DingoJones

I understand, thanks.

Interesting. How do you know god has anything to do with it? It sounds like its your own thoughts that are helping, an act of meditation.

So prayer is just thinking about god, essentially?

When you pray, does god respond with confirmation or commands? In what way does he do that exactly? (A voice? A feeling he creates in you?)

Are they really that disparate? They seem closely related to me, types of knowing. It is a bit strange, the way we have so many senses of the same wor...

In what way was he refusing moderation?

8. Therefore prayer is useless. God only answers the prayers for things he was going to do anyway, and only to those who already have a relationship w...

Well ya, if I had all the data I wouldnt need probability. I don’t think we disagree significantly here.

When I mentioned the probability of life I was speaking from a normal, probabilistic sense. I wasnt using this “probability after the fact” version, t...

Well it depends on what you mean by probable I guess. Typically people use it to describe something that could happen, not something that did happen. ...

You can have rational reasons for believing the improbable. Its highly improbable that life exists on a rock floating through oblivion but none the le...

It can be perfectly rational to believe the improbable, you just need rational reasons for doing so. Whatever the probability of something, there is a...

Ya, you are still misapplying terms, trying to cram formal logic where none was intended or needed. Your objections do not apply to my statement. Nice...

Whats fallacious about that statement, because it isnt that its affirming the consequent. You are misusing that term in your comments, hence I immedia...

So for example if I justified lying to someone in order to save 1 million innocent peoples lives...thats a fallacy?

Right, using my phone so auto-correct got me in that. So you going to answer the question? It would have been pretty easy to make a pedantic correctio...

Hate to disagree with you again considering your gentlemanly response but I dont think your argument is void. I think there is some interesting things...

What do you mean by affirming consent?

This is actually just a reformulated way of saying the ends justify the means, so it doesnt work as an argument/premiss. This is your conclusion disgu...

Well youre no fun, I dont disagree with any of that. Rude ;)

Well then you have competing pursuits of happiness, and unless you want to embrace conflict then some kind of agreement between the people involved wi...

Ok, it seems like you have a different, more specific idea of what suffering is. You said suffering is what makes people want to kill themselves. That...

Well first of all I don’t think a world without suffering would be better, so I disagree with your metric for a better world. Some suffering is necess...

I disagree, I think that what he is interested in is preaching, not discussing. Ive watched him interact with others, and he doesnt listen or engage, ...

Lol, I know. How this doesnt count as preaching and against forum regs is beyond me.

Stop feeding him for christs sake.

Depends on the 3 year old. Generally I would expect there to be things... parents, siblings or friends that care for the child, most of the time even ...

Its not the assault on lifes sanctity, the crime is only heinous if the life has merit, otherwise I don’t really care. I think we are just using terms...

The things about that life that are worthwhile or valuable to society, for example a virtuous person, or a skilled person. This opposed to life itself...

Its the merit of life that gives it value, lives with no merit I dont really care about. So its not intrinsic. Id say the opposite.

I imagine my threshold for what justifies taking a life is below the average persons, perhaps well below. Rapists, pedophiles, murderers, slavers, sex...

Yes, if I had a good reason. Self defence for example.

That poster has been banned.

I would say something like joy or happiness has intrinsic value.

Ok, thanks.

Thanks for that post, appreciated.

Its hard to tell online when someones being lighthearted, its mostly interaction and experience that indicates when a person might be having a little ...

I did read the guidelines when I first arrived, but obviously there is going to be some variance in application between different mods, thats what im ...

Im not taking offence, and im not intending to argue so much as get clarity...as I mentioned to Baden the banning came off to me in a certain way. Any...

Right, you mentioned that already. My purpose in quoting those posts was to review them and perhaps clarify them but also to understand what it is you...

Well where do you think the intrinsic value comes from?

No, I don’t think so.

No, not really. I assume by religious purpose you mean purpose given by some kind of divine authority?

I think thats at least part of it yes. That is one reason given for the sacredness of life, that life has been endowed by god or gods with intrinsic v...

Yes, I know Badens stated reasons for banning the guy. I was asking you, not him. I was careful not to mix up his banning with your call to interventi...

Sure, Ill guess as to which posts you meant me to review, correct me if these aren’t the comments you are referring to. You said: “I looked through hi...

Its not a personal attack, and its not about Manson and the sort of batshit comment that Omni-guy made about him. Its about whether or not you think p...

Oh, well thats your prerogative, I was honestly asking if that was something you advocated. (Ok, like, 20% making a point as well.) I could see modera...

Ive already read it, I was following along. You were more than voicing your opinion on what he said, you made an implicit call for moderator intervent...

Im not trying to be difficult here but what is the relevance of what you said to the banning? Are you suggesting that he should be banned cuz he was b...