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I like this quote that someone had on a forum in their signature: Ubi dubium, ibi libertas not that I know any Latin, but I know how to google...:)

funnily enough when I reach these positions after a lot of thought and taking myself way too seriously, I do find it intensely satisfying. To realise ...

I presume you mean the question 'what is the origin of evil?'...? Well lets say that maybe I should have used the word 'suffering' instead. What is th...

part of the assumption that there is a god, is that you can place that assumption anywhere, ie the assumption also logically that you are not dealing ...

how about this deinition of 'exist': Locatable. does Edinburgh exist....is it locatable? Is any game of chess not locatable...?

how about this definition of 'exist'; locatable. Does the truck, I saw this morning going along the main road exist? Is it locatable? Under that defin...

I steered clear of omnipotence.

In this thread, we are debating a hypothetical reality, based upon certain assumptions/axioms. We are arguing about a model. It isn't supposed to be l...

I don't think it matter in an argument that is based upon the assumption that there is some kind of god.

well perhaps for the sake of argument, we could replace 'suffering', for 'evil'. If I try to define 'evil' I will only base the definition on sufferin...

but if the source of the universe and this world is God, then why is it built in? surely it could be possible to create a place of living without suff...

As I said I don't believe completely objective positions on reality are possible, they are always subjective. Therefore there can be no objective defi...

well I have no problem with that, but let us assume he is not error prone, and doesn't make mistakes...where then do processes of evil come from?

yes, right...I don't think there is such a thing as complete objectivity, there is always subjectivity in our perception, but take the experience of p...

I dunno; you tell me.

Well I personally think the God hypothesis is fine. If you start from the position that there is a God, and that he is the source of reality, then it ...

so in this frozen state, what actually would be experienced? If you died with a clock in the room, that clock wouldn't move.....seems as though there ...

what seems real to me, is things like pain. direct experience, which may be hard to deny. Night dreams are similar to being awake; they seem to have s...

What if say there is a mathematical problem, that doesn't have a proof, like the Fermat maths thing years ago....he was said to have written a simple ...

no I don't believe I am being naive. I know people can be corrupt at all levels, from a second hand car salesman to the king of NewYork, or whatever, ...

I believe that a lot of systems are emergent. They start off somehow, and evolve; evolution being one of the emergent processes. Life starts at a poin...

when I think of art, I think about the context it is made in. If made by humans, you have an artist who is a product of his upbring, his physiology, w...