god must be atheist

thanks, Wayfearer. I mean Welfarer! I mean Wayfaroere!!!! I mean Wai Fe-lel!!!!! I mean WAYFARER!!!! Sorrry.

I just started a different, that is, distinct, thread, on the same principle, but expanded into the superstructure of things in this universe. There i...

@Possibility, we argued about the free will in past posts. You finally appealed to authority, saying you agree with Descartes and subscribe to his "pr...

Once I argued EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE to a manager of a store when I wanted to return an item, and I suspect he was a Philosophy major, because he conced...

Hurray. I subscribe gladly to this. Until a better one comes along. My proposal for a more precise and more rigorously defined alternative set of word...

What is matter made of? I think a better question is, "is matter made of anything?" This is ambiguous, it sounds like a challenge to creationists.So y...

It's a hard question to decide, not only seeing the evidence laid up before us, but because some soldiers are baited to join the armed forces, some ar...

I understood probably only the first half of the first paragraph of the OP. The rest spake eloquent Greek to me. This post by me did not rely on prior...

The heretobyfollowing are not subject to having been researched in the works of Hume, Pythagoras and Anaxagoreas. So you can get incredibly upset and ...

You ask nice, pertinent, valid, unanswerable questions. My advice is wait until you die, and then PAY REAL CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.

"I am a good liar, if not the best." This makes things even more uncomfortable. And you and devil, because I DID go to the market today. I bought some...

Meaning?

I beleive there IS true happiness... it just does not last for very long at any time. But hey, you have your belief, and I have mine. And mine is not ...

I would go one step further and claim that a truly equanimic person ACTS on his own emotions, which act for him is the lack of action. He may feel hun...

1. This can be verified by research, or debunked. I demand you do the research, since you suggested this. (I am being an asshole like so many who dema...

Frantisek Kaffka and Gerhardt Oberhauptfuhrer Nietzsche* were two truly alienated people who wrote excellent, long, and many books. And you can't get ...

I thought everyone wrote books, stories, poetry. That's why it's no longer possible to get published. There are other advantages of single-celled orga...

If you accept the above -- and you don't have to or need to, this is not scripture -- but if you do; or else if someone says, "given the above", then ...

All the above I fully accept. With complete equanimity. In fact, I wish I had thought of saying it, and now I am sad because I had not. I should have ...

according to the news item, this is a research finding. But I can't research who did the research and wht their tools were. You can check it out yours...

oops. Only one choice is possible, no matter how many possibilities are presented. This is the bread and butter of the "no free will possible" camp. H...

War has its own laws, but it ignores a great number of laws that civil societies in the western democratic societies enforce on individuals. War is no...

So aside from learning knowledge how to kill the enemy AND survive at the same time, a German soldier is burdened with having to deal with and make ac...

I don't know what equanimity means. So I looked up the meaning. It is (more-or-less) accepting good and bad; staying calm; not getting upset; etc. Thi...

I, personally, after graduating from university, joined Internet philosophy forums. They were parts of dating sites then, but the format and the dialo...

You say "that" graph. Which graph? "Add in"? The graph already contains its entire domain and range of the graph. I had not even once suggested to tru...

I think common sense does see that vaccines help stave off illness. It may not have been common sense opinion in the nineteenth century, but it was in...

This is also very reasonable. Thanks, T Clark.

Thanks, this makes sense, and I should have known. But I did not.

I accept your disagreement, but I see no reason accompanying your opinion. I offer my opinion that you are wrong about my being wrong. My opinion is b...

I would say there is, but this is not a thread to discuss that notion in detail. If you like, I can open a thread with the post "is common sense some ...

Thanks, Possibility. This is what I had always thought, until a demand came to two separate posts of mine, to name where the author stated what was my...

Thanks for your input. Valuable insights. Negative input: it bothers me as much as it does the next person, but per se it does not bother me all that ...

I agree that this site is evidence/proof positive. There is nothing wrong with that. What I am against is when reason alone is sufficient to show a po...

Divorce. Christian divorce, in the sense of the Roman Catholic Church. 1. Marriage is a sanctity, and it ought to last until the death of at least one...

Mud-slinging. The last resource of low-life on the Internet when their hate has no other outlet. What is your point, other than expressing extreme hat...

That is correct. I was making an opinion on Wittgenstein's entire work, and not making an opinion on a specific quote or passage in his works. Dear Lu...

Okay. I can easily accept that. Seeing I know nothing about what makes up matter.

I beg to differ. I think you have a mental block accepting the causality in the universe. That's a big hindrance in intelligent conversation, when the...

And you are saying this is not an arbitrarily thought-up definition of poverty. You are saying this is not the brain child of some think-tank who had ...

When I said Witty talks about the original use of a word, or the original use of language, I meant to say he did not spell that out, but obviously he ...

I think Witty talks about the origin of usage; and usage is different from the origin of usage. The origin of usage is using a word in a particular wa...

She did not say this, and she denied the validity of valid arguments. I am sorry, I don't have the patience to continue doing a quixotic battle agains...

NKBJ, in my humble opinion, and this is external to our debate here, and I don't want to influence anyone else with this opinion, not even you, but on...

I am afraid I can't tell you what you want to hear. I could tell you how things in the environment change, which cause you (or me or anyone else) to c...

Okay, NKBJ: I appeal to human nature when I say that the more disenfranchised, the poorer, the more marginalized somebody is, the more likely it is th...

I have a transparent face. Many people have told me that.

stuff. Matter is made of stuff. I am not kidding. This is the latest (of what I have heard) theory in physics. Matter is stuff.

Well, then, Pantargruel, if you believe in free will, then you can do that only if you throw away the entire set of cause-effect relationships, and al...

This is a nosequiteur. You are stating here that arbitrary does not make sense. You are illogical there. You state that relative makes sense because i...