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In: Bannings  — view comment
:smirk:
September 04, 2022 at 19:33
In: Jesus Christ: A Lunatic, Liar, or Lord? The Logic of Lewis's Trilemma  — view comment
September 04, 2022 at 19:31
In: Reverse racism/sexism  — view comment
As those "woke" Romans used to say: cui bono? In the US, for instance, do whites or non-whites benefit more from the historical legacies – persistance...
September 04, 2022 at 19:27
In: Jesus Christ: A Lunatic, Liar, or Lord? The Logic of Lewis's Trilemma  — view comment
September 04, 2022 at 18:56
In: Question: Faith vs Intelligence  — view comment
Reread me.
September 04, 2022 at 18:51
In: Question: Faith vs Intelligence  — view comment
You fail to Laugh at "your faith" or "your intelligence" because you lack Courage. :fire:
September 04, 2022 at 18:45
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
September 04, 2022 at 01:24
In: The Death of Roe v Wade? The birth of a new Liberalism?  — view comment
Addendum to ... maybe a first (half) baby step. :mask: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/02/va-plans-to-offer-abortion-services-to-certain-veteran...
September 03, 2022 at 04:29
In: Quantum Mechanics, Monism, Isness, Meditation  — view comment
:100: :up:
September 03, 2022 at 03:44
In: Trust  — view comment
:roll:
September 03, 2022 at 03:40
In: Trust  — view comment
So I shouldn't trust grammar?
September 02, 2022 at 08:45
In: Is the harmfulness of death ante-mortem or post-mortem?  — view comment
:up:
September 02, 2022 at 03:26
In: Is the harmfulness of death ante-mortem or post-mortem?  — view comment
"Death" is not harmful to one when one is dead. Also, insofar as life has "intrinsic value", it is manifest only in the living and only recognized by ...
September 02, 2022 at 02:46
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
I expect to show that theism is an irrational belief system. Theism can be shown not to be true or conceptually incoherent which entails that any thei...
September 01, 2022 at 22:54
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
I never said babies are stupid.
September 01, 2022 at 18:43
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
What are "the shallow aspects of atheism"?
September 01, 2022 at 18:37
In: Reverse racism/sexism  — view comment
:up:
September 01, 2022 at 18:27
In: What a genuine word of God would look like  — view comment
I have mentioned "apophatics" (re negative theology) here and on several other threads. It's a tradition I've been acquainted with since the early 198...
September 01, 2022 at 11:46
In: Fear of The Dark Night  — view comment
Don't confuse Capitalist consumerism with Epicurean materialism.
September 01, 2022 at 09:00
In: Most Important Problem Facing Humanity, Revisited  — view comment
:smirk:
September 01, 2022 at 08:56
In: Most Important Problem Facing Humanity, Revisited  — view comment
I'm aware of when I gotta piss or shit, when I gotta eat or drink, when I hurt or feel sympathy for another's hurt, and whenever I daydream or I'm bor...
September 01, 2022 at 07:50
In: What a genuine word of God would look like  — view comment
:up:
September 01, 2022 at 07:37
In: Most Important Problem Facing Humanity, Revisited  — view comment
Addendum to ... https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/31/an-inconvenient-apocalypse-climate-crisis-book :death: :fire:
September 01, 2022 at 03:43
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
Once upon a precocious youth I'd been a Catholic teen apostate, an undergraduate negative atheist and then postgraduate positive atheist. Decades on, ...
September 01, 2022 at 00:52
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
:eyes: As Pascal points out, (the/an actually worshipped) "God" =/= "the Idea, or Form, which precedes ... in time". Just meta-babytalk, MU. :sweat:
August 31, 2022 at 22:13
In: What a genuine word of God would look like  — view comment
The problem is, it seems to me, worship – idol-making – not g/G per se. Theism is idolatry. The apophatics got it right, I think: anything said or ima...
August 31, 2022 at 22:01
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
:100: :up: "Goddidit" is babytalk.
