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Thorongil

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Classical theism

December 07, 2016 at 02:30 79 comments Philosophy of Religion

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June 01, 2018 at 21:22
Yes, he's right about this.
May 31, 2018 at 17:03
I don't understand the grammar of the question. Are you asking for a worldview that accepts the existence of the soul but does not think the soul has ...
May 31, 2018 at 17:01
However, these figures are all still socially conservative, as far as I know, which to me is a primary line of demarcation between a leftist and a non...
May 31, 2018 at 16:57
I agree with you that it was. In fact, the opposite of what he suggested is true, I would argue. The Enlightenment was the birth of liberal Christiani...
May 31, 2018 at 04:24
The concept of the soul is not found in all religions. And it's likely that what you're thinking of by "the concept of the soul" is not what religions...
May 31, 2018 at 03:45
Yes, there are almost as many definitions as there are scholars of religion. It's certainly the largest, most protracted dispute in the field. Finding...
May 31, 2018 at 03:39
Dude, it's FAFSA.
May 24, 2018 at 01:40
True.
May 16, 2018 at 21:10
Psychoanalysis is fun, ain't it? Two can play at that game, but I'll be the better man and refuse.
May 16, 2018 at 20:20
Yes, please let's.
May 16, 2018 at 20:10
Nothing of the kind occurs with you and your buddies. It's a waste of time. And now I'm telling you that I'm going to stop doing that. So you would li...
May 16, 2018 at 20:05
Speak for yourself, bigot.
May 16, 2018 at 20:01
The last few pages haven't been surprising at all. People don't have straight what I said or what I was responding to at all. I'm glad I didn't descen...
May 16, 2018 at 18:39
If you haven't seen this script before, you're either playing dumb (most likely) or incredibly naive. I'm not wrong, but there's no use in trying to s...
May 15, 2018 at 21:57
You're only proving my point, yet again. I would post statistics, you would post yours. I would dispute yours, and you would disagree with that and we...
May 15, 2018 at 21:51
Now I'm an alt-right goon. Got it.
May 15, 2018 at 21:50
Yes you are baiting me into what you already know would be an utterly fruitless debate about several large politicized topics. You are never going to ...
May 15, 2018 at 21:00
Now you're a broken record. If the first bait didn't work, why try it again? Are you bored over there in Thailand?
May 15, 2018 at 20:40
You're such a transparent liar.
May 15, 2018 at 20:36
Stop baiting. You're just proving my point.
May 15, 2018 at 20:24
You would say that.
May 15, 2018 at 20:20
No. If you really cared you would look them up yourself. If Erik is curious, I will strike up a convo via PM. You aren't worth my time, and I think yo...
May 15, 2018 at 20:18
Going by anecdotal experience cuts both ways, as many blacks are racist against whites. My only contention is that the feelings you spoke of are not s...
May 15, 2018 at 20:01
All false or misleading at best.
May 15, 2018 at 17:58
Key word there. Reality is another story.
May 15, 2018 at 17:41
No, the point isn't about raising and nurturing, but creating a life.
May 15, 2018 at 17:12
Yes, only Baden and Maw are allowed to be sarcastic. When they do it, it's apparently not sarcasm, but thuper therious points being made. Right. I wil...
May 15, 2018 at 16:11
Wait don't tell me: they just wanted to plant flowers in Israel and sing kumbaya, of course!
May 15, 2018 at 16:02
Imagine the border was open and the advance of these protesters was met with no resistance. What, exactly, do you think would happen?
May 15, 2018 at 16:00
I find that when pressed on the alleged "nothing" out of which these particle originate, it is not nothing after all.
May 15, 2018 at 15:48
One reason would be that the principle is a priori. If you can establish that something has occurred for no reason at all, then be my guest. I don't t...
May 15, 2018 at 15:38
Right, so you were incorrect.
May 15, 2018 at 15:33
The reason no proof is required is that you employ the principle in trying to refute it. It is thus axiomatic.
May 15, 2018 at 15:01
They weren't.
May 15, 2018 at 14:58
Okay. Seems you're a utilitarian, then. That wasn't my argument. I'm not an antinatalist, remember. But this logic cuts both ways, so the procreator i...
May 13, 2018 at 23:14
No one reads.
May 13, 2018 at 17:03
In Kant, it's found in the CPR at the very end of the Remark on the Amphiboly of Concepts of Reflection. Schopenhauer discusses it in WWR Vol. 1, pg. ...
May 12, 2018 at 18:40
I think they use Latin terms, which may obscure the concepts. I can try looking it up.
May 12, 2018 at 18:02
This surprises me. It's a distinction found in Kant and Schopenhauer. It's crucial for Schopenhauer's soteriology in particular.
May 12, 2018 at 17:58
That's not atheism. That's simple non-theism. It's meant to obviate the need to argue for atheism. Your typical nu atheist who spouts this nonsense is...
May 12, 2018 at 17:17
No, the negation is to the obverse of the original claim, which is that scientific claims are falsifiable. So I am negating that claim by saying that ...
May 12, 2018 at 17:07
Is it? I seem to recall a poll on that, but I've forgotten the results. It wouldn't surprise me, as materialism is the default metaphysical position o...
May 12, 2018 at 17:02
I found this work to be obscurantist drivel the first time I tried reading it. Maybe I will understand it better if I have something to look for in it...
May 12, 2018 at 17:00
This describes relative nothing, which is similar to, as you say, the hyper-thingness of God in Aquinas. God is not a thing, and so "nothing," but not...
May 12, 2018 at 16:59
Yes, this eloquently describes the trap I spoke of. When we speak of absolute nothing, we're not talking about "something" to which these words refer,...
May 12, 2018 at 00:49
Nothing. Language is playing tricks on you. Absolute nothing cannot strictly be thought or even spoken of. Do you accept the principle of sufficient r...
May 11, 2018 at 23:48
I don't, that's the point. And not only don't I know it, I can't know it. I don't know. Maybe. I'd have to know more about what you mean by these term...
May 11, 2018 at 22:59
To know what is not is a contradiction in terms.
May 11, 2018 at 22:37