Frank Apisa

I like that idea, Frank, and agree with it. But there are atheists INSISTING I am an atheist, despite the fact that I say I am not. They are insisting...

Correct me if I am wrong on this...but didn't you say "adieu" to me in this discussion? What are you doing here?

I dispute that. Who gets to decide what "the proper usage" of the word is? Atheists? They have a dog in this fight...and I am not willing to give them...

Name the single one item you want me to comment on...and I will do so.

Yeah...see ya around. But I gotta congratulate you on the John Paul II thing. That was big. I also served as acolyte to the Primate of England in 1956...

Hey, Proof. I understand that Catholic thing. As an adult (over 60 years ago) I had the pleasure of serving Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatica...

I like describing my position, although sometimes it saves time to use the label, agnostic. Here is my take on the question of gods: I do not know if ...

No you are not...you are being condescending...blatantly so. But I have cooled down, so I am going to over-look it and in fact, I offer an apologyfor ...

If you are going to be thin-skinned...I won't bother.

Bullshit. I will go into more detail later.

I've got to leave right now...I have an aunt in intensive care that I have to tend to. But I just read this...and I suggest you get off the condescens...

Whoops...here you are again. I was correct above. Anyway...I thank you for your respect of me. I thank you for your respect of my position. I could no...

Out of courtesy for you, I will agree that you are an asshole...but I am not a theist of any sort. Sorry you made that mistake, but considering your i...

One...I am not confused. This is a topic I have discussed with very learned people for decades now. Two...if you are saying you are an agnostic, but d...

Sounds like part of this was satire. Not sure how much, so I'll just leave it be. You seem to think their is a dichotomy that breaks down to "either t...

I respectfully disagree. Babies are very much the perfect agnostics. Not only do they not know...they don't even know they don't know. As for how they...

I would call him/her..."a person who 'believes' it extremely unlikely that a God of religion exists." I would not assign a descriptor...unless there i...

Sorry you feel that way, Tim, but thank you for sharing it.

Sorry, but I have no idea of what you are talking about here. Assume I am stupid...and dumb it down if it is important for me to understand your posit...

First of all, thank you for continuing the conversation, Dingo. Gonna just deal with two things you mentioned here: One...I do not want to be defined ...

Are you saying that there are no gods?

I agree...hence my feelings that the words "atheist" and "atheism" are useless as descriptors.

An "atheist" is a person who either "believes" there are no gods...or who "believes it is more likely that there are no gods than that there is at lea...

You are correct. It would. Which is almost certainly the reason that debating atheist decided to change the definition of "atheist." They wanted to av...

Interesting sentence! Interesting way to start a conversation..with what amounts to a gratuitous accusation. Its etymology does clearly show how it wa...

Democracy is s seed. Anarchy is what happens when it germinates and grows. Too bad, that!

A large problem with "democracy" is that as people get the additional freedom that a democratic styled government allows...they start to want more and...

What anthropological legend is apocryphal?

The problem that arises for me is...IF "infinity"...why do we only look at things for "here" out infinitely (whatever that is). IF truly infinity...th...

That is interesting...and I have often wondered about that kind of thing. But I suspect it is a lot more complicated than that. If an ancient had 5 he...

Well...I think Trump's actions with regard to Biden IS evidence of his fear of the man, but I agree so completely with your last statement about Trump...

Now you are just being silly. Either explain yourself...or establish your assertion as a fact. If you persist in asserting "it is so simply because I ...

Well...you may not be bored...but for certain you are not telling it as a fact. You are asserting it...and you have that right. But unless there is so...

A "wealth tax" makes sense to me...although I would exempt a fairly large amount. And while praxis is correct, the laws can be written in a way that p...

Was Dingo correct? Are you just bored?

One...you are not Trump, Maw. Two...if you were, you would be terrified of Biden...JUST AS TRUMP IS. Three...Bernie stands for many of the things I se...

Actually, it doesn't. Here is the entry: Solipsism (/?s?l?ps?z?m/: from Latin solus, meaning 'alone', and ipse, meaning 'self') is the philosophical i...

I'm not going by polls...but rather by the inference of just one man...Trump. There is one person in the Democratic Party campaign contingent who obvi...

We would, indeed. I suspect they own a lot more of us...than appears publicly to be the case. And what "appears publicly to be the case"...is already ...

Actually, I can (and do) agree with that. My position on the issue you raise is: There are defects in the kind of capitalism that now is the norm in A...

Why are you saying that solipsism denies the existence of other minds? Read your definition (I've seen others which I consider much better)...and noth...

Can we be certain of more than just our existence? My impulse was to answer, "No!" But I realized I was certain of that...so the answer must be "Yes."...

It is not a fox...it is a pig. Yeah...there's been lots of lipstick applied to that pig... ...but it is still a pig.

I am NOT on a space station...which is the reason I used the conditional subjunctive mood "if I were" in my statement. I am here on Earth...seeing the...

I think the Democratic field is not weak at all. And when compared with the Republican "field"...it looks positively powerful. I do agree that Trump h...

Allow me a loud AMEN! To each his/her own, but it is beyond me how any intelligent person can even consider voting to allow Trump to continue the carn...

Great response. The kind I was hoping for when I posted the questions.

Thank you, Sir. I gotta say that I laughed out loud while reading your great response. We do love 'em!

Ahhhh...so this is what they mean when they say, "We are here discussing philosophy...and religion." Son-of-a-gun!

From what I see here in the forum, "a justified belief" is a "belief" being described by the person offering it...and an "unjustified belief" is the o...