August 31, 2022 at 21:40
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
Before I reply to the OP directly, I paste the link below to an old post replying to you on a related topic last year, just to add some context to a l...
August 31, 2022 at 21:19
In: Is space 4 dimensional?  — view comment
Sounds like String theorists' "holographic principle" (derived from "black hole thermodynamics") https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
August 31, 2022 at 21:05
In: Why are people so afraid to admit they are wrong here?  — view comment
Doubtless you are mistaken.
August 31, 2022 at 17:55
In: What a genuine word of God would look like  — view comment
:up: E.g. the Democritean void (à la vacuum energy). https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/507756
August 31, 2022 at 17:31
In: Is space 4 dimensional?  — view comment
IIRC, dimensionality corresponds to degrees of freedom of movement. 3-d space describes the freedom to move backward-forward, up-down and right-left i...
August 31, 2022 at 17:25
In: What a genuine word of God would look like  — view comment
IMO, to date, the best candiddate (via-à-vis natural theology) that believers have for "God revealed" is https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p5IcElhsGTY Pre...
August 31, 2022 at 16:38
In: The End of the Mechanistic Worldview  — view comment
I'm pointing out that you have not persuaded me that Desmet is saying anything new and insightful, just rehashing others who are far less derivative. ...
August 31, 2022 at 08:54
In: Why are people so afraid to admit they are wrong here?  — view comment
As I've said to a number incorrigibles, dogmatists or bullshitters here on TPF It's either pride or insecurity that blocks one from admitting one is w...
August 31, 2022 at 04:33
In: Philosophy vs Science  — view comment
Pax. :victory:
August 31, 2022 at 04:13
In: The End of the Mechanistic Worldview  — view comment
In other words, derivative dumbing down for "ease of use" by middle-brow consumers. (or maybe undergrad litcrit / humanities courses). The works I've ...
August 30, 2022 at 23:17
In: The Fine-Tuning Argument as (Bad) an Argument for God  — view comment
August 30, 2022 at 22:56
In: Authenticity and Identity: What Does it Mean to Find One's 'True' Self?  — view comment
Okay, sort of like Freddy teaching "how to become who you are" ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gfyCzLbcAvk&vl=en I believe philosophy's central proj...
August 30, 2022 at 21:23
In: The Fine-Tuning Argument as (Bad) an Argument for God  — view comment
:100: :up:
August 29, 2022 at 22:30
In: Poltics isn't common Good  — view comment
:fire:
August 29, 2022 at 22:27
In: The End of the Mechanistic Worldview  — view comment
Whether in politics or among the mid-brow masses, why does their "worldview" matter in philossophy? What's the alternative to an unreflective, or thou...
August 29, 2022 at 21:23
In: Poltics isn't common Good  — view comment
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/502217 :nerd:
August 29, 2022 at 11:06
In: Science answers to "how?", we need another system to answer the "why?" questions.  — view comment
There's no "confusion" ... How A involuntarily happens (i.e. changes). Why B voluntarily decided and/or acted.
August 29, 2022 at 11:01
In: Poltics isn't common Good  — view comment
I find conceptual shorthands can be a clarifying as they are (overly) simplifying at the start of discussing a complex topic like this one. Perhaps in...
August 29, 2022 at 10:41
In: How exactly does Schopenhauer come to the conclusion that the noumenal world is Will?  — view comment
:fire: :100: :up: :yikes: WTF? No doubt.
August 29, 2022 at 09:33
In: The End of the Mechanistic Worldview  — view comment
This is a caricature of what most scientists and scientifically literate laypersons actually believe. For instance, a cake recipe cannot "be reduced" ...
August 29, 2022 at 09:27
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
August-October readings: • Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Karen Barad • Critical Realism: A...
August 29, 2022 at 09:19
In: A Simple Primer for American Politics  — view comment
:100: Discrimination is used by Exploitation to police the exploited. :mask:
August 29, 2022 at 09:05
In: Origin of the Universe Updated  — view comment
Look at a donut hole. Think about what you can't remember. :smirk:
August 29, 2022 at 09:04
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