god must be atheist

Capitalism is akin to previous economic systems inasmuch as it exploits the workers. In economic terms it is called "screw the crew." Then there is th...

I don't mind admitting I'm wrong when I am. I wish more people would act on their similar sentiments when appropriate.

You're right. I was wrong. I stand corrected.

What's there to elaborate? You said that the gospels are pauline. There are no other gospels. So where does one get Jesus's teaching? Not from the bib...

so... we have no clue whatsoever what the real gospel is, the gospel written by those who witnessed Jesus. We have the Pauline gospel, and nothing els...

I read somewhere by a great thinker, whose name I did not memorize, who said, "Philosophy does not need answers. It needs a cure." Maybe it said "Phil...

I think you're right. Also, some countries (very few, maybe just one) has zero or negative growth rate, due to economic reasons. Hungary. There is a t...

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That is the million dollar question. Well, there are two ways that we can address that issue: 1. Declare that Xtrix was wrong in his or her assessment...

No, it is not hard. Inasmuch as an idiotic opinion, as wrong as it can be, is not hard to understand, either. A myth and an abstraction are a fantasm ...

Tate, please consider this argument which I have already presented, in so many other words, as a response to Xtrix's well-thought out argument. If the...

Excuse me? How is overpopulation an abstraction? People are real. Their numbers are real. Their increasing number is a fact. Then you say that it's a....

you yourself said that 7% of the population is responsible for 50% of carbon emissions. Now you say that the 7% is responsible for 100% of carbon emis...

"Those things" are lack of enough arable land, water use, natural resources. So... tell me, if overpopulation does not cause the shortages of water, a...

Then wait a bit, and it will become the biggest problem, if population growth continues. It is not only the carbon emissions that the overpopulation c...

So it's tricky reading in a simple form. I get it now. It is not REALLY simple...only the form. Right on.

Absolutely!! Absolutely!! I couldn't agree more. But it's not due to the lack of their own inner awareness. It is due to their abhorrence over the app...

NO, it is not at all clear, but only if you use your own head to think, instead of getting utterly impressed by some rhetoric that appeals to you. I s...

Personally, I don't know any humans who lack inner awareness. It is indeed hard even to imagine a human without inner awareness. I don't think this is...

Yes, the natives normally welcomed the European conquerors and conquistadors, until the Euros started to eat their food they stored for the winter mon...

Without pretending to offer any true criticism, I think this sounds a bit quantum-mechanic-ish. The simpler the writing is, the more difficult it is t...

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So why can't books be written on this? That's A. B. is that ethics has no formal definition. It can mean morals. (Many subscribe to that.) It can mean...

I don't agree that it's a valid application of Aristotle's rule of the difference between actual and potential. The infinity is there. The only reason...

I would like to re-address the issue of the OP, expressed in the title: (What is the) The Largest Number We Will Ever Need (?) I'd say one, if all oth...

I think the Maya ethics consisted of waging war until both parties bled to death. The Aztec ethics involved people being murdered ceremoniously to ass...

I liked your opening post, Benkei. Immediately I thought this: We, humans, and all energy-consuming things have lived off sunlight-energy since day on...

This has so many practical verification as many practical denials. Empty statement, lacking wisdom. But it is with wisdom that the followers fill it w...

God is used among many things to support ideologies, and as such, it can SUBSTANTIALLY support an agenda. This is a very useful use to use. That's why...

What's wrong with that? Luckily, god exists or not, totally beyond the number, opinions, and fervency of believers scatter'd around on our globe and i...

This is not true. Or else I don't understand what "cardinality" means. I know now what Powerset is (thank you very much, by the way, for the clear and...

sorry, guys, I just stated the obvious, in the same words, too, that had been just said, so I deleted this post of mine.

Okay, even if we were to accept your rather weak argument, that it is figurative, it is still a myth. You can't go around that. Whether it's figurativ...

The bullshit I described here above is the backbone and the only and last refuge for the faithful to believe the Gospels.

Woo, hoo!!! You can't judge a man's utterances two thousand years later as to the intent behind the words. I reject this notion you made. If you accep...

I go by the directive that what the Gospels say are not necessarily falsification of what Jesus said, and by your statement, that Jesus declarations a...

So there were at least three Jesuses. I buy that.

i get you. That said, what did Jesus say? Please, no cherry picking now saying "this is truly said by Jesus, that is not likely said by Jesus". I go b...

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Since Jesus insisted that the myths he pushed are real, he MAY have been a lunatic or a liar. I dunno.

Lewis did not give us much choice. Lunatic, Demon from Hell, Liar, or Lord. God was not one of the options (Lord means feudal superior in my books.) W...

I have to agree with you on those although a bit reluctantly. But I can't raise an intelligent argument against it, so I accept your position.

There we go.

if we become something else, we are something else but humans. And like I said, I go by the title. The title clearly states the set of salient things ...

Human beings are predicted to die out at the latest when the sun becomes a Red Giant. Whether we would escape the confines of the Solar system by then...

I actually can't see the UNIVERSAL advantage of unifying objects and terms of measurement. Sailors still measure velocity in knots; Americans still me...

True. But we are talking "we". Supposedly humans. That's what I'm sticking with. Computers are not humans. Salient, conscious beings, wherever they ar...

I think it follows. Everyone needs numbers. One of the numbers one needs in a lifetime is the greatest number. This applies to everyone. One of the co...

I simply went by the thread title.

Same here. The possibility exists that god exists. Despite all probabilities that arise from what we (as a species) know.