god must be atheist

Yes. One thing. That we don't know anything about them.

I'd make a safe biospheric (biologically self-supporting) bunker that withstands nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare, as well as conventional wa...

There is a difference between "expected" and "predictable". The expected lies down comfortably on our souls. The predictable bores us. In the world of...

While to the uninitiated the story may sound as a bit of an irony, you know, not committing suicide due to being busy, it is very real to some who hav...

Busicuttingcrap, welcome back to the fold. Once you get in, you can never leave, can you.

I would agree with you, except for one thing: the decline of perceived value in marginal utility. Yes, life is nice when you thank the bus driver when...

It is the archetypal of co-dependent relationships.

Ah, sigh...

Hurray! What's the URL? Is joining contingent on recommendation by existing members?

Stoicism is an underappreciated philosophical treasure. It's also one of the most overrated ones. If you give full validity to the social applicabilit...

I agree. I said that in jest. A man or a woman or a person of any gender needs to recognize jest once it / she / he sees it. By-the-by, I intended to ...

I look at embracing philosophical trends and views, and advocating them, defending them, and disproving views not in agreement with them, as more of a...

Dear Andrew, since you asked, I would like to offer for your reading pleasure two pieces I wrote, identical in topic, different writing styles. (Diffe...

I think the organizers must hire official and professional literary critics if they can't stop complaining about the lack of involvement in terms of c...

This is potentially true. It could also be the case that the narrator: - has little insight into human nature, and what he does not understand, he sub...

I agree totally! And I must add that most of life is also not very nice. If you don't want to see un-nice things, and you don't want to read about the...

I've seen and heard coherent sobbing in some movies, and I tell you, it is the most annoying sound in the universe.

This was real.

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I learned the "Schopenhauer" bit from my mother when I was 10 years old, and she had learned it when she was 10 years old. She was 10 years old in 192...

Plum-plum.

Szevasztok! Schopenhauer utazik a vonaton. Felszáll hozzá az egyik barátja. Megkérdezi: mit szívsz, mester? Szivarozom Havanna, melyiknek volt igaza? ...

They predicted heavy snow for Thursday and Friday of this week, so we went grocery shopping. I bought a box of brown fruits labelled "Chinese Black Pe...

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solipsism used to bother me. But then I learned to live with the fact that the sensed universe has just as much chance to be the actual case as solips...

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It's like saying, "Don't worry about the fact I eloped with your wife. Just disregard it as if it never happened. Carry on as usual." I really would l...

Higher quality content. Such a thing doesn't exist for me. I don't rank contents as "high" or "low" quality. Their presentation and treatment I can di...

Dialogue alone also does not guarantee the absence of "telling". ETC.

That said, "telling" is not simply prose without dialogue. Look at my two pieces; there are events unfolding. Telling and showing alternate. But there...

Nabokov I think was 20th century; but the rest, 19th. You like what you like, too, no denying it. I won't stand between you and your enjoyment. My poi...

... and those greatest writers were boring as hell, too. In my opinion a novel or a short story should roll in front of the eyes of imagination of the...

Hi, Shawn!! People take me for younger in real life too, but they are lying, because no bus driver ever asks me if I qualify for senior. One thing abo...

I don't know Benkei; I don't know anyone, because I can't even keep a mental match between personalities and monikers. The only people I have some kno...

The ending reminds me of the parrot scene by Monty Python. The shopkeeper and the customer argue about a refund for a parrot that died a day after the...

Theism explains everything beautifully. Seamlessly. And wrongly.

I still don't know how to differentiate fiction from philosophy (if one is not the proper subset of the other). They both convey meaning; But meaning ...

Thanks for the responses, folks!

There is none, in an absolute sense, but if you go by a certain philosophy, or rather, a belief system, then they can be deemed wrong. But ultimately,...

:rofl: I am laughing, but yours is a very accurate, acutely derived statement.

I think I never called a question wrong, but I consider these the ultimately wrong questions: - Why do we die? - What is our purpose in life? - Why ar...

Thanks to all critics; I read and took note of all the suggestions for improvement. I also enjoyed the positive, complimenting critiques. As to the cr...

Thanks to all critics; I read and took note of all the suggestions for improvement. I also enjoyed the positive, complimenting critiques.

And if you think, Frank, that I was not rational, then you are not in a position to tell what's rational and what's not. My argument citing Descartes ...

I was not abusive in my arguments. But when you dismissed me and my arguments with a dismissive gesture, I became angry. And you wonder why I became a...

1. What does the discussion's place have to do with my argument? 2. Even if I was, you are not answering my argument. 3. Plato came centuries before D...

There is another argument against nominalismus. Take speed. Speed is not a nominal. It has no physical presence. It is invoked by physical objects. Ye...

Dear Frank, I'd like to chime in a bit late into the discussion. I put down my proposition: Abstractions and universals (non-physical things) exist bu...

God was not created. So nothing better could be created does discount things that have not been created. There are certain things that exist without c...

Okay, no problem, I like to explain from time to time why god must be atheist. He does not believe in himself; he knows he exists. Humans don't know p...