faith and belief in god is not evidence of god; it is the evidence that some people have faith in God. From this realization, the rest of the argument...
Yes, W-s are pronounced "double-u"-s. You got it! I tried to illuminate that two u-s are not the same as double-u-s whereas theoretically they are the...
This is a fascinating summary of the influence of Greek culture of early Christianity. I find it a bit not quite misleading, that would be too strong ...
Been single for the first 60 years of my life. If I had to summarize relationships between singles, then the only or rather, the major criteria is thi...
Ah, well, then, we shalt dwell on the obvious from here on. How is the weather over there, Jamalrob? And how 'bout them 'Mets, huh? (Big grinning smil...
Honest to goodness, I came here just now to say I must be losing my mind, because I've followed some religious threads about the life, work, and legac...
Very interesting way of looking at the historical Jesus. I don't resonate with your ideas, but you should not read anything into that; I am not a man ...
My bad. I don't know history. I failed high school history five times. I can't memorize dates, names, etc. So i gave up all efforts at one point. So G...
Brave and noble goal. I tried to read the New Testament, and got to a point a few times, where they started to quote Jesus, like when he goes out to s...
"Right in the land of the Ice and Snow with the midnight sun where the hot springs billow... " - Led Zep: Immigrant Song. Led Zeppelin originally had ...
99.7 percent of Canada's landmass is NOT covered with GPS navigation. It is covered, instead, with SNOW. Satellite Navigation Over Western (Hemisphere...
Right. Airdrop of beer. "It's raining beer!" Of course... it's not two-to-the-left, one back and one to the front, but two to the left, one to the fro...
I am impressed by the opinions of Foolso4 and Olivier. The martyr angle that evolved from a failed messiah story. Brilliant -- so by the ancient Jews ...
He suffered. Martyrs are supposed to die, for a cause, and Gandhi did not. True. But he shamed some oppressors with the suffering he imposed on his ow...
Oh, there is so much more to Canada. - Curling (an ice sport. More boring than baseball.) - paintings of pine trees. - toukes. - people bundled up to ...
I personally agree. He, however, did not exclude the possibility that the laws of nature as established by human scientists are right on. Maybe that's...
1. The Maserati. You expected a Lamborghini. 2. He was 4'5". 3. 4. He misspelled "you're" for "your" as he spake to you. 5. He asked others to take ca...
That's really bad for me. All I got is money. Nothing else. Just money, money, money, and nothing. I am sorry I can't impress you with my dollars. Bot...
They may be only an illusion, but they may be the illusions that correctly describe the world. Wittgenstein did not prove the illusions wrong. He mere...
You're right. That was totally stupid of me. Do the other two examples stand on their right? I can't tell from here. I can't fathom the depth of my ow...
"...how to interpret it." Interpret it. It what? - the conclusion - information content - universe - perspective - zero - this (what ever "this" is) I...
I should have thought that the proper verbatim translation of original expression of the English word Tank for armoured vehicle in German is Grabensch...
I just calls them as I sees them. I don't have a dog in the fight. Or maybe I do; I am an atheist. However, I have spent an entire lifetime as an inte...
Why would it be ethically problematic to spread it around, to other persons? Ethically it's a good thing to show that good things in history turn to b...
1+1 is 2. This causes 2-1 is 1. However, 1+1+1 is 1 has caused a great amount of bloodshed in history against and by those who thought otherwise: the ...
The Quantum Theory created by pure reason, advanced math and highly intelligent atheists, and with absolute lack of evoking supernatural forces in its...
I agree. Further to your thoughts, I would like to offer this: In the entire history of mankind (social, societal history) all good ideas eventually t...
Inflation is the key element here. Not just of the doll. One woman I dated used to plant cucumbers in her garden. She had an English garden, with all ...
I'm going to say something that is obvious, but everyone likes to ignore it, because it renders their pontifications null and void. In other words, I'...
I hear ya, I hear ya. Butt!! In Hindi, the Hindu religion, the main gud inspired his parents to move to some city or area where they should give birth...
I don't have much to say about the subject, except that what caught my eye was the fact that the term "Jesus Freaks" can be interpreted two ways: frea...
Suppose god did not create this word, but another god did? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/7848/about-this-word-agnosticism-and-its-derivati...
I so totally agree with you, Zebeden. My take on it is that god is a psychological archetype, present in all humans. Atheists, too. You never have to ...
If the android has free will, like it is said in the opening paragraph, then its will still can be subjected by subordination to its creator's will. I...
The android wife can satisfy her husbands needs -- and an android husband his wife's needs -- without all the trimmings that makes the android conscio...
I had published one article in two versions here as a thread. Since you referred to the article as mine, I thought you meant the one I had created. Th...
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