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Your question assumes that when we eat carcasses (and over-processed foodstuffs) we're not, in effect, eating shit ... how curious.

And yet in the mouth of (most?) believers these days, "God" is just a three-letter epithet (or crutch) for ego ("why").

It's my first language. Yours? Danke. :up:

@"universeness" @"Agent Smith" Ad hominems, strawmen & non sequiturs-riddled rationalizations of your "enformer"-of-the-gaps poor reasoning are empty ...

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The overall best cast? :yikes: Just barely ... The Lion in Winter -Peter O'Toole -Katherine Hepburn -Anthony Hopkins -Timothy Dalton -Nigel Terry -Joh...

Non sequitur. i agree with Nickolasgaspar and disagree with your reply to him.

"Life" might be nothing more than an ongoing, self-esteeming story certain ephemeral, coprophagic arrangements of matter are telling themselves. :flow...

"There's a place for" unintelligibility-inexplicability (i.e. "divine mysteries") "in phlosophy" (i.e. the love – pursuit – of 'masterful intellection...

This is confused, you've got it backwards, mon ami. :smirk:

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Yeah, we're congenital magical thinkers. Up to about a third of us are quite susceptible to the placebo / nocebo effect. I don't think so.

Well, my track record is pretty good. I predicted HRC would find a way to throw the 2016 election, that Individual-1 would be impeached by the end of ...

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In America, anything that's presented as "a more philosophical version" of some public issue will be ignored by most media and the general public. Alm...

"Everyone" can't "get behind" the fact that the Earth is round so any prospect less concrete – rorschach signifier – is a non-started for "everyone" t...

Good chance of that. Maybe a Republican woman President, before Sarah Palin helped sink McCain's candidacy, had a good chance but in this post-Tea Par...

Whitmer for President with running-mate Newsom for Veep works just as well for me too – maybe even better!

In other words, god-of-the-gaps. :sweat:

:yikes: Dude, read Adorno's Negative Dialectics before you lobotomize yourself with Hegelian dialectics. :mask:

As per Witty, the meaning of "logos" is its use (re: context). "John of Patmos" and Heraclitus of Ephesus clearly used "logos" differently. :roll:

:up: In the WH, yes; but I don't think DeSantis will get that far precisely because his reactionary populist – fascistic, racist, mysogynist, public h...

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Obama was the less bad option in both elections. IMO, his being black helped get him elected in 2008.

AFAIK, so far only DeSantis & Individual-1 (less and less) ... they're also looking for anyone who the MAGA mouth-breathers will support. Like Pence (...

MAGAs won't give her the nomination. Most GOP donors don't back her candidacy.

DOA.

Insofar as Enformationism is synonymous / analogius to deism: if it walks like god-of-the-gaps and quacks like god-of-the-gaps and denies sound counte...

What we "know about" (which?) "God" is that it is "the greatest mystery" – the (ultimate) inexplicable "answer" to every question that begs them all. ...

I'm a big fat buzzin' gadfly. Btw, who said anybody is actually "awake"?

One must be on the vagabond road freely thinking in order maybe to be found by Sophia rather than hold up warm and dry, well-fed and smug in some cozy...

So what? We're flawed – "unstable" – in our thinking, feelings, beliefs; however, philosophy is a discipline for correcting or mitigating such flaws. ...

Yes, philosophers are not even looking for "God" so the question of "finding" it is moot. I take Rabbi Abraham Heschel at his word: God is in search o...

I prefer the real.

Far from it, mi amigo. We temporarily have everything else too.

Is philosophy even searching for "God"? I've always thought philosophers seek wisdom (i.e. greater understanding).

I don't think so. Emergence describes entities as having properties which their constituent parts do not have. (Re: ontology) https://en.m.wikipedia.o...

This is synonymous both with 'uncaused to exist' (i.e. eternal) and with 'self-organizing' (e.g. vacuum fluctuations, biological evolution).

Again, which "concept of God" are you referring to? Mono / duo / poly theism? Panentheism? Pantheism? Deism? Panendeism? Pandeism? Acosmism? Animism?

No, they wake sleepwalkers (or disturb their 'dreaming'). Now, if too many sleepwalkers awaken, then "the powerful" might be alarmed. Besides, Jamal, ...

I was too busy during the 80s & 90s to much, if any watch tv and only started watching tv again when I moved across country to be closer to my family ...

:smirk: No doubt an inferior version of All else is idolatry.

Being a native Ne]w Yorker of (mostly) the 60s-70s, I couldn't relate to either show. I walked out of Fellowship of the Ring (too annoyed demand a ref...

What does "establishment" have to do with anything here?

Yes, I loved it too.

Tom Cruise & Demi Moore ruin it for me. Like the way Sophia Coppola mars Godfather III. :fire: