I would have thought it abundantly clear that the objection raised by my answer to your title question is a major objection to your hypothesis. But ob...
That's ludicrous. The information within your computer cannot not be within the Universe. If it was to make accurate predictions about the Universe su...
Suffering is passive. It is the world acting on you. It cannot therefore be all there is because it does not take any account of you acting on the wor...
I thought this was supposed to be a philosophy forum. Philosophers have no business wishing unfulfillable dreams on anybody or believing that there is...
No. December means 10th month and was always part of the calendar. The 10 month year started with March (Martius) with the 5th to 10th months being na...
Who says that inequity is wrong per se? There's clearly nothing morally exceptionable about the fact that Usain Bolt can run faster than me. I think y...
Then you believe wrongly. It is not being dead that people fear but dying, the transition from life to death. The reason being that they expect it to ...
Death is not the outcome of either action. It is inevitable and thus entirely independent of A1, A2 or no action at all. Pascal's wager is entirely ab...
If your reason for posting is to be understood then it seems to me entirely reasonable to expect that you to do everything in their power to ensure th...
Surely the real question is not whether the logical case you present is irrational. It clearly is not. The real question is whether Pascal's Wager con...
This seems a very odd thing to say about metaphysics given that its very definition is the study of that which cannot be experienced or observed. Over...
Once again you're merely playing with the meanings of words bending them to suit your own predetermined opinion. Really? I can see no justification fo...
Most of your suggestions for areas to work on appear to have far more to do with how you appear to others rather than to yourself. Surely healthy self...
The more I read of your own contributions the more I think it was a troll question to begin with. Clearly you have your own answer to every objection ...
They are alive in exactly the same way as transplanted organs, masses of living cells which are not self-sustaining. If it is ethical to use one for m...
If organ transplants are ethical then there seems to be no grounds on which to object to use of embryonic cells. The real question is surely only how ...
This seems like a very odd example to choose because, well, most people simply never trust weather forecasters. In the UK there is a firm belief, desp...
What does it mean to say that God is sentient? If it has any meaning at all it clearly cannot be sentience as we know it. And even if it were it seems...
As your definition of 'mental disorder' is simply deviation from supposed norms, ie. behaviour that you personally find odd or repugnant, in which you...
So you're saying that people passionately argue cases which they do not themselves believe to be true because I find that very difficult to believe as...
There are many, many reasons why this may not be true though. Neurological disease, automatic responses (you don't consciously control adjustments to ...
And by definition, (legal definition in Germany), a baby of indeterminate gender (1 in 1500 births, over 80,000 per year) is always born as of indeter...
On what evidence? Do you imagine that people in the third world are happy to be engaged in the same old scrapping for survival everyday and content wi...
It isn't necessary to got to the extreme of solipsism though if by 'there is no forest' we mean rather that something is there that only becomes a for...
I'm really not sure which is worst about USA's understanding of the world, its staggering arrogance or its mind-numbing ignorance. If you seriously th...
And would probably still be today if it hadn't been for the persistent oppression of the Moors in Western Europe and the Crusades. It is entirely the ...
So I say no right wing newspapers and you come up with 3 articles from that beacon of rationality the Mail? I think we have the measure of your commit...
Does anybody actually believe this crap? USA can't even quell a tiny enclave of religious fanatics in the Middle East. Russia occupies 1/8 of the worl...
Why must we change them at all. By what right do we presume to do so? Of the hundreds and thousands of mass shootings and bombings in the USA in this ...
And there are dragons at the edge of the world and the Krampus will get you if you're alone in the woods at Christmas. Provide actual evidence for the...
Of course one can put into a creation that which one does not have. It's the very definition of creation in God's case. At the very simplest level, Go...
Contributing to a discussion on some moral/ethical discussion with what appears to be a general point but has the chief function of demonstrating the ...
If you can drink vodka then the last thing you are allergic to is alcohol! Clearly you are allergic to the flavouring elements in these drinks, not th...
Why does everything in life have to be built up into these great philosophical psychodramas? I like a drink now and then. I don't feel any need to jus...
I'm far from convinced that there needs to be an explanation of this. The right I have always believed to be the natural home of the human being. I'm ...
Whilst I hate to go all logical positivist on you, doesn't that rather depend on what you mean by 'created' and, possibly to a lesser extent, 'conscio...
I can't believe you've managed to keep this going this long so let's say you're right and see if it raises no problems. Assuming that you at least agr...
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