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Can you cite any cases where non-believers have murdered millions of people simply because they (the murdered people) did not share the non-believer's...

Indeed. I have tried to make basically the same point on more than one occasion. Humankind has existed in it's present form for, say, roughly 40K year...

@"Frank Apisa"@"tim wood" Here's a little song you guys can sing along with. Sing it to the tune of "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" Tim says ‘A reaso...

When talking to Frank - keep in mind that he appears to have a completely different definition of the word "god" than pretty much every other person o...

Like you said - it ain't gonna happen. But regardless - sometimes the specific reference is useful. E.g., you might want to say something like: "I con...

We're sort of in the same ballpark definition wise. That said, this "either/or" aspect of your definition may need some adjustments. Suppose someone t...

We seem to have dueling definitions here. I could be wrong, but as I understand him Frank defines no g/G-beliefs as agnosticism not atheism. Per Frank...

I'm pretty sure that I am using something very close to your definition - someone who denies the existence of a god or gods.

I still have not communicated. I'll try one more time. The point I am trying to make is that you - Frank Apisa - have committed the most mortal philos...

For clarity's sake I am going to sort of repeat myself - but I will use a different approach. Here's the OP: What are your positions on the arguments ...

About 6 months ago you started this discussion: About This Word Atheist In this discussion you objected to folks who were attempting to re-define the ...

I could be missing something here, but your definition of the word "god" does not correspond with the definition used by pretty much every other human...

I used to call myself agnostic, but it never felt quite right. When I stumbled across ignosticism it was like the proverbial light bulb going on. If s...

As a fellow ignostic I appreciate that you're trying to engage with @"3017amen", but I doubt you'll achieve much. These folks are locked into their po...

I wish I could agree with this. But then I look at today's headlines (or any history book for that matter) and find overwhelming evidence that this is...

It might have gotten lost in the shuffle, so I'll repeat my suggestions First, get a hold of Godel, Escher and Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. Besides giv...

It is not easy to wrap your head around this. I sort of understand it, but still struggle with it. I can recommend two sources which might help you. F...

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” If a giant voice would emerge from nowhere saying: "Hey humanity, it's God here! I know that som...

I think it highly unlikely, but if the panpsychists can come up with some experiments & proof? That would be very cool. But once you have theorems, ex...

Thank you for the thoughtful & polite response. I looked up Philip Goff & I think I have a bit of a handle now on what you're saying. So first I will ...

Hanlon's Razor applies here. That is most likely the correct explanation

I'll try again. I get that you folks feel that materialism does not - and will never - offer an explanation of consciousness. But beyond that I'm not ...

I'm not a professional philosopher. :smile: In fact I'm not even an amateur philosopher - I'm just stumbling around in the dark trying to figure out w...

Ah - you're not a native speaker. That's OK. It is likely that we are not going to agree, but I would first like to have some understanding of your po...

Of course the expression is used, but this is a philosophy forum - so I am asking for some discussion of this concept within a philosophical framework...

I'm a reasonably intelligent person and I've been polite to you. I may or may not agree with your position - likely not, but you never know- I keep an...

You haven't made this clear to me. So a "mental process" is the moving of atoms inside your brain. I assume here that the atoms referred to in this se...

I tried googling "first person experience" and did not find anything useful in the standard philosophy sources. Can you expand on this a bit - what do...

"How the mental states feel like" - IS a mental process, yes/no?

Harrumph! Metaphysics hogs all the attention on this forum. What about meta-stamp-collecting? Meta-football? Meta-gardening? Meta-chess? Don't these d...

Chomsky supports BLM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-0BmqyWJ30

I signed up for an account thinking I was going to start posting - then quickly realized I was in over my head and needed to figure out how I could fi...

Let's start with an easy example. After WWII, black soldiers were systematically denied education & housing benefits, even tho the law itself was oste...

Interesting. Can 1/9 be represented non-repeatedly in base 9 arithmetic - or some other base?

It looks to me like we're basically saying the same thing in different ways Ostensive definition Hah! Was not familiar with that term. Hope I can reme...

@"TheMadFool" Not sure if there can be any resolution to your back & forth regarding definitions. You can take any word and define it - but that defin...

Hey - haven't seen your stuff in a while. I enjoy your little endeavors - helps lighten the mood with all this back & forth that never gets anywhere.

And how do we define the word "gods" and "reality" in such a way that the question makes any coherent sense? Other folks on the forum have said this b...

Indeed. Humanity has been around in it's present form for, let's say, 40K years. it's only in the last 400 years or so that we're beginning to grasp o...

In the English language - and I assume all languages - it is possible to construct nonsense sentences that are grammatically correct but have no meani...

“Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.” From Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

That's hundred percent correct. I suggest avoiding getting on an airplane because the laws of physics could change and your plane could crash and tunn...

Hard to re-collect - that was 50 years ago. For whatever reason, even tho I was a physics major, it was a liberal arts degree - I took Philosophy 101/...

True story. Back in the 60s - that's the 1960s, not the 1860s - I was an under-grad Physics major. Thermodynamics was not on the undergrad curriculum....

If Donald gets more apples than Joe, he's going to drive up to your house (or apartment) and dump a truckload of toxic waste in your front yard. Then ...

I do mental gymnastics every day - it's part of my exercise routine.

We are all responsible for the reasonably predictable consequences of our actions. We can predict with reasonable certainty that a second Trump term w...

Ah. Got it.

You're thinking too small. I suggest a petition to put all bad people in jail until they become nice.

The Antichrist is a fictional character - so that is not on my list of concerns. :smile: I'm also not concerned if he turned out to be an alien, lizar...