Faith is believing something when there is insufficient evidence for a more formal conclusion. Sometimes when there is no evidence at all. Much of the...
But this is a topic where opinions are changing. Therefore the terms we use to describe it are changing too. The language belongs to the people, and a...
I'm not 100% convinced that this is a scientific viewpoint. :chin: I don't think science would assert anything that has not yet been demonstrated. So ...
My main feeling when I read the original comment was that many (most?) of the philosophers I admire aren't generally accepted or known as philosophers...
Oh, I'm all for looking for patterns! :wink: But seriously, there are some things that require considered thought if we are to learn about them. There...
highlighting. ] I would agree, but what about Pirsig, a novelist and philosopher, who had some worthwhile things to say? Not everyone agrees with his ...
Wow! Eastern philosophy, or even being associated with it, is a negative thing? :fear: P.S. I found this short article, which seems to give a reasonab...
highlighting.] No, but the planet, and all the living things that live here, would be. Better off, that is. It's humans that are the problem. Both in ...
Sort of, but your list is incomplete. Sometimes there are more people needing jobs than there are jobs for them. At other times, there are jobs, but t...
Fair enough. :up: I am only concerned that blame is assigned where it is due. Some PAEDOPHILES raped a lot of children. Quite a few people knew it was...
The employees do too. They offer their labour in return for a wage. And they too must "weigh up the costs and benefits to them, of" being employed by ...
Yes, now that you have been clear about your accusations. The church is not responsible for paedophiles. They are responsible for covering up instead ...
Seriously? So those with gender dysphoria are actually just making a lifestyle choice, based on what society thinks about gender? You don't put yourse...
This is uncalled-for! It isn't the fault of the Catholic church, or any church, or gym teachers, choir masters or sports coaches - and so on, and on.....
Perhaps it is that the gender of an individual is set by their mental and emotional characteristics, while their sexual characteristics are physical, ...
This isn't really the right place to discuss this - it's way off topic - but I just can't let this go. This is the main lesson that philosophy, via lo...
I don't remember "omnibenevolence" being on the list of God's qualities, but I wonder if the main issue isn't the obvious and direct one: that what is...
Yes, I rather think that's why this issue has never been satisfactorily addressed, because those who have the power to do so are those who would lose ...
Sorry, I meant to respond to this bit, but forgot. :blush: As far as I know, there is no 'map' of the human mind. We gives names to parts of it based ...
I do, and I will, thank you. :razz: But your unnecessary emotional outburst - "an infant that is helplessly dying a slow painful death from whooping c...
And yet, when someone questions your claims, you complain (unreasonably) of ad hominem attacks. Oh, and how do you know what reality is, that you are ...
If you post hate-speech, expect appropriate responses. I have treated you with respect and courtesy, although I have agreed with little that you have ...
No, I'm saying we don't see the difference, although we could learn to - maybe only as children? :chin: - just as the Russians did. N.B. I don't know ...
First, let's be clear that I'm guessing, as we all are. These are not things for which clear and complete knowledge exists, as far as I know. :up: If ...
I have found that what people actually know is inversely proportional to what they claim to know ... but maybe you're the exception that proves the ru...
Then, with all due respect and courtesy, why would anyone here bother to engage with you? You, knowing everything already, are not open to discussion ...
No indeed, but it does mean we can't distinguish the different shades; we see them all as 'blue' - the same shade of blue - while our Russian counterp...
Perception precedes consciousness/awareness; it takes place wholly outside conscious awareness. And I think perhaps it's a great deal more than embell...
Indeed it has, but it's the extreme that is the problem. Looked at in isolation, most of us would agree that, if you work twice as hard as me, you 'de...
But in the case of a simple mismatch, as we have here, the source of the problem is unclear. It could be either. Schizophrenics and anorexics cannot b...
Well that's not entirely true. Russian people, who have one or more extra words to describe blue are able to see different shades of blue that you or ...
Yes, of course it could. But, in purely practical terms, we cannot (i.e. we don't know how) change the mind to suit the body, but we can change the bo...
Generally speaking, I don't like computer analogies, applied to humans. But in this case, a computer-related vocabulary makes explanation much easier....
No, they aren't. But when humans encounter or consider meanings which they find to be significant, they become emotionally attached to them. So the pr...
Why is there a need? Well, in absolute terms, there is no need. But we are humans, and we like to know things, and understand them too, if we can :win...
Your poisonous words are difficult to respond to. I refer to someone's choice of personal address, and you respond by referring to someone who has del...
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