god must be atheist

Rght. But when you battery stops, do you get the same identity back when the new battery gets put in? Does your system not go back to factory conditio...

Are you trying to say that over 75% of philosophical domains (whatever that means) is wrong? Or it is right. You did not make a point, you just quoted...

When you change the batter, the unit is temporarily out of service. If the unit itself sets out to change its own battery, then it will never happen; ...

Faith does not need evidence. That's why faith is a belief. If you have sufficient evidence then you are a scientist, and you don't need faith. But be...

God created us, according to Christian mythology, with ALL the attributes we have. Evil in the world is done by humans, but the original cause of Evil...

No, because in the case an actual Jesus who was an actual god sacrificed himself, then all sins would have been stopped... but they did not, evil, wic...

God would be dishonoured by having created inept creatures. The Hebrew bible, the Old Testament, says "God created ...... and he saw that it was good....

@Jjnan1: in my opinion anyone who tries to make sense out of Christian philosophy, and succeeds in that endeavour, is either in self-denial, or has a ...

In our youth, we wanted to hurry up in case we were late for it. (Reference: Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A.Milne, in which Tigger and Roo climb up a tall tr...

True. Very true. So to justify rationality, we will use irrationality. "We use rationality because clocks excrete shruppa warriors' toupees." Pronto, ...

I stopped the procreational process in my lineage. That's the best I could do for the world. I hope many others will take my lead.

I don't know USA law, as it also fluctuates from state to state, but in Canada most of those provisions have also been included. I attended a rape cas...

Understand what? I thought it had been ME who had been trying make you understand something. LIttle wonder neither of us has any understanding of the ...

For Europeans, it does not matter, really, that essentially. Both are far away places. Both are out of reach of experiencing directly. Both are almost...

I agree.

No, that is not true, if I Ching can HELP a party to a victory. The Japanese said they could have won the war if they used I Ching. That indicates pos...

I Zoomed with a fellow philosopher on this forum. The two of us were dead set against each others' opinions on a number of points. We had serous ego s...

If both factions at war against each other consult I Ching, which one wins? :grin:

Luckily the allied forces and Josip Stalin did consult I Ching. Phew, close call. :smile:

Apparently you take all counter-arguments that are based purely on logic and language, as malicious, direct, and uncalled-for attacks on your ego. So ...

Evil causes suffering. (So does God, but let's not get sidetracked.) Hence, any suffering is caused by evil. (Other than the ones caused by God.) Gett...

I like this.

Typical site user, praxis. I am not struggling with what you claim I struggle with. You, like almost all other users on this site, like to paraphrase ...

Why do homosexuals exist? The answer is easy. God created them so He would have a whole section of humanity to hate. Sometimes God must get sick of hi...

I was 15 when the Americans landed on the moon. And my expectations were almost the same as yours... well, very, very close. Fortunately I became very...

Position: Ciberhumanoid-apologist skeptic, with historical over-expectation of the positive therefore dismally disappointed in the result. -ism. You c...

The article also mentioned that in a given period, half a million calls were made by police to domestic disputes, while nly 1% (five thousand) of thes...

I started with Finnland, and the article came from BBC, then went over to Sweden, and the search term brought me this wonderfully infomative response:...

Are the slaves free to not do what they are told? What does freedom have to do anything with responsibility? Please explain why freedom is a prerequis...

I'm from both an academic and a dirt poor background. My father was the fourth of five children of a widow. The family of six lived in a one-room hous...

I put forth respectfully that I am not ignoring the context of the discussion. I am pointing out instead,that your conceptualization of processes is m...

If you are Black and everyone around you ignores the fact that some White supremacists are kicking the living daylight out of you, then ignoring evil ...

You know a probability. You do not know before the draw date that it's a losing ticket. You buy the lottery ticket not because you believe you will wi...

Boy, was I ever stupid. I don't know the first name of Prez Roosevelt. Dwight? Milhouse? And who was this Eleanor person? the private educator of Hele...

Evidently you think that sense is a right that one has over his own utterances. Well, no. Sense is not a right. It is a cognitive quality that can be ...

This is VERY true. It is also true that with slavery comes responsibility, and any position on the slavery-liberty spectrum comes with responsibility....

So you claim that some people among us, with Spina Bifida and/or cystic fibrosis have come from other origins than society. Are they aliens, or self-d...

Tua Cupa... :-) Still won't work, because it becomes a nonsensical sentence, an absurd statement. If you add "white" on the end, your statement become...

I don't think we can leave empathy out of it. Because the idea of caring for the unfortunate ones can only be born out of empathy. There is no other e...

I would hate to be in a position to look into the minds of many people and see what they are looking for. But I would venture to say, they are not loo...

Aha.

Absolutely.

(The things being supporting LGBT parades, capitalism and the welfare system) But they are each a core American value.

The world would be in a constant state of overproducton crisis. The Jews would not be welcome in any country, and they would not have regained their a...

To the original poster, regarding his question: why a wealthy person would have left-leaning political views. Easy. He or she has a heart. He or she i...

There is no proof. His logical mistake is that he states "Because someone must or should be punished, he or she WILL be punished." That is simply not ...

This IS ambiguous. There are several ways to read it, if you have English comprehension skills of grade five equivalent or higher: The benefit of a wh...

Finally you make two good points. The chain of power is presented in an uprising or revolution. And you fear that the restructuring won't be intellige...

Italics my addition. You apparently can't see he is describing the status quo, and establishes the observance of a universal truth. He does not give i...

You make a Strawman argument. Marx said, "original source", and you equate it to "all sources", then you point out how the quote by Marx was wrong. No...