Gregory

I am not sure when this happens. But women should take responsibility for their acts. "You don't bury someone who might be alive"

When does a person become a person?

I feel like your post was unnecessarily complex. If wombs were transparent, would you still feel the same way?

I think it's more likely a zygote is a person than a cyst. The cyst has my DNA. But point taken. I don't know when you can take life. I will continue ...

Do you find materialism satisfying? I like it but if it's not your cup of tea there is much in philosophy, religion, and spirituality to consider

Your argument fails because you have to balance the claims of the NT with all the other miraculous claims of the ancient world. The NT was written by ...

Physics seems flawed to me in ways. It seems axiomatic that laws can't change because identical objects act identically. If they didn't physics would ...

Here's someone who does think they have found the nature of reality, and along very Buddhist lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3mMZblq0U

By primate, I meant a gorilla ect. Those beings

I agree abortion seems wrong, but so does killing a primate. Unless we define exactly what is human life and then what exactly is personhood, the safe...

My conclusion from your post is that we can say Jesus was an enlightened person, understanding theology and philosophy. The part about his virgin birt...

I've discussed why Christianity is an immoral system in detail on this forum. My words are only for those who are interested in Christian apologetics

I respect you as an elder but I have a few javolins which I know take down Christian apologetics. In fact I have many. I see no reason I can't use the...

Well if you don't want to learn that is on you

Yes I do. Aquinas is fun to read but he is a sophist. I am concerned about people hiding their guilt with the Jesus story if I know them. On this foru...

I don't know what your getting at. I refuted Christianity

I don't have enemies. I argue these matters with academic interest

Christianity says the explanation of the world is that three people were given all goodness by reality. I find it a ridiculous philosophical tradition...

If people have guilt and don't believe there is some true ontological cure for it, i see them as hopeless. Christianity says it's indeed hopeless exce...

As I said, it's fantasy

At the library once I searched a bunch of articles on Descartes and animals. It seems unclear whether he held they had no thoughts whatsoever or only ...

Christianity just ties people in knots over their guilt. Catholics believe even when your repentance is not enough to eradicate guilt, confession magi...

The only historical evidence of Jesus having super power comes from his disciples and Josephus, who also was a Christian. Every religion claims miracl...

Christianity is actually about what you call "magical salvation" . In the court of justice you can't substitute one person's act for another. In the c...

Christians judge all the time. Instead of judging Jesus as not existing, they judge the atheists for being non-believers. Their faith is one out of th...

It's rooted in either something that happened to you or a chemical imbalance. So figuring yourself on this is first key, and if that doesn't help and ...

The key is to avoid depersonalization disorder (see Google for symptoms) as one travels the spiritual path

I think the further we go back in history (studying texts), the less likely it is that we are really understanding the language because language chang...

Where's your evidence?

It does exist as an experience, but yes nothing doesn't exist. This is why an afterlife is possible

I would never call the world Maya, although we may never know it in itself. However, for what it's worth, i'd say that truth and consciousness are rea...

Less concrete. He sounds like a Zen Buddhist to me

I think Dennet is saying that qualia is substance -less. It is not in a simple soul and not a power coming out of the body. Feelings are nothingness f...

Hegel thought everything, history AND thought, moved by way of syllogism. Everything was logic, leading to the ultimate conclusion known as the Absolu...

We assume consciousness is a substance, an entity, when it may be a nothingness

Reading Hegel is like a game. You have to try to figure out what he is getting at all the time. He hardly defines his terms, ever. So I enjoy it. His ...

Most of what I hear from Wittgenstein is trivial. So far I haven't seen a strong, solid idea from him

If I'm not mistaken, Wittgenstein would say every word is translatable from one language into any other. He says the private experience of the word is...

Does not the private language argument amount to saying everything can be expressed in language. "It depends on the language, culture, and biology" is...

Wittgenstein wanted to find a universal algorithm for human language. Herder of Germanycenturies before post modernist thinkers had already told the F...

I've seen these kind of objections to Hegel, but the more I read him the more I don't see it. I'd bet if you read the post modernist in context, it ca...

When you take your first breath you accept life with all its consequences. Einstein said the foremost question in philosophy is whether the world is g...

It seems to me post modernism wants to root language and knowledge in biology and culture, which might put too much pressure on Wittgenstein's positio...

Are there like 8 or 9 types of pancychism?

Sounds like you must become Catholic. My logic never forces me into a religion like you. Christians are willing to murder for God, put their own respo...

Jesus said "this is my blood, take and drink". You have to think multi-dimensionally, going from one set of beliefs to another. If this was in an Indi...

The substance view of God that Christians have is illogical, for how can a person be striving, working, fighting, and doing in itself? A person can't ...

I've found that putting questions of religion into "premise-conclusion structure" only takes away from clarity of thought on these issue. Catholics be...

Maybe God is going to make heaven a torture chamber for Christians, where they will for all eternity offer up their suffering to his glory. How about ...

You, sir or mis, are clearly an immoral person