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I feel like my case is strong. I've been very careful in my arguments against Christianity. Christianity has those four elements I've described that i...
August 11, 2020 at 23:57
Let me clarify this a little further. The Old Testament relates how the Jewish nation mass killed children and pregnant women of other nations because...
August 11, 2020 at 21:04
Is this supposed to mean something? No. I was asking if you have a problem with God telling people to try to kill innocent people, even their own fami...
August 11, 2020 at 20:28
That's not true. God supposedly can't tell someone to think, believe, or will something evil. So it wasn't evil for Abraham to walk up the mountain to...
August 11, 2020 at 20:26
False
August 11, 2020 at 18:57
It doesn't matter if an angel stopped it. God commanded Abraham to form the intention to kill, and he went up a mountain to do it. If God commands a C...
August 11, 2020 at 18:56
Christians usually put God's nature as the most prior within God. Nietzsche rightly asked where are God's victories then. We humans work and try to be...
August 11, 2020 at 18:41
I provided four examples of things which Christians, if they saw them in another religion, would consider Satanic. Since they are so close to their ow...
August 11, 2020 at 18:27
see my new thread on this
August 11, 2020 at 16:36
That is, philosophy can argue that the foundation is fundamental, or it can argue that the result is instead. Philosophy has a lot of perspectives. Re...
August 11, 2020 at 15:53
How do you know the result is not more real than the process?
August 11, 2020 at 15:49
Infinity merges with finitude, from which potency flows into actuality. The world is contingent but not such that you need a Aristotelian ontology. Th...
August 10, 2020 at 02:13
"Figure is nothing else but determination, and determination is negation." Spinoza , Epistle 50 So maybe there is the fundamental necessity, and then ...
August 10, 2020 at 00:31
Augustine and that tradition say suffering is a privation of reality. Von Balthazar was a traditionalist who thought that all evil was substantial, bu...
August 10, 2020 at 00:16
It's the standard position that has never been proved, and has been questioned since William of Ockham and Descartes primarily. Nowadays we might say ...
August 09, 2020 at 23:36
You didn't provide a single argument in your post. This is because you can't prove a division in objects between "structure, purpose, organisation" an...
August 09, 2020 at 22:53
Reading the book "The Secret", talking to Satan though you don't believe in him, and being sexually perfect seem me like the right road to me. That's ...
August 09, 2020 at 22:50
Prove it. Demonstrate what matter even is The philosophy you are quoting says objects are formed from pure matter and form. My question is, why only o...
August 09, 2020 at 21:56
Youre just being an asshole because you think everyone should believe in Super-Daddy so you feel better about your karma. There are many angles of loo...
August 09, 2020 at 21:49
The Christian God isn't. Being Satan, he told Abraham to murder his innocent son. Satan also (allegedly) sacrificed his son Jesus in order to save a w...
August 09, 2020 at 21:45
What causes God? He explains himself? Why not the world? Why can't the world have all the reality it needs to exist? God's existence is easily disprov...
August 09, 2020 at 00:49
Heidegger spoke of death as a "possibility of being". So it's better to exist objectively, and it's subjectively better to exist if you have good karm...
August 08, 2020 at 07:57
The mental form we have when we think of nothingness is adequate for understanding the singularity, pure potentiality. It is its own causality and yes...
August 08, 2020 at 07:45
Judaism started as a violent religion but was subdued by greater cultural forces. It was Jesus's apostles who turned the religion Satanic. The New Tes...
August 08, 2020 at 07:42
For Hegel, otherness of something is being-for-another. When non-Ego presents itself, being-for-another becomes the self relation of being-in-itself. ...
August 08, 2020 at 06:01
"Being-there is being with a determinacy.. As reflected into itself in this it's determinacy, being-there is that which is there, something.. As a bei...
August 08, 2020 at 05:56
Plato thought our world was a shadow. Aristotle said no, there are definite discrete substances all about us. Hegel wrote that Plato was the first sci...
August 08, 2020 at 04:20
Feeling evil feelings is different than doing evil. Everyone likes something evil now and than. Satanism is about the aesthetic of darkness
August 08, 2020 at 04:04
The Be the first person ever to define matter
August 04, 2020 at 18:46
Heidegger talked of not following the "they". For the Nazis, the they became the world. Heidegger knew a struggling culture that obviously went the wr...
August 04, 2020 at 18:44
Platonic forms exist in our minds, not outside
August 04, 2020 at 00:32
Banach tarski has immeasurable things form new objects. Are they saying they can take one object and only one object out of an object of the same size...
August 03, 2020 at 17:22
This thread is no longer about the OP. To me it sounds unreasonable to say a casual chain goes back forever and that this is it's explanation. If you ...
August 03, 2020 at 16:48
What if they prove that you can take a greater object from a smaller? How is that much different than B\T? To me B\T says that is nothing discrete in ...
July 30, 2020 at 07:14
I think Banach-Tarski disproves common mathematics the way Godel set out to do (but failed). It breaks math
July 28, 2020 at 17:08
Poker is one hundred percent luck. I make the same move every time because there no reason not too lol
July 20, 2020 at 23:48
The I'm not sure he published anything, but I'm under the impression his private writings have been out together in many volumes. I'm a book person an...
July 20, 2020 at 05:26
The substratum of what we see is beauty. We look with our right subjective mind and our left objective mind and conclude, with will, that it's objecti...
July 20, 2020 at 05:14
It seems to me that a point, a segment, and a plane are only connected logically, and it is the error of higher mathematics to connect them physically...
July 19, 2020 at 07:00
Hegel says we create patterns. "Space is abstract generality" "To speak of points of space, as if they constituted the positive element of space, is i...
July 19, 2020 at 06:46
Splitting up causality into four parts makes it difficult to question causality itself, which Nagarjuna did. Aristotle did the latter to avoid the que...
July 19, 2020 at 00:40
Take music as a perfect example. People at the Catholic college i went to insisted Mozart was objectively the greatest secular composer. People with t...
July 19, 2020 at 00:32
I think that patterns are like infinity and the finite, because we all use a subjective mind and an objective mind. A person who doesn't believe in su...
July 19, 2020 at 00:29
I think that what underlies everything is the pure potentiality of Infinity and Finitude. If you have a segment pi in length, then a piece of the segm...
July 18, 2020 at 23:22
Materialist don't agree with your premise so the argument fails
July 17, 2020 at 08:06
Science and philosophy both say that something can be better than bare zero. If life is worth living than there is a reason 1 is greater than 0
July 17, 2020 at 07:39
It's their premise so your argument doesn't work. It's a consistent position
July 17, 2020 at 06:55
If matter is an illusion, then ye the mind is not material. That's axiomatic
July 17, 2020 at 06:42
Their position says it can't be an illusion lol
July 17, 2020 at 06:40
The problem with your argument is that materialist believe matter is not an illusion!
July 17, 2020 at 06:11