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Ok, thanks. :up:
May 28, 2021 at 14:32
Ok, I understand that foundational value of assuming the reliability of of certain laws of physics. Like axioms but so far infallibly reliable. Does s...
May 28, 2021 at 06:39
I wish I could properly respond but I’ve gotten the distinct impression you address me only to fuck with me. You’ll eject, and ignore me as it suits y...
May 28, 2021 at 04:17
I’m not sure that’s the case...”everywhere in the universe”? ”will be the same forever”? Aren’t both of those disproven by quantum mechanics? How does...
May 28, 2021 at 03:21
Your example is about the nature of the subject, that’s not what cogito ergo some says anything about. It concludes only that there is a subject. A dr...
May 27, 2021 at 18:22
My point is that it would take a true belief in god in order to sacrifice your life for god. Let’s not get lost in the weeds it should be clear the ex...
May 27, 2021 at 14:56
Well I can respect that your on a spiritual journey of some kind, but I’ve never found any such beliefs to be convincing of their truth. Ups seem to b...
May 27, 2021 at 14:38
Not sure you really answered my question there, but I understand what you are getting at. What about modern religions? Scientology is newer than Chris...
May 27, 2021 at 13:06
You’ve never heard of religious martyrs? Suicide bombers? You think these people don’t really believe in god and rewards of gods afterlife? Why do you...
May 27, 2021 at 12:31
If you meet someone who believes Apollo pulls the sun across the sky you don’t think of that belief as foolish? Have you ever heard the expression to ...
May 27, 2021 at 12:26
Why do we think of believing in Zeus to be somewhat silly but not so for Christianity if they are both legitimate beliefs from the same source?
May 27, 2021 at 12:03
I’m having trouble with what exactly you are asking...are you basically asking if there is a commonality between all the different definitions of real...
May 27, 2021 at 04:19
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We are all devastated.
May 26, 2021 at 16:55
Ha. Every once in a while you right something worth reading. Succinct and amusing.
May 25, 2021 at 18:23
Alright well if you will not respond to points against you then you have opted out of having a discussion and I won’t waste my time.
May 25, 2021 at 18:00
Yes, I have. I consider it due diligence to question all my positions and attachments that way.
May 25, 2021 at 16:31
Lol Ya, and? Do you mean a baseless assertion? I provided argument with my assertions, none of which you addressed. I don’t‘ think so, I think you fai...
May 25, 2021 at 16:24
Sure, there is history and the churches cherry picking to consider but none of that makes the stories any less man made. Why do we have to consider it...
May 25, 2021 at 15:27
It’s not either or, it’s both. As I said, you experience emotions of course but your emotions are not what you are relying on when you fix your car. R...
May 25, 2021 at 15:10
Of course it was made up...the bible is a man made text. Why would it be any different than other mythology? Zeus, Odin, Ra...these aren’t made up? Ye...
May 25, 2021 at 14:05
Religion can at times be internally consistent which creates the illusion of rationality, but outside the strict, self serving parameters of religious...
May 25, 2021 at 13:44
Not necessarily irrational no...at least no more irrational than anyone else. I don’t think science inoculates a person against being duped by emotion...
May 25, 2021 at 05:55
:cool:
May 25, 2021 at 02:42
Nothing really gets explained religiously, all of its answers are made up. Sure religion claims to have answers but there is no substance to the claim...
May 25, 2021 at 02:41
Yes, dishonest argumentation knows no group boundaries Im afraid. It’s the nature of the internet too...it’s pretty easy to wiki or google an argument...
May 25, 2021 at 02:11
That doesn’t answer my question. How are you able to tell the difference between philosophy as a cause of those things (anger and frustration to insan...
May 24, 2021 at 18:02
:lol:
May 24, 2021 at 01:30
Right and breathing kills because every dead person did breathing. Buddha obviously had some sort of eating disorder I bet that’s what killed him.
May 23, 2021 at 21:41
How did you determine philosophy of any kind leads to suicide? How have you determined that any philosophy leads to spiralling out of control? No, bec...
May 23, 2021 at 19:42
Religion is mankind’s first attempt to explain the world around them, born of fear of the unknown. Fear of death is at the foundation of religion and ...
May 23, 2021 at 17:46
A red herring I think. These religions that make such criticisms simply fail to recognize that fear of punishment and hope of reward are the basis for...
May 23, 2021 at 17:24
Or they care more about a people with money than those without. The crack epidemic was in poor black neighbourhoods, and suburbs are generally doing m...
May 23, 2021 at 17:15
Very well put sir. If you only do the right thing because you are commanded to you are not acting morally, you are acting the slave.
May 23, 2021 at 04:13
I don’t know why this question has gotten 13 pages of mileage. Asking if atheists hope there is no god is like asking if atheists like vanilla ice cre...
May 22, 2021 at 14:10
Wouldn’t the method be the tool?
May 22, 2021 at 02:16
Well that’s another topic but caring doesn’t seem the sort of thing you need a good argument for. You either care or you don’t, and whether or not you...
May 21, 2021 at 20:26
Right, and if the survival of humanity isn’t important to your moral philosophy then my argument wouldn’t apply. I’m not knocking that perspective I’m...
May 21, 2021 at 18:43
Sure, if you don’t care about the survival of humanity then science isn’t bad according to my argument. Also, just because total destruction will happ...
May 21, 2021 at 17:51
Same way we do with all future risk assessment. In this case we know that science is the tasty poison that will eventually kill us. So we weigh the be...
May 21, 2021 at 16:44
Science is not good. Science and technology advance much faster than does our process of evolution. (Biologically and sociologically) Inevitably scien...
May 21, 2021 at 14:40
Because people are discovering that most of what they’ve told about drugs and drug addiction is a bunch of bullshit.
May 20, 2021 at 21:57
Yes, thank you. I meant a trans woman. Not sure, there are complications either way, that’s why I thought an open league of some kind might work. I’ve...
May 19, 2021 at 12:23
Well said!
May 19, 2021 at 01:16
:lol: That was pretty entertaining.
May 19, 2021 at 00:35
I can’t see where anyone said that, or made that argument. Is lack of nuance bigotry? Again, doesn’t intention matter? It doesn’t seem like it’s that ...
May 18, 2021 at 22:18
Your views are the ones that matter to my inquiry because you are the one who will decide which such distinctions will result in being banned.
May 18, 2021 at 21:36
Ok, so what does it mean to say that? If someone is trying to make a distinction between biological women and trans men/women it can be semantically c...
May 18, 2021 at 21:27
Well there are already well watched sports that feature mediocre athletes (compared to the top ones) right? Different divisions get different viewersh...
May 18, 2021 at 21:11
Are we allowed to talk about what it means to say “trans women are not real women”? Not being snide.
May 18, 2021 at 20:56