god must be atheist

This is patently false. People can put a lot, and I mean a LOT of thought into arbitrary decisions. Your claim is not valid.

There are two ways of creating a definition: by consensus, or by declaration. In language we create definition by consensus. In science and in philoso...

I really wanted to contribute to this topic. I tried my best, but I could not. What's wrong with me? It's the first time in my life I wanted to voice ...

This is what I am disputing. Standards of poverty are not absolute, but relative, and hence, arbitrary. I can't deal making absolute judgments based o...

Then you don't feel the wind in your hair. Sometime you have to let your hair down, the wind out, and mix the two. Or maybe not. Oy.

This is patently false. If you believe you have free will, but you don't, you were caused to believe that you have free will. There is no magic about ...

I am sure the opposite happens all the time. (Your changing your mind on the conviction whether there is free will or not.)

Think public resistence to general medicare introduced in the USA. Same difference. Please I beg you to work it out for yourself, because the concept ...

1. Prohibition: Practicing torture by United States Citizens is illegal, and is considered to be immoral and below the dignity of a person who is a fr...

1. Outer shell: God makes everything happen. 2. Except in the case of Free Will given to man. 3. Except free will was given to man by god. 4. Except g...

Who is "us"? Is the entire population poor?

The REAL cause of poverty is the arbitrary setting of the measures of income and of asset possession, which have nothing to do with anything, but with...

While those who stand a higher risk to be fired would prefer a social-economic system of protective socialism, the workers who go on working would ten...

Yikes... the big difference between science and technical analysis in the investment field is that science theories, after gaining support by evidence...

Say "hello" to the Brave New World full of Avatars. Say good-bye to the necessity of physical experience. Just plug me into making out with and Bob is...

I.e., there is no such thing as anything.

If one of you is called Hugh, then the assertion "The difference is huge, of Hugh's views on use of "use"." would make perfect sense.

Metaphysical Undercover would probably dismiss yours as a "blanket statement". Remember, s/he is into undercover, not blankets.

That's the first thing that pooped into my mind, too. The young child probably meant "shit" by "function". Sub "pooh pooh" for "function" and it all m...

Ize... Philo majors don't make any money. So they DEPEND on public hand-outs. Eco and finance people, and esp. lawyers, make lots of money, so they do...

Dear Pantagruel, our stances are getting wider and wider apart, instead of approaching each other. I suggest that our opinions are so very irreconcila...

I like this quota system. Can I quota you on this? Quota is the currency of self-control. With some activities, you collect and stockpile quota, with ...

The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? None else but death.

Okay, I got it. I was confused because "not facing up to" is a bit different from "lack of concern toward". Lack of concern acknowledges or rather, do...

I liked your art of describing art, philosophy, and, well, and everything else. It had a good flow, a good rhythm. To me it was unreadable after the f...

two of his older songs -- due to both lyrics and music -- make me cry every time I hear them. "Mighty Quinn" and "Watchtower". MQ is about a pusher wh...

Lots of salt-water or brime marinated fish and steaks. It was the most economic thing to do under the circumstances.

I'm all for throwing out the ten commandments. And replacing them with ten new commandments. Reading word-for-word the same. (God walks the face of th...

People no longer live by the words of the Bible. Actually, never have. Better books on management techniques have been written by experts since the fi...

Yeah... reality... fucking know-it-all.

Well, I hope to hell there are no real fish in my water form the well.

I concur. Is reality wrong?

Well, I was right with the "William". Ought to have quit while I was still ahead and stop at William. Another poet: "I was so much older then... I'm y...

"The child is father to the man." I think William Shakespeare.

Why is not being concerned by fear cowardice? Isn't it more like bravery? A brave person disregards his or her own fear, and enters a dangerous situat...

In my books that's good enough to define the real me. What, in your view, would constitute a real person? What you wrote is what comprises a real pers...

Those are adorable!! I would so much like to make mad and passionate love to them!

True. There are lots of reasons to believe in god. But they are not good reasons. Not even one of them.

I accept altruism, But I maintain that altruism is never selfless. This seems to be a contradiction in terms, as altruism means doing good deed selfle...

Snowflakes are more random than not, I'd venture to say. Because their cristalline forms are determined by the angle hydrogen and oxygen atoms form in...

The way you proposed this point, everything is a question of fundamental belief. Other than a priori truths. I think we have to step beyond just belie...

You mean, of the kind, "Lefties don't exist! A leftie is like a flying teacup on an orbit around the sun. I can only believe, not know per se, that it...

this is funny in a scary and morbid sort of way.

Or the birds. We don't mind eating chicken and turkey, but god forbid that we condone cats eating them wild birds. In fact, people wanted to do someth...

As scientists, yes. As an individual, to whom this may happen, I think I am being overly pessimistic, and full of fear, that consciousness would occur...

I'm afraid that I have to eat my hat and agree with you. Mind you, there is a little truth in my fear of boredom. I am retired, with not much to do. T...

I think sushi is right about the fear part, but not on the part of what we fear. In my opinion it's not failure we fear, but more, horrendously extens...

Think of involuntary euthanasia. Much like in humans: not being aware, or not precognizing, that you are about to be killed; and you are killed in a w...

Right. I have no arguments against that.

In general, the physics qualities of randomized orderliness is harder to describe. If you take a cube or a round ball, you can describe the physics of...