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Some emotional responses here. Maybe I should have posted it over in the sociology section. Of course killing infants is repugnant, as held by most be...

Blocker here, but here's a live performance, that's not blocked here at least (Canada, per se): https://youtu.be/XPpCRAQdkDU

Beat this. Well, Mozart perhaps, but contemporary (no, Satriany doesn't quite measure up). Amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Vki76x-EU

Rock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrAfrV-sCvM

Right. And so, going by such faiths, presumably the killer ends up down below, and the infant up high. Or something. :D As an aside, euthanasia has co...

Let me repeat: nowhere have I claimed it permissible. On a satirical note, here's The Onion on the topic: God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule

I do not. Consequences of breaching "permissible" extends to the killer alone in this case (surely not the infant). Consequences to the infant (if the...

, you're hand-waving. It's not about definitions, but about what people believe. In case you answer "yes" to the question, you've affirmed the killer'...

As per above: ... of which there are examples. Note, though, it's not me calling it "heaven". It's part of the faith system. How much sense does it ma...

There's a simple question involved, going by said faiths: If an innocent child is killed, then will they go to heaven?

Going by the tenets, the argument extends somewhat beyond infant age. Might go by some notion of innocence, or mortal sin or other passage to hell. (I...

As an aside, ISIS have displaced 100,000s of children. :( The examples in the opening post are not imaginary deaths. Anyway, children are easy victims...

Not sure how much there is to define. The tenets are just common beliefs, like taught in Sunday school. Source: Christianity (Wikipedia article) Sourc...

Very basic... Heaven (bliss with God), hell, innocent children, eternal souls, ... Hinduism (or some flavors thereof) is different if memory serves.

Ehm... Suppose I was to proudly proclaim "there was snow on the peak of Mount Everest last Wednesday localtime". What, then, would it take for my clai...

, by all means, fill in the blanks, take a ride down the indefinite path of the diallelus.

By Jove, no. Already had some. Big mistake. :) Apologists are busy trying to marrying science and religion; some theists are busy trying to deny evolu...

Isn't that what apologists try to do? Quoting your Catholics link, underline emphasis mine: Some theologians seems to be trying to marry up science.

Sure, but it does have impact. ‘He had to die,’ accused mother tells police in son’s killing Coverage of the Kimberly Lucas case Pastor's wife dressed...

Something I'm sure many are aware of, that seems troubling to me: Pence, Trump's right-hand (vice president) nominee. I'm going by Pence's stance on a...

@"Hanover", since you seem a staunch proponent of the cosmological argument, I hereby invite you to partake in the discussion: http://thephilosophyfor...

Oddly enough perhaps, we've actually received email spam here, that more or less slanders Obama, others that rave on about gun rights, yet others that...

In my experience many have had epic experiences (including me). :) I can't tell what colin's experiences were, though. Except, strongly emotional it s...

Good to hear that you're feeling well, colin. The expressed certainty ought to warrant some caution and some attempt to minimize bias, though; especia...

Right. I guess contemporary cosmology will have it that temporality is an aspect of the universe. So, where causation (among others) is temporal, caus...

:D Will Donna Summer (1977) do?

I'd be interested in any objections to the objections, that hence finds this peculiar argument (deductively) sound.

Maybe. I don't think the argument intended zero-dimensional "moments", or a particular quantification, as such. It was given to me in a much less form...

A quick observation: If we argue from Big Bang models, i.e. extrapolate to a definite earliest time, then other infinites just show up instead, infini...

I apologize for any poor wording. :) Let me try adding details, some of which go one way, others another: 1. if the universe was temporally infinite, ...

There are some extrapolating arguments from evidence that the universe was not temporally infinite (e.g. Big Bang models, entropy, the Borde-Guth-Vile...

Sample objections: A more accurate conclusion (sequitur), 5,6, is that now does not have a specific (whole, positive) number. And that would be the ca...

"The universe seems a little less lonely today." The Universe Is 10 Times More Vast Than We Thought Nathaniel Scharping; Discover Magazine; Oct 2016

I guess "every soul is a world apart", if you will, because self-awareness is sort of private? I don't experience your self-awareness, you don't exper...

, does that mean Platonism holds...?

Not a whole lot of objections to the attempt at letting abstract numbers fall back on the more concrete world. :-/ The diallelus applies, whether you ...

I know of Ramanujan. Studied some of his mathematics many years ago. One of my (several) heroes. There are many known (child) prodigies in all kinds o...

Hilbert's Hotel says differently. ;) It's called a paradox, but it's not actually contradictory, it just has counter-intuitive implications.

One of the intended discussion points. Where does it go awry? I suppose a conundrum is that I (or whomever, doesn't matter) take abstract numbers just...

Indeed, there isn't anything stopping us from doing serious research. Why would there be? Such research may even be fruitful, who knows.

I'm not you, you're not me, the two of us may chat about the number 2. With the opening post I tried to account for abstract numbers by falling back o...

It seems @"apokrisis", we have a situation where you could just pretend to be me, and have at it. :D Please go ahead. You mentioned something about re...

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Where do you see naïve realism, @"apokrisis"? (I'd ask the cows, but they always chase me off the field, and don't carry a cellphone.)

A fictional law firm. Err... The terms just refer to epochs and changes over time as per the model. Lots of technicalities. Many years ago things were...

Reminds me a bit of 1984: ··· /uploads/files/xn/pce9n13xwhx9wcke.jpg — How many cows, Thinker? The quantity of cows seems real enough to me. Surely th...

Right. I tend to agree. Seems @"Wayfarer" does as well. But maybe @"Barry Etheridge" doesn't? I take it you're not a Platonist @"Barry Etheridge"? Per...

See that fellow over there? /uploads/files/op/jwffanpn7qnwzf5s.jpg If you were to answer "that is 3 fellows", then I'd likely wonder if you were drunk...

Please note, Big Bang is not the assertion of a zero-dimensional singularity of infinite density and temperature, nor is it the assertion of a definit...

The above definition of abstract numbers falls back on the more concrete world. Whether or not it works is perhaps up for debate. Multisets or hypothe...