Thorongil

I'm not either. He seems to think that any argument that accounts for horrors in general accounts necessarily for any specific horrors, no matter how ...

>:O Define soul.

What do you mean by logical consistency? The principle of non-contradiction? You think God is the principle of non-contradiction? That is incoherent.

I don't understand your reply, but that might be because I'm mostly ignorant of formal logic. I will simply reiterate that to say that God is a necess...

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Thomas won't take this betrayal lying down, sucka: https://media.giphy.com/media/oq0nnik1AjB3G/giphy.gif

I liked Thomas the Tank Engine better.

How is this not making the same contradictory point but with different vocabulary? How is "affect without input" different from "force without consent...

I don't think that's what he's doing, though. I've struggled with this too, but I think the claim is that if God exists, then he exists necessarily (c...

You don't know this, though. You seem to be taking certain physicists' word for it, who tend to be ignorant of philosophy, that time began with the Bi...

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What if I told you it bothers me?

Maybe this is a slam poetry contest in disguise.

Off topic, but why the hell do you always have several lines worth of space before you begin your comment? Is that part of the wisdom of pomo or somet...

I see. I should've known. This little trick was used by the Church Fathers. It's rather irritating in its unfalsifiability, but I guess I must grant i...

Ah, shoot. I read a "not" that wasn't there. To be honest, I was expecting you to answer that Mithras does not exist. That you think he does is even m...

Okay. Then you mean "no." :-| So why is your God real but Mithras not? If you answer that you have in some way experienced God, then what distinguishe...

This is false. A fetus, by definition, attempts to live and grow unless impeded from doing so by external factors. The crying is concomitant with tryi...

"It?" Does the being signified by the name Mithras exist?

You exist at the moment of conception. You're apparently trying to say that you don't exist until you're born, which is absurd.

Does Mithras exist or is he a figment of Roman soldiers' imaginations?

This thread seems pretentious.

I'm not saying it isn't true. I'm saying that it doesn't say what anti-natalists want it to say and/or imply. Yes it does.

It's only true in the trivial sense that you didn't exist prior to being born, which is in fact a mere tautology, but not in the sense that you were f...

All you have established is that, at minimum and with no other considerations, this is what life's purpose is. It could be that life has some other pu...

"Thrown" has implicit normative connotation. It implies that someone who already exists is forced to do something without their consent. But as I argu...

This appears to be your answer to why instrumentality is a problem. The problem with it is that, instead of merely acknowledging the fact that human b...

And I disputed this claim you have quoted. What are you talking about? I answered the question you asked in this quote. Then you presuppose the mainte...

But they have. It is implicitly agreed upon so long as one upholds the law and desires its just emendation, respects the rights of others, and looks t...

But even granting the truth of this claim, which I am not entirely convinced of, the absence of a need to produce need does not, in itself, constitute...

Outside of the obvious biological answer to your question, the most cogent that I have found, though not quite fully assented to, is that we have a du...

Noble Dust the prophet.

And if you keep this act up, I predict no one will be reading yours, since you'll be banned.

You're repeating the same false accusations here. No, I'm not. Reading comprehension is not your strong suit it seems. Once again, repeating this does...

Wow. This is so ridiculous that I'm not entirely sure you're being serious! First, no, I'm not in favor of child labor or racial discrimination. For y...

You're trying to make marginal cases the normative ones. Sorry, these are red herrings. I'd like an answer to my question without offensive insinuatio...

So, back when we didn't pump billions into education, didn't have a department of education, etc, US students were receiving an inferior education to ...

You might want to look up Einstein's definition of insanity.

Then you face the empirical problem of how the ever increasing billions spent on education hasn't translated into students being better educated.

Vague. Vague. Ah, money and property. Vague. Vague. Vague. Which will cost money. From whom? What do we cut from the budget to do this? Why would this...

I'm less well read of Nietzsche, but from my limited knowledge of him, I'd say I agree. The early Nietzsche is the most interesting, in my opinion, be...

The Agu/Beebert battle commences once again. >:O

What is the purpose of reproducing? From a biological perspective, it's to create more human beings. Obviously. But let's cut to the chase: What you r...

Ah, so "you" really means "most people." I find complaining about what cannot be changed to be rather tiresome. Condemning the masses for their ignora...

Right, but the unstated punch line is that you and the OP cast normative judgment on the hedonic treadmill just described. You think it's a bad thing ...

Or perhaps for reasons other than these. Why do you insist on being a mind reader here? And surely you're open to a tu quoque reply: "If you're trying...

No, your brain pumps chemicals into your body. Minds pumping any kind of physical matter is incoherent. This is demonstrably false. There are probably...

Hmm?

Yes, too often people assume that pleasure is the highest good, as apparently the OP did, and so are really hedonists or sensualists, whether they rea...

This depends on what you mean by these terms. What is the pleasure in question? There are some pleasures I don't want to experience, such as those fou...