This is a statement with no support and I challenge you to explain it. First off, of course, we have to define the god concept. God is supernatural, a...
I don't know what it means to respond to visual art aesthetically. I like to look at pretty pictures, but my preference in visual arts is huge landsca...
I would use the word "belief system". Religions necessarily involve a god figure, and the supernatural; atheism does not. That's a HUGE difference. Bu...
I concur. My posts are normally short and sweet, and people still (on another site, not here) only respond to the meaning covered in half of my senten...
Whew! What a relief. Thanks. You have a nice n superb command of English. And you know how to use a computer for more things than the mainstream. I me...
You made me think. Truth as such can take some differing forms: 1. logical truhts, math truths, 2. empirical truths (finding real material world as it...
Oops, I screwed up big time. I was sure theorems were unproven theories. My ignorance. Totally. But now I KNOW the meaning of the expression "Theorem"...
In a way, this theorem by Godel is recursive, or self-reiterating. "I can't prove this, but you can accept it as truth, that things can be accepted as...
@"TheMadFool" (et al) this is a theorem by Godel, not a proof. So it stands to be proven or to find counter-examples that prove it wrong. Therefore yo...
Guilty as charged. I can't read. I have a real serious problem with ADD or ADHD. I can't read long texts, and can't read anything that tires me out an...
I am sorry, but what you said ("she is feisty") sounds dismissive of Swan's worth. She may be passionate about her ideas, but so am I, and you, and mo...
I hear ya. The world consists of two types of people: the righteous and the great unwashed. And it's always the righteous who do the dividing. -- A gr...
A mutual misunderstanding is a double-edged sword. Person A thinks person B misundersands concept Z; but Person B is clear what concpet Z is, but in h...
Absolutely. By-the-by: @Swan, is your post above mine a response to Coben trying to explain to him what you think he does not understand? If yes, mayb...
Clintons... could they be related to the race Clingons? From StarTrek. If anyone remembers that show. There is a strong resemblance in facial features...
Absolutely. An ideology which is different in being devoid of religion or god(s). I know that it's not the case in your little world, but it is the ca...
How do you explain then the atheist movement, the secular movement, the agnostic movement, and the fact that 200 years ago everyone was religious, wit...
This is a valid question, Coben, but she may want to reply with reiterating what she said to you in her last post to you here. Aside from that, if you...
I promised I won't jump in, but yet I jump in. I reason on my defence that my promise has concerned the core argument. Here, I just wish to interject ...
How could I put it. How can we agree with your points (not a specific one, but any one of them) while disagreeing with them? We need a sample text. Or...
Reason has no gender. It's not a she or a he. It is an it. Where did you get the idea that Reason is female? Because you keep fucking it? (Sorry about...
"War is the ultimate diplomacy." Reparations are made when the victors feel like it. This is not ethical, or just, or right, it ONLY IS SO. Much like ...
Not only is the car not necessarily morally valuable, but the evaluator -- who is a subject -- is not making a moral valuation. Do you agree with that...
In reality anyone can value anything without making it morally valuable. — god must be atheist @Bartricks, I challenge you to show me where my claim i...
@"Bartricks", I challenge you to show me where my claim is wrong. In particular, if I value a car, to be worth $5000, I claim I am not making a moral ...
Luckily, God in Its omnipotence, can erase history and restart the whole thing from point zero, with some changes implemented that differ from the pre...
Sadly, this seems to be the case every time philosophers drag the duality of gender into consideration in their discourses. (Editing of the original q...
The problem of Evil and FreeWill has been likened in my bicycling group (we do 2 Km of bicycling every other day) to the problem of E-Wheel and Free W...
On art and on beauty I can only come up with two source reasons, why they would appeal to the human viewer. We can thank our surviving partly to likin...
Yeah, these days there is not much interest in the philosophy of art and not much in the philosophy of nature, outside the latter of which being quant...
@"TheMadFool" How do you know you're going to die at one point? It is not proven that you'll die. Theoretically speaking, all living things are not pr...
@"TheMadFool", justification may be 100%, but justification may be not perfect, either. If no counter-examples are found, and no proof is presented, t...
@"Bartricks" I think it is also important to point out that I reject and resent your accusation of my not understanding an argument, my not knowing ho...
@"Bartricks" To continue the thought from my immediately preceding post: To wit, I corrected your saying to "... being morally valued", which you quaf...
This premis is wrong, @"Bartricks" In reality anyone can value anything withoiut making it morally valuable. This is the reason we keep telling your t...
To present your argument, this argument needs to be reworded, as it is rather sloppy as presented. 1. For something to be morally valuable, that somet...
I think he missed the point by a long shot. Societies survive which are fit to survive, and humans survive which are fit to survive. "Fittest" is not ...
Submission. To the will of an other. Hatred gets borne from the lack of control. Submission gets borne from the willing giving up of control. That's w...
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