god must be atheist

"To some extent" leaves a huge margin of error, or a small margin of error, or no margin of error, or an unknown margin of error. When I said "to know...

Sometimes the time is not the time To think of good times, bad times; Time is sometimes the time to see How time differs from sea to sea. Maybe the co...

From a purely philosophical point of view: Power is elevated social status, which comes with 1. better mate selection, 2. More plentiful mate selectio...

You did not claim this, @"Praxis". You said that the correspondent @"PfHorrest" did not claim this. And you claimed that Here: I am now asked by you t...

This makes sense, @"Diagonal Diogenes", but classic Stoicism denies this. You either control something or you don't; there is no in-between like "infl...

It matters and I explained its significance clearly and unambiguously.

I am not strawmanning anyone. I AM GOING BY THE VIDEO PREPARED WITH OR BY DR. PROFESSOR PIGLIACCI, AND THAT IS THE ONLY SOURCE I USE. I use that sourc...

I got your message the first time.

You are switching to other arguments but you are still using your arguments to speak up against meat eating. Are you... a cow? A very intelligent one?...

Very good points, @"softwhere".

What are the bases that you say that the universe is made of a collection of completely unpredictable particles? This is not a valid proposition to sa...

In Stoicism, all externals are externals to all people. Nobody controls externals in the Stoic philosophy. This is the logic that places the death sen...

Obviously the externals are under the control of somebody else. Otherwise they would not happen, or if they happened, they would not happen in an orde...

The meaning of Pfhorrest's post is clear. It does not suggest at all what you say it suggests, because it does not differentiate between religious lef...

Sigh....

Yes, we do view animals a having cognitive ability. That has nothing to do with massacring and eating them. Why do you insist on an ethics-based ban, ...

I think yours is an individualistic view. It may be shared by many others, but I see no reasonable merit in the proposition you pose.

Sorry for the late reply, @"Creativesoul", but I think two pages' worth of replies were generated very quickly, without my watching the thread.

1. No theory to explain the workings of the mind has been established. 2. Assuming the mind is a product of brain functions, we have no knowledge of h...

I think there are two Stoic philosophies, if I can judge the differences between your description of it, and that of dr. Prof. Pigliucci. Maybe there ...

Why, oh why, haven't I asked this question? Why did I have to ask instead the question that I wanted to ask? Darn it. I wish I could be you, @"Praxis"...

Okay. Next time I'll ask about dancing girls and wolves that balance chairs on their noses. No, seriously, I get your point. I did not write this ques...

Dr. Prof. Pigliucci does not leave it unexplained in his video. Please watch the video instead of asking me to clarify. It only takes 10 minutes, I th...

All General Trump Conversations here!! Good grief. Now we have a general Trump, aside from President Trump. Next we'll have a high priest Trump.

I personally have no problems viewing animals as perfectly capable of rational thought, romantic behaviour, and sentimental emotions. And personally h...

To answer your question seriously: I agree with @"Tim Wood" and with @"Fiveredapples". I would only add one more idea: put your feet in your reader's ...

Oh. I mixed you up, @"John Gill", with @"Wittgenstein". My mind is going. It is horrible to have early-onset Alzheimers at such a young age that i'm a...

(Is there a chance that you may be dyslexic? transposing digits and characters in your writing? And your age is 28? In months.)

I'd say, five or six... but a very precocious five or six. A child genius. A prodigy. A pedagogical miracle.

I hear you loud and clear. I answer even one-liners, if I see merit in the one line or one word uttered. It is easier most of the time than to analyze...

1. As stated, my brain was mush when I wrote the OP. 2. Wot is "something else" indeed? It is kind of a catch phrase to everything that could be writt...

Not mine. I had serious crushes on my Russian teacher, on my math teacher in another high school, on my math teacher at college. I was too young at th...

A bit like Keith Richards had been tasked by the group leader of the Rolling Stones to pre-select females via expansive trials and performance evaluat...

"And He created him in His perfect image." I have been long known to be saying that it is not inconceivable that the universe is the work of a designe...

Everything in moderation, fellows.

"Butt of a joke." Hahaha!! V.o.: Horn of a dilemma Leg of a trip Arm of the law Brain of an operation Head of state Face of: terror, adversity, evil, ...

I watched the video only. I never read a thing on Stoicism. I can't read. I never assumed the qualities and nature of the two pillars of Stoicism. I t...

I've been guessed to be hugely different in age from the real one on one philosophy internet forum. Forgot which of the four I was active on at the ti...

Well, the thesis was that the tool (critical thinking) is useless, or even undefined, non-existent without an application, without a piece of material...

You're right on both counts. Damit, I admit: guilty as charged.

A workable, acceptable, or even just merely descriptive theory of mind is beyond the human mind to construct. We are stuck in this together. We would ...

Precisely. It is not understood. It is assumed to be true, and that is precisely the assumption of scientific materialism: "The laws of the universe c...

I am sorry, but the passage in and by itself is nonsense. At least I see no sense in it. There must be ways in which Sartre defines what he means a ma...

thanks for the lecture. In my mind, is a useless rule. I think my paraphrasing it "You must do so that if everyone did what you do, would cause no har...

How do you measure the size of a lie? You put them side-by-side, and the taller lie is bigger? Or you put them on a scale, and the heavier one is the ...

Expansive means "can be expanded". So it can be shrinked. Because whatever is expansive, is elastic. So Popper's expansive theories can be reduced and...

Yes, it covers them all. That is true. But just like there are big circles and small circles and yellow circles and blue circles, the circles are all ...

@"180 Proof" presents that lies are not bad if they do not cause bad things. @"tim wood" sets up an interesting dilemma: can lies in the Aristotelian ...

I don't think there is a chaos on the individual particle level. Electrons and atomic nuclei are pretty stable at our operating temperature range. If ...

There are two types of serious philosophers these days: 1. academic philosophers, whose jobs are mandates to delve into topics as hard and difficult a...