Tzeentch

I agree! Let these "modern" feminists withhold all sex, so they may die alone and childless, lest men will be free to pursue sexual relations with tho...

Scriptures say many things, but there's a lot of debate what the role of scripture is within Christianity. When you go back to the earliest writings a...

I had already taken it into consideration.

I disagree. I'd say women have benefited disproportionately to the weight they've been pulling.

Of course it's not!

That's all projection. When positive qualities are attributed to one sex, it doesn't follow that the opposite sex is devoid of such qualities. That's ...

I don't agree with this. Or is the fact that the Virgin Mary, a symbol of purity and virtue, is female also oppressive to men?

This says it all, really: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlRkLtKqSrY

All is relative. We could be living in the subatomic particles of another world, for all we know. It reminds me of this famous scene from the Simpsons...

"The Master of all who Know". That title strikes me as sarcastic. Men like Socrates and Plato questioned man's ability to know. If this is what they c...

I haven't read much of Seneca, but he never gave me the impression of being cold or disaffectionate. Mind sharing the passages which lead to your view...

You're entitled to your opinion, but I don't think this is true. I haven't read all the Stoics; only Marcus Aurelius, and the man is very clearly fill...

Neither Plato nor the Stoics tell one to erase emotion from the mind.

I think hate is a natural response to that which makes a person feel vulnerable. Like any emotion, I think it is neither good nor evil, however, like ...

Yes we are!

I made this more complicated than it needed to be by inserting the word "personal" infront of morality. I'll try to state my thoughts clearly; In situ...

I'm not sure why you used the word "values" here, which I find more related to personal preference and not to morality.

This isn't entirely fair, since the articles that were linked question the premise I have shared. But if the wish is to debate on Zimbardo's scientifi...

What is? The premise that human behavior relies a lot more on circumstance than it does on personal morality? I don't think that's up for debate. I th...

I don't know about the latter part of this sentence, but as for the part I underlined; History provides that image of human nature. Zimbardo tried to ...

"The appeal of the Stanford prison experiment seems to go deeper than its scientific validity, perhaps because it tells us a story about ourselves tha...

The climate has been changing since forever and no amount of hysteria is going to change that. Similarly, doomsday rhetoric has been around since man ...

Then its implications were missed. The article seems to take issue with the "Zimbardo-narrative," which I understand to be the narrative that claims o...

Hmmm.. I think delusions are actually destructive towards happiness. Delusions don't make one happy, but rather ignorant. Ignorance is a sort of limbo...

What these attacks seem to miss, is the fact that these experiments sought to better understand events that had already happened. They didn't seek to ...

I am not against euthanasia, but this gives me a very uneasy feeling in my stomach. Moreover, it seems like a slippery slope to me. Firstly, who decid...

I'm still waiting. And do come with something tangible rather than insults and opinions.

I disagree, but this is a different topic. Well, this is a mess. Firstly, gullible, plausible, reasonable, are all subjective terms and cannot form th...

If the difference is so obvious, please show it to me. As far as I am concerned, in both cases one is reading words and choosing to believe them or no...

If you think it's so absurd, you probably haven't deliberated upon the subject enough.

What's wrong with you?

Well said!

It depends on how far you go back. Reason-based thought on the topic of morality and its causes isn't unique to modern thinkers. Buddhists, Stoics, Py...

I'm not missing the point. I'm pointing out that the OP is generalizing things that cannot be generalized. Such is bad practice, for it carries a mess...

The idea of God as a supreme moral authority and Satan being the cause of all evil is 'something common to most/all religions'? Really all its common ...

For the love of.... Could the people of this forum for once stop talking about this monolithic "RELIGION" like all the world's religious and spiritual...

I disagree. Some have helped me greatly. On the topic of CCTV; righteousness in thoughts and action constitutes a good man, is what Marcus Aurelius wo...

I think we are straying from the point. My point is that whether one reads a religious text or a historical text, one is believing written words. What...

Yet, many history books contain inaccuracies, politicized sentiments or even indoctrination. History is written by the victor; a common axiom. Thus th...

Some, maybe. Certainly not all. Simple example; China claims Taiwan and the South China Sea on the basis of her historical empire. That has nothing to...

I didn't really understand the point you were trying to make, but if you boil it down to this: History is filled with people willing to spill blood ov...

I put more value in my own observations and personal experiences. Statistics can be (ab)used for anything, and as a result I'm rather skeptical of tho...

Do you consider there to be a difference between believing religious scripture and believing the text in a history book?

100% of the Christians I have met in my personal life.

I voted no, but this comes with an important caveat. In these sorts of discussions it is usually assumed that the belief that is being questioned must...

That's not what I am saying. What I am saying is that when one is looking for a definition of God that most of the world's religions, etc. can agree o...

Nebulous is what one will get if one seeks a general definition of God. It is what most of the world's religions, philosophies and spiritual tradition...

I think it is very concise. What do you find vague about it?

No, you are right. The majority of persons never put much thought in what they believe in. Therefore their conceptions are mostly flawed and uninteres...

The source of being. Surely, if we ever come to the conclusion that there is a being or consciousness that created existence, the question whether it ...