god must be atheist

I think "Altered States" states that gerrymandering voting boundaries can alter a state not only in its political geography, but also on the outcome o...

Your calling: inspirational speaker to kindergarten students, "This is what you could become if you take candy from the pushers lurking around school"...

Thank you, that'd be nice.

This, addressed to Appoloshit, is my precise feeling for him. Except you, Tim Wood, expressed it so much more nicely than how I will put it here. Apol...

Interesting view. There were three sons of a man. One was an atheist, the other, a theist. The third one was God. The atheist and the theist both were...

Saying that a line of reasoning lacks in an aspect IS critiquing. And critiquing is okay. But not when the alleged missing piece is in the original. T...

Don't blame us for finding the fault in your thinking.

I remember reading and debunking this very same post several years, maybe a decade ago. Old horse-sticks die hard. It's also hard to imagine the amoun...

Comprehension, on the other hand, and non-superficial reading skills, are very good to have on a philosophy website. What you said here I covered in t...

Jesus Christ. He did not even speak of nanodilation and complex flux of large molecules in a viscuous liquid. Even my spoof on the Holy Trinity has mo...

Yes, I agree. Not only for the general peace and well-being of the parties involved, but also so that you can join forces with those who have the same...

You come across as a control freak, whereas you probably are a kind, old, deeply religious man. But you expect others to do what you are not willing t...

True, that is an advantage. At the same time that it's a disadvantage, inasmuch as you can't rely on anyone else to follow the same ethics as you do.

Much less than you think. There was a relgion-related mass murder in Canada yesterday. A devout white Christian boy murdered four Muslims, for his own...

Absolutely not. Theists, Christians should speak that they abandoned their belief and think god is just a figment of imagination. What audacity! You s...

You're right. And neither does morality. I actually agree with the notion that ethics need to be developed for an atheistic world. And I deny that eth...

2) is false. Ergo, 3 is false. 1) is true, and so is the conclusion.

Maybe it's needed, but to no avail. America is the most Christian nation and it has the largest jail population in the known world, both in absolute n...

Why? Law in an orderly country like the USA takes care of the lost religious ethics. In communist countries the ethic dictates of religion were uproot...

"My honour is called expensive", direct translation. They assimilated some things from the Jews whom they aimed to eradicate: they bought Ehre (honour...

Blessed are the Cheesemakers, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

I shalt now endeavour to critique your opinion. Thesis: sometime the distinction that you so aptly described, between critiquing and criticizing, disa...

...which perverts everything, declared it sex perversion if your dik? is put in the wrong places. How wrong and how tyical of a christian to try to ow...

Welcome to the boards, SeaOfGems. Please be aware that we exercise here extreme criticalism. This is typical of philosophers these days. So please don...

And God, if the dude is religious. But God ain't tellin' no one.

yet many find it too easy, and that's why they practice it left right and centre.

So has "liberal" which is left-wing. Birds these days must have a tough time when flying. They use both wings.

Why do we dream? I have an anser that serves a functionality. I can't prove my claim, but it's easy to understand. I read somewhere that we can predic...

Thank you, Valentinus.

Also see Covid Shaman on "Ganja to Marijuana" (Ibid, The Atlantic, Nov 14-65, vol 23, issue 22.).

I admire the way in which you have understanding. What you wrote is completely incomprehensible to me. Interesting though, that this is what you call ...

I don't see how you could have got to that conclusion, aside from discovering that some logical statements are always necessarily true. Wait until you...

Very much so.

I don't understand this notation. there are only two variables, and one result. Why the four truth values? You are naming something or imbuing somethi...

How about this: I die, I see my body buried by mourners. Empirical evidence, slam bang on. What evidence of afterlife would satisfy a skeptic? I am a ...

I don't think of philosophy in terms of it - giving moral guidance - providing a template for living - teaching useful, applicable wisdom at all. Many...

ever been in a state of optical illusion, or normal delusion?

Either (1) everyone knows what morality comprises, or else (2) nobody knows, but they do know that it exists, they just don't know what it is. If (1),...

I think truth and knowledge is good for atheists, scientists and materialists, but it is detrimental to theists, Christians and the otherwise religiou...

On the surface I agree with you. The newest thought, however, and I described it in my same post, I don't know how you were able to miss that part, de...

Whatever processes our brains employ.

No; not phones. Not computers. They lack certain elements. But other switching mechanisms exist that supposedly developed consciousness. The fox. The ...

By the turing test. However, that's only verification; not proof. You can't prove that anyone else aside from yourself has a consciousness, either.

Because for wall we know, the brain is the house of consciousness; and it is nothing but a processor with processes and switches. Therefore another pr...

I think I got that covered in my analysis of arriving at my answer. If you care to read my answer.

This is why philosophy is called the slippery rock by Edie Brickell. If morality is malleable, that is, the parameters are what we choose, then the on...

This would not work. Any deviation from one's own moral code in your proposed world would mean to that person that it is bad morality. Since he, the i...

Interesting question. I suppose the question presupposes that people don't know what moral is; they just act according to what they think morality is....

Huge difference. In the pipes and water, much like in the human brain, there is a program, and the flow of water from the outside (data for the comput...

Youuuu... got it right, my friend. That IS correct.