god must be atheist

Now close your eyes and open your mouth wide, and try to figure out if there is any awkwardness in this opinion. Jokes aside: if the patient can live ...

Yes. All the time. Whether I follow your instructions or not.

The potency is there. The capacity to do so. The ability to do so. Yes, god can create a stone that he can't lift. Can he? Let's suppose that he can. ...

I find no unintelligibility about "god is capable of creating a stone he can't lift" if it comes to his power of creation. I find no unintelligibility...

People here haven't heard what my grade 6 classmates back then 50-60 years ago were saying: If god is omnipotent, he can create a stone so heavy that ...

the chain does not need a starting point. The proof does not state it, but it assumes that everyone will agree that it has a starting point necessaril...

I have no understanding of what you could possibly mean. Contingent means "pending on the outcome of independent events". This 1) is incomprehensible ...

why would they be better at anything, if they are the same as us?

This is the faulty logic, or rather, the incorrect observation, or incorrect interpretation of theory, that you use as a premis for your thesis. If th...

That's just it, HarryHindu. You equate the two: conceptual thought and dots a scribbles. That is, if I may make this observation, your mistake in your...

There are two perfect questions. Distinct and uniqe. 1. What has been the stupidest question anyone has ever asked you? 2. Do you want to make out aft...

you are absolutely right. I don't see any point in your objection. If you insist on equating conceptual thought to dots and scribbles, and you deny th...

There are a lot of people on the forum who are introspective, immersed in deep thought or else soaring with the eagles in pinnacles of sacrosanct trut...

A priori proofs or truths don't need justification by observation, but they do need a sentient being with powers of reason, which in our experience co...

I will answer your interesting objection, HarryHindu, I'm not avoiding, it, it's just not convenient for me to think right now for a few days.

Some famous dude said, "Love is the pleasant interval between meeting a beautiful girl, and realizing she looks like a haddock." I am not plagiarizing...

Yes. I keep repeating that you are repeating yourself saying that I'm repeating myself.

Agrippina's trilemma: it seems to be a reasoning, which tackles the a posteriori knowledge with a priori tools, and shows its points that way. A brill...

Lot of talk to refute the reason's power to defeat the values found by using reason. There are two kinds of truths: a priori and a posteriori. The fir...

I like this trilemma thing. I am indebted to you, PfHorrest, for enlightening me. I don't think it has a refutation. But it does not need a fefutation...

You just keep repeating yourself, as if you couldn't get out of the groove you feel comfortable in. There is no progression here; I refute you, you re...

Looked up The Trilemma. It's an economic theory. That is not quite the same as philosophy.

Erm... I don't think philosophy is based on axioms. Argumenting is based on assumptions or else on premises. Math is based on axioms, and math is a br...

Thanks, jgill, for your good wishes for me.

My advice: read them in alphabetical order. Makes referring to the content much easier that way.

This just begs another can of worms to be opened: Is awareness possible without self-awareness, or conciusness? You say it is only one factor, but do ...

There is a problem with your use of the verb tenses that suggest too much logic. You look at the present giving too much strength to statics, and too ...

This assumes that the hard question of free will has a resounding "yes" as to its existence.

It might be. For all I know.

Bot does not necessarily need to do a forceful action like saving your life to make you love it. As an autistic kid, I was in close emotional ties wit...

It hears the space bar's screaming of pain. Or did you mean when you walk into a bar on Pluto.

I'm at my wit's end in trying to publish something in an academic journal. I gave myself one more chance. If it does not work out, then I'll present i...

Joining late, and I'll prove it to you. (That I'm joining late.) I always answer the OP. Not the issue of the side-track. Calling physical laws and hu...

I wonder if those molecules with some sort of consciousness have philosophical discussions on to what part of them, and how their consciousness connec...

Leona, what about the person who has never thought of his life in terms of "what is the meaning of my life", or even more basically, he never thought ...

I've forgotten the feeling of missing the lack of lacking something.

Some ideas that REALLY ought not to be tolerated: - eating babies - performing scientific experimental surgery on unwilling living people without anes...

Sometimes it's the lack of lacking something.

Thanks for making sense of the OP. I see the script describe facts in a believable fashion. My only objection is that (1) nepotism is renamed neo-feud...

Image a world without time. You have five minutes to get it done.

I'd like us to consider that solipsism is not valid. Without that assumption the following will be meaningless. Belief is a probability knowledge. You...

I stand corrected as charged. I am functionally illiterate, not blind. For your information. I lived in a country where the proletarian revolution was...

I'd like to hear the argument in no more than seven sentences for each point. I don't have patience to read an entire book that has only two or three ...

Sorry, I forgot racism and Frankfurt Schoolism in the list.

Right. The new left ruined everything, by way of showing and advocating the ending of the complete oppression the ruling class had on the not-so-rulin...

There is no name like "new left" left. It left with the one thing or person that took it as you say. We're here, left behind, not knowing which way to...

How do we know these women on the photo are social democrats? To me they seem the exact same bunch that was the spill-over from the last wife-swapping...

In a way all counter-arguments are complaints. In a way. In fact, if anyone says anything, they want to make a point; which point is different how the...

Re: Boobs. I told my friend Paul how I used to be active on this site. He said, "So you discuss that if the Earth was a breast, where its nipple would...

In America... facts are just a fantasy. Numbers are a mystery. Reason is a miracle. Logic is the devil himself.