My kids will believe that they can make it out of their predicament. They will have faith. The future looks bright because God takes care of us. That ...
With confidence and self-discipline you can overcome the demons of your past. If only you believe that you can, and have faith, you can emerge victori...
I wonder how many months per year you need to live in the USA so that you can still keep receiving your disability benefits? In fact, the paying gover...
Atheism does not affect your immediate capacity to reproduce. It is a longer-term process. Religion gives both spouses a common moral system. Absence ...
As a general rule of thumb, the more expensive the food, the more it has been processed, and therefore, the unhealthier it is. That is why poor people...
They have the wrong idea on what it would cost because they have never done it. People who have never visited other countries, other continents, or ot...
To the extent that unhappiness would be some kind of mental disorder, I think that you can tremendously increase your happiness by moving outside of t...
The two most important things that religion brings to the life of the believer are in my opinion: (1) confidence (faith, motivation, optimism, resilie...
The Torah, i.e. the source of written Jewish law, is considered a holy scripture in Islam, on the same basis as the Injil (Gospel) and the Zabur (Psal...
The existence of sexes is considered to be a biological matter related to reproduction: Concerning the existence of exactly two sexes, we are talking ...
Well, how am I supposed to know? It sounds like another long investigation ... You see, some countries have access to special revenue, such as royalti...
Because I can. Because I do not really, actually advise on religion. I am just a user of religious theory. I do not seek to discover new theorems, bec...
Voluntary charity ("sadaqah") is not mandatory. Therefore, according to Islamic law, it is perfectly legitimate to limit one's charitable contribution...
In this context, I have looked up the following information: Historically, the original scriptural interpretation was that the ruler had an obligation...
At the moment, we do not even have a definitive jurisprudential advisory on what exactly entails from the scriptures on this matter. Therefore, any co...
Well, unlike what Stephen Wolfram seems to believe, I do not believe that it is (generally) possible to discover a syntactic entailment from the found...
Yes, that is how I understood it. I was thinking of unilateral charity payments to the poor and/or needy. That amounts to scanning the entire scriptur...
There is no endless list of mandatory unilateral contributions to non-kin third parties that rest as a burden on the believer in Islam, if only, becau...
As you seem to be interested in particular details of Islam, I was simply referring you to religious scholars who will be more than happy to answer yo...
I am not the right person to ask for an in-depth ?ukm (?????) on jurisprudential matters. A good site to ask for this kind of jurisprudential ruling (...
These beneficiaries are not the wider society. We obviously and clearly distinguish between people who are kin and other people who are not kin. That ...
It is debatable if not being "cruel nor hard" needs to be counted separately as a contribution to society. Furthermore, it is not a one-sided thing. Y...
In order to get arbitrary people to provide you with goods and services, you will have to pay them with money that you received for providing other ar...
First, there are the first principles of morality. These basic rules allow us to reason from first principles, and discover theorems in the formal sys...
Where exactly is modern society's morality documented? One reason why such society does not want to document it, is because they want to keep changing...
I do not particularly care about the undocumented views of so-called "modern society" on the matter, if only, because I do not consider the lack of do...
I used to think like that, but in the meanwhile, I have corrected my point of view. As far as I am concerned, you are allowed to "impose your will upo...
In the SE Asian country where I live (or the countries where I tend to live), there is just a very small "psycho industry" that revolves around dealin...
This is rarely the case. It is certainly not the norm. We do not often have to make decisions in emergency situations. I cannot remember when I last h...
Humanity has never fought as lone individuals. From the dawn of times, it has always been group against group. Individual fights ("random violence") a...
Was the report originally sponsored by Westinghouse? Quite a few of that kind of alarming reports are sponsored by corporate interests. "For the sake ...
There are questions for which it may not be possible to verify that the solution proposed is indeed the solution. In that case, why would anybody feel...
Believing someone else only makes sense if it is possible to verify that his solution is indeed the solution. If it is not possible to verify that it ...
You can use provability to verify how the truth of new theorems in a theory depends on the assumed truth of the theory's basic sentences. Yes, agreed....
I still agree with George Orwell. The term "democracy" is a meaningless word primarily used to fuel an entire agenda of dishonesty. There is indeed a ...
One way in which it can work, is to (arbitrarily) declare particular basic sentences to be true. Next, all sentences that necessarily follow from thes...
Democracy is a scam. The true nature of the word alone, says it all. So, they want a better school to better train professional scammers, as if there ...
I consider economics to be an ideology. We already knew that because the Soviet Union had their own completely different brand of economics. If it is ...
I guess that this a point on which we may disagree somehow. We (quite) often need other people to discover knowledge for us -- e.g. to what medical co...
Whatever that may be, it is not the manufacturing cost of the chemical molecule that we are talking about, because in the greater light of things, tha...
The cost of producing drugs is not in manufacturing: The manufacturing cost per unit produced in pharma is very much like for software, books, music, ...
I was talking about tools to verify the paperwork of a claim. The ideal is something like Coq, but it only works for mathematical paperwork. Furthermo...
What would there be wrong with e.g. Coq? It is an excellent tool to verify mathematical theorems with their proof. It is clearly the benchmark for mec...
Where is the paperwork for the first product and where is it for the second product? What products exactly are you comparing? If you think there is so...
Trust in doctors has plummeted by 75%. What can be done? As far as I am concerned, it is obvious that there are very good reasons for a healthy distru...
I go to a doctor. However, depending on what is at stake, I do not just blindly trust him. Here in SE Asia, their services are affordable enough to as...
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