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What does this mean? I don't get it. You could have skipped responding to my post if you didn't like it for whatever reason.

"Happy" is an irritating word, so you can keep it.

Nah, I think it fit and I'm not changing it. I've clarified it and that's that. Nor am I making any arguments.

I never said nor meant to imply that he did these things. I was talking about myself, which I have now said twice. I am, too. Now don't make me repeat...

But he's not really refuting the phrase I used. Read your quote again. Obviously, what he means by "religious" is not what I mean by it. That's why I ...

The World as Will and Presentation (Schopenhauer)

As Einstein said of himself, at the moment, I am a deeply religious non-believer. That is, I meditate, pray, practice celibacy, and try to emulate Jes...

Xunzi the real stud, amirite?

I can't pick just one. I'd say these, though: Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. If not the most overrated, then certainly these are ...

Yeah, so? That doesn't refute my distinction.

They're matched by his biblical commentaries. I'm not so sure. I understand that for Aristotle the forms are inextricably bound with matter in an obje...

I've not and have debated whether to add it to my list. Still, considering his total output, the vast majority of it is theological. I would actually ...

The first Critique, the essay on religion within the limits of reason, and various other places throughout his oeuvre. I would include whatever essay ...

"During love" doesn't make any sense. If one is having sex, there isn't anything one is doing in addition to that. And one does it because it brings o...

Because Kant has some of the most penetrating philosophical insights into the nature of religion. Once he's done with the praeambula fidei, which does...

Given this list, I said Kant.

I should think the onus is on you to defend the claim. I will simply say that sex is an amoral act, whereas an act of love is intrinsically moral.

One could argue that, certainly, but I would disagree.

Love =//= sex.

That report is false. http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/yes-japanese-people-still-have-sex/ http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/10/...

I don't know. You'd have to provide some statistics to back this claim up. It seems perfectly possible and reasonable to me that a doctor, upon hearin...

No. You could go to the doctor claiming to feel depressed and he or she might not diagnose you. Normal depression is not medically diagnosable, becaus...

Vague but not non-existent. Medical professionals have good reasons for classifying it as such. Unless you're well read in the psychiatric literature ...

The former is diagnosed by a doctor, the latter is not. I mean "wrong" with respect to one's health, not in a moral sense. Clinical depression is clas...

You need to distinguish clinical depression from non-clinical depression. If you're talking about the latter, then I actually agree with you. If you'r...

Inequity refers to a lack of justice, so it's by definition wrong. Inequality, on the other hand, is not necessarily wrong. Be careful not to confuse ...

Aquinas says basically this: Group think and peer pressure.

My point was that we have and other websites have (like Reddit) and we don't like the results. I don't anyway.

That results in sheer abuse, as it did on the old forum. This better not turn into Reddit, which is an absolute pit.

A lot of those questions I disputed, because there was no good answer. I would describe myself variously as a classical liberal, constitutional conser...

Dead center in the first and business conservative in the second. Neither seem all that useful.

You have it backwards, historically speaking. It's the toiling majority who provide the surplus necessary for the minority to pursue their interests.

This is falsely dichotomous, it seems to me. Are you really saying that all atheists, or Buddhists or Taoists for that matter, worship Mammon in some ...

The Pensees is on my list to read at some point, but do you think you could summarize these? If not, that's okay, as I'm probably asking a lot.

"Any God" and "Good God" are not the same thing. :-| Whatever, though. We seem to be done here.

I've understood the logic for some time now, Cava. But you still refuse to provide me with a definition of "God." You use this word as if I know what ...

So what? I don't know what you're getting at. Why do I have to have a conception of God? The onus is on you to provide one if you wish me to wager tha...

About doxastic voluntarism? I don't see how what you say above is a reply to my comment on that. What do you mean by the second of these sentences? Yo...

I'm assuming you're going to respond to my post to you above, but I had some other things to say about this below: What if God privileges honest disbe...

I wouldn't claim my irritation is anything other than my own. As for your other claim, I think you're being wildly pedantic. So? Nowhere does it say t...

I can't tell if you're being serious here. It's a really irritating response in either case. Then most Buddhists would probably say no. However, certa...

No.

It could have consequences, just not violent ones. One consequence would be that Muslims are persuaded to abandon their faith. Another would be that S...

"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the forme...

Well, see, this is what I think is the case. The claim is not threatening any physical violence against people. It's a declaration against a set of id...

Not a believing one, at the moment, but I don't mind the label. No. As I've told you before, this depends on what you mean by "God."

The goal in Buddhism is nirvana, which is the end of suffering and the liberation of one from samsara (the cycle of birth and death). I never said any...

They all promise more or less the same thing: self-transformation and an end to suffering.

You're going to have to flesh this scenario out a bit.