ChatteringMonkey

It's hard to critique the idea, because we would need a lot of numbers and technical details to be able to evaluate it. I mean, i like the idea in the...

No they are not good philosophical teachings, with the possible exception maybe of Buddhism, they are revelation. Good philosophy starts with accurate...

I very much agree with this, I feel one should start from what one knows and can know, and not from what one can't know. And how do Gods fare with pra...

But then any regular everyday event can be explained in a million different ways if complexity is not a limiting factor and all metaphysical unverifia...

I seems to me you are starting from a faulty premise concerning Nietzsche's work : ... yet maintaining their indispensability. They are not undeniable...

I think it's not unreasonable to believe in 'a deity' in itself, because that is indeed a question of choice in a matter that can't really be verified...

Ram, you are misrepresenting my position. Without God, it's hard to see how you could get objective morality I said... not morality altogether. I thin...

Sorry I don't understand what you mean? Please explain 'time emerges with the characteristics required by Presentism or Eternalism'.

It's fundamental to our descriptions of the universe maybe, but I don't see why the law couldn't be reformulated in terms of change. Maybe there is al...

There are probably different versions of presentism, but I don't think presentism necessarily entails eternal beings and some of the implications you ...

Alright, I read through the whole post again, and I find myself agreeing pretty much with the other posters again. Your first post gives an example of...

Good argument Moliere, I can't think of a clear reason why it wouldn't apply to theists also. I'll check out the reference.

Maybe, though it would seem a bit of a strange atheist to me... rejecting revelation and being sceptic on the one hand, and having a sort of faith on ...

That's probably true, but they all can believe their particular version comes from God, making is justified objectively in their view.

You do make a good point... still the word of god is a little bit more detailed, even if not enough, then innate moral feelings.

Yeah but such a teleological element doesn't inform us about the details like say the word of God does. I also believe that we are not blank slates, a...

If you believe in God there can be... it brings a teleological element into the picture.

With all due respect for my fellow atheists here, I don't think you are helping the argument. Moral realism, innate morality etc... is no real justifi...

And to answer more generally, as to the basis of non-objective morality, you just have think of sports, any sport will do. People invent the rules, ye...

From an atheistic perspective, I wouldn't say it's wrong to tell people not to bury their infant daughters, it would just not be a moral rule if the m...

You still haven't answer my suggestion that convention or agreement in a given group is the basis for a non-objective morality. It isn't necessary tha...

I voted for the second option, morality is acting according to G. And while G here is some God, since i'm an atheist I believe this is just a stand-in...

I think you are missing the most basic premise of playing good poker. It's not about a single hand or a couple of hands, it's about getting the most E...

This is just wrong. Information has some value of course, but in the end it doesn't matter how much information you have, a pair will still lose to th...

Yes, you just keep asserting this, but where is your argument, reasoning or proof for it? I don't think it leads to the same strategy. GTO is a strate...

That's not what they said though. They said GTO is a mathematical equation by which the optimal range can be calculated as a counter to a given oppone...

Yes LCD, mushrooms or even alcohol could probably induce such states.

Well I would say that the shifting towards another dream is maybe the result of derealisation, but not the derealisation itself. Derealisation is more...

Yeah, I can see how that can be confusing, I was using different definitions of reality along side eachother. If the 'normal everyday reality' of huma...

You could start by adressing Pokerguy's concerns : Why is Game Theory Optimum, level Infinity? I also see no reason for this, you do seem to be mixing...

What is reality for a human anyway, would be the first question. Aren't the societies we are allways in the business of creating reliant on fictions a...

No it doesn't. Morality doesn't have to be objective, it never has been objective, the basis for non-objective morality is agreement. You will be excl...

Bit of a troll post, but sure I'll bite, there is no objective morality. And inventing a basis doesn't make it any more objective. So where does that ...

Hi Existoic, welcome, and thanks for chiming in. Interesting view on the issue. Having read all of Nietzsche multiple times when I was a bit younger, ...

Yes debate among specialists and the in-crowd... not a word from say Hillary or Trump about it. Meanwhile we're already spending billions on it. Wealt...

But I didn't say anything about wanting to regress, we can't go back period. I said I didn't want to rely on blind faith. I don't just assume lineair ...

Well if it's not the consensus, then I believe the group that believes Agrarian workers were worse of, because their arguments seem better to me. Agra...

Your arguments seems to be based on utilitarian grounds for the most part, which I don't think I agree with. For me it's not so much, and certainly no...

The thing is that it's not so clear cut I think. Yes those on top are the ones who profit, but at same time without any established order, there is no...

Good post Bitter Crank. Thought you are probably right that I myself am somewhat disconnected for all these identities, as philosophical types tend to...

Yeah sure, I mean 'could work without killing off parts of the population or without crashing the economy into a massive crisis'. Lobbyist are in itse...

I agree that it's too bureaucratic and that the whole federalization and creating of a European identity feels forced right now... still as I alluded ...

Plan A would be trying to keep that celestial bal liveable, but maybe it isn't a bad idea to also have a plan B if at all possible.

That seems to be the consensus among economists, and I can buy that to a large extent. Governments historically don't exactly have a good trackrecord ...

Aaah ok thanks for the clarification. I don't necessarily believe in interstellar travel either, although given the astronomical timeframes until the ...

That is the question. Though I would argue that growth will have to slow down sometime eventually anyway, if not because of limited resources, then be...

I'm reading Sapiens right now, where he talks a lot about the myths and fictions we tell eachother. His definition of religion, the function it plays ...

I just bought his first book, I'm a third into it now. You may be right that he's a scientific materialist, but i don't see this necessarily as a prob...

I think the general idea is indeed no increase in GDP, or at least a decoupling of policy-targets from GDP in favor of more 'social and green' policy-...

Thanks for the reply, you're right about the spel check, I hope I got most of the errors out now. Yuval Harari defines a religion according to its soc...