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December 27, 2016 at 20:31
Yes, no doubt about that.
December 27, 2016 at 20:11
Not understand what?
December 27, 2016 at 20:03
Conservative in the sense that it was spreading itself and keeping with the spirit of other religions of the time, looking to gain adherents and have ...
December 27, 2016 at 20:00
I don't explain philosophy to them, I just get them to talk about their beliefs, pose non-aggressive but inquiring questions, and so forth. People lik...
December 27, 2016 at 19:52
Well I did take tendency in an absolute sense, but apart from that I guess I would question that conservatism (or at least my conservatism) prefers tr...
December 27, 2016 at 18:09
I love this Chinese wisdom! Thanks! (Y)
December 27, 2016 at 18:08
The only way to keep a white post white is to, every now and then, repaint it white no? If you avoid change, you're not conservative at all, ultimatel...
December 27, 2016 at 18:06
How did you arrive at your social conservatism? But CH wasn't a social conservative for sure :P
December 27, 2016 at 18:04
You *may* (but I would dispute even this) be correct about Christianity, but Judaism and Islam were conservative from the very beginning. Although bot...
December 27, 2016 at 18:01
I don't follow why social conservatives are restricted and progressive liberals aren't. In fact, it makes no sense at all to me. Both are equally rest...
December 27, 2016 at 17:57
But so it is with everyone. This holds for progressive liberals too - they can't suddenly be anti-gay marriage and still be progressive liberals...
December 27, 2016 at 16:12
Okay, how does Joe form a belief in God? He tells others that he believes in God because God has spoken to him. If that isn't so, why doesn't he give ...
December 27, 2016 at 15:35
Sorry but such expressions are totally foreign to me. It gets right? How can something get right? Something may BE right, but GET right? Yes I agree. ...
December 27, 2016 at 15:16
First of all I struggle to understand this sentence - the atheistic belief HAS right?? What the hell does that mean? And it does follow - because it i...
December 27, 2016 at 15:03
That implies atheists created religions because the folks who have created religions were the educated - those who could, first of all, write, and wri...
December 27, 2016 at 14:52
Atheism being true obviously doesn't mean a lack of belief in God is true. It means there is no God.
December 27, 2016 at 14:39
Lack of belief in God.
December 27, 2016 at 14:16
I am saying that if atheism is true, then atheists created religions. Head over to a website like Quora, or Reddit, and so forth, and you'll see most ...
December 27, 2016 at 14:14
Okay, but then why are there so few atheist social conservatives? Because remember, the few back in the day religions were founded, who were in power ...
December 27, 2016 at 14:01
Okay, but if they did issue such decrees, and religion itself is a myth as atheists claim, then it follows that they never issued such decrees for rel...
December 27, 2016 at 13:55
Okay, if so, why is there a statistical correlation?
December 27, 2016 at 13:43
What does a "like" button have to do with philosophy? Is philosophy a popularity contest?
December 27, 2016 at 13:22
Well most people think I'm right-leaning too, but that's because I'm a social conservative, but I support left-leaning economic policies (anti-corpora...
December 27, 2016 at 13:15
>:O sorry man but you're quite a funny one! No i don't appeal to a "field". Have you studied quantum field theory? What we call particles are really t...
December 27, 2016 at 01:12
Yeah the particle behaves spontaneously. So what? That doesn't mean that it's uncaused. It is caused, because something, namely a field, produces that...
December 27, 2016 at 00:00
You don't understand what uncaused means. Uncaused means that there is no particle there even. If there is a particle there, then that particle has a ...
December 26, 2016 at 23:54
I think the first one is quite useful since it separates the economic aspects (right vs left) and the social attitudes (authoritarian vs libertarian)....
December 26, 2016 at 23:51
Maybe... I'm reluctant to say it is metaphysical. Practically it seems impossible.
December 26, 2016 at 23:38
Yeeeees >:O just like at any point I may become Bishop of Rome! No, they are necessary. The world couldn't be otherwise. This world couldn't. Maybe so...
December 26, 2016 at 23:16
Okay :)
December 26, 2016 at 23:14
Well, all that the free-will theorem proves, if anything, is that quantum mechanics is indeterministic. That isn't to say that it is acausal. Science ...
December 26, 2016 at 23:12
What about the second law of thermodynamics, the only theory in physics that has never been questioned - the so called arrow of time? :)
December 26, 2016 at 23:05
On a theoretical level sure. But on the practical level no. We don't calculate as if the behaviour of individual particles mattered. We deal with glob...
December 26, 2016 at 23:01
The gas laws model the behaviour of the gas as a whole. To model it as composed of particles is to be able to take into account what each particle doe...
December 26, 2016 at 22:50
Yes and no. The theory behind it is modelled as particles, but the behaviour of each individual particle isn't used to determine the behaviour of the ...
December 26, 2016 at 22:34
Yes but in reference to different things. For example, in reference to radioactive decay, since the atom is the main actor, we take the constituents o...
December 26, 2016 at 22:19
I think there is. In Plato/Aristotle, matter is the raw underlying material, and form is its structure, whether this structure is given by its shape, ...
December 26, 2016 at 22:01
Yeah that is a significant difference I think.
December 26, 2016 at 21:53
Yeah - and I never scored heavily on the Right either in the past when I took it. And never heavily authoritarian or heavily libertarian. I did someti...
December 26, 2016 at 21:40
John, I always knew you're a communist at heart! >:O
December 26, 2016 at 21:28
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December 26, 2016 at 21:26
How do you post image links?
December 26, 2016 at 21:21
Where do people think I stand? :P I will post the result soon... My result will shock and surprise! :D
December 26, 2016 at 21:12
If atomic structure is the material cause, then what is the formal cause? Material cause is the raw element something is made of. Formal cause is the ...
December 26, 2016 at 20:19
Maybe you intended something different than you wrote, or maybe I don't know how to understand English expressions - doesn't really matter to be hones...
December 26, 2016 at 20:10
Give a specific example.
December 26, 2016 at 20:08
That's because you, like other physicists, are using muddled up notions of causality. I've explained for example, how radioactive decay, a phenomenon ...
December 26, 2016 at 19:43
Have you forgotten you wrote this? So science mostly models in terms of mechanistic (or in Aristotelian terms, efficient causation). This sentence mea...
December 26, 2016 at 19:35
Wrong. Formal cause is still "how". The atom's structure is its formal cause, and it is part of the how with regards to radioactive decay. Your notion...
December 26, 2016 at 19:32