Frank Apisa

Be uncertain. Nothing wrong with it. Try not to jump off buildings because you are uncertain that gravity always works, though. Richard Feynman used t...

What perplexes me is anyone who cannot see that if one has not established a thing as IMPOSSIBLE...it is at very least...POSSIBLE. You continue to con...

Do you have a point? IF a person wants to use "believe" rather than "blindly guess"...it is fine with me. One has the right to do that. It is my opini...

I do say that. I don't think they are. To me...when a person says, "I believe (in) god" I think they are actually saying, "My guess is there is a god....

No. If you cease living, you are not immortal. That was an even worse analogy than the other nonsense. Calm down. Stop being so bothered by the fact t...

Suppose the title of this thread used "guess" rather than "believe." It would read: We Don't Want To GUESS - Because, If We GUESS, Then... Now what in...

Brian... ...I do not do believing. I do guessing and estimating and supposing and things like that. But I do not do "believing." If that troubles you....

Banana...I do not EVER say "I believe...ANYTHING." I do not do believing. I do guessing and estimating and supposing and things like that. But I do no...

Keep expanding. You haven't gotten wherever you are going yet.

No rabbit hole. Interesting topic...not a rabbit hole. Precisely. That, in essence, is my point. If a person is making a blind guess that there are no...

What is your fucking problem? I have never expressed dissatisfaction with people who use other terminology. In fact, I expressedly said it was okay wi...

A person saying, "I believe X"...is a person doing "believing." A person saying, "It is my blind guess that X" is a person doing "blind guessing. If y...

You originally said: I'd saying, NO it isn't.

No it isn't.

I never said or intimated that a "belief" has to be certainty. In fact, I said that in some cases, it is nothing more than blind guessing being disgui...

If you want to call a rose a rose...do so. It is what I would do. If you want to make a blind guess and call it a "belief"...do so. You have a right t...

Some people guess mindreading is possible; some guess it is not possible. Both are guessing. Gotta wonder why they don't just call it guessing...rathe...

If you want to pretend you guesses are not guesses by calling your guesses "beliefs"...do it. I don't.

Brian...what do I have to do to spell this out for you? I DO NOT DO BELIEVING. I do understanding; guessing; supposing; estimating...and all that kind...

Could be. If they are guesses...we should call them guesses. If they are "acceptance of experience"...we should call them "acceptance of experience." ...

Yeah, I do. I call my convictions...my convictions. I do not disguise my convictions by calling them my "beliefs." Yes, II do. I call my frame of refe...

Mostly, our "beliefs" are nothing but blind guesses which we call "beliefs" so that we do not have to acknowledge they are merely guesses. I do not do...

I do not do any "believing." If you are asking it that conveys my opinion...it does. Why would it not for you?

Whether gods exist or not...is not influenced or impacted by whether or not the species known as homo sapiens knows...or even suspects it. Gods either...

Oh, fuck. And you gotta be the one to spot it. I (everyone) should check each post before actually posting it. My bad.

So... ...it remain POSSIBLE that you may be able to walk through walls. You are confusing "what is"...with POSSIBLE. Get off it. You are too intellige...

Clear as mud. There is no such thing as "maybe" in this equation...because anything that is "maybe possible" IS POSSIBLE. YES, Janus...unless one can ...

Al most EVERYONE reads what they want to. Nobody forces people to read things. That is what you do...and it certainly is what I do.

Sure you can ask your question, but I see it as a rather strange question! Like most (like everyone, I suppose), I read what I want to read. You do al...

A question if I may: Are you suggesting that YOU get to decide who the "stuid and gullible" are? If not...how will that be decided?

I'm not. I'm saying we agree. You seem confused. Sounds to me that if I asserted that 2 + 2 = 4 in base ten...you would disagree in some way...albeit ...

Well...that was a rather jerk-off way of handling that. We aren't in disagreement. You acknowledge that any of those things are possible...based mostl...

So what are you saying? Are you actually implying that anything we humans cannot determine...CANNOT be classified as possible? We do not know if there...

The place is a delight...especially compared with some of the forums out there. The moderators and contributors here are all doing a hell of a job. I ...

Now...the second part. The title of this thread is: "What if one has no opinion on the existence of the soul?" That excited me. It was using "opinion"...

I really hoped we could stick with just one thing. But...to accommodate you, I will reply to one holf of this here...and take the other half to a seco...

Oh, shit. You do not know how to read with comprehension. My bad. I thought you did. Maybe we could discuss TV shows. Any five year old can think of t...

I am not trying to entice you anywhere. We all have an idea of what a "soul" is. Use any notion you choose... ...and unless you are telling me that pa...

You are correct. And my answer would be to disregard the use of a word or descriptor for the position... ...and simply state the position. I just do n...

I do not know what a "soul" is...nor do I give a rat's ass. It is SOMETHING. And unless you are saying that SOMETHING is impossible... ...it is POSSIB...

I didn't disregard it...I mentioned it. It matters not what it is for the purposes of what I said about "it." ASIDE: I'm not nuts about some sushi, bu...

In your case, I seriously question your specific definition of "atheism." Atheism means so many things it is virtually useless as a descriptor...but t...

I do not know...is more than an opinion. It is the unvarnished truth...without attaching a guess. In any case, why in the world would anyone doubt the...

It would also be unnecessary. Why in the world would anyone doubt the POSSIBILITY of its existence. Of course it is possible. If one does not grant th...

I like the title question of this thread...using "opinion." I had high hopes for it. But it, and the responses, quickly devolved into more of the "bel...

No need to dispute you in any way at this point. You agree with me. Unless a thing is established as impossible...it is possible. We are in agreement....

The problem is that a thing that might be impossible...IS POSSIBLE. That is the meaning of the word. Until it is actually established as impossible......

You do tend to suppose your guesses about things are correct. Whether the universe happened as the result of some design...or just happened... ...the ...

The chances of Devans reading the exact words he is reading right at this moment at exactly this instant of time... ...are probably about a quadrillio...

We certainly agree on this, Relativist!