god must be atheist

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An answer that is true, and delineates the answer for the listener from every other truth that are answers to different questions from the asked one. ...

I would give up everything** and find my path to enlightenment. (**) Everything except the 2,000,000 or so gorgeous women of at least of age of majori...

Can you name them? I am only asking because I heard many preachers say, "I've met many such and such that said such and such". I think it's a rhetoric...

This is a good answer. On our level, yes, it works. But on a creationist's level, one can say that yes, there had been X amount of energy available to...

I am replying to your original topic. I think you have just right now invented a new area or branch of philosophy, "the philosophy of interest in phil...

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Yes, that's one difference all right. There are other differences, too, but this is one of them.

Here's a quote from a Christian scientist: Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), the founder of a now well-established religion known as Christian Science, in ...

I don't agree with this, and I can't prove it it's false. But the proponents of this sort of thinking can't prove that it's true. It is purely up to t...

And rightly so. Physics is science. Metaphysics concerns itself with things science can't explain. Hence the word, "meta-", which means, after. It's n...

You raised some excellent points. 1. Impossible vs something never occurring. A thing that never occurs is not a matter of interest. Whether because i...

I think you can work it out from here.

Yes, quite a few. Your brain. Your cell chemistry. Your gallbladder, kidneys and liver. etc.

our expectation has nothing to do with laws. Our laws are based on fulfilled expectations, but our expectation in and by itself does not a law make. H...

This is not true, I don't think so. The law of habit is not a law of causation. It is simply a recurring occurrence, much like every other law has rec...

That's what they told the rest of the world. I they did that, there would still be 500 million Chinese, or fewer. Now everyone who reads this thread k...

When the two kids get born, then the two great-grand parents die. When the two kids have two kids, their grandparents die. When the two kids who had t...

This is not a feeling, my only true friend. My remark was a reasoned opinion. There are no feelings involved in there at all.

I shan't even try to add anything. This is perfect as it is. I especially love this sentence: A finite existence cannot accommodate an infinite number...

Mww, you must use more care with the quote function. Your way of using it attributes to me YOUR utterances. That is not only sloppy, it is misleading ...

Why not? You come out with these cockamamie declarations that 1. don't make sense 2. don't have any reference and 3. don't have any proof. If we follo...

But an omnipotent being can make a non-doable into a doable. Otherwise he or she is not omnipotent. An omnipotent can do a round square, easily. You g...

Since when? This you declare categorically, without any proof or attempt at it.

I never let sex wander out of my head. If it goes out, I make it promise to be home by six.

What you described in the OP, Vicomte, is interesting in several aspects: 1. god rises from its own ashes like the Phoenix. 2. God feels he has nothin...

This is paralleled by a section in Scott Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe", where he talks about a planet that is surrounded by the dusty sp...

there are some... have fun. Philosophy should be named Funosophy, because we don't do it for the love of it, but for the fun of it. Socrates very much...

If you go back, I did point it out to you that this is the wrong question. Much like asking "how manieth infinitely small point is the end point in a ...

Exactly. You are absolutely right. But to get the point, as it may be, across to you over the hurdle of pedanteria, you had better accept that the two...

I am losing patience, which cost me once my professorial career. (I kept on screaming at my students.) You're right. And this is why I paraphrased it....

Is it doable to move any amount of weight? Yes. Is it doable to create a weight that is so heavy that it's not movable? Yes. So if the perfect thing c...

I actually said, if you would kindly check, that an infinite number of years passed, not an infinite amount of time. I understood this question by you...

If you have trouble understanding a simple English word, then my teaching you the meaning of "passed" may have some dire difficulties. If you need to ...

I would venture to assume that if you can conceptualize five years that have passed since a point in time, then you can also conceptualize one year pa...

I did not say "It happened since never." I answered your question. Which part of "infinite number of points each of which are between two consecutive ...

By "an infinite number of years that have passed" I meant "an infinite number of years each of which came after another". If you want to pinpoint the ...

Yes. The gift I expect is that you refrain from posting for a month. :-) -- don't take me seriously, please.

you are using it as a noun. You used it as a noun when you quoted Kant. I wish to know how the two concepts in Kant's definition are described: infini...

That is not a valid question. Much like you can't say, "what year will time end?" A question or statement with "since" implies a point in time. The be...

Who decides what everyone truly deserves? A perfect decision maker. The perfect decision maker also makes the rules of how to decide things. In this s...

Well, our difference is that you differentiate between two infinities, whereas I say if you define it one way, and you define it another way, it's sti...

Many know, manier don't, that to believe is stronger than to know. In my opinion human knowledge is based on belief. Not religion or in faith in god, ...

you're right, I agree and I simply acted as a spokesperson for Don. I don't agree with his position, but you asked for a transliteration, and I simply...

I would like to return to the op because I find Kant's argument fascinating. Wrong, but fascinating. There are two ways of thinking about infinity: so...

I think you are using an equivocation. There is the concept of soul-life; and there is the concept of bodily life. The two can be and are believed to ...

If you are after real possibility, any evidence is sufficient, or even the lack of evidence is sufficient, as the possibility, both real and unreal, a...

Where did you get that? It's simply not true. You certainly exist; I certainly exist; we are one and the same? Then how come we disagree?

There may be a view that being omniscient and/or omnipotent is not a feature of the perfect being. We, humans, assume that; but it can't be proven, th...

Foxes are smarter than any of the cells alone and singly in their bodies and brains. Sea mollusks are smarter than any one of the cells that make them...