god must be atheist

:grin:

@"Franz Liszt", I also think that most atheists like rock music way more than classical, and most theists prefer to enjoy classical over rock. This is...

I don't for a moment think you are an atheist. You are making a theist case, and you disguise yourself as an atheist. Many atheists use the same stupi...

1. Philosophers are not necessarily the world's most intelligent people. 2. If and when philosophers or anyone else came up with a world-saving idea, ...

I stand corrected.

This sentence has no verb. It is nonsensical.

Sorry; can't read. My attention span is very short. I pick up knowledge from nuggets, not from continuously reading an entire book. So alas: Heidi wil...

And in turn I agree with you. With the caveat that I've developed a vague theory that the thing that separates western philosophy from the eastern (As...

Thanks, Consance, for your spirited and exhaustive reply. Indeed you were right, at this point I am looking at the text and I don't understand it. How...

there are tons of competitions and contests on the topics. The prize is not a million dollars, but something like $500, which at the current economic ...

"Philosophy has failed to create a better world" I am not sure if that is one of the mandates of Philosophy: to create a better world. There is a tren...

I am an atheist and never read the bible. Not in full. It is inhumane to do that. The bible may be a strong starting point against theism, and it defi...

Thanks. In my experience if people can't tell in their own words what they just read, then they either did not read it, or read it and did not underst...

That sounds sorta nice. Can I boast to my friends and impress them that I sound like Derrida? Or does "derrida" in Latin mean "pile of horse droppings...

"Why do many people say Camus "solved" nihilism?" My theory is that he posed it as a mathematical theorem, and then he solved the theorem. Debate stil...

Again, I beg to differ. All scientific propositions are falsifiable, but mathematical and logical ones are not falsifiable. When you say "All things t...

I'd like to rephrase your observation: "What does that mean? If you just mean the brain causes or creates the mind then everyone can know what I think...

Banno, you're actually wrong.

Assumptions are never knowledge. At best they carry a possibility of getting it wrong. You can't tell me that an instance of a falsification of a theo...

The perpetrator is not immune to envy. The basis for Schadenfreude is envy.

God is supernatural. Please don't defile him by equating Him with the profane.

You are so haughty and high-from-the-horse. If you think I will now research all my quotes in this thread and try to figure out which one you are refe...

Because he did not point this assumption out. He can't assume we will assume the same thing he is assuming. That is not kosher in philosophy. Whoo, bo...

Expressions of Schadenfreude are only appropriate when not displayed to the victim, or sufferer. For instance, I play cards on the Internet. There are...

Good spotting. The English language has a large amount of words to describe "love" with one word, with differences in the meaning that may range from ...

Fair enough. What is impossible: that god can create a heavy stone, or that god can lift a heavy stone? Your objection had been brought up by some oth...

Thank you for explaining your reason to ask the question.

To my understanding there is nothing a person can do to increase their IQ once they reached intellectual maturity. So to increase the intellect of a p...

I did and you conveniently said you did not understand it or that you did not see any relevance to the topic at hand. You choose to show that you igno...

Good looks, more than good brains, seems to be rewarding more on the middle-income level. On our level people compete; we need to compete. If you are ...

You claimed in several places that you don't understand my arguments and you disagree with my references. So that's that, we can' t argue if you are i...

Ressentiment is a bit different from resentment. Ressentiment is the term existentialists use for saying "blaming an object for one's own misfortune a...

Plus, combining forces, in this case between spouses, you get a multiplicative effect of efforts, not just an additive one. Much like how and why peop...

I believe you're right, that is one of the selling points, the mutually agreed script to take care of each other, more than of other people in the tri...

Thank you. I believe intrinsic worth exists. I believe importance exists, and I believe that the average person is important. However... how do I assi...

Well, I did not get that drift from you. I thought I had to make you make a stand. If your position was that right from the start, I missed it, as I w...

Okay, but I still don't see what meaning you give to "value". You said it is not the meaning I gave. So there must be a meaning you gave it. You are r...

You did say you agreed with me, until you thought of a decree of church figures: Here, you ab ovo declared that logical thinking is not appropriate wh...

I am not sure if this is W's assumption or your addition to the set of assumptions you imbue W's points in order to deflect criticism. I admit I never...

Stating something is giving a statement of a fact or of an opinion. Claiming something is normally the same thing, with the extra meaning that it is t...

I showed you his mistake, and you don't prove I am wrong, (unless a reference to an unidentified point by some philosopher's work is a good counter-ar...

Here's another thing he did not speak clearly about. This section has two meanings, and from the context (that has been given here) does not clarify h...

Okay, so you want to assign a different meaning to "value" which is not actually value, but something different. In order to have an intelligent discu...

I understand your unwillingness to prove things that are not easy to prove. I have been there, done that, mostly in cybernetics and astrophysics. But ...

I read the line and the entire post that contained it. I think the claim that happiness is a function of the over-mind is an opinion. You must prove t...

If you stated it, you claim it is a fact. You're right, I have to read your argument more carefully. Be back to on that after I read your claim more c...

You may be right. How do you suppose you can support your argument? Do you measure happiness or consciousness in other beings? Do you have an objectiv...

He did not say this. He said, "what we can say can be said clearly". Big difference. But he is wrong. You can say things that can't be said clearly. A...

You realize that you sound completely like Galileo's critics in the church in his time. They said something similar to this quote: "Your argument make...

It is a bit complicated. The best way to express the value of human life can be approximated by: Limit of (cos(x-2)/x^sin(x-e)/(x^i ))(as x approaches...