god must be atheist

I don't know whether you are countering my claim, or agreeing with it. Sounds like countering, but you are actually agreeing: "Any" includes "scientif...

Polio is caused by a bacilus that carries the polio virus and gets into a human's body. Joking. I stand corrected.

By saying "good" of something, James Riley inadvertently made man the measure of all things. How one can shoot himself on the foot in one easy step.

Why would you need to justify it in any terms, once you have already accepted it?

Right. Tapeworms and polio bacili are seldom referred to a cuddly little creatures. I have yet to see a four-year-old girl who loves her blonde, blue-...

I just listened to a street preacher earier today. He INSISTED that we are horrible creatures when we get born, and we are sinners, and never get rid ...

Not quite. Water is bouncy. Elastic. See a drop of water fall into a pool of water in slow motion. It bounces back. I actually don't know if the shots...

Here's an invalid point, it's not a fallacy, but invalid nevertheless. To feel pleasure you don't need to know you are feeling pleasure. In modern tim...

I have to differ again, sorry. The things in our world are mixed objects that contain Forms. A plant that can cure people of a disease, is both a plan...

Yes, yes, yes!! Now you are starting to understand. But Socrates DENIES that. Forms depend on every quality to have a kernel quality. Forms do not con...

You just replaced one Ad Hominem argument with another. I don't think your claim is included or even insinuated in the quote, but since you argue that...

Again, originally I did not express myself well. There are kernel qualities. Qualities that have no component parts. There are combined qualities. Qua...

Another, much simpler way of transcribing Socrates' argument against TH...US, would be this: "If that is your opinion, you are a sea-urchin, not a hum...

I don't know... to give validity to the theory of the Forms, the Men in the Cave, to make sense of what Socrates was trying to show and say? These are...

Absolutely. And that is based on the view that each thing that is of unique description, has a quality, a singular, real, existing something in it tha...

Another point I wish to raise with regard to Socrates: In the "Republic" he argues that each entity or type of entity must have a unique and singular ...

Well, it's one thing to look at a scholar's interpretation of the text in the context of the entire book, and it's another thing to look at the concre...

If? IF? I should have thought you would be familiar with Buddhist texts since you know much about Buddhism. So if you don't know of a particular featu...

Oh, that is not my contention. My contention is that Buddhism is not a religion, whereas you said it is. And I don't contest the ability to reach enli...

Right. So when we talk about Buddhists, then we say religion was part of their culture, but not part of their teachings.

And yet you stated many things in advance re: enlightenment. Some of them were: "takes many lifetimes," "not in this life". How come you can declare t...

On a second thought, maybe it was not in the Republic, but the teacher was reading it up, and giving us on-the-go commentary. This is how I remember i...

for me it is a big deal, but totally ignorable, as I am bad at researching texts that I read decades ago, and are not machine-searchable.

How can you determine the lifetimes, and how can you declare categorically "not in this lifetime", when you have no way of discerning with any amount ...

Thanks, this is great, can you cite just one example in which Buddha or Buddhism relied on supernatural thingies to accomplish something? We know they...

But not everyone fails, right? Just most of them, often, but some get to the enlightenment part, albeit seldom? Your wording is unambiguous, but I che...

What is the name of the Buddhist god, (not the name of a god concurrent to Buddhism), and what role does he play in the world of a Buddhist. This may ...

The entire geshmeel is absurd to me, but nobody asked me. It takes a lot of belief to become a Buddhist, and I am very low-key and low-energy on belie...

Check. Thanks. Collateral benefits.

It was funny, but true.

Science depends on beliefs, too. To call it a messianic religion is a religious person's way of saying that he or she is not able to get out of his he...

My translation was totally different. It was in English I could comprehend without a getting a headache. I'll have to look up my version if I can find...

I can't see how liberation can happen without gaining any knowledge. Can you enlighten me and help me to see how I am wrong in this opinion?

Buddhism is not a religion. It employs no supernatural elements. Belief is involved in everything. Marxist material atheists have a belief, too. (That...

Take any avant-garde abstract poem. They are mostly a jumble of words. There is no sense in them; but it uses components of the language. And in a way...

Kudos to Carlo Rovelli. Order is a human concept, and any configuration is up to being called "order" or "disorder" by humans, according to how "blurr...

But my own self-created theory about entropy is that matter can be reset to an earlier state of entropy without creating more entropy. Don't ask me ho...

There is no alternative. Life, any life, depends on creating entropy. Faster than non-living physical processes in the same temperature-range generall...

That in itself is a psychological reaction. So now all you have to is to statistically correlate it with voting habits, donation receipts, and riot-pa...

Burkina Faso? No... The French Polynesian Islands? no... Vatican City? no... Peru. That's it. It's got to be Peru.

Right you are again. But I wrote "monarchies". NOT "constitutional monarchies". Strawman argument.

This is true. But my claim is that in monarchy, the state has total control. So who has the control? The people (if constitutional monarchy is indisti...

He assumes something that is a falsehood to prove his point, Wittgenstein does. There ARE outward sings of pain, produced by the individual and produc...

Okay. So I take that the quotes are from W. Please correct me if I am wrong. Now I'll read them, and reply in kind.

:up:

... and someone along the way came and decided arbitrarily and because of his style that he is a genius. Much like due to my style I come across as co...

Thanks for your magnanimity.

I may be projecting, or I may be creating theories to explain what I see. I have to explain to myself how and with what means does Wittgenstein create...

Sorry... this is an ad hominem fallacy. I make specific points about the quotes; you can challenge me by showing how my points are irrelevant or wrong...

The passage above my immediately prevous post, would be an excellent one to tackle, and I am glad you provided it. However, it is attributed to PI. No...