Frank Apisa

Have a great weekend, Eric. I almost always do. I am a very lucky guy.

Obsess much?

Really? Well you ought to have done so rather than merely saying you could. That abomination of a sentence coming from someone who told me to be caref...

I asked: 1) Are there any sentient beings on any planet circling the nearest 15 stars to Sol? 2) Are there any things that exist on planet Earth that ...

You have a good weekend too, Amen. Everyone...have a safe, enjoyable weekend.

I addressed the attributes of omniscience and omnipresence…and you reply about omnipotence. Interesting. Read that sentence of yours over again…and re...

Already done.

He does seem angry, Amen. I suspect he is trying to bait me into saying something that gets me banned. Atheists do not like having agnostics around to...

I've explained that. You really should go to the shallow end of the pool, 180.

You'd be better off in the shallow end of the pool, 180.

Read the thread. I have given several definitions (all variations of the same thought expressed here) of what I mean when I use the word "god" in thes...

I have tried to figure out a way to say this nicely, but I really could not. You are full of shit, Sub. I've answered the question of what I mean by "...

You asked "Does 'it' exist?" I asked you what you meant by "it." There was no predicate for the "it." Still no answer. I posited, "A god?" And then sa...

Does what exist? A god? Beats the hell out of me.

Thanks for that. Now, if it is not too much trouble, please give me a coherent definition of both "coherent" and "definition."

It is, indeed, Amen. Few things I enjoy more than discussions with atheists...or atheists who describe themselves with some other word.

First give me a coherent definition of both "coherent" and "definition."

C'mon, Hippy. Let's continue to play. (Thanks for that comment earlier. I got the message.) I do have an answer to the god question...and I have given...

Okay, let me answer your questions. #1: YES #2: YES #3: I did not answer "NO" to either question.

I called in the world's foremost expert on Frank Apisa...and he corroborated everything I said. Everything I said was ABSOLUTELY TRUE. What more do yo...

Still going strong, Antidote!

You are really acting like an asshole, but even assholes deserve a response, so... You are asking me what makes "my agnostic claim" true: Okay...first...

I'm 84...and been considering my position for probably 60 of those years, writing op eds and letters to editors of newspapers and magazines for decade...

With a bit of reluctance which would take to long (a path too arduous to travel) to explain... ...I AGREE, Hippy.

It does...except to people who have blindly guessed that "reality" is what they say it is and have guessed it to be a model where the "do any gods exi...

Atheists tend to lose their cool very easily...especially when discussing matters with an agnostic. Oh well!

If it makes you comfortable to speak like that of someone discussing the subjects we are discussing...go for it. I want you to feel as comfortable as ...

Since the term was first invented, atheists have been trying to make their blind guesses that gods do not exist seem like something other than "belief...

The obsession...the worship part of religion is the part that always turns me off. Making a guess that gods were involved with how this thing we human...

There is MY AGNOSTICISM. You know what it is. I've stated it several times. Here it is again: I do not know if gods exist or not; I see no reason to s...

I am not having a difficult time understanding ignosticism. I have majors in economics, philosophy, and religion. Unfortunately for the kind of discus...

I realized what you meant, Marchesk. And I was not being a wise-ass. It is worthwhile to mention what many people do not realize, that in pure numbers...

I didn't say god...I said gods. I said I do not know if any gods exist or not. Neither do you. But, you have a bias, so you want to make the question ...

No. I won't even respond, because I know you cannot. No so-called philosophers before 1900 identified as ignostics. Nobody on the planet identified as...

Yes, most philosophers. Philosophers have been around for 2500 years. Name two from before 1900 who claimed they were ignostic. What are you talking a...

You mean the US would not do anything stupid like leave all its battleships vulnerable to attack at Pearl Harbor???

The problem with descriptors is that one almost always has to define what one means when using the descriptor. I occasionally use the descriptor "agno...

I agree with you, but my comment, "Plus the US military remains the largest in the world" only went to the question of "largest militaries"...not the ...

Ignosticism, in my opinion, is of no value...and seems for an evasion than a position. It certainly is not the position MOST (hardly any) of the philo...

China and India both have larger militaries.

Eric...not sure of what kind of game you are playing here...or why you are playing it. I see no contradictions in what I have said...here or in any ot...

If you have answered that question multiple times, Eric, you've not done a very good job of it. In any case, if you have answered it "in the affirmati...

Can you at least acknowledge the possibility that we humans, the dominant species on this nondescript rock circling this nondescript sun in this nonde...

You are engaging in the "when the facts do not suit your argument, pretend the facts are wrong." The facts are that the Bible says its god exists in t...

Not so at all. Certainly not through history. The many early gods were not that at all. Nor to Christians or Jews, for instance. You do not wrestle wi...

You have decided that the question "Do any gods exist or are there no gods" is an absurdity...of no value, Eric. I have no idea of why, but it is my o...

Well played, Banno! :wink: I had read the article earlier...and mulled over what was being said. As in so many things these days, lots of speculation ...

Do you mean for Americans...or for the rest of the world?

What is there to misread? Essentially, all I have said in this thread are variations of two things: ONE: I do not know if gods exist or not; I see no ...

Not sure of your point here. What does your scenario have to do with what I have said?