RegularGuy

I am not interested in the abortion debate per se, but are there not facts in criminal cases and laws broken? It seems that that is analogous to moral...

Do you have any pets? If not, I might recommend getting a six week-old kitten. It would rely on you for all of its needs would grow to love you and yo...

Is that humility coming from a Randian? There may be hope for you yet! :)

hahaha! It’s been a long time since I heard that.

Magic mushrooms. Seriously. They’re doing research on it for depression (at Harvard I think) and it seems to work wonders.

I am an INFP personality. It sounds like you may be as well. The number one recommended occupation for someone with this personality profile is poet. ...

Exactly

You’re 20 and just discovered Ayn Rand, and I made the mistake of taking you seriously yesterday. lol

It sounds like you may have clinical depression. Have you thought about seeking help for that?

Well, I don’t have a problem with atheism qua atheism. I do have a problem with atheists telling me what the meaning of life is and that faith that Go...

That is a case of a Christian fundamentalist. Faith isn’t the problem. This is what Christian Scientists believe. Faith that God exists isn’t the prob...

I shouldn’t have been a dick to you. My delusions of reference at work. You may have a point.

If the purpose of life is simply to live, then it doesn’t follow that people can’t have faith in some things. How is faith in God, as in believing tha...

Your conclusion that life has an objective meaning doesn’t follow from the premise that we have reason. That God doesn’t exist doesn’t necessarily fol...

A sound argument has true premises and a conclusion that necessarily follows. You have miserably failed to argue anything.

erik2 has seen hard times. We have not. He has grown into an enlightened individual. We have not. Now if we could only get him to learn proper spellin...

Ayn Rand would hold the billionaires as virtuous, not some young buck who just read “Atlas Shrugged” for the first time and thought he was one of thei...

Well said

Just what we need: another asshole on the forum. Except this one worships Ayn Rand as well.

This sounds like a “only the strong will survive and prosper” or “only the strong achieve happiness” voice as opposed to a “the gentle will inherit th...

Just wondering what category you are because from your previous comments, you seem to have this voice as well.

A lot of people have an inner fascist, a voice in their heads. Some people absorb that value judgment as something to live by, some get beaten down by...

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut.

Shit on the floor! Lol

I’m confused. What is the contradiction? That something can exist outside the universe? Obviously you never saw “Rick and Morty”. Rick created a mini-...

Other universes could be outside our universe. Angels are just inter dimensional beings. God is a programmer(s) who created our simulated universe to ...

I believe I can clear up some confusion. S is saying that “God exists” or “God doesn’t exist” are metaphysical issues. You are making them epistemic i...

S and Terrapin Station are right. You haven’t made your case, and I’m afraid there is no rational argument based case to be made on matters of faith. ...

Maybe. I’m not sure. AJ Ayer only accounted for the necessary a priori (analytic truths) and the contingent a posteriori (synthetic truths). Kripke ad...

If the actual world determines everything, then all actual states of affairs would be necessary truths. But we can still speak of counterfactuals some...

All this. It’s difficult for me to parse.

Forgive me if I am misunderstanding you, but your language and grammar are difficult for me to follow. That’s probably my fault, not yours.

The possible worlds thing is just a modal logic language game. You shouldn’t take them as actually existing literal possible worlds. It’s meant to hel...

Like I said, the laws of nature are stipulated or assumed to hold in all possible worlds where Noah exists.

All what seems like hand-waiving?

Kripke holds that something is necessary if you can’t logically conceive of it being otherwise.

What do you mean by “accessibility”?

If by accessibility you mean that they are human life supporting, then they are possible worlds. If they are not, then the meter stick wouldn’t exist ...

Possible worlds are stipulated. We stipulate the counterfactuals. So, we would have to stipulate that the laws of nature are the same or different.

I fail to see how any of those things would improve my life (and I should include the caveat that it shouldn’t harm others as well). Believing things ...

I don’t believe it because I wish it. I believe it because I can’t imagine why matter should form into life and become conscious without God. And I do...

And what do you know about truth?

I don’t have to opt for the pleasure machine. I’m not a miserable lout. Lol

You refuse to try. You can always try. I’m not asking you to try, though. I couldn’t care less about assholes, God bless them! Lol

It depends what you mean by “reasonable”. I believe it is reasonable to believe something that improves your life. If being a skeptic improves your li...

I have yet to pin you down on any belief, as you refuse to give one. If or once you do, then I’m sure I can show it is a matter of faith. If the jury’...

Whoah! Whoa! I NEVER argued that there were sound God proofs or irrefutable religious arguments. I hold that religious belief is a matter of faith, bu...

What I am saying about String “Theory” and M “Theory” is that they are no better than me saying there is a universe where I am king of the world. My l...

Furthermore, internal consistency in mathematics may not refer to anything in reality. M theory may be mathematical fantasy.

No. They are unprovable, untestable hypotheses. There are no CONCEIVABLE experiments to test their validity. This was not the case with the Higgs Boso...