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Are morals particularly related to (a)theism in the first place, though? The likes of divine command theory and theological voluntarism aren't, they'r...

Brief retrospect: 2016: prior counts, Trump warns of rigged elections 2016: after counts, Trump makes fun of sore losers 2016: Trump says recounts wou...

Pollution. Even if treated with unjust heavy-handedness by the commies. Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of...

Hmm... What would non-individuated self-awareness be? Doesn't seem right. Maybe just consciousness without self-awareness then? Isn't consciousness co...

The discontent with the US Elite-versus-Commoner thing (and "the swamp" and "class divide" etc), aren't those issues related to US free enterprising a...

Some years back, I posted "Time and such" in the Metaphysics & Epistemology section. Seems to me that the block-verse (or eternalism) is incomplete in...

OAN represents the dark side of free speech. To be sent running with more free speech. Just so darn time-consuming.

Hm? Anyway, seems kind of odd that, out of millions of Americans, lots of cool people, Trump and Biden of all people would be the two candidates.

I'm sure there'll be lots more strutting and fretting, sounds and fury. ;)

Donald Trump supporters rock back and forth while praying for his election win (Jacob Henry, Metro News, 6 Nov 2020) Weird. Maybe some folk are just g...

:D

, does the following look right/wrong to you? 1. Trump lies and bullshits, followers don't hold him accountable, don't care 2. others typically encour...

I'm not sure how much it matters. Seems Trump has legitimized conspiracy theories. There's this thing, "in chaos all are equal" (or however it is), th...

Phenomenal Consciousness and Emergence: Eliminating the Explanatory Gap Feinberg and Mallatt Frontiers in Psychology Jun 2020 Ambitious

FiveThirtyEight's 2020 Election Forecast seems to suggest Biden. I'm not sure how good those models-simulations are, though.

What an odd thing to write, . Children suffering terribly and dying uselessly from cancer ain't good. Should we worry about you getting your hands on ...

Thanks for the response, , and apologies for the late response. Both wants and can, but doesn't? FYI, here's an alternate layout of the opening post: ...

, "the greatest good" is where the halls of Hell are empty and Heaven is sprawling with infinite souls? :) By and large, the universe doesn't care abo...

I don't think that makes much of a case for Yahweh, . :) If Yahweh created self-identity, then Yahweh would also not be Yahweh. Say, both all-creator ...

Explosive, . :)

, "children suffer terribly and die uselessly from cancer" is both good (Yahweh, 3) and bad (doctors, 4)? Seems contradictory. , objection to/affirmat...

Let me just add, the opening post is not itself an alternate rendition of the Epicurean problem. In a way, it's a response to "the greater good defens...

, ugh, "free will" is a can of worms. Wasn't there some parallel thread about that, at least peripherally, recently? I'm guessing that researchers and...

Doesn't that violate Yahweh supposedly insisting on "free will"? After all, the "free will defense" is used for blaming humans, Hitler, Manson, rapist...

In other news ... A B.C. research project gave homeless people $7,500 each — the results were 'beautifully surprising' Bridgette Watson CBC News Oct 2...

Not quite Caesar, but anyway ...

(y), the highlight of the quarrel. Trump interrupting again, and Biden saying :D Should be played every time Trump rambles?

Yep, your post refers to itself. Not inherently. It's just that, with self-reference, you have to be careful. There are some further implications, lik...

If I remember right, during the last election debates, Trump more or less threatened Clinton (on TV) due to something about an email server they had a...

If the button would give relief to someone suffering from bone cancer, then yes; the rest, maybe not.

Well, that's just ... LET ME BE CLEAR. I’M NOT IN COMPLIANCE. I’M IN DEFIANCE. — Pastor Greg Locke; Jul 28, 13m:14s facebook av THEY ARE TRYING TO SHU...

There's something more basic wrong here. Those folk in these conflicts are supposedly talking on behalf of an almighty, caring deity, that could set t...

What the heck is going on in the US? QAnon (Wikipedia) QAnon has gone from fringe conspiracy to full-blown cult (Julia deCook; openDemocracy; Sep 2020...

The Hotel doesn't derive a contradiction, it's not technically a paradox as such. But it does derive counter-intuitive implications. Oddly enough perh...

Capitalism is all about profit-maximization. For a company, that's often in the scope of the sitting board and shareholders, so a bunch of (living) hu...

I guess, technically, in logic/mathematics, proof is truth-preserving reasoning. But otherwise, a strong justification of something, perhaps meeting s...

Or culture molded Christianity.

Shaivism and Christianity are cultural phenomena. Culture isn't a Christian phenomenon.

Incidentally, some time ago, I was trying to do an analysis of some common mind-verbiage, like subjective - objective fictional - real voluntary - inv...

You tell me (everyone), , it's your story. Last time: show your alleged contradiction or move on.

People know about liar's, unrestricted comprehension, curry's, principle of explosion, presuppositional error, what-have-you, . Once more: The "atempo...

Nope, this: You keep bringing your car thing up.

Are you going to show the alleged contradiction or not, ?

= suicidal tendencies, yes?

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Suicide, then. Unfortunate either way, but not the alleged contradiction.

Nah, you stopped paying attention.

The Bible does say things about slavery, @"Gus Lamarch", just not the right thing. What about mentioned discrimination, females, gay folk too? Just ho...

Also, , there seems to be overlap between Ronald Hanko, Thomas Aquinas (? mentioned earlier), Ephesians 5:21-22 and 1 Timothy 2:11-12, for example. I ...