Agustino

Yes but it is his Mercy which saves you, not his Justice, which condemns you. There's a big big difference there. And being saved only works once you ...

Yes, and even more than that, in chess, and especially in reality, there's is no "best play". No series of moves that are guaranteed to win, no strate...

Ah but that can be turned around so fast. Perhaps lack of belief in God is there in order to make the consequences of our sins less frightening. Perha...

Don't you find it funny though that he thought he disproved idealism by kicking a mental rock with a mental foot? >:O

Well in the sense of truth that you use in this post, then certainly not. Certainly, but think about it ... politicians on all sides of the interested...

And what have you gained from doing all this?

Maybe, but that's mercy. They certainly don't deserve it, which is what I'm claiming.

Yes, I agree to this. Yes. Evidence shows that belief in sports and competitions plays a major role in determining the winner or the one who performs ...

Preferably I would seek forgiveness before such a time. But if push comes to shove, I don't have another alternative. I would beg for forgiveness like...

>:O Not really. Believe in the false proposition, and your entire army may be wiped out. Doubt at the wrong time, and again your entire army may be wi...

Yeah, too bad the wager was never an argument for belief in God ;)

If someone married you just because they believed they'd score a home-run doing so, would you appreciate them? I wouldn't. I may marry them if it were...

Chess and poker. When I was 14-16, mainly Starcraft. I loved strategy games the most. Even now, I guess you can consider poker and chess as strategy g...

Possible, but I wouldn't bet on it. But I don't think belief in God per say is necessary for salvation. Even an atheist can be saved - it's more about...

In fact, I would compare deathbed conversions to someone who, say, joins a war supporting one side because he stands to gain from it rather than becau...

Rational it may be - but certainly believing in God only on your deathbed is cowardly, arrogant, presumptuous, and lacking in integrity.

Yeah, me neither for that matter. But I tend to have firm positions on issues. It's interesting how there are some members, even in such a small commu...

>:O What do you mean haha? How do you remember Cavacava? I don't remember him as ever having very strong positions, more like someone who liked to exp...

Also note that his deathbed conversion has been disputed apparently, according to this Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens Reg...

Interesting summaries of quite a few Skepticism refutations below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xehTcQeqDWs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cKyPeD...

I would pray and prepare myself to meet my maker. I would be angry - if I had the strength left to be angry - to see everyone around pessimistic and s...

That's not true. I've been training in martial arts for many years, mostly in Wing Chun, but also in Tae Kwon Do, and Aikido from the Far Eastern ones...

They differ because the majority of people don't care about truth and morality. And therefore, the majority cannot be convinced by truth and morality ...

Yes, if you like and appreciate people who say what's obvious, certainly. But what's obvious is never all that interesting in the first place to me.

LOL me too but my work is slow today (and this week, since clients are already wrapping up and going on Holidays, and I've postponed a project till af...

But who said I am sacrificing truth? I am still driven by truth, except that I recognise that many others aren't. So I don't seek to convince those pe...

Yes I know. So what? Everyone knows what Banno said. There's nothing worthy or great about his comment. That was self-evident.

My understanding is that he threw a bone, to let the dogs fight. The truth may emerge from the fight. Yes his post isn't fair. He's throwing you a bon...

You're mistaking the reasons I want the Left to fall, for the manner in which to bring about the fall of the Left.

What about someone like me? I freely admit that I am biased against the Left and use all weapons in my arsenal against them. I don't agree with everyt...

I say that because I, for one, haven't come across such a text. Or if I have, the text excluded exactly the most important pieces of the puzzle - as i...

I don't see that here, to this guy. You may have covered it some other place, but not here. I've covered it many times, pretty much rehashing what I'v...

Oh yeah, why don't you start with some definitions ;)

Yeah, too bad that most of you don't ever tell anyone and explain why it is easy... :-} I find this despicable. He's bringing a fairly reasonable quan...

Some philosophy (perhaps most of modern one) has failed, but that doesn't mean that all philosophy has failed. And skepticism hasn't won at all. Yes t...

Indeed - there was a remnant of the Greeks left in the Middle Ages, which almost vanished after Descartes - except for a few exceptions like Schopenha...

Yes he did bring an end to the scholasticism of men like Aquinas, however, he took philosophy away from ethical concerns, and down into scholastic con...

>:O Yeah sure labelling it a certain name surely makes it intelligible For example it leads to my spiritual well-being - but HOW it leads to my spirit...

No that's not the point. The point is that the computer behaves in an entirely intelligible manner, while Kasparov's mind doesn't. The real point is t...

Yes indeed. I have found this to be my relation to many of the Church rituals and practices.

Is this for real? Is this for example about deception: Explain this to me please. The act may be intelligent to me, but not also intelligible. For exa...

How does this follow? Nietzsche and me are challenging precisely this - that something has to be intelligible in order to be intelligent. I disagree -...

Intelligent doesn't have a special philosophical definition. Intelligible on the other hand you could claim has - it follows a logical structure. But ...

Intelligible is something that makes sense according to the prevailing worldview/culture - in other words, an action that others can understand. Intel...

Sure - many people in fact lose because they win the wrong battles. That's what immorality consists in. Winning at the wrong time - that's acting immo...

How is it deception? Why is it that an action is deceptive if it's not intelligible? It's deceptive only for the person who expects and demands that y...

I agree. Your point is very similar to the point I'm driving here: http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/819/the-unintelligible-is-not-necessarily-...

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Perhaps you meant INTELLIGENT, not intelligible. Take Donald Trump. His unintelligible actions had the intelligent...

When else is intelligibility useful?

I've read just Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes. My point is that Descartes took philosophy in absolutely the wron...