god must be atheist

That is true. But not the only truth. Or not the only premise. Someone I know said something much smarter: "You can live without a lover, but you can'...

Carl, that would be too easy. If he doesn't like something, and he tells you what that is, all you have to do to cure him is to say "stop doing that."

What about learning how to change things you cannot change now? I'd like that much better than the quietly desparate Stoic resignation to the status q...

By premises you mean the living space, or the space dedicated for the operation of life? Try redecorating your apartment or home. Pink is in this year...

Yeah, true. But I am smartin' where the sun don't shine. This is a shining example of the force of darkness.

Cixin Liu's aliens with advanced weaponry would scream and run in all directions when we introduce our deadliest weapon: THE HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE!!!...

The planet will self-destruct in five hours!! Bolshevik Partizans are about to take over Linconl, Nebraska! Polar-bear invasion! The Great Dipper is p...

A triple agent works for himself.

Nils, did you actually understand the poem was saying these things? Would you have come up with these interpretations, if you haven't read the interpr...

What about "The earth is flat. Yet I can circumnavigate the earth going in one direction constantly, and arriving at the same spot as from where I sta...

To me it's an absolute proof, but only to the person who does the thinking. This is not a scientific proof; it is much bigger than that. It is the onl...

The Martians had their own version of explaining why there has been no contact with aliens. The Martians were a bunch of Hungarian physicists under th...

1. "New breath in the pages" -- creative juices are starting to flow. 2. "New Sentences were starting up" -- the sentence-bubble. Sentence upstarts, w...

thanks, PFHorrest, for the clarification. A justificationist does not believe anything at first. A skeptic in the common sense of the word. A rational...

Maybe we need to see what you mean by "hard solipsism". Can you differentiate it for me from "solipsism"?

Yes, certainty on the matter is impossible. Totally, wholeheartedly agree. But where do you see that hard solipsism is untenable? It is possible, so i...

Yes. Descartes also had a proof of god, an ontological proof. I looked up its wording somewhere, and it had a clause, something to the effect that "Go...

I am not sure if you are applauding the rejection of hard or soft solipsism, or of Descartes "cogito..." maxim? Hard or soft solipsism is hard to reje...

Maybe. I don't read philosophy, so maybe you can back this up with quotes from his writing? I think, however, that a totally different thing happened....

Frank, you answered @"Coben" with the ideas I wanted to tell him. It is indeed, strange. Because I don't know what pre-Maxwellian means (other than ex...

You seem to misunderstand the concept of sharing, in the context that I am expressing it in. The concept of having access to other's thoughts directly...

What if I am lying? I can only lie to you and to those who are not me. To myself I can't lie.

You got it right, dead on, what I am saying. Any thought truly shared by more than one person, and experienced therefore, is possible, and I have no w...

The problem with that is the periodic annihilation of all life in the state of maximum matter decay, and in the times of maximum entropy (no useful en...

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To every rule there are exceptions. In fact, exceptions strengthen the rule.

You know how to completely mess things up, don't you. Mind is not made of matter. The body is. Mind is a function of the body. You are denying this, a...

I don't think solipsism is a proven thing. It is a possibility, but we don't know its value of probability. It goes from near zero to near one, but th...

What you guessed would mean god dwells in this world; but he does not, according to @"theMadFool": Because god is beyond time, beyond space, and beyon...

Either you are jesting with me, or else you have a closed mind. No problem, I will live with not having reached you.

You wish. His proof is as valid today as it ever has been.

You are being cranky, Kranky. Descartes proved the existence of his being via experiencing his own thought. He reasoned that thoughts can only be gene...

This applies to math, don't it? Yet you said in "any fashion". Math is not all fashions. Math is math fashion. Your dispute is invalid, because you qu...

Okay, I'll prove you wrong. It is true you can't eat shit. In an other world, shit would taste good, and it would be nutritious. Everything else being...

@"Wallows", you've been taking lessons from @"Bartricks".

This is true... it's also true that political analysis is not gut feelings. You wouldn't believe what most voters consider important when they make a ...

Four years ago they endorsed Hilary Clinton. For a good paper, they are apt to make unpopular choices. Maybe they are paid off. I dunno.

I think you jumped over some of the text your very own self quoted. Mayr does not deny the existence of mind, life, soul, etc. He merely says they are...

I agree. I think Mayr's complaint is about Christianity. It is about calling Providence a thing, an entity, and actually existing thing. Or calling th...

Descartes did not presuppose the existence of "I". He experienced his thought and that gave rise to the inescapable, irrefutable truth, that he exists...

OK.

Please note: time is a part of our world. Space is a part of our world. Matter is in our world. Being beyond them, means not in the same place as thes...

I can't parse the title to make sense. The best I can come up with "Much like one is put into a packet boat when drunk". Line 1: If I try some thing, ...

They may be right (it's up to the philosophers to decide that), but oh, how sweet this navel-gazing is.

Isn't god supposed to be not of matter, and in a different plane of existence? Or something that is everywhere at all times? These would indicate that...

If we assume that the universe goes back to infinite past (which assumption I am happy with), and we assume that god did not create organisms, then th...

Those ranking philosophers! I was once near one, and the rank smell almost knocked me out. Continental philosophers generally take less frequent baths...

Oh, that's easy: the litmus paper turns blue. (I realize this was a stupid answer I have given, but hey, it's 2:06 in the a.m. hours here just now.)

The first thing that pops to mind is that simulated reality must be started and created by an intelligent being, so the two are contingent upon each o...

I would say the all-seeing eye sees everything no matter where and in which direction it is pointed at. By definition. I know the winner has been chos...