god must be atheist

Look: there are tons of thinkers in my life who are not like your calibre. I can take from a number of my friends, debating partners and acquaintances...

Sorry, but you gave an insufficient answer. The task is not what the questions are; but how those questions elicit us to act in the absence of an answ...

I am sort of disappointed. I thought, Don Wade, that you are building up to and ontological argument: the seeds are there only if someone knows they a...

Welcome to the forums, Sahrian.

I'm just jumpin' in, so I may say things that have been resolved already, so please I beg you to be patient with me. There is something, according to ...

In the intervening three minutes I thought of a good answer to my own question to you, Fooloso4. In the past everyone thought there was a god. So you ...

The awareness part: right on. I have problem with the second part. So... given what we cannot answer... we can only live by those guidance that are an...

:-) Funny.

Except it's not new. bibliophobe in American English. (?b?bli??foub) a person who hates, fears, or distrusts books. And the word does not describe my ...

Conversely to the list above, there are philosophical questions now that hadn't used to be: - what is consciousness? Soul? - why do mirrors reverse le...

Like Banno said, the solved philosophical questions have migrated into the realm of sciences. They are no longer philosophical questions, though they ...

I don't read whatsoever. What does that make me to be? (PLEASE DON'T SAY IT.)

Please name your source to support your claim here.

The did not give me enough of the "forget me" drug. Back eight years ago or so, when I was grossly overweight, I had to undergo a proctologist's exam....

I am sorry. He/she asked. I gave an explanation. What else would YOU do if you are asked a straight question but give a perfectly straight answer? You...

Nice cop-out. Well done. You'll never get Christianity reversed from its decline with a placid argument or opinion or value like that. And that was th...

That's what Nathaniel said, not Jesus. Your charge was that Jesus never spake of himself that he is the son of god. You said, that's wrong, and you qu...

So, I ask you: do you want to see Muslims and Jews converted to Christianity, or not? (Beware, either way you answer, there is already quotes by you t...

Because you don't read your own posts. I do. And many others. More and more and more you contradict your own self, and you are oblivious to it because...

They are neologisms. They are the newest craze in literary, in philosophizing, and in literate philosophizing circles. Creating words that sound plaus...

So... is this going to strengthen Christianity? Let's not lose focus, when I spake of proselytization I referred directly to your idea, that had to do...

And your belief is just one other thing. Your belief is just a thing. Your thing. It has to do only with you. It's a thing, your belief is. Whether it...

So... what were you thinking of, when you spake of "reversing the declining of Christianity?" Making the Christians more Christian than they are? I do...

My apologies for giving the impression that I skimmed your reply. But thanks for writing that indeed you skimmed it due to your impression that it was...

Thanks for reading my paper, and giving it proper thought. I really appreciate it. I admit, I don't understand some of your criticism. When I say I do...

Yes, I agree, and I'd call it "hope"; to hope that our future is nice is easier to do if the person who decides on it is good.

Wonderful to hear that. Thanks.

Okay. I accept that you say that, but i don't think you think that. You are too smart to not see it, and I am too smart to know you are too smart to n...

If any one of you, 180 Proof, Tom Storm, et al, CARED to read my very long post, an article no publisher of philosophy would even look at, you would n...

In my thoughts I had explained that very well. Never verbalized it or written it down. Here it is, for the first time: God was first (whether a singul...

True.

Thank you for being lectured by you in a paraphrased form by telling me what I had just expressed. After refuting your own argument so eloquently; wha...

I think the decline could only be reversed if the dumbing of the population by not teaching anything useful in schools and by a heavy emphasis on cult...

"In Marxist dictatorships, people were convicted of crimes with mock trials, others were executed without a fair trial despite the law required it." -...

The first mention of sin. What was the concept of eating of the forbidden fruit called? Eaten by Adam and I guess Eve. Disobedience? Going against God...

My response to your claim is very dry reading, but it's perfectly logical, as follows: So the language has a word with no meaning and no application. ...

"You" as the general "you"? I think wisdom is a set of accumulated insights a man or a woman or a child or a hermaphrodite on non-binary spectrum garn...

They've been doing that singly and collectively since their inception. You are forcing the obvious and passe into a discussion.

56% of the best minds in the world think that the best way to decide philosophical questions is by consensus. Furthermore, of this 56%, a 32% think th...

True. Daydreaming follows to allay the boredom. You end up either creating the Theory of Specific Relativity, or masturbating.

I'll run with that.

How can it be independent if all that is creation is creation of and by god? In the beginning there was nothing. God created everything. Maybe there w...

I think they did try this experiment. Forgot the name, but it's well documented. Where the subject was supposed to deliver a painful electric shock to...

SYMBOLIC OF ALL MATTER. You agreed. I really don't understand why you can't think back what you had said just five minutes before. So by saying that y...

Well, on one hand you said it is not all things that are dead matter that you judge, and on the other hand, you agree it is all things that are dead m...

It is true, the meaning of the word philosophy when looking at it from an etymological point of view, is the love of wisdom. So would you say the purp...

Sorry, then I take back my post. Sorry. By attributing a quality to a blob of wet clay, honestly I thought it was symbolic of all dead matter. I mean,...

"The purpose of philosophy is to learn which side of the toast to butter." A.T.S. "The purpose of philosophy is to make man feel better a notch than b...

You mean, "how can someone not agree with me?" By dividing ALL things into being good and not good, you give all things a measure of goodness or badne...

Thank you guys, for the many interesting, interested, and learned responses. I am actually not at all an expert on ancient languages, but my uncle is....