god must be atheist

We come from that, but so does Russia. And other than people in America and in the Vatican, most the citizens of western-type democracies have dropped...

Amazing. I really appreciate your good will, and the effort you put into answering my honest question. The sad (and said) truth remains, @"alcontali",...

@"Schoppenhauer1", I created some time ago a similar progression on how soon a need entered the life of the organism in evolution. Love and greed and ...

Yes, but most of the Asian and South East asian countries understand the Chinese more than they do the USA, and Europe borrowed most of its modern cul...

Heck, I am one of the great many unwashed who has no clue what the word "epistemology" means. I have got by nevertheless as a computer programmer, for...

But we don't know god. From our point of view now, God is not known. He is in hiding. We don't know what he is like, what he wants, what he wants of u...

The foregoing posters mixed up three concepts: isolationism in politics, isolationism in trade and economy, and isolationism in war. The OP nailed the...

Republic of Haiti, Mozambique, Papua-New Guinea, etc. Maybe even Hungary, if things continue to go the way they do there.

If English is not your first language, I pre-apologize for the harsh criticism in this post of mine. Please only regard the following if you earned an...

Whew... I saved myself. I never had any children. I guess it does not matter then that I fornicated left-right-and-centre back in the late seventies a...

If you must. I would say I can also be less than what I think. Let's settle with "most likely I am different from what I think I am", although in exce...

I don't get this. Is one part of the universe, no matter how you do the division into parts, and how large or small, how complex or simplex, or how fa...

I am what I am regardless of what I think. And I can't be more than what I am. I did not say I can't be more than what I think I am. You asked me two ...

Not quite. I can't. I can read a 10 page article, if. Most books are padded to the max, and i have no patience of waddling through the chaff to get to...

Please note that I hadn't made a claim to attribute a claim to you which you deny claiming as your claim. I put in a CONDITIONAL phrase that saves my ...

Some social work student I witnessed get his degree 40 years ago (we co-habited during school year in a rooming house) said the same thing about socio...

The point is that you guys, namely @"Janus" and @"MarthaNussbaum" think of great ideas the same way as world-class scientists of the past have. If I a...

Same as life's.

I have to disparage you, too, @"Janus", :-P, but this is the mechanism that Freud employed extensively to treat his so-called neurotic patients. @"unc...

Human error is part of human nature, you're right. But @"Swan" was talking about a feature of human nature that we must observe, not imitate. Errors b...

Ask Tolstoy.

I think @"Swan"'s observation pertains to the realm of "human nature", which is indeed very much a topic discussed in philosophy.

Has anyone here other than @"PoeticUniverse" read the above post (quoted for verification of antecedent) end-to-end without even skipping parts?

It's like saying, "If there is a god, you will weigh five lbs more than you weigh", or "... you will run five miles an hour faster than you run," etc....

That's just as much baloney as the idea of a holy trinity. Let's assume that you're right. I am now X. But if there is a god, then I am X+Y. So I am X...

I am sure it's @"3017amen". The rest of us are pretty stupid so we act reasonably. That's what I'd say.

Silly me... I thought he and she and he and he (have taken two electives in my pursuing a degree in math, and after that, many years later, I audited ...

Don't beat yourself to death. Albert Einstein started his theory of relativity with one single badass philosophical thought: "What if the speed of lig...

My teachers only opened my eyes... I do all the thinking. To me philosophy is a way of exercising my freedom to develop my thinking. It is a similar e...

I made up a triparteid model of love in my silly, frivolous youth. Love is a combination of three parts: 1. Fear of the loved one. Which we rather cal...

I googled it and posted it, too... in this thread, for Cram. It turns out that the name "law of cause and effect" was first coined and in use by some ...

This is true. Sorta. What you said can be a valid corollary of Hume's claim, although Hume came at it from a different angle. But Hume's rejection can...

Whatever I am: conditioned by culture, beleiving in pieces of information that imperfect people gave me: I am still me. I am I, and I am not not I. I ...

I quoted you VERBATIM. Then you called me babbling. What does that say about your opinion? To me it means, that you were babbling in the first place. ...

So the fear factor is that you accept the unproven as proven, and as such, you accept it to be the premise on which an argument is built to lead you t...

@"NilsArnold", please read the help files that describe the mechanics of the quoting system and other shortcuts on this site. They make sense, and mas...

Yeah, that has been proven to me in another thread. But it is not possible to change monikers, apparently.

That is unfortunate. And it was avoidable.

Obviously you never seen my family physician's prescriptions.

I am not sure if it's "truth" that philosophy ever provides. It is more like "search for the truth", or "You must accept my views, and I can prove it ...

Sartre was much more complex than your questions implicate. His transphenomenal being of consciousness was the post-modernist denial by the dualists o...

This is worth some thought. Can you give me an example of a common and not extraordinary logically chosen action by a person who follows ethical logic...

Yeah, it is the moniker for the moderator of another philosophy online club who is an absolute ruler of that forum. He tramples over other people, he ...

Energy (all kinds, not just kinetic) is equalivalent to potential to perform work. Therefore it can also be expressed as force acted over a distance, ...

Please understand: I am not your paid teacher.

So sorry, you have to answer these two questions for yourself. I am not going into an infinite regress of enlightening you.

I'm not going into a discussion of infinite regress of questions by you asking me to define things for you. Sorry; that's not my cup of tea.

There are tons of reasons. 1. To help you oppress a great number of people at once, without too much effort. 2. To help you make people behave in cert...

For the same reason or mental process which enables humans to create fiction. It only takes a leap of faith to take fiction for reality.

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