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I believe the word 'omnipotent' to be too problematic already. Since if someone or something is claimed to be omnipotent, people tend to counter the c...

You mean like when I happen to use the word 'literally' I also have to explain that the way I use the word is not intended as 'figuratively' since the...

When definitions change at a certain point in time, there will by definition be multiple definitions in use as some people have picked up the new defi...

What abominations of nature? Then by all means, do demonstrate so. Then by all means, do demonstrate so. Really, according to what standard of good? a...

You certainly didn't sound all that happy about it when I pointed it out, don't you think "maybe a little bit pedantic?" gives a rather different impr...

What we think we know is not knowledge, it is called belief. Human beings need beliefs in order to act.

You may be right. I've spoken someone rejecting any form of rationality claiming that only strictly empirical science is valid. As if any of the empir...

How do you suppose to determine what is 'best' without any sort of rating system? As soon as some system proclaims one comment better than the other, ...

Any serious attempt to answer the existential questions.

So you are here to preach rather than to philosophize?

What abominations of nature?

Maybe I am a bit thick, or maybe you were just so eager to emphasize your point that you started to exaggerate to the degree you were diminishing the ...

Indeed, one could simply quote someone else without knowing anything about what is quoted means. Children tend to do so quite a lot. Education tends t...

If you have an argument or statement yourself, bring it forward. I'm not going to watch links you post on the odd chance there is something useful in ...

You didn't ask whether knowledge of good and evil was good or evil in this particular situation, you asked it in general. All of a sudden narrowing it...

Or merely Dutch bluntness combined with a low tolerance for vagueness or sloppiness.

Well in that case, a bunch of kids gathered in a group to play with marbles also constitute as a religion, as they are a group. I didn't ask for a you...

I take it you meant 'also' rather than 'simply'.

Not if you insert words like 'simply' pretending that that's all there is to it.

You may not have meant it this way, but it seems to me that this is what it effectively states. That (atheism, defined as simply a lack of beliefs in ...

I'd disagree since I can express the outcome of the limit of 1 divided by x with x approaching zero, but I cannot simply divide by zero. Further more ...

You mean to say that deities are defined as those things atheists don't believe in? How odd, usually human beings tend to define concepts by the way i...

Don't red herring me. We have a severe problem of recognition, I wasn't providing an analogy, I was providing a concrete example of how ridiculous you...

That's a rather narrower definition than I had in mind. First of all it's narrowing down the word 'god' to only mean the Christian god, and then furth...

Not if there are other prerequisites for religion atheism does not fulfill. Concrete example perhaps: Having apples is a prerequisite for being an app...

I'm not sure that is what causes it. I see some other probable causations. Though generally several atheists arguments seem to apply the following kin...

Depends on how one looks at it, the collection of any of those three are all infinite. I don't see a difference in the applied logic, no matter how de...

Indeed, if that argument was taken to be valid in mathematics, I could also argue that since there is no natural number between 9 and 10 to be found, ...

I think the main issue is whether someone is familiar with the notation conventions within mathematics.

Without a definition on what you mean by god, this question is impossible to answer. Since you take the word 'right' out of the juridical context, you...

The fact we can't perceive a larger box doesn't mean there isn't one. It just means that even if there would be one, we can't say anything sensibly ab...

knowledge is power, power can be wielded for good and for evil. So it's neither and it's both, not necessarily one or the other. Good and evil are not...

Time is one of the four dimensions of spacetime.

Another way to look at it is to conclude that atheists aren't godless, they merely refuse to call what they worship 'god'.

Are you asking if others agree with this mathematical tautology?

Obvious to you perhaps. Why assume this must be obvious to everyone else as well?

It's obviously both. What do you think the science degree phd stands for? hence when it comes to the branch of philosophy we address as science, it's ...

If I have 3 marbles in 3d space connected by sticks so they form a triangle, I can move 1 marble, while the other two remain stationary (they merely r...

too late here, I'm brabbling nonsense. Need sleep first.

Robber implies American, means if robber then American, thus all robbers are American though not nessesarily all americans are robbers. quoted from: h...

So for the full list: A = American x= people E= speaks English R= Robber ?=all ?= exists ?=implies (that) ?= and (not and/or) ?= thus/therefor Resulti...

what about (?x), ?x, ?, ?, I know the latter two to be common math symbols, but I take it most here didn't study math to the extend you seem to have, ...

Perhaps a legend of the symbols used in the two formalizations can be helpful. Can you provide it?

You are refusing to answer any of my questions designed to find common ground to start a conversation from and instead you accuse me of having a war l...

Bald unfounded statements. Ancestor worship is demonstrably far older. Even if there is a case to be made (which there probably is) that the romans er...

All I know is that I know nothing, possibly with the exception of 'I think therefor I am' . by whom or what? how do you define evil? That's a tautolog...

No correlation among 'good' and 'intelligent' has ever been demonstrated as far as I know. Why make this assumption? The only way to approximate a per...

You misunderstood, the time difference with the traveler and the time passed on earth is only 1 second, though to travel 1 second into the future comp...

time travel to the future is already possible and has been done in practice. The only problem is that there is no practical application that can bring...

Why would we assume/recognize this? this seems rather opposite to what the bible sais about god. especially John 1: "In the beginning was the Word, an...