I see. We're back to the assumption that the way things seem to you must simply be the way things are. There's nothing to say to that. If you can't un...
Not wanting to repeat myself, but coming to respond to you here I note it's the same problem as I've just written about above. I think what is 'neglec...
I think something important to distinguish here is 'judging' as in being judgemental (acting harshly, ostracism...), and being free to interrogate a b...
It seems all we do is repeat. The right course of action in the 'task at hand' is determined by who you trust to deliver it. The two are inseparable. ...
What makes you think that's what I'm talking about (especially given my quite explicit definition)? It seems quite a stretch for you to take a fairly ...
Yes. You're describing a state of affairs (unless your claim is that you and only you are able to refer to the actual weather). I'm arguing that the s...
No. I mentioned (bolded for your reading pleasure). If not death (and death which higher vaccination levels could mitigate), then what problem are you...
As I believe the kids say 'well, duh!'. Yes. I think you're right, but I don't see such exclusion as z problem, rather the opposite, that if we don't ...
But I think one might be being created nonetheless, by invoking a 'special language' in which religious texts are written. If I read in Mein Kampf tha...
Yes. I see @"Ennui Elucidator" has interpret it this way too, so I guess that's my bad. I'm not attempting a redefinition of the word 'religion' (give...
I agree. Why would Christianity be our model for what a religion looks like? I'm not arguing that people must take the Bible literally. I'm arguing th...
None. You argued that the situation I described as 'fair' was not, in fact, the case. What's 'fair's and what's 'the case' are two different things. S...
Yes. That's clear from what you've already written, but since you're not the Oracle of Delphi we expect reasoning or justification for your beliefs. I...
Well then there's little point in continuing. I'm not here to act as straw man for you to interpret what I'm saying in such a way as to make a fun dec...
OK, I get that bit. ...but this seems to be just saying that if an observer recognizes that 1 and 2 are occurring then it's raining (because 1 and 2 l...
I don't think there is one. Not a clear one anyway. That's the whole point. You're simply assuming the way things are is they way they ought to be, th...
There seem to be a number of common threads in the responses I've had (plus some of the posts not directed to me), so I'm going to try and sum them up...
I don't get that from it. I don't see anything in the presentation of the problem that excludes Christians from joining in the dissection of it. On th...
Oh absolutely. But here I find these struggles are presented as segregated from ours. We can't understand theirs, they can't understand ours. The poin...
I can't make sense of this. The right 'feeling' is love and compassion (as if it isn't also for the non-religious!), but later you say they "believe i...
No. I don't think it makes any sense at all for statement to be 'in accordance' with a state of affairs. States of affairs are causes of our sensation...
I was trying to estimate the line you were drawing with... All, I've been trying to do this whole time is get what you think the properties of a worm ...
and others... So, I'm going to come out and say that I don't think Christians, by and large, actually believe the things they say they believe. I thin...
I have tried (and tried, tried again - as per boy scout instruction), but I'm afraid I can't make head nor tail of what you've done there. Any chance ...
From 'Determinants and Consequences of High Fertility' - Robert T. Lazarus, Professor in Population Studies, Department of Sociology, Ohio State Unive...
Possibly, by way of a bridge, I think the difference being expressed here does not require the 'just'. It is sufficient to carry Lewis's concerns that...
It might surprise you then to learn how mercurial neural networks are. The concept is known as redundancy and degenerative architecture (or just degen...
Maybe. I'm not trying to draw a line here, I'm trying to establish the line you want to draw. The type of thing/process 'intention' is reserved for. Y...
I think that's true, but they must have some ties into the world, else what are they by little antigonish's? They need coherence, implication, consequ...
Yes, I think that's perfectly coherent. It's just not how I think language works. For me, there's a difference between something which we can't be 100...
Yes, indeed. Did you notice how I avoided using the word 'narrative'. I think I've grown. I'm going to start at the end... Faith in what? Faith that G...
I define 'conscious' (earlier in this thread, even, I think) as a process of logging certain mental states to memory. So I think I can be functionalis...
True. I hardly think that's a fair summary though. Is it. How do we know they're 'bad' people if the arbiter of justice must be divine. If we abdicate...
We don't know - people are barely doing it because we've been sold the fantasy that the vaccine will save us like some Disney prince, so there's barel...
Rarely, in my experience. They mostly use it when they disagree with the other person and they think the other person ought to believe what they thems...
I don't read either the article, nor @"Banno"'s OP as an attempt to 'understand' why Christians think they way they do. We could invoke upbringing, gr...
So clean the environment. It's quite simple. SARS?CoV?2 is killed quite easily, most anti-bacterial wipes will do it, soap and water, just time with U...
Nor is this just an American thing. The UK government have recently approved the roll out to children against the advice of their own Advisory committ...
So who would you want as pandemic manager? The government? A little query for you (and any other nothing-to-see-here, business as usual advocates) to ...
Interesting, thanks. I've run into a lot of trouble for lack of a full grasp of just how many different ideas there are of what 'belief' means. I've b...
No, the above pretty much covers it. It sounded too much like the 'other' option was part of the decision-making process, as if it's likelihood (or la...
I meant 'conscious of...' Not that you couldn't ask the same question there too, but I'm really just trying to get at whatever distinction you're appl...
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