Gregory

I wanted to add that the glare of computers and cell phones inherently draws in the attention of humans. We don't see people worshipping cars

I think movement is like quantity and Time like quality, so movement causes time to start. Hence we have a consistent materialistic model that has no ...

Maybe God can play tricks on us. ANyway, feeling like one does not exist is usually caused by lack of serotonin. It's the same situation as someone wh...

People structure their ideas differently. Smart people are those who have a complexity of thought or who are able to go down an avenue of thought that...

The tool of cell phones and computers have shades of HD color and perspective that deeply affects the human psychy. This is especially true when seein...

To religious fanatics I sing with John Lennon "you claim to be majority, well you know that it's a lie, you're really a minority"

Maybe JFK was killed in the future and true time is like a kaleidoscope. We line events up, but that could be how our intuition works at a normal spee...

Aquinas and Augustine were compatabilists, so in their system they worshipped a god who set the stage such that most of humanity ends their destiny in...

Ye. I was just referring to those parts where he says to contemplate your death and have it before your eyes so that you can live. Maybe there is some...

I think he's been so disappointed in life that he feels his situation must be very unusual. I agree with you that many people are unhappy

My twin brother struggles with this issue. Somehow he thinks he is in a small minority of those who s lives are kinda shitty. Most other people, in hi...

However, maybe those suffering aren't suffering as much as you'd think and those having fun aren't having as much of it as you imagine.

Scholasticism was the work of the Catholic "schoolmen" who were usually Thomists. Aquinas and Augustine were both compatabilists

Isn't it possible Spinoza was a compatabilist? He did have learning in Scholasticism

Maybe in death we experience eternal calm without the annoyances of life. Would it matter a million years from now if ten years ago someone had more f...

I am not a psychologist, but you appear to have symptoms of depersonalization disorder. Philosophy won't help you. See a doctor? I use to worry about ...

Heidegger's analysis is very death oriented. Maybe when your time is near it will make more sense. Not to be morbid..

Randomness abides

Christianity may be the most elaborate attempt at establishing a religion ever executed (although the Mormons come to mind). It is no MORE a conspirac...

Basically I'm talking about paraconsistent logic under a Hegelian framework (the internet encyclopedia of philosophy has an article on this type of lo...

I wanted to resurrect this thread by adding something to it. We can place truth on one side and contradiction on the other. Contradiction may be compa...

"I came to have an insurmountable aversion to anything but the pursuits of Philosophy and General learning." Hume I am much the same way. He also said...

The barber shaves those who do not shave themselves. We add "and only those" because it does not say enough otherwise

The object of the thread has been a success. Theists are revealed as excusing God from morality because of his alleged mysteriousness. Sadly, they oft...

There is no paradox, but contradiction instead? Nop. He does not shave himself because he shaves only those who not shave themselves. The paradox is o...

The barber cannot shave himself because he shaves ONLY those who do NOT shave themselves. "Therefore he does not shave himself, making him the kind of...

Common sense, natural law, and reason. Every Christian, to a "man", I've asked if they would kill somebody if God asked them to said yes. I can't reas...

That's just hiding beyond esotericism in order to avoid the issues. Lions and dogs are probably, I would say certainly, innocent. Just because an inno...

You'd have to prove that simplicity is possible, that it exists, and that it is greater than matter

Evil can come from an innocent being or act. God could easily give pleasure in order to avoid things instead of pain. I've already said that other spe...

That's a terrible argument. Innocent beings can cause pain and suffer pain. Pain is useful for some species perhaps, but God's goodness is reflected i...

The new generation is rejecting theism. Fifty percent of young people don't believe in God. Good luck trying to convert over half the population somed...

Christianity and Islam posit the proposition that religious truth is invariant throughout history. The question of levels of truth is a sticky subject...

I think from the parts of Being and Time which I was reading today he is implying that being gives rise to time, and time gives rise to space. We see ...

I am just not going to get on this forum for awhile. You fanatical drug addicts can talk to other people who are NOT going to pay attention and who ar...

It is not anti-Semitic to say Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are all Satanic. When I say Satanic, I say it's an evil system of belief. Evil comes fr...

"Apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena" What religion people do all the time. They are on a...

I have many interesting threads. You have none. Let this thread go and I'll post on other threads instead

Then go somewhere else. We like to talk about INTERESTING things on this forum, not Christian crap all the time

If you want to go back to that. You need a transcendent reason to act good? I don't. The three monotheistic religions of the West are Satanic. A good ...

The practical and the theoretical are separate parts of the mind

Is it true you can doubt everything? Yes. That is a belief forced by the evidence. You can choose to doubt it. No problem with that. Is it true you do...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q54VyCpXDH8

No, everything can be doubted, even non-Euclidean geometry. Why does doubt scare you?

Religion is most usually fanatical. Have you seen this forum lately?

Nothing can be prove in philosophy in the sense of a Aristolean deduction. I don't trust Christians philosophical intuition at all

I don't judge people completely. I am not sure how to judge other species, but a rabbit and a sheep are innocent

Is there a buttery in a cosmic cup drinking cool-aid under a green sun? More probably than there being a God But you are right, talking about historic...

And you're not proposing philosophy by saying there is a unified personafied trinity of a God nature somewhere out there?

You don't believe in anything