I want to bring this post in play because I agree with it. https://www.google.com/search?q=countries+surrounding+afghanistan&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS926US926&...
He is very well informed and makes good arguments and he really makes me think. There is a thread about what we want from philosophy and he gives me e...
No, we must NOT stop at observation. For so many reasons we can be totally wrong and the link I posted is an excellent explanation of that. Please, pa...
That seems like a distorted history to me. Christians destroyed the pagan temples that were places for studying math and medicine and they clung to Je...
Your account of history is not the same as mine and I rather we stay on good terms than be right about a different account of history. But I think the...
In a trial, this is done by calling in many witnesses and questioning each one of them, and a jury of peers listens to the arguments and then debates ...
Excellent comments and Olivier I want to highlight your use of the legal term, "beyond a reasonable dought". However, Janus, you immediately made a Bl...
I thought long ago it was agreed we can not trust what we think we see and our experience of the same thing may not agree. Just because we think it, i...
Apollodorus 2.5k ?Athena 1. If none of those religions are superior then it seems pointless to talk of "Islamic Golden Age" vs. "Christian Dark Ages"....
I was concerned that I was straying out of the limits of philosophy but philosophy does draw on all fields of study. However, the discussion today has...
Yes, but voting with our feelings instead of a deliberate attempt to understand the choices, does not lead to a healthy Republic and it puts our liber...
You do not think gravity is what holds things to the earth? You don't think we have day and night because the earth turns? You don't think plants and ...
How could any one of these religions be superior when they all are based on the same supernatural beliefs including a humanized god and supernatural b...
Yes, there are reasons for things being the way they are and science helps us learn the reasons. The number of reasons is unimportant. There are many ...
Let's see can we check the logic of what you said? If you ignore information that you asked for, can you be well informed, or might it be necessary to...
Do you think knowledge of logos, reason, the controlling force of the universe, is connected with moral thinking and democracy and liberty? As I under...
I know there is far more I do not know than what I do think I know. I do not have a problem when a person does not know something, however, when someo...
It is not just about Trump, but what has happened to our nation. A huge portion of our population is voting emotionally and is lead by people intentio...
I did not mean to post before completing my thought. And the comment about sanity was a reaction to someone else's posts. Thinking emotionally driven ...
Thank you. I am glad to learn. How should I have begun this discussion? Do you want to start a better thread for looking at the importance of being ab...
A librarian would put it on the fiction shelves, not the non-fiction shelves. Would you mind stating how older you are? I am betting you were educated...
Well, maybe we would be done with Covid if Trump had not dismantled the department that was about preventing or at least controlling pandemics, and ma...
That is a scary thought. That means talk of the gods is factual and that does not sit well with me. I do not think that is good logic. I think it is p...
Oh yeah, the West did loose its Greek and Roman heritage, but it was regained during the renaissance and this ended the Dark Ages and we entered the E...
I have enjoyed your post and I do not want to ruin that because we disagree about religion. But I am troubled that you are attacking one of the God Ab...
:gasp: You must be a citizen of the US or maybe a member of the Taliban in Afghanistan? What is your understanding of democracy if it is not understan...
That sounds good to me. However, if we want to be precise we might clarify the time and place it is raining. Unless we are talking with someone in the...
I very much like your explanation. If I understand you correctly apples are not oranges. Some of what we say is factual and not everything we say is f...
Is a story about a god walking in a garden with a man and woman and that this god cursed them because they ate a forbidden fruit, a fact? Please expla...
Because I have some understanding of scientific thinking. Your post is not following the rules of a good argument. If you want to argue the man in the...
If we can not walk through a wall, there is a reason for that being true and that truth is very unlikely to change. Here is a cute video explaining wh...
It works like this- If someone says don't drink the water because it is polluted and if you drink it you will get sick and may die, and you observe th...
Now things may be making sense to me? My brain is overheated and I am going for a walk. I found a book on my shelf that will help me know more about A...
What is a metaphysical mutation? I am adding information I just came across because of Schopenhauer's post. I am still not sure of what metaphysical m...
Oh dear, we don't usually disagree and I am uncomfortable with this. If the Southern government had made racist laws and protect racism as a way of li...
:gasp: Are you being sarcastic or is that what you really believe. If that is what you believe we have read different books. What can people do when t...
For me, what is important is if the person can perceive the necessary information or not. That is different from having the capability to perceive inf...
I have to stress- the word ignorance means to ignore something. I do not think people intentionally ignore facts that mean we will survive or we won't...
Determinism But quantum physics has proven uncertainty. I think that is a fact that makes a previously accepted fact wrong. What we believe here has s...
Oh no, that could not be because I was born a little over 9 months after the end of the war and my birth certificate says that year was 1946. However,...
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