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It's delusional to believe that patent falsehoods are true or factual. To wit:

If your phone has a notepad app, type and edit the story there and then copy & paste it directly into a PM. That's what I do. Maybe some last minute f...

Freddy only opposes Artie's conclusions, I think, not his pessimistic premises.

This link is to an old post I guess might answer what you're asking for https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/343418 which I've already pr...

What are you babbling about, baker?

Uh huh. And "for a religous person" as you say, snakes talk and the young flat earth is the center of "creation" and statues bleed and ... :pray: :rol...

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Not at all. But you're not satisfactorily – non-rhetorically – answering my questions in reply to your prior post .

I guess that's all you've got. :ok: :smirk:

Anyone making an extraordinary claim about anything bears the burden of proof so your truism is an irrelevant non sequitur in this context.

An existential coping strategy (e.g. Pauline Christianity) for those who already had been vanquished by perennial "class warfare" (e.g. Roman Slavery-...

:ok: :sweat: Non sequitur. Strawman & burden-shifting. Appeal to ignorance. Circular reasoning.

Let's not to conflate – confuse – "faith" (or "superstition") with pragmatic trust-ing (or pragmatic distrust-ing).

A definition, not a fact. In the same way, I suppose, you also bear the burden to support the claim – assumption – that you are sentient. "Different f...

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I don't understand what you're asking.

It occurs to me I've never considered N to be anything but a philosophical (though not scientific) naturalist, especially emphasized in his "middle pe...

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All I can add is that "the subtle reason" is also (primarily?) historical: in the early centuries of the Common Era, Pauline Christianity had offered ...

:up: (re: 'Nietzschean critique' of the ideology, rather than mere pragmatics, of truth).

And your own "suspect" for this claim ... :roll: Explain how "faith healing" in lieu of modern medical attention for a patient in extremis is "ethical...

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A badge of honor coming from you, D-K! :rofl:

Funny thing though, Dermot, almost every ex-Christian I've ever met or read was, by their own accounts, "pulled away" – liberated – from the Christian...

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:cry: :lol: (Emphases are mine.)

"Thought crime" as a prohibition has a very long history of failure and pathologization in countless societies. :cool: :up: Examples of what? I have n...

Clarify. :chin:

I think the eventual availability of high-fidelity graphic-emotive VR simulators of rape, torture & murder (plus offline prescription medications, etc...

So a human infant, feral human adult or human coma patient, for examples, are not persons because they can't "petition for/demand rights"?

:smirk: Exactly.

"Granted" or not, I think being a person (i.e. having potentials for empathy & creativity and recognizing that others share the same potentials for em...

My post didn't express "pessimism".

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~F.N. I have no doubt that a persistent 'illusion of knowledge' (...

See my revisions.

Yeah, I do. Put simply, the difference is that 'calculating minimizes uncertainties' whereas 'thinking problemizes the uncertainties externalized by c...

An article about a moral quandry playing out in my old (childhood) neighborhood which calls into question, once again, whether we human animals "have ...

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"Courage & defiance" are, to my mind, nearly synonymous. And "the outcome"? What's "the outcome" of fitness or humor or relaxation? I'm all for live a...

GIGO :sweat: :yum: Don't tease me, man! Take my effin' money!!! :lol: :up: :100: :chin: :cool:

Au contraire, monsieur ... In addition to , courage seems to me most indispensably "human". In defiance, Sisyphus will "imagine Sisyphus happy".

E.g. virtual particles ...

"What is a question?" shows – one cannot say unquestionably – what a question is.

Amor fati. :fire: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/708510

aka courage – K.I.S.S. :smirk:

Yeah, as long as it is accompanied by – derived reflectively from – infrequent, brief episodes of 'negative phenonomenology' ... https://thephilosophy...

An anecdotal snippet from "the hard problem" of depression ... https://youtu.be/-fUZ9Dd7wf8 :death: :flower:

An observation from histories of religions: The latter (heteropraxy ~ ethos) always predates and gradually subverts 'systems of control' imposed by th...

I distinguish "nothing" from "nothingness" ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/707639 ... the physical (or quotidian) from the metap...

Nada.