your personal guessing and musing about the metaphysics of the universe are only in...

And yet somehow he fits in yours? Or, if he doesn't, how the heck do you know what you're even talking about with the concept of God if your mind is t...

You think plankton think humans are supernatural deities? :rofl:

Sounds like you had a really bad teacher there.

Yes. I've clearly stated both my atheism and my resistance to believing anything illogical, impossible, or fantastical, even for the sake of momentary...

How has slime been off topic?

Since you're getting silly, I'll just assume you're beginning to see reason :wink:

Sooo, you're saying all movie goers try to run away from the Slime but are paralyzed? Sounds like a lawsuit to me :lol:

If you were entirely unaware of the simulation, you would run away from the Slime.

I don't think we do either, but mostly because realism and mysticism don't mix. Talking to a mystic is like talking to a stone wall. Mysticism claims ...

Yes, because the screen embodies the fiction.

God doesn't exist. Ah, dish it out but can't take it. I'm not surprised.

Because if I'm aware of the screen, I'm aware of the fiction and thus that Jaws is not real.

Your posts seem condescending. But I guess that's to be expected from someone who thinks they've got some mystical insight :chin: If being precise abo...

I'm not sure what you mean? If I meet a real tiger in a real cage I don't have to entertain conflicting beliefs about what is real and what not.

That barrier would be the awareness of the fictionality and thus of the unreality of the story, and thus the reader/watcher would not believe the stor...

That still doesn't explain why while in that state you wouldn't feel and react the exact same way you would irl if faced with the same creatures/situa...

So, then, like I said, it's not full or actual belief. It's some kind of semi, quasi, pretend belief.

So, when playing Baldur's Gate, do you cry out in pain when the slime hurts your characters? Or when your beserker goes beserk, do you run around on a...

And "could be" implies that this is a pretty atypical scenario. So, it doesn't really apply to the majority of people most of the time when engaging f...

How would that be a pleasurable movie experience for you?