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I'm not following your response. Perhaps you missed my previous posts where I made it clear that I will vote for Biden over Trump no matter what.

etc etc Well Frank seems to disagree with you, but in this case I already know both the devils very well :smile:

I agree. It is pathetic that I have to make this choice. A second Trump term will be a catastrophe for the US & the world. I would vote for a trained ...

I'm not happy about it, but Biden is clearly the lesser of two evils. I'll go one step further - I'll vote for Biden over Trump even if Biden were to ...

I guess it's OK if the other gods are behind him. :smile:

Here's what some physicists are saying I won't pretend that I understand all of this

I was wondering why I hadn't seen him recently. It's too bad - I was having some interesting exchanges with him. He had a unique point of view - sort ...

Have you looked into Ignoticism? That seems closer to what you are saying that atheism.

While there are a few edge cases where religious beliefs can be factored into a decision, here in the US secular law has precedence over religious law...

I didn't see a definitive answer to either of my comments/questions. 1 - System must be open source'd 2 - At a minimum, this system would have to allo...

As I said previously, and for what it's worth, I encourage you start this project of mapping the Quran into a formal language such as Coq. A couple of...

So you would be mapping the text of the Quran into a set of symbols with no semantic content?

OK. We are saying that in some sense Islamic law is a formal system. However, I think you would agree that it is not a formal system in the same sense...

My responses are likely to be slow in coming - real life is taking up most of my time these days. I can maybe squeeze in a half hour here or there. I ...

I may be misunderstanding you (or there may simply be gaps in my knowledge of Islam), but from where I'm sitting there seems to be a contradiction in ...

Sorry - I wasn't clear. What I'm looking for is some axioms of Islam.

OK, fair enough. Can you give me a few axioms - in plain language if possible? :smile: If there is a more comprehensive list available - again with pl...

Belated response here. I think I'm following this - Fitrah is an axiom. So next question. How do we go from this axiom all the way to the numerous law...

I am trying to express myself - as much as possible - within your framework. Here is what you said a while back: I take this to mean that there are ax...

I have been properly chastised. I will do my best to avoid such mistakes moving forward.

I've been seeing a bunch of insults, so I cut and pasted all the names from the last few days. Apologies if I tarred you with a broad brush. :smile:

@"Artemis" @"Gregory" @"Nobeernolife" @"Sir2u" @"alcontali" I should be used to it by now, but I continue to be dismayed at the level of personal inve...

Thread #3 You have expressed very consistently the need for a formal set of rules that are inspired by a transcendental source outside the system itse...

Thread #2 - Rules are interpreted by human beings And now I'm going to contradict my previous Thread #1. There's no point in trying to come up with a ...

It's fascinating to me how differently we think. Every time I ask you a question, your answer(s) seem to go off in an entirely different direction tha...

NP. Out of curiosity I checked it out. On first glance I couldn't tell if it was a satire site or genuine. But his books are on sale at Amazon and hav...

Thank you for that link. That was a brilliant explanation.

I was going to continue along the main line of this discussion, bu your take on this is fascinating - I've never heard this line of reasoning before. ...

I can't comment any more on the Catholic thing. To my ears what you're saying sounds a bit conspiracy minded. But what do I know? I can't dismiss your...

This discussion is going in many different directions simultaneously. That's not a criticism at all - you are giving some fascinating historical detai...

Before going on in this discussion I should be clear - I have no religious beliefs and as such do not belief in any afterlife. That said, I am good fr...

OK - so a person can live an exemplary life as a non-believer and get into Paradise. But if you accept the faith but then later in life choose another...

You seem to be contradicting yourself.

I have many questions each of which will open up different avenues of discussion. Let me start here: If I follow you, anyone can get into Paradise - C...

One problem I'm having with this statement is that different religions make different claims about what happens to me after I die and there's no way t...

Can I choose any religion for me & my children?

When Huxley coined the term agnostic in 1869, his purpose was explicitly clear - he wanted a way to make explicit the difference in his thinking from ...

Gentlemen (at least I assume you both identify as male, apologies if I got that wrong :smile: ) Based on your posts you both appear to be reasonably i...

If I'm following correctly, you use the word atheism to refer to any position that does not answer the question of God's existence in the affirmative....

Having been on this Forum for several years now - and occasionally posting - I should be used to this sort of discussion. But yet I'm still startled b...

I don't know if anyone has kept a running count of what percentage of his statements are true vs. untrue. Regardless of what the precise percentage is...

OK, you're correct - I do not know what's going on in his mind. I'll rephrase. Trump makes factually incorrect statements on pretty much a daily basis...

I expect politicians to spin facts to make events seem less or more favorable to therm. But -- Call me naive but I expect politicians to avoid telling...

It's a fascinating part of history. Here's a good starting point. I'll loop around one more time here. You seem be implicitly acknowledging in this se...

Firstly - and this is a minor point - these are not legends. There is a clear historical record that there was an autonomous Jewish nation prior to be...

Absolutely - that's why I used the word superficially The problem I have with your comparison is that it seems to have things backwards. In your compa...

There is no evidence Schiff was on the hunt for nude photos of the president. As was reported in The Atlantic, Schiff was prank-called in April 2017 b...

The US waged war against the Sioux, brutally slaughtered them, took away their land which they had occupied for thousands of years, and forced them in...

Very interesting. Now I know this is getting on slippery ground, but on first glance it seems like the products of our imagination have predicates. E....

Suppose the narrative is historically accurate? Let's say there's nation ABC. Now nation DEF conquers nation ABC and rules over the original inhabitan...