You have a belief that people are born into this world, growing up with a belief as a primary starting point and then move over to atheism. Without an...
This is why it seems so hard for theists to grasp the concept of atheism. There's no source, there's just no belief in God or the supernatural. Do you...
Yes, biological gender doesn't change, but their perception of their gender identity may change. However, it's more likely that the culture they grew ...
I think mods should do it so that it's properly done, not users. But it seems very few want such a pinned post. Don't know why though, seems people do...
What? Atheism is just not a belief in God or any supernatural things. That's the only thing it is, what you apply to it after that is your own inventi...
The basic point of the argument is to distinguish belief that we take for truth without evidence or support. What I mean is that this argument is prim...
But you treat atheism as something with doctrines and rules to live by, which is a fundamental misunderstanding of what atheism is. You compare it to ...
The argument is about beliefs you think is true, as per my A-C belief types. Type A is irrational belief which you think is true without anything to b...
No, they were based on irrational beliefs and a form of similar religious followings of their leaders that you can see within religious groups, there ...
They would have a different gender identity, not biological gender. But gender as it's used in language and culture rarely focus on the biological, ex...
Biology is empirical. How we relate to our own biology is perception. How we categorize that perception is an individual construct. Categorizing that ...
I think it would be better to break down the actual premises, what is wrong with each etc. Not that you don't like, but actual problems, like what is ...
I think you are avoiding the questions themselves. It feels like you focus too much on the semantics here and don't look linguistic pragmatic of the t...
Problem with many of them with strong beliefs is that they seem to be unable to overcome biases and they can be logical and reasonable in any other ar...
Yeah, I've seen it. I wonder what the level of tolerance is for this? Discussions need a lot of room so that people dare to keep doing it, but how far...
Understandable, but what if you removed the ability to list by rank or see how many votes? I mean that if the rank score is invisible to everyone, inc...
I'm not sure he will understand further. The argument is stuck for him and he doesn't falsify it with our counter-arguments. So instead spamming the s...
No, it doesn't hold because you assume a creator, God, which is pre-Big Bang. Your argument for such a creator falls flat if you start time at Big Ban...
Nothing which you can by any confirmation, apply to before Big Bang. You don't even know which dimensions if at all or if by more, existed before Big ...
At least it demands true arguments without fallacies and biases, everything else is just speculation, regardless of validity as in it's the same as a ...
That's the problem right there. Not if you began with "I define". Assumptions assumptions assumptions. You might read the counter-arguments by Mark Co...
Isn't that dependent on the type of claim and argument? A deduction must be true, an induction must be a probability, but both need valid premises. Ot...
I know a coin, I know each side, I know what happens when I flip it and gravity pulls it to the ground. Therefore I can define the probability of a co...
Burden of proof applies to deduction, no? If the conclusion is to be considered true it needs full support without fallacies or biases. An induction a...
No, you are using your belief as groundwork for your conclusion. Logic and math cannot prove anything before Big Bang, you need physics to do that and...
You are still concluding it to be unnatural without being able to apply data on what is natural or not about it. I.e begging the question. How can you...
I think it's possible to have a vote system again. Maybe just skip the "downvote" since that's seriously able to be abused. Voting someone up can only...
Aren't we considering "how we make an argument" something that has been refined over the years? With a growing list of fallacies and biases to guide u...
You are missing the point, I'm saying that there might be something outside of spacetime that isn't a sentient creator. A starting point or a point th...
What was the reason? I understand that this could be abused and get out of hand, but maybe a form that would is different would work. But if there are...
None of them conclude there to be a creator. They could just as well point to an interdimensional stone that hit another interdimensional stone and th...
In history, it's understandable that there's been flawed thinking because as science evolved, so did how we do rational and reasonable arguments. The ...
No evidence of any of these concludes that there is a God. That's an assumption made before the conclusion.Begging the question, Burden of proof, fals...
This is why I think the discussion is important. I have a feeling that a lot of sex changes, surgeries etc. comes down to social constructs and norms ...
Maybe this forum needs a scoring system? Don't know how that would look like, but if someone is writing proper posts, answers with respect to the argu...
Maybe because too many don't even have a basic understanding of philosophy or dialectic procedures? I do however find that for a forum that is open to...
Except no one believed any of them until they were conceived as viable hypotheses and when observed and tested, confirmed as true. You also Texas Shar...
Yes, anarcho-communism is a contradiction for me, it feels like communism is slapped onto anarchy in order to not frame it as pure anarchy, but it mak...
True, but in anarchy, you are free to claim anything for yourself, but if you don't support the community you will be left alone and if you force your...
You have the authoritarian-liberal scale and the collective-individualism scale on there. What other scale of liberty are you referring to? You are ei...
But at the same time, individualistic freedom is at the bottom right. That's where organized individualistic freedom is positioned, the form where bus...
Can't have communism without a state. I know the general Marxist idea is that the state disappears, but without a state that could organize the common...
Because if the crime was committed before the copying, both are guilty since both have the same identity, memory of the murder, motivation etc. so it'...
It's man-made. Study anthropology, history, psychology and sociology and it will show a very common pattern of human behavior. Until proven, we can't ...
You assume that common people and politicians trying to get votes from common people have enough knowledge to understand this. I always assume most pe...
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