Trump came out and revealed to us that "the denial was very very strong" so we can all stop falsely accusing Saudi Arabia of butchering journalists. I...
The solution is to give up trying to render ultimate validation via apriori premises or fundamental axioms, and to instead rely on the empirically acc...
We tend to state P2 in reference to deductive logic, but not all logic is deductive. Deductive logic itself, or at least our epistemic and empirical a...
I'm probably never going to do acid. I've got too much floating around up there that is already shoddily organized. I don't know if rattling the old c...
You say mute randomness, but I say actually coherent. At least soccer balls are something you can quantify, but that's a discussion for another time. ...
:lol: And here I thought I was just a bigot! (been using a language app to learn some German). On a serious note, I wonder what kind of superiorities,...
The problem of omniscience and omnipotence is that when we suppose they are infinite extremes, one limits the other. (if omniscient and omnipotent age...
The claim here does not seem to be that men should own their sperm, but rather (or ought to be) that men can emancipate themselves from their sperm. I...
Why is it so many new religious users have shown up all at once? Is PragerU advising people to come stick it to the atheists? Has the religious right ...
I may or may not have a soccer ball in my closet... I will offer you no evidence either way, and so for now you cannot falsify the claims that there i...
The more general the label the less it reveals, the more it misleads/confuses, and the less useful as a label it becomes (why have a 50 page argument ...
Well, no. Just because you cannot presently imagine how omnipotence could emerge doesn't mean that it cannot emerge. You're using an unverifiable assu...
What do you mean "lip profession? I don't know what you're trying to say with this "lip" stuff. If you mean that "this is what atheists and agnostics ...
@SnoringKitten: What should we call the position of simply lacking belief either way? Agnostics per your usage believe the odds are equal, but what If...
Trump on the other hand.... Trump has all but openly stated that he very much wants to have sexual relations with his daughter, Ivanka... Now THAT'S a...
I mean, it's not really a self-own. There are some fairly universal beauty standards kicking around the human genome... Would it be better for @"Baden...
But what dictates reason? Humans don't have magical access to an infallible set of axiomatic laws from which we can reason, we have to first discover ...
I think paradox isn't the right word. Here is an example of a paradox "This statement is false". It is self-referential and therefore contradicts itse...
If Hillary runs again in 2020, Trump will probably get re-elected.... If Hillary had not run in 2016, I'm pretty sure that Trump would not have won. (...
Let's pretend that the universe has a beginning. I can imagine before the beginning of time, but that doesn't mean such a thing exists. It could be th...
The point is that you think you have god-given truth, and you're willing to kill others and yourself if you think that's what your god-truth mandates....
I'm saying that grandiose issues can cause us to lay down our lives, so we had better be sure we're right about them before we actually pick up a swor...
Maybe? You think? Where are you're lofty "objective" standards at? Different religions tell different stories about what god(s) want. How do you know ...
Especially not in this day and age where trends move so quickly that parents have a harder time relating to their kids (and therefore a harder time im...
Why must I sacrifice my life in the first place? Shouldn't we all just get along and value life? So if god asks you to sacrifice your only son as a te...
In so far as adultery is a form of lying, I also condemn it, but what of a woman who has fled from/escaped an arranged marriage and found love elsewhe...
I've found incredible rhetorical and persuasive success by appealing to NUMVs (nearly universal moral values). To continue living, to be free from opp...
No, not exactly. When two people disagree about pumpkin-spice lattes, it's highly unlikely that it will ever come to arrows. When the most grandiose i...
What happens when two people both claim to have the word of god but disagree about what god's word actually is? Well I deeply desire to go on living (...
I said refine the question. What is the role traditionally played by god? O.K... That seems a bit harsh... Philosophy is more than just filling our ma...
I could make a parodic post just like this one that insults theists, shows videos of theists saying inconsistent things with gotchya type arguments (a...
Correct. What does it mean to "believe in X politics"? Do I think that pure socialism is the best economic strategy? No. Do I think that laissez faire...
There is endless debate on these subjects, it's just too highfalutin for channel 6 public discourse. If and when reliable consensus emerges, or the pr...
It's somewhere in between finding answers and sham. Religion can give people personal reasons to go on living, and in it they can find community that ...
I'd rather not get into it, especially given I recently completed participation in a thread where I must have written around twenty thousand words on ...
If enough sufficiently predictive science had accumulated 2000 years ago, we might have already done away with the notion of free will. Determinism co...
Quite the irony that... We need economic growth to sustain our current way of life because our population continues to rise... But if the population b...
Actually that is not the consensus. The objectively measurable metrics like health and lifespan improved when we made the switch to agrarianism. There...
It's been a long and tiresome road... The president's future does not well-bode... America isn't so keen, Now that the world has seen, That Trump's pe...
I feel exhausted by its pretense and doubly exhausted by the fact that most people cater to it on some level because of their emotions. Religion is an...
Higher population numbers have a greater chance of surviving the next catastrophe, so no, we should not arrest economic/technological growth. Economic...
I'm inclined to believe that the voices you hear are not god's. Perhaps my training to think critically limits me, or perhaps it frees me from the bul...
You haven't given any reasons yet, at best you've alluded to reasons (spiritual/religious ones). I've also asked for an example of Sam's terrible acti...
Let's take it a step further then. Would it be moral to silence Sam by any means necessary, given that he causes so much non-physical harm by making f...
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