god must be atheist

Your question ought to be addressed to professional philosophers. It is futile to ask dilettantes what a professional thinks. It's a little like "what...

This is true. Very true. The saddest part is, that ethical principles are what each person who refers to them calls them. They are arbitrary, while ap...

Galuchat, I am impressed how methodically you have thought this through. My only objection to your presentation is the notion of "given ethical model"...

This never stops to amaze me. They show naked women available in all possible variety of attractiveness, in actions that are diverse to satisfy anyone...

"Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am" Gerry Rafferty

1. If you don't go to other people's funerals, they won't come to yours. 2. Being totally selfish and greedy does not contradict giving back to societ...

Oh, I get you. You meant to say we don't know WHEATHER g or not g. I agree with your position 4. I beleive that the existence of god can be neither pr...

(pointing out problems with definition) The claim is false, because this is necessarily true knowledge. This is certain knowledge that God or Not God....

Haha... everyone is an agnostic. "We don't know if god or gods exist." Anyone who claims they KNOW there is no go or gods, and anyone who claims they ...

You like to unreasonably derail valid criticism. That is perfectly ego-driven, not reason-driven. Check the circumference of your ego, my friend. If i...

Why would you accept an unjustified proposition, @"banno"? Give us three examples in which you have accepted propositions without justification.

Thank you for further proving your inaccurate knowledge of English and of meaning in general. proposition: "a statement or assertion that expresses a ...

With all due respect, there may be no reason, but there may be a cause. Which is as good as a reason. However, "I like vanilla" is not a proposition. ...

I don't understand your question. This entire "validation" thing bothers me. It's so 1970s. Assertiveness training. Women's liberation. Gay people bei...

I don't see how that is a necessary condition. What's a social invalidation? The word just does not fit the concept of "excommunication" or non-accept...

I don't know how that is possible. I can say something that is really smart to some people, but really stupid to some other people at the same time an...

Would you ask the question if it weren't for you?

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I am an asshole and you are CLEARLY a theist. Not even a closet theist, but a full-blown, all-out theist. There are many wrong things in your post tha...

This is what I got out of her article, too. And I completely agree with the notion. My addition to your comment would be that as Anscombe points at th...

interesting life-experience. I am sure you have a story behind this.

I think Anscombe's criticism of Hume's stand is that if you take the non-causation principle to its completion on all aspects, then it destroys the po...

My impression was that maybe the original user of the word "legislate" meant to say that there is in each person at least two, and maybe more inner vo...

If I may also say a few words providing the Good Self-Appointed All-Knowing Lord, Banno, does not smite me for doing so. What I got out of the article...

I am not quite sure if it's a witchhunt that the impeachment's mandate is, like you say, or else it is a venue to find guilt in the legal sense of the...

I agree with every word you say! It is a sad state of affairs that one has to point out the limits to growth to Americans, as it is the major area of ...

You spake as if you had an alternative.

Further to my one previous comment: the cases in point are focussed on by the following parts as quoted from the article: This part of the subject mat...

I finished the article. It says that there is no determination whatsoever what ethical or moral is. Then it shows that ethics can be used to prove a m...

It is clear to me too that you don't have the mental capacity to appreciate my level and quality of insight. So what you wrote is an obvious effect. T...

If you wrote down the rule, to refer to it from time to time, would the rule lose its quality of being private? I hardly think so. I should read Wittg...

You disagree because you equate greed with being power-hungry. The two may have a common overlapping area, but greed is also a survival tool. If not g...

Maybe. But Plato did not say it in the common-day sense, and you immediately quoted Plato as the believer in the same thing. I am glad you clarified t...

You can't say this if you are an atheist. This what you said here affirms there is divinity / devine power. I am not going to argue what you believe o...

Outside of the USA, no able-bodied government or country and their denizens believe any more that power derives from god. This is a stupid idea, if yo...

Eyyeyyey... the entire hoarding behaviour has developed for the necessity of hoarding supplies and food for the tribe to survive over period of non-av...

All authority derives from god. Whatever the ruler is, be it a person, a body, or the entire population, its mandate and power comes from god. There i...

I don't know if I can agree that governance is an ideal. It can cast no physical shadows, and only phyiscal objects have ideal manifestations in the i...

A quart of 18 percent cream for $1.99 comes to mind. It's a loss leader.

Lenin and Hitler come to mind in recent political history. Their goals were wrong, but boy they could lead.

I can't decide if it's the selfs that change guards, or else the self gets into different moods, so different from each other, that the self's own mot...

"Eleanor Rigby Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been Lives in a dream Waits at the window Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar ...

I put right-wing for all four questions. I understand and appreciate that most of the people in all categories are left-wingish. But they are AMERICAN...

I also agree with everyone who has contributed to this thread.

What about wanting to want. A goal. A purpose. Something to aim for. If have everything I want, I have no motivation to do anything, which is by itsel...

What glass? And who is doing the looking: the alleged "poet",or the person behind that glass? Unclear, unexplained, meaningless straffle. Oh boy. The ...

Personal resilience is a contributing factor. Lack of illnesses, or other influences that weaken the ego, is a deterrent for suicide. People in concen...

Why are you giving me advice, @"3017Amen"? I haven't a complaint, and I am satisfied the way things are going... except of course with having to put u...

Yes. Via learning. There are things I can't change now, NOW, NOW, NOW, before the learning process of how to change it LATER LATER LATER. If I never e...

I see your problem. You are made happy when engaging in physical activities. You are a matter-of-fact person, you calls them as you sees them, you pro